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Truman, your "survey" was not asking the right question.  What one WANTS to see is that the horses continue to recover, not just to the pulse criterion, but to a clinical normal.  When we ran rides at 64, and did exit pulses, there were enough horses that were STILL at 60-64 at the end of the hold to be a cause for concern.  When we run rides at 60, we see more of them recovering on down into the low 50s or lower.  THAT is the difference that we wanted to see--that the recovery would continue toward clinical normal, instead of to some baseline fatigue level.

 

Heidi

We did a little informal survey at a ride some time back. The criteria
was 64. We noted how many horses were actually over 60 when they pulsed
in. What seems to happen is riders will come in when the horse hits 64
or lower but by the time they get in and the pulse is taken - the horse
is at 60 or below. There only a hand full of horses that were between 60
and 64 for all checks. So that's a hand full over about 300 pulses that
day. At least on that day it didn't matter.

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