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While I agree that a horse that kicks around a vet check at another 
horse, vet or volunteer should be DQ'ed, I also feel that if this 
reaction was prompted by the actions of another horse (bitting a horse, 
banging into the horse, etc.), that horse should also be DQ'ed.  There 
are a lot of different acts of aggression and none should be tolerated.

There is a huge difference when a horse that kicks just because they 
don't like the vet raising their tail and a horse that kicks because 
they are defending themselves from an attack when the horse behind them 
takes a chomp out of them. In general if a fight breaks out in a human 
sporting event, both participants are ejected. Makes sense to me that 
this should also be true for horses at an endurance ride.

Truman

CTH wrote:
> I agree with Susan.
> As a ride manager I will DQ anyone who has a horse that acts 
> agressively around my volunteers.
> My horse would think he was going to die if he even thought about 
> being agressive in camp or around people.
> That said I also would like to mention the riders who are busy 
> chatting in the vet line up and paying no attention to the horse they 
> are holding. We had a person kicked and hurt because the riders were 
> crowded so they could visit.
> The horses were visiting in a not so nice way and wham.
> The person who got hurt was standing in the wrong place just watching. 
> A non horsey volunteer.
> Paddi
>  


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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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