Heart Monitors

[Joan Dowis <jdowis@foothill.net>]

Hi, Gang - my 2 cents worth.  I ride with a monitor when conditioning
and during a ride.  At vet checks, I do a hand check as well as the
monitor while waiting to P&R.  As soon as my horse meets criteria, I
P&R.  Time after time, the P&R person will come up with a lower score
than I have gotten with both hand and monitor, ex. 54 instead of 60.
Friends I have ridden with have had the same experience.  My conclusion,
since I use both hand and monitor checks to be sure I meet criteria, is
that many P&R persons can't or don't  bother to be accurate.  I have
never had one get a higher # than the monitor.

Joan D. (Sitting this year out; my horse has a cyst in his pastern
bone.  Anyone hear of that before?)


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