Re: RC: RE: RE: RE: Fw: Drugs

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/13/99 10:09:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
truman.prevatt@netsrq.com writes:

<<  Suppose someone goes to a ride and has a
 12 hour ride home.  They give the horse a gram of bute to make it more
 comfortable on the ride home.  Now it is two weeks later and they go to
 another ride and are tested.   >>

Well, I have shared my feelings on bute for the trip home on this list 
before.  First of all, if you have a sufficiently comfortable trailer, you 
drive sanely, and your horse is used to trailering (all of which should be 
prerequisites to hauling a horse 12 hours to compete in a sport like 
endurance anyway) he certainly should not need bute for the ride home unless 
he has been overridden at the ride.  If that is the case, and you feel that 
he really does need the bute, then you shouldn't be looking at competing in 
two weeks anyway.  To me, the bute-on-the-way-home thing is just one more 
example of our whole overemphasis of trying to manage by pharmacy instead of 
by common sense.  Since most of my horses will relax in the trailer to the 
point of going to sleep, I fail to see how the bute is really helping with 
the trailer ride.

Once again, there is no argument about the 1000-fold or more increase in 
sensitivity of tests.  That's why AERC has the review policy that it does.  I 
still feel that if you are concerned about residuals given the review policy, 
then you need to review either your pharmacological approach or your intended 
ride schedule.

Heidi


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