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Re: [RC] New Poll up - Jim HollandJoe Long wrote: Truman, what sand do you have your head buried in? The AERC has ALWAYS worked toward elimination of equine fatalities, ALWAYS had a commitment to make rides safer, has ALWAYS worked to improve vet controls!!!!!!!!!!! Really? You could have fooled me! Until last year, the AERC BOD and the Vet Committee would not even admit to the members that horse deaths even happened and denied them information on the ones that did! If there is improvement being made, IMHO, it's happening too damn slow! And one more time: if equine deaths at endurance rides are unacceptable, then we must stop having endurance rides. Period. End of story. Because as long as we have endurance rides, there will be some (small) number of equine fatalities ? so if we cannot accept that, we must stop having rides. That¹s what ³unacceptable² means. That's strange. The SE hasn't had a metabolic death in I believe 7 years now? Meanwhile the REST of AERC is up to about 20 in the last two years? You call that "small"? Geeez... It's obvious to the most CASUAL observer from reading posts on Ridecamp that the SE...and SERA...is doing MUCH more on this issue than the other regions...AND AERC, in spite of our sand, heat, humidity, mud, etc. Joe, if we keep believing horse deaths are inevitable, then it will be. You go ahead and preach "gloom and doom". I choose not to believe that. One more time..."one death is too many"....and like many other members, I will continue to pursue that goal for as long as it takes. Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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