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I had a horse once that gradually declined in performance, despite 
everything I could do to help.  He arrived at the 69-mile point VC of a 
100-miler with purple-tinged gums.  The vet pointed this out to me, said it 
was caused by poor circulation, and I immediately pulled him.  I had him 
blood-tested, gave him blood-builders and no one was ever able to get to the 
root of the problem.  I finally sold him for a pasture ornament.  He had, in 
his earlier career, done fairly well...not a great winner, but decent 
performance.  As he became a couple of years older, he started having 
metabolic problems that no vet could identify.  So...I should have been 
punished????

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mcgann, Barbara" <BarbMcGann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jim Holland" <lanconn@xxxxxxx>; "Bruce Weary DC" <bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 4:10 PM
Subject: RE: [RC] 30 Min rule


Jim,

You wrote:

As in a court of law, or in an "inquiry committee" (this is already a
part of AERC), we have the ability to handle situations such as Barb's
where there are mitigating circumstances. There are always
exceptions....in all walks of life.

===Except that at the time it was occurring, no one knew what the
mitigating circumstances were....only in hindsight, and after an
additional 10 years of horses going to rides from my ranch can I say for
absolute sure that the water was the culprit.   At the time, though, I'm
sure that many fellow endurance riders just thought I was an idiot or
worse.

You also say:

Why don't you do this....ask Mike Maul write a little program that will
list each AERC member along with their number of metabolic pulls?  That
shouldn't be difficult. You MIGHT learn something interesting....and
maybe useful.


===This is EXACTLY the witch hunt that gets so many of us going.   If
you run this program, I am going to show up at the top of the list with
10-15 metabolic pulls!!!!!   But, we've just been through all the
reasons why that would be an absolute travesty of justice to brand me
with the label.    I would be surprised if every other person on the
list doesn't either have a perfectly good reason to be there or, it is
still in the unexplainable category.  I found my problem, but what if I
hadn't found it before your rule kicked in?   I guess I would have just
been forced to quit and would be an unsuitable rider.

Barb




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