Re: RC: Have you ever felt like this at a ride?

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi anonymous!
Don't tell me, you're from CA? I see a lot of slams against this state
on ridecamp (maybe it's the cheese)<BG>. Just wondering.
Bette
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of TLA Halynov
http://www.stormnet.com/~woa
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it
gets to the end, the faster it goes. Smell the roses!

"guest@endurance.net" wrote:
> 
> Guest Guest Guest@Guest.com
> I am posting this anonymously for reasons you will see.
> 
> I did a ride recently and I had a very un easy feeling the whole time I was there.  I have been doing
> CTRs for 3 years now and I have done rides all over the place.  I have meet so me super
> people and all ride Mgrs have been the best.  I have scored well and I have scored not so well,
> but each time I felt that my scores were fair and I felt that everyone did their job (even me and my
> horse).
> 
> But this recent ride was like no other.  When a friend and I arrived we were greeted by ride Mgr
> and we got a less then enthused greeting and the Mgr made sure she pointed out what state
> we were from, we found her greeting odd, but we just were happy to there and smiled and
> greeted her nicely back and parked and set up campwhere we were instructed to.
> 
> We got ready for hands-on and trot out.  Every other ride I have done, the lay judge and vet have
> greeted me w/ a nice hello and smile and maybe a tad of small talk.  This was no like that, this
> was just "lets get to work".  The vet never even looked me in the eye and with all the people
> going over my horse I could not even figure out which on the vet was.
> 
> After about 15 or more minuets the vet was still commenting on my horses though pins (sorry
> for the spelling of that) and I asked "is that only cosmetic" and they vet agreed with me, but she
> still did not like them at all.
> 
> She asked me to trot out now, and she kept me trotting for quite some time.  When I came back
> she told me that my horse was lame in the right hind.  I just nicely informed her that he just
> had his vet, massage and chiropractor appt the day before and he was 100% and he has
> never been lame one day in his life.
> 
> She said I could try and trot again the next day, I thanked her and off I went.
> 
> The next day, we trot my horse out and she said he is still lame but it's not consistent and
> she must allow him to go according to the rules, but she will be "watching me", and it's a
> good possibility I'd get pulled at the hold.
> 
> I thank her once again and I went on the ride.  I only went on the ride because I know 100%
> sure there is nothing wrong with my horse, if I thought he had a hang nail I would of never
> rode him.  I did not know this vet and I did not trust her.  She just seemed to have it out for me
> or my horse, she was not professional at all.  I felt like I needed to prove to her that she
> was wrong.
> 
> So, off on the ride we go.  I have my partner keeping an eye out for my horse and she never
> sees anything (my friend is an RN and has proven her self over and over again when it
> comes to a horse being off)
> 
> At the hold, I am still free to go on my way, but if looks could kill.......
> 
> We Finnish the ride w/ 30min to spare.  We hang out in a field for quite some time.  When we walk
> back in, the horses are 100% cool and dry.  My horse has such a low pulse all the time, he is
> amazing.  My watch reads 32, but I still take my 20 minutes.  I call for P&R and the ride Mgr comes
> over.  She places the scope on my horse and tells me I have a 48 - There is no way my horse
> has a 48, he has never been a 48 in his life and just a second ago he was 32.  Not to mention that
> my horse has a deep chamber and it takes the best vet with the best ears to even hear his heart
> and this person has no problem.  I felt that if I said anything, they would of done something bad to
> me, shooting me came to mind, I am not kidding!  This is the feeling these people gave me, very
> Erie.
> 
> I said to my partner. "I bet you they are going to blood test me"  The vet has it in for me.  Sure
> enough, the vet blood tested me, and the smile on her face was amazing - she looked like
> the cat that ate the canary.  I just welcomed her in and was very pleasant.
> 
> I must say, that after all this.  I got 3rd place with a good score of 93points.  When I got my score
> sheet the vet had my horse labelled as an 9 out of 11 for lames and at the end of the day she
> gave me a 10.  Now if my horse was a 10 on lameness, I think someone other then the vet
> would see this right???  I was giving her the benefit of the doubt. I said maybe she has a very
> keen and trained eye.  So I thought she'd have him down as a 1 and at the end of the day a 2,
> but to put him down as a 10 ??  This lady is whacked!
> 
> In the mean time, I had my horse check out by my vet and he is not lame at all.  He is 100%
> SOUND and happy.
> 
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