RE: Pull codes

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In a message dated Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:22:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Kathy Mayeda" <Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com> writes:

> I got an RO also, for bringing my horse back to the vet after passing the lunch vet check and he wasnt quite right. I wonder if you took the RO option out of it and a metabolic would go against the horse, that people would continue under these circumstances anyway because they dont want to have a metabolic pull against the horses record. 

Where on earth did we ever get the concept that the pull codes are in any way "against" the horse?  They aren't!  They are there so that we can have SOME idea why horses don't finish, and try to learn something from it.  And if they are not accurate, then we don't get an accurate picture of why horses don't finish.

Heidi