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Re: RC: Re: Long holds, Heart Rate, tying up, electrolytes



Even vets get intimidated by names and money....  bottom line, who has the control
over the purse strings AND your future....

Teddy

Wolfgang Schwingenheuer wrote:

> Tivers@aol.com wrote:
>
> snip
>
> > But whose real world experience? Take Valerie Knavy as an example. She's
> > competitive. She wins a lot of races. She trains and races her horses hard. I
> > just experienced an important race where the participants knew which vets to
> > use to pass the vet check. it was a beauty contest, for all intents and
> > purposes. If I was King Soloman in a case where Valerie came into such an
> > envronment, I'd tend to trust not only Valerie's judgement, but her motives,
> > over those of the checking vets.
>
> > ti
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> I can second what you are saying about which vet to pass the check.
> It was last year in Dubai at the WEC. The german riders finished around
> place 60 so most of the action in the central vet-check was over and
> only few vets were in the trotting-area when the riders came in for 3rd,
> 4th and 5th VG. It clear very quickly that the vets on the side where
> the US-team and the UAE-team had their shadow-areas, were deciding not
> as strict as the vets on our side (for those of you not been there: it
> was a huge area with a trot-out in the middle. You could enter this
> trot-out from two sides.). So we went around the area to go to those
> vets there - and the rest of our horses finished the race.
> Not to say that it was a beauty contest at the WEC, but there are big
> differences between the decisions of even world-class vets.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> Wolfgang + Ninja
> Germany
>
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