Home Current News News Archive Shop/Advertise Ridecamp Classified Events Learn/AERC
Endurance.Net Home Ridecamp Archives
ridecamp@endurance.net
[Archives Index]   [Date Index]   [Thread Index]   [Author Index]   [Subject Index]

Re: [RC] [RC] Mariposa part 3 - Carla Richardson

A true voice of wisdom, Heidi.  Thank you.  And thank you, also, to Mike Maul, our president, who is so responsive to the questions presented on Ridecamp, when he certainly does not have to do so.
 
Carla Richardson
Colorado

 
On 11/17/07, heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How was AERC NOT "proactive" in this case?  The horse met parameters at the vet check.  When the rider overrode the horse on the last leg of the ride, concerned riders came into camp, reported the problem, and sought help. Ride vets went out on the trail and treated the horse.  The horse was stopped on the trail--it didn't even come on into camp.  The rider was not rewarded in any way.  The rider was lectured and counseled by ride vets and an AERC director.  The rider left the venue chastized and sadder-but-wiser.  What more do you want?  Will a pound of his flesh accomplish any more than was accomplished?

AERC did just fine in this unfortunate fracas.  It upheld its rules and it stepped in to protect the horse.  WHO CARES if the rider comes back, as long as he comes back wiser?  Short of taking every rider around the course on a leash (and not just novices!), what more COULD have been done here?  Further punishment of the rider is like that old adage of grandpa's about closing the barn door after the horse has escaped.

Bottom line--the rider screwed up big-time.  He was observed and help was sent.  The horse was treated and is ok.  The rider got some down-to-earth point-blank input about what an idiot he had been, and according to those present, realized that he had screwed up big-time because he almost lost the horse.  Thanks to AERC, he didn't lose it, and he got "edified."  WHAT MORE would punishment add to this scenario?  Not a thing, except maybe to make the posters on ridecamp feel warm and fuzzy.

Heidi

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net.
Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp
Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp

Ride Long and Ride Safe!!

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=