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For the majority of people the pull codes don't mean anything good or 
bad.  They just don't care.  Where the problem lies I believe, is when 
there are those who make their living from buying or selling or training 
horses.  Those people don't want to have a horse they are involved with 
pulled for any reason, therefore they will continue even when they 
shouldn't.  We all know that just because a vet passes a horse, because the 
horse met all of the parameters, that the horse in some cases really 
doesn't need to be continuing.  Horses have died at rides that passed their 
vet checks.  There have been times a rider thought there might have been 
something not quite right, but the vet passed the horse so the rider 
thought it was okay, when the reality is that it isn't.

Think about it, if you were looking for an endurance horse and looked up 
it's record and it has 4 or 5 lameness pulls in a dozen rides, would you 
even be interested?  Or a few metabolic pulls.  Even a few RO pulls would 
turn a lot of people off.  I believe that the majority of riders do put 
their horses first, and it is always better to pull than to second guess 
what went wrong.  There will be another ride on another day, but there is 
only one of 'your horse'.

Karen

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