Re: Lon Lewis quotes and my final reply tto ti

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-06-25 13:38:55 EDT, Tivers@aol.com writes:

<<  The vets are all
 on the other side, hopping and blocking for a living. >>

Not quite all of us.  Some of us came, saw, didn't like, made other career
choices, and went endurance riding.  On a similar note, the cutting horse
people are bad about medicating, too, especially their futurity babies.  Dane
Frazier and I sat together at a lecture by Dr. Jerry Black at an AAEP meeting
a few years ago, and listened to Jerry expound about all the ways to drug a
horse to keep him working through a painful injury, and then justify it by
saying, "If you drug him, you are doing him a big favor, because they're gonna
ride him anyway, and if he doesn't hurt as bad, they won't drill on him so
hard, and he won't suffer as much."  Dane and I both sat there speechless with
our jaws dropped.  Nope, endurance riders are much more progressive about
allowing horses to heal and return to health when injuries occur.

Heidi