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Re: [RC] BC information - heidiHere is something new for us to think about.... Wouldn't it be good for all of us to press the Vets and Ride Management into giving us MORE information during the Best Condition Judging? I have been discussing this with many ride managers and Vets over the last year and been getting mixed results from both. Why is it that we only get to see the trot out and NO other information during BC judging? What a great opportunity for education if they announced more! There are many attributes that they could share with us during the judging that would help us learn. Such as, What was the horse's pulse. What was the CRI if done. What was the hydration. What were the gut sounds. What was the time to pulse down at the finish. What was the rider weight. What was the difference in time 1 - 10. These are all stats that we don't need to dispute and are basic, but would help us understand the attitude of a horse while watching BC. It is not like we would try to second guess the Vets. Heck, they give out the results to the top ten finishers any ways.... why not give the watchers more information they are recording any ways to make the BC judging more educational? Steve, glad you brought up this topic. One of my pet peeves was when AERC changed from the big individual sheet for each BC horse to the little slips where you put all the horses on one page and then tear them apart to hand out. One of the things I always used to do with BC judging was to allot specific numbers of points to specific parameters within each category. I did BC on a main worksheet, where all of the deductions for each and every category were listed, and then I made notes on the big BC form for each horse, listing his pulse at 10 minutes, his CRI, his pulse at an hour, what I deducted for gut sounds, skin tenting, jug refill, cap refill, mucous membranes, etc. On the trot-out, I listed comments about why I scored the horse down. I know a lot of riders have contacted me over the years and have said how much they appreciated having all of those notes, so that they could read what it was that I was seeing, and understand how I arrived at the vet score. As for weights and times--those are on there. The heaviest rider's weight is listed, and the specific rider's weight is subtracted from that to get the weight score. Same thing with the time--the fastest time is listed, and the rest of the riders' times are subtracted from that to get their individual time scores. So it is easy to look and compare those. But the vet scores are too often just reported as numbers, with no notes--so the rider really has no idea what the vet might have been seeing. I'd like to see AERC go back to the big page for each rider, and then encourage the vets to USE it--heck, the vet scribes can write in the comments, if need be, if the vets don't like to do paperwork. (I always enjoy that part, personally--and appreciated having room to write my remarks for each horse judged.) Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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