panting

[Cliff Fenneman <cfly@concentric.net>]

My horse is not a panter, but if he were inverted or breathing hard in 
any way...I wouldn't think he would be suitable for going back into a 
stressful situation. Even if your horse was a known panter...doesn't 
that indicate that some sort of stress is going on??? Wouldn't you want 
to wait until the horse was not panting before racing off down the 
trail? What am I not getting here? What do the vets have to say about 
this kind of situation? Is there some AERC rule?
Lynda