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RE: [RC] rider option - heidi larson

I'm not sure if that is completely true - at a ride this
last fall, a rider came into the final vet check, (I was
volunteering) I heard the rider was pulling, Rider Option,
rider asked vet if he'd like to see the horse, brought
horse up and I watched it limp to the vet, 3-legged lame. 
The ride results on AERC state Lameness/Rider Option. The
horse was definitely NOT fit to continue.

heidi larson


--- "Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM" <suendavid@xxxxxxx> wrote:


The rider is only allowed a RO-L (or other varieties of
RO) if the vet has
examined the horse, deemed it fit to continue, and the
rider wants to pull
anyway because they think the horse doesn't feel quite
right or whatever.
If the vet thinks the horse is lame or metabolic, then
the rider's opinion
is irrelevant.  The horse is lame and gets an L (or M),
not an RO-L (or
RO-M).  The horse MUST be judged as fit to continue
before any variety of RO
is available.

 

Susan Garlinghouse, DVM




     
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