Re: RC: Re: Uh-Oh! The LD thing again

[Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

Coujurs1@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 10/31/99 4:28:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> mmieske@netonecom.net writes:
> 

>   And, I believe Howard said that the girl did receive a
>  completion.  Yeah, vets are there to protect the horses but some times
>  there ARE vets who are not terribly experienced with horses and think that
>  those gaited horses who move their feet everywhichaway must be lame.
> 
>   >>
> 
> Again these vets, one of wish is pretty renowned as the Chef d'Equipe at the
> Pan Am games for the East team, are very experienced.
>   My very first ride was a LD ride, many many years ago, no comments on my
> age please!  I did what we tell everyone to do, start with what you have, in
> my case an appaloosa.  I was a junior rider at the time, and we didn't have a
> clue (little of one now!).  
>
Nina you need a few more "many's" in there (sorry couldn't resist). 

I have almost 2000 miles on a walking horse. We'll finish that up this
season. I have finished the ROC on a walking horse.  I've won BC on a
walking horse.
I have shown up at rides in regions where no one had ever seen my
walking horse before.  Know what, I have never felt that I was treated
unfairly because the
vets didn't know the difference between a gaited horse and a trotting
horse. 

The SE is gaited horse country and most vets here see gaited horses -
maybe not as much as they see non gaited horses - but enough to know if
they are lame.

Truman (whose AERC number is a lot higher than Nina's)


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Truman Prevatt
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Brooksville, FL


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