Take a deep breath and a long slow exhale and then go read the post
again. I know Terre was a bit sensationalistic in her post. It's
getting to be winter up in the great frozen north and that effects the
brain a bit. First it only covers metabolic failure - last time I
checked falling off a cliff was not a metabolic failure. There are
provisions that cover the type of thing that happened to Teddy
Bear(previous worm damage I believe it was). There are sufficient safe
guards in there (Terre made sure of that - I wanted to settle it the
good old Southern way, take 'em out all back and shoot them but she
would not let me :-) .
What you are saying is we can't hold people accountable for the fate of
their horse - no matter what. This boils down to the simple matter of
accountability - either people are accountable for the fate of their
horses or they are not. After all the AERC bylaws state that a person
is responsible for the welfare of their horse. Wouldn't it be nice if
that statement had some teeth to it.
So: if a horse dies at the ride for metabolic reasons, or
at a
clinic after referral from a ride--automatic 1 year suspension.
I just don't care for it. I think about the horses that fell down the
bluff at Tevis. I think of Julie Suhr losing a horse she paced carefully.
I think of Teddy Bear rupturing a weak aorta or whatever it was. If
something like that happened to a fine endurance rider I would think it
would be important for them to get back out there as soon as possible or
we might lose them.
Angie
