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RE: [RC] rider option - Lori Bertolucci



Lori Bertolucci <loribertolucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:06:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Lori Bertolucci <loribertolucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [RC] rider option
To: Kristen A Fisher <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

My RO's were for a lameness I felt coming on, and scratches that were getting worse by the minute...
The vet with the lameness issue, couldn't see it, but I could feel it. By the time we got back to camp, via trailer, he was dead lame...and I was very glad I pulled...
It was my horses first 50, and we only had 12 miles to go, but it wasn't worth it to risk further injury...

Kristen A Fisher <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My understanding is that anyone wishing to take a rider option must have their horse pass a vet check before they can RO. It does affect pull code because if the horse is not fit to continue, it?s a vet pull. If it is FTC, it can be a RO.
 
Anyone trying to hide metabolic distress as described below with a RO is not a very prudent person IMO.
Kristen
 

Lori Bertolucci <loribertolucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Lori Bertolucci <loribertolucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC] rider option
To: Sbolinge@xxxxxxx
May I ask why you would not want to see the vet? Especially if you think there may be an issue with metabolics? I would think you would want the vets aware, just in case things went from bad to worse...
Just my thoughts...
Lori

Sbolinge@xxxxxxx wrote:
If a horse is pulled by the rider...does the horse still have to present to the vet check?  IN other words, if a rider realizes via heart monitor that the horse's pulse is not coming down as it should and the horse maybe has slowed way down and his pee is dark...knowing that the chances are good that he is going to be pulled by the vets for metabolics, the rider chooses to pull his horse himself to avoid the vet check?? Is that possible?


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