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Yes - I remember, but I don't want to start the whole discussion up  
again.  :)

I was just reporting on what was in the report.  : >

On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Diane Trefethen wrote:

> Elizabeth Walker wrote:
> > Concern #1:  gives the reasoning behind the 30 minute pulse-down  
> > proposal.  Basically, 60 minutes is just too lenient, and serious  
> > problems resulting in fatalities are being missed.
> This solution presupposes that horses who die don't recover within  
> 30 minutes. But we do not know that.  There are no finish line pulse  
> times in the Horse Fatality Reports.  Heidi has suggested that  
> horses are more likely to evince trouble after they have had some  
> time to "let down" so of the horses who get completions, maybe it is  
> the ones that *are* pulsed and examined within 30 minutes that are  
> dying.  If so, then for a horse not in any apparent trouble, it  
> makes more sense to have a rule requiring it to wait at least 30  
> minutes before getting its completion exam than to have a rule  
> requiring it to pulse within 30 minutes.
>
> In other words, perhaps the crack that dead horses are falling  
> through isn't the first 30 minutes window but rather the 20-50  
> minutes after finishing window, when the horse starts to relax and  
> begins to feel pain more acutely.
>
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