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Re: [RC] pull codes - Truman PrevattKYielding@xxxxxxx wrote:Here's a question regarding R.O. pulls. Recently my mare coliced a few miles from the end of a ride. We pulled her saddle and walked her and in about 10 minutes her heart rate was at 32 and stayed there. She showed no more pain. The lady riding with me headed for camp to get a vet and I started walking my mare up the hill to the next road. We were able to put the saddle back on her and she was fine with it. I would not ride her. As far as I was concerned she was pulled from the ride. When the vet arrived at the next road she pronounced her fit to continue. I rode back to camp with the ride manager and some other people led my mare back to camp. She arrived in camp and dropped to 32 almost immediately. I pulled her - R.O. because vet said I could have continued. So her record should read RO-M. Instead it reads as a metabolic pull. I plan to question it but in the meantime how would others have done this. There was no way I would have ridden her. She didn't need a ride as she was fit to continue. Her colic was unknown causes. Vet said maybe she was coming in heat but by the end of the next day she showed swelling in her face from the corners of her mouth to her cheek bones. She got into something she was alergic to. So, is this a true rider option - m. or what? If the vet met you on the trail because you had reported a metabolic problem and then you RO pulled - the RO-M is the right code. If her face was swelling at the end of the day - clearly there was a metabolic issue independent of who pulled her. I'm wouldn't worry about it. In the great scheme of things it matters little what the pull code says. In 10 years when you are still riding her this will be long forgotten. Truman -- "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." Niels Bohr -- Nobel Laureate, Physics =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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