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As a further bit of clarification to "Fit to Continue does not 
feel the gap you are saying
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> Please clarify on this "

When the horse is given a completion - the vet has made the 
decision that the horse is fit to continue.  If the horse was not 
fit to continue - completion should not have been awarded.

If something happens later - that does not effect the decision the 
vet made at that point in time.

Removing a completion after a ride for treatment is similar in my 
view to being judged fit to continue at a check during the ride - 
and then if something happens to the horse during the next loop - 
you try to say the horse wasn't fit to continue out of the last 
vet check.

Vets and riders make the best decisions they can at the time of 
the decision.  The decision for completion is made at the end of 
the ride. That's all AERC can ask in my view.

Apparently some other organizations feel differently as 
demonstrated by the post about the UMERCA rules which don't allow 
this.  I respect their views for their rides.

Mike


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