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I would be interested in a veterinarian commenting on the horses that pass a post ride vet check with low pulse rates who get into serious trouble without a raise in pulse rate later on. In my experience, relying on a HRM to tell you your horse is okay is courting disaster.   I am so paranoid about my horse's condition (learned the hard way) that I will not go to post ride award dinner unless it happens to be within a hundred feet of my trailer. I am much too busy watching my horse.
Julie Suhr
P.S. On arrival home I have a system that tells me how my horse is feeling.   We park the trailer a ways from the barn.   To get to the barn,   my horse must go down a slight slope of about 150 feet, then level for about 50 feet, then fairly steep uphill for about 300 feet.   When I take the halter off at the trailer and give them a swat and they run the whole distance full tilt while announcing to the world and their best friends that they are back in town, I know they are okay and I can go to bed.   If they saunter, I sleep in the barn, with a guilty conscience.