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RE: [RC] Checking the back/change for the sake of change - heidiRelax, Angie. NOBODY is suggesting a national rule that pulse
criteria be set at 60. Maybe you are confusing that with the
proposal to change the fit-to-continue cut-off to be half an
hour.
It is ABSOLUTELY the right thing to do to have the head vets set
pulse criteria, based upon ambient conditions. Heck, here in the
NW, at an early check post-dawn on a chilly 100 in the fall, I might
even go for a 68, just to get the horses in and out of there so they
don't chill.
But it's sad that so many seem to be set in their ways
and are not willing to LOOK at the advantages of running rides with a
60 pulse most of the time--you don't know if it will be a help to you
in your area or not until you are willing to try it a few times.
I heard the same mindset when we had pulses of 72--and yet, once we
dropped them and people began to see the advantages, I don't know of
anyone who seriously wants to go back.
Likewise, having run rides at 60 for several years and seeing the
advantages as compared to the years we ran them at 64, I am not willing
to go back.
You don't know until you try.
Heidi
Exactly. It's working in your region and you don't want a national rule
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