Re: Is this allowed?

[benamil@juno.com (David Bennett)]

Riders always have the option to pull their entry at any check without
asking permission.  Only requirement is to notify the in-timer that you
are pulling and turn in the vet card so that management knows what is
happening.  Also,  responsibility for his or her mount is the rider's.   
A person ought to know the horse well enough to make a decision to quit
if that becomes necessary.  That's what "rider option" means.   I guess
that management would prefer this type of pull rather than one that was
forced and resulted in a horse needing treatment.

I definitely did not mean that I would have run my horse until he
required a rescue trailer before deciding that we should stop!

Dave Bennett
Chickamauga, Georgia
benamil@juno.com

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:59:12 -0800 Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
<elsie@calweb.com> writes:
>David Bennett wrote:
>> 
>> ...I reached the conclusion that I would have done just as well to
>> start a 50 at those rides and quit if I felt my horse needed to 
>stop.
>
>I wondered about doing this, if you *thought* your horse was
>ready, but weren't sure (because you'd never actually *ridden*
>50 miles on your horse). 
>
>Would this be frowned upon by ride management "taking up valuable 
>rescue trailer space" and using up people's time? Or is it acceptable?
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