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Steph Teeter wrote:
> This med approval most likely does not apply to the 
> Endurance discipline.

Oh.  Well then.  It's okay.

This reminds me of what the Reverend Martin Niemoeller said after WWII. 
 "Then they came for the homosexuals, and I didn't speak up because I 
wasn't a homosexual."  The time to protest isn't when they have YOU by 
the throat.  The time to protest is when they FIRST do an injustice.  In 
this case, the injustice is to the horses not in our discipline.  Those 
animals will be forced to compete with injuries that would normally be 
so painful as to cause the horses to perform badly.  Killing the pain 
doesn't cure the injury and without the pain to tell the horse to be 
careful, it might well exacerbate its injury.  At the very least, it 
can, as Bruce pointed out, interfere with the healing process to a 
disastrous extent.


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