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Re: [RC] How do you call it a day? - Don Huston

Hello Susan,

1.) I was told that you could only do a RO if the horse was vetted and deemed fit to continue. At that point the rider now has the option to pull using the RO code. Since your horse could not meet the pulse criteria and get vetted thru, you could not use the RO code. Being too hot to pulse down is a form of distress and potentially life threatening to a horse. You were wise to have decided to pull even if your horse had squeaked by the 30 minute pulse down rule.

2.) I do not know.

Don Huston


At 08:46 AM 9/7/2009 Monday, you wrote:
I have a ? that might seem silly. I rode in the Rhode Island ride a few weeks ago. We had some of the worst possible weather for a ride. It was about 95 degrees with a 75 degree dewpoint-which is beyond oppressive. I ride a heavy-muscled Icelandic pony. I was riding the 50 mile and at the second vet hold at mile 35, my horse was not cooling down quick enough for his heart rate to come down in 30 minutes.

Please realize he was not in distress. He was just hot and it was too humid for him to cool. We dumped over 75 gallons of water on him. When you see the numbers for this ride you will know I was not alone. I had plenty of horse and time to finish the ride, it was not our day.

My 2 questions are:
1. Should I have RO'd or vetted my horse (which is what I did) and gotten a pull for metabolics?

I also tried looking in the rules and could not find this info:

2. Do I have to wait a certain amount of time to compete if I was pulled for metabolics. I think I had heard something about this on ridecamp.

PS: The ride results have not been posted yet so you won't find them if you go looking for the numbers.

Susan Cushing and Lappi-who was glad to finish early that day.



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