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> At 02:06 PM 8/2/2004, Karen Sullivan wrote:
> > The one thing I wanted to share was that there was a diligent group 
> > of ride volunteers with checklists on the horses, that went around 
> > the barns all night monitoring  the horses and how they were doing, 
> > checking water buckets and food.  This was backed by the 
> > veterinarians, who were also going around every half hour or so and 
> > double clecking horses.  I was very, very impressed by all this.
>
> That's very cool.  When did they start that?  Paul and I used to pay 
> for an extra stall so we could sleep next to our horses rather than 
> leave them alone.  We never saw anyone other than a few other riders 
> or crew watching over the horses.  Some horses would run out of food 
> and water and have no one there to watch over them.

I started crewing in 1989 and the vets were circulating through the 
barns all night then.  The volunteers seem to be new:  looking after 
the horses until the riders recovered was just part of our crew's 
duty. (of course our horses didn't get up their pens until almost 
dawn  -- the riders always finished but they took their time about it 
<g>.)
--


Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/

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