RE: Re: syria

["Bob Morris" <bobmorris@rmci.net>]

I wish to comment on your somewhat snide letter to Ti.

A number of years back I was riding in competition with my daughter. We were
both on Arabs that had been well conditioned and were experienced endurance
horses. On one portion of trail there was a slow "S" curve around a small
clump of trees. The trail did not deviate more than five feet out of line in
thirty feet. The ground was excellent footing. My daughters horse, just in
front of me entered this slow curve at a medium trot and we heard a loud
snap. The horse went down and then immediately regained its feet. The right
humerus had snapped. After putting the horse down, we inspected the humerus
and found a spiral fracture that encompassed most of the length of the bone.
Subsequent investigation proved that the bone was healthy and no other
pathologic problems were evident.

This type of fracture is not at all that uncommon. It is explained in many
texts.

I believe an apology is in order.

-----Original Message-----
From: owens [mailto:owensall@sierranet.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 9:46 AM
To: Tivers@aol.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Re: syria


Dear Tom;
<she incurred a "green stick" fracture in the earlier incident, then later
the complete fracture occurred. Nothing to be done with a break like that. >
That's sad.  I guess that's why we silly American endurance riders do that
total waste of time:  long, slow distance.  Silly us.
Katee


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