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Kristen A Fisher wrote:

> If your horse is in the trailer in TX you can be heavily fined if you do not
> have an accompanying Coggins.
>
> Some states (TX comes to mind) 
>  
>
> > require managers of equine events to check for Coggins tests. 
> > In other parts of the country, you don't need a test unless 
> > you are crossing a state line.  (And in a few instances, 
> > there are exemptions to that, too.) But the problem differs 
> > in frequency from state to state.  Out here, a state may find 
> > a positive only once every several years.  Texas, on the 
> > other hand, runs 400-500 positive cases per year, so it makes 
> > sense for their regulations to be much stiffer.
> >    
In FL any time you "move a horse" you have to have a documentation of a 
Coggins. That means riding them! If you ride your horse on state lands 
in FL you are required to carry your Coggins with you. If you ride 
enough on state lands you will be checked.

Truman

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"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




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