FW: [PNER] FW: pull w/o exam?

["jo & jim" <fltofan@molalla.net>]

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>From: "jo & jim" <fltofan@molalla.net>
>To: PNER@egroups.com
>Subject: [PNER] FW: pull w/o exam?
>Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2000, 11:17 PM
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>>From: Robbi Pruitt <canyonsd@bendnet.com>
>>To: "'Jo Calver'" <fltofan@molalla.net>
>>Subject: FW: pull w/o exam?
>>Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2000, 11:20 PM
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>> From:  Robbi Pruitt[SMTP:canyonsd@bendnet.com]
>> Sent:  Saturday, September 30, 2000 11:18 PM
>> To:  'suesblues@hotmail.com'
>> Cc:  'pner@egroups.com'
>> Subject:  pull w/o exam?
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>> Hi Sue,
>>
>> First I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to publicly respond to your
>> letter to the PNER list. There are always two sides to a story and usually
>> there is a chance of learning something from hearing both sides.
>>
>> Although Dr. Nicholson hardly needs me to stick up for him, perhaps you are
>> not aware of what his qualifications are for judging your daughters horse
>> "not fit to continue".
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>> As a rider, Dr. Nicholson earned his first Tevis buckle in 1963 and went on
>> to earn a total of 13 of them. He has ridden over 6800 miles of AERC
>> competition and has many thousands more of NATRC competition as well. I'm
>> pretty sure that I have heard that he has won the NATRC Presidents Cup,
>> which would be the equivalent of an AERC National Championship. Dr
>> Nicholson vetted the Great American Horse Race in 1976 and the 1979 Pony
>> Express race also. His record as both a ride manager and as a veterinarian
>> are the best there are. In 1997 Dr. Nicholson was inducted into AERC's Hall
>> Of Fame.
>>
>> As the RM this past weekend at the Oregon 100 ride, I was told that you had
>> been advised to pull Raven at the 50 mile VC due to fatigue and lameness.
>> By your own admission, you consulted with your 10 year old daughter and
>> decided that you knew better than Dr. Nicholson and Dr. Eaton. Against
>> their advice you made the decision to continue. After you left the 67 mile
>> vet check I received a call on my cell phone from Dr. Sears at the out
>> check. He said that Raven was both very lame and exhausted and that under
>> no circumstances was Raven to continue beyond the 75 mile point. Dr. Sears
>> said that he had only passed him through his check because he felt that it
>> would have been worse for Raven to stand in the cold waiting for a trailer
>> than to walk the last 7 miles into camp. All three veterinarians were in
>> complete agreement with the decision to pull Raven at the 75 mile point.
>>
>> I'd like to take this opportunity also  to clear up some confusion
>> concerning just what a "ride vets" job is. A ride veterinarian is a
>> professional, hired by the RM, to judge the horses "fitness to continue". A
>> horse that is lame at the walk is NOT "fit to continue"! Neither a
>> stethoscope nor an exam is necessary to make that judgement. It is the ride
>> vets responsibility to remove a horse from competition BEFORE the animal
>> needs treatment...not after.
>>
>> Being "goal oriented and ambitious" are reasons to be proud in many
>> circumstances, but in endurance riding those can be dangerous words. The
>> horse must always come first in this sport of ours and I've yet to meet the
>> horse that gives a damn about his PNER standing.
>>
>> Robbi
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