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I stumbled upon this website and thought the archive 'stories' were 
pretty cute, especially the sore back story.  As I started reading more 
of them I came upon the EIA one and was somewhat surprised.  I'm 
reluctant to believe the claim that coggins tests are primarily done 
just for the revenue especially since if that was the case there would 
be many other tests 'they' could do to generate revenue and 'they' 
don't.  If any of you have a few extra minutes I'd be curious to hear 
what you have to say about this story.  Specifically that horses do not 
die from the infection and can lead perfectly normal lives.  If that is 
the case why is it SO regulated, other then the authors claim that it is 
for money.
The site doesn't try to sell you anything, I hadn't even noticed it was 
a saddlery site until I looked at the address so don't dismiss it for 
that reason.

This is relevant to endurance since coggins test results are required by 
every ride manager I assume.

http://www.pelham-saddlery.com/horse_column/eia.html

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