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RE: [RC] [AERCMembersForum] Safety Issue- Ride manager alert - heidiI have personally had many experiences where the horses racing at the finish of a 50 were distracted or alarmed and either slowed or went off trail (sometimes dangerously so), all due to lack of forsight by the person there to record the finish order, or by unforeseen obstacles (trucks being moved for folks to watch the finish, etc.) Just one comment about this--one of the most common distractions at the finish line is a lime line across the road! Many managers mark off "wrong way" trails with lime bars, so you spend all day telling your horse to move AWAY from the lime bar. Horses learn this very effectively. So you come running up to the finish line, and all of a sudden you want him to CROSS the lime bar--and his very intelligent first reaction is "HUH??" 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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