In a message dated 11/9/02 8:37:31 PM Mountain Standard Time, heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
While it is certainly of mild degree, it is, nonetheless, the reason for the pull. And it is that reason that we're looking for in the pull code.
Why?
What does it matter why a rider RO's out of a ride?
When someone says we want to "know" why someone, whose horse was deemed "fit to continue" pulls from a given ride...what does it matter "why" a rider chooses to RO?
UNLESS, the AERC, as an organization does something "relevant" with the information, other than put out a report relating the pull information which could then be used to "educate" the endurance riders out there.
The AERC does not track individual horses and monitor how many times said horse was lame, or metabolically challenged, etc. The AERC does not delve deeply enough into individual horse historys which might indicate that Rider X seems to always have the same problem, with the same horses. The AERC does not hold a Remedial Hammer over the heads of riders who repeatedly seem to "make the same mistakes with their horses."
In theory, perhaps the AERC is pointed in that particular direction...but have not truly found a way to step "through that door."
The AERC DOES accumulate statistics which, if presented properly, could be interpreted as a CYA on the improper tasking of unprepared horses.
That must be it.
No teeth, no bite.
Frank Solano, AERC 8422
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