In the SE region every horse gets the same vet exam at every check
including the finish. It doesn't take any longer to do a full exam
including a CRI than it does a trot out.
Truman
Rae Callaway wrote:
The LD
riders certainly don't get a full vet exam at the end of a ride - just
a trot out for completion. I don't like it. If my horse is going to
have problems, it will show up at the end when they're tired. This has
been true at every LD ride I've done in the CT region.
In a message dated 10/21/2003 10:48:11 PM Central
Standard Time, Lyoness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
There may or may not be real vetting---
Joane, I'm nost sure what you mean by "no real vetting" - whether
you're saying that some vets don't give LD horses a full going-over
(checking all parameters) or what (not a problem here in CT region).
If that's the case, then I think they are in violation of rules, aren't
they? (sorry, don't have the rules in front of me, but I seem to
recall that all horses must receive comeplte vet checks?) At any rate,
if I were a rider in an LD, and a vet didn't give my horse a
complete/adequate vet check, I wouldn't budge from that spot till
he/she did. Maybe riders need to start demanding full vet checks, if
that is indeed the problem.
