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Absolutely ruined - no doubt about it. She came down with a little 
respiratory thing last year. The vet was out for Coggines so I had him 
look at it. He put a exam glove over her nose and then listened to her 
lungs. He comes back and ask, "you say this mare is 27, she's got the 
lungs of a 10 year old." She had a little upper respiratory infection so 
we put her on antibiotics for a week - good as new.

Damn if I hadn't been so callous and ran the carp out of her in CTR's 
and LD's without two years of proper conditioning - her lungs might have 
been like a 5 year old!  I beat myself up over how poorly I treated her 
every day - especially as she is bossing the other horses around and 
being somewhat of a PITA ;-) .

Truman

Sisu West Ranch wrote:
> ".....is down in the pasture right now at 28..."
>
> Another example of a horse callously ruined by being asked to do an LD 
> without proper conditioning.*
>
> *"It's a JOKE, son.  A JOKE"  Foghorn Leghorn ca. 1952
>
> Ed & Wendy Hauser
> 2994 Mittower Road
> Victor, MT 59875
>
> (406) 642-9640
>
> ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us


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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what 
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." Bertrand 
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