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I'm curious what horses you count as "general population"?
Only riding horses?   Idle horses?  Stabled show/ race horses?
Working ranch horses?  Back yard ponies?  Draft horses?  Rental/dude 
string/lesson mounts?   All those non-working pasture horses?
Which ones are included?   How do you account for deaths of horses that 
never see a vet, or the unattended deaths that have no information on cause 
of loss?
Where do the numbers come from for comparison purposes to endurance horses? 
Which census figures?
I would guess those stabled show horses/race horses would be easy.  Someone 
sees them every day, lots of info, but many of the others?
Without these numbers the percentages may not be very valid.

Enlighten me.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: [RC] Analysis of fatality rates


> In the report, Truman's comment:
>
>
> I don't have a huge problem with using the 5-20 year old age range in
> the statistics available about the general population because endurance
> horses mostly DO fall into this age category and it is, presumably, the
> best data available...


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