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Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM wrote:
> >Members should care what kind of pull codes are used
>
> Which is why, IMO, I think the members should be pretty happy with 
> this evolution with the vetting process. It’s better than an ambiguous 
> RO would be. If individuals are getting offended over the appellation 
> attached to an RO-X code, then they don’t understand its use.
This issue was discussed in some detail in
http://www.seraonline.org/Archives/Pull%20analysis.pdf
for anyone that is interesting.

> >and how because it is not about racing to see who can pull first, 
> rider or vet nor is it about "what other people might think".
>
> Frankly, a good ride vet doesn’t give a rat’s patootie what anyone 
> thinks (except maybe the other vets offering an opinion), and knows 
> enough about their job to stand by their decision and explain exactly 
> why that decision was made. And it **doesn’t** matter whether it’s the 
> rider or vet who first thinks “time to pull”, because at that point in 
> the process, the vet’s opinion is the only one that matters.
Actually it is the horse that is the winner - independent of who makes 
the call to pull :-) !

Truman

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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a 
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also 
into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil


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