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I find it quite ironic, Heidi, that you continuously keep referring back to 
the Welfare of the Horse when, if memory serves me, you were totally against 
the formation of this Committee prior to the AERC Convention last year.  So, 
unless you've changed your mind from last year, please tell us which hat 
you're wearing now.  Drug Czar or Horse Welfare????

cya,
Howard (I'll dig those posts up if I have to; but, there's so many with her 
name on them it might take awhile)


> > Somebody quoted another ride vet as saying that one can get a horse
> through a sprint with drugs, but not through an endurance ride.  With
> reference to drugs that control pain and inflamation, I agree.  What we
> NEED to do here, instead of diluting the drug rule, is to further educate
> people that trying to hold a competing horse together metabolically with
> drugs is even more risky than trying to hold him together biomechanically
> with drugs.  It may be less obvious to the casual observer, but it is MORE
> dangerous to the horse himself!  Truman, you need to understand what Rule
> 13 is really about, and put your Horse Welfare hat back on.
>
> Heidi
>
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> Arabians were bred for years primarily as a war horse and those
> requirements are similar to what we do today with endurance riding.
> ~  Homer Saferwiffle
>
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