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Truman wrote:

"I would hope the AERC vet committee. horse welfare committee and ride management would work together to determine why the high treatment rate so steps can be taken to mitigate this amount of stress in the future."
 

Truman,

I truly understand and share your wish that AERC will do everything feasible to help educate all of us in the welfare of our endurance horses.

 

It is my understanding that AERC already, through the horse welfare committe, reviews ride welfare facts/issues as a matter of AERC policy.

 

Unfortunately, sometimes the only answer such a review may properly find is that extra veterinary treatment/pulls were required to protect our horses from the results of competing in unforeseeable weather conditions for the time of year the ride is held.

 

Just as (endurance or flat) race track leg injuries, for example, are more likely during muddy weather, so is fluid treatment when the weather is unexpectedly hot, especially late in the year...

 

Dabney

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Truman Prevatt

To: Ride Camp

Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 6:35 PM

Subject: [RC] Nationals

We don't want to put a stigma on fluids since we don't want people to deny their horses the proper treatment if they need it. However, we also don't want to see putting horses on fluids as the norm. Many times on 100's particularly the completion rate is low, but one in six starters on fluids seems a bit high.


Truman

First I need to state this is message is sent to educate me.  I am not sending this to incite a riot or cause anyone trouble (but I suspect it will).  I crewed at the 100 mile Nation Championships in Warner Hot Springs last week.  Of the 30 starters only 11 finished.  Lots of the pulls were due to metabolic problems.  I personally saw 5 horses with IV?s.  I did not keep a record, nor did I inquire who owned the horses or who rode them.  In other words I do not know the particulars on the horses requiring treatment.  So here is my question, is it normal for a National Championship ride to have so many pulls and so much metabolic issues?  Again, this is for my education only. Thank you in advance for your responses and trying to understand what happened,

Nancy Reed (yep, stupid here in), Elfin Forest, CA

PS My guy got pulled at 54 miles for a suspensory injury.  It was heart breaking for all of us on the team.

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