Re: RC: Dance Line

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 09:50 AM 3/23/00 -0800, you wrote:
> Heart rate monitor said he was in good shape
> when it happened, 

Hear rate monitor's shouldn't substitute for other kinds of
awareness.  As one person (Barbara McC?) wrote - when a normally
good eating horse stops eating, that's a clue to a potential
problem.  When a normally good attitude horse doesn't have it,
that's a clue.  When there's stiffness, or a lameness, or a crash,
these things are all clues, and these things don't *necessarily* have a
concurrent indication on the heart monitor.  So the moral of this
little bit is - don't ride the heart monitor, ride your 
horse.  

(Sun's shining now - I'm starting to feel less grumpy.  Think I'll
go outside & enjoy the rays.  Maybe get full of horse
hair).  Lif

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