Re: Legal Drugs

["Robert Morris" <bobmorris@rmci.net>]

Cheryl:

You stated <<<<Many horses would  die out there on the trail (and used 
> to before our nutrition technology became so advanced) if we couldn't
give 
> these supplements. >>>>

Please document this statement with your supportable statistics or explain
that it is your humble opinion.  My wife and I have been in endurance
competition for over twenty years and so have many others like Barbara
McCrary, Julie Suhr, The Duck,  Joe Long, Trilby, and a host of others. To
infer that we had horses die on the trail because of poor nutrition or lack
of the current supplement fads is an insult to our sport. I can show you
many older competitive, high mileage, still rideable horses who have never
experienced these wonder drugs. 

I believe you owe these long time riders an apology.

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID

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> From: Cheryl Newbanks <horsetrails@inficad.com>
> To: 'Ridecamp' <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Subject: Legal Drugs
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 5:23 PM
> 
> Angie McGhee wrote:
> 
> >Have you seen anyone dragged before the board and suspended for a year
> >because their horse had some dandelion in his system?  I just think this
> >is a slow day and you guys are making a mountain out of a mole-hill.
> >What we've got now is working fine to my knowledge.  We didn't make this
> >rule to stop people from doing things that were good for their
> >horse...like worming, electrolytes, etc.
> 
> Yeah Angie!  Way to go girl!  Sometimes I think ridecamp gets too tied up

> in its own underwear!!!!  Probiotics are NOT performance enhancing drugs!

>  Our horses do an extraordinary sport and extra measures need to be taken

> like probiotics and electrolytes to put back what we demand they take out

> of their systems.  Many horses would  die out there on the trail (and
used 
> to before our nutrition technology became so advanced) if we couldn't
give 
> these supplements. It is not like we let them stop to eat or find the
lost 
> minerals they need on the side of the trail while the pack races by!  If 
> you choose to not give these supplements to your horse fine, but don't
tell 
> me they are performance enhancing drugs, heck they are basically survival

> enhancing.  And for those who think electrolytes and probiotics are an 
> unfair advantage I guess I'll see your horse at vc on the end of an iv 
> bottle someday!
> 
>                                   Cheryl Newbanks
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