Re: RC: Pulse Check to Vet (was hot weather rides)

[Linda Flemmer <bluwolf@earthlink.net>]

Heidi,

I agree that with you about waiting to see the horse after they are settle down
from the rush of the race.  Once again - regional differences are playing a big
part here, maybe!

You need to know that the East Coast rides that I attend all set up a flow thru
the vet station.  You enter a "gate" for an in time, then crew to come down to
parameters in a general area.  When you think you are at parameters, you enter a
box for P&R.  If successful, you exit the P&R box directly into the vet lines
(often set up as lanes).  Exit vet check area when you're done & spend your hold
time eating, resting, etc.  Not much choice on whne you go anywhere & this is
the standard here.

I do see vets asking to recheck horses that may be "masking" problems... they
hold the vet cards & see them 5 min before they leave.  It doesn't address the
ones who slip thru while "on a high", so the riders DO have to take
responsibility for their animal.

Linda Flemmer
Blue Wolf Ranch
Bruceton Mills, WV
Northeast Region rider

CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/20/99 3:43:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> adlee@bigfoot.com writes:
>
> << So we have to go right to the vet after doing the P&R?  Is there a choice
>  for those who would rather go let their horses eat and chill before vetting
>  in? >>
>
> No, April, I won't clear them right after the P & R.  I want to see them
> right before they leave, so that I know what they REALLY look like when they
> are going out.
>
> Heidi
>
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