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I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be true…

I turned around to pull my horse after leaving the vet check and realizing he was now lame. It was not a rider option pull, he was lame, it was a lameness pull, even though I was the one who initially determined it and told the vets I was pulling my now lame horse.

Same with my daughter’s horse. He fell after leaving a vet check, she took him back to pull, and it was a lameness pull, not RO just because he’d already been cleared by the vet. 

If the vets had rechecked and determined these horses were not lame as we thought and said they could go on, then it would have been RO-lame. 

Kathy

I'm not sure if that is completely true - at a ride this

last fall, a rider came into the final vet check, (I was

volunteering) I heard the rider was pulling, Rider Option,

rider asked vet if he'd like to see the horse, brought

horse up and I watched it limp to the vet, 3-legged lame. 

The ride results on AERC state Lameness/Rider Option. The

horse was definitely NOT fit to continue.

heidi larson