At 09:57 PM 4/21/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Anyway, CRI, please someone, what does it all mean?
My advice would be to ride your horses solo, each of them, when you condition them. They need to learn to be independent. Purposely leave one behind -- best if it is the only one there so it learns to deal with the separation. They need to learn not only to leave the other horse or horses behind, but to be left. Another option is to selfishly demand that the person riding the horse your horse is attached to, stay behind until you vet so that your horse doesn't spazz. Your horses just need more experience, some of them get it in a ride or two, and others take a dozen or two (or forty or fifty). :+D If you are having truly bad CRI's, then the horses are probably either not in condition for what you ask, and/or may be over-heated and you just basically need to slow down. The numbers you gave didn't look that horrid, and so long as there wasn't anything else wrong then I would just simply change how I go thru the vet checks. I like to vet after the horse has been in and we are just about thru with our hold. That way, the horse has had time to eat, rest, and chill out so if there is a problem it'll more likely show up then. Like with your horse going lame. They usually aren't lame when they vet right thru, it's after they've been in the vet check awhile and relax that some things show up. Anyways, this might not work for you, it works great for me because most of the rides I go to don't have vet lines so it's never a problem being delayed if we wait till the last 10 minutes of our vet hold to vet (if I see that will be a problem, then I will vet right thru). By that point if you are still having failing CRI's, then you probably shouldn't continue. k =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
