Personally I would agree. I was thinking of dealing with a possible protest
from someone who was pulled. I wonder if this situation has come before the
protest committee & what their feeling was.
I guess I have in mind stories I've heard from the "good old days". Ride
managers sending people out on trail to take temps/pulses/ etc. and delaying
some people--letting others go by. Rumor had it political in nature. It was
my understanding that AERC backed the notion that it took a vet to pull a
horse for anything but over total time (or being dangerous, that type of
thing.) Maybe that's just the local culture around here.
If a horse doesn't meet pulse criteria in 30 minutes shouldn't it be getting
a vet exam anyway?
Nancy Mitts
From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Nancy Mitts <mitts_n@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] protecting horses
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:57:53 -0400
Temps are one thing, but the pulse is a number which is pretty easy to get
accurately - especially with the hand held units. You meet a specific
number in a fixed time or you don't go on. Pretty black and white. How does
that determination require a vet - there is no judgement? You either meet
the pulse or you don't.
Normally from my experience from taking pulses at many rides is the horses
that don't make it in 30 minutes are not even close to the parameters and
there is no question about accuracy.
Truman
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