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I feel your pain Beth.

I was off to a good start. I was riding Perle, my hungarian mare, in the 50 
in Okla. on March 1st. We were doing great coming in to the first VC. Perle 
was all fidgety because she didn't have a buddy so it took a little bit to 
get her to settle down and meet criteria. So then we went to the vet and she 
said she looks good all As except a B on skin tint. Then she was taking her 
pulse for the CRI an Perle was fidgeting so it took her a long time to get 
the pulse and she said she heard something weird. She went ahead and had me 
trot and finished the rest of the exam and she was all A's on everything 
else. So she took the last pulse and I think the CRI was 48/48. But she said 
she has an extra beat in there. So she had the other vet listen and at first 
she didn't hear anything but she told her to listen for a long time and then 
she heard it. I asked if it was because she was all nervous and would that 
make her pulse go up and down? She said it was not like her pulse was going 
up and down it was an arrhythmia (?sp) So I asked if this could be an e-lyte 
problem and she said she couldn't say, but she was concerned because 
everything else looked so good and she had heard it both before trotting and 
after and the only reason she caught it was because she had listened for 
longer than 60 sec. She pulled us and said we'll check her again later and 
see if it is still there. So 30 min later she checked still doing it and 
again 2 hrs later, although not as frequently, so all the vet students that 
were working got something interesting to listen to. She told me not to ride 
her again until I got an EKG done on her, not even at home. I took her to 
OSU Tues. and they did some blood work and everything looked good there so 
they did the 24hr EKG and then sent her home. So she's stuck in the stall 
until we get the results back on the EKG.

So this weekend my 5 yo niece stayed with me and just "had to ride". So my 
friend said she could ride one of her old ranch horses and she would pony 
her along on her first "trail ride". Which meant that I was stuck riding my 
5 yo arab, which usually mom rides, Deke (AKA the "sawhorse") and let me 
tell you my seat bones were killing me in less than a mile. He is so darned 
narrow and I am so used to Perle with her nice round ribs. I managed to last 
about 3.5 miles and a little over an hour before we stopped. But the niece 
had a great time and was still wanting to do some more! Here are some pics 
from our ride Sat.

http://endurance.ning.com/photo/photo/slideshow?feed_url=http%3A%2F%2Fendurance.ning.com%2Fphoto%2Fphoto%2FslideshowFeedAlbum%3Fid%3D932467%253AAlbum%253A14761

Katrina (I hope I get to ride Perle again soon!)
Perle (Stall rest BITES!)
Deke (Get off me you heavyweight and give me back my featherweight rider!)

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From: "Beth Walker" <bwalker2@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 11:05 AM
To: "John Teeter" <johnt@xxxxxxxxx>; "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC]   VVMarchmadness

<< Sigh ... I might just be pulling.  ...>>

<<Regardless - it looks as if my March Madness came to a sudden stop.... 
I'm bummed.>>



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