Good follow up blog on this topic:
https://the900facebookpony.com/2016/12/28/blowing-the-whistle/
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Another note in case there are any show organizers lurking: I have witnessed Ellen Doughty-Hume use coggins that are not for the horse she is taking to schooling or entering in shows, so you may want to study these carefully when she enters your events or brings horses for schooling to your venue. How someone can’t even get coggins for horses that they are making money on and has no problem putting other horses at risk because they aren’t properly caring for their horses is beyond me.
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The blog mentioned something I have been wondering about … all the comments that went ‘poof.’ How’d that happen with the edit feature broken? I can’t erase anything … so how does a poster have that insider ability? I never knew that you could even erase an entire post, I thought you could edit out your comments and leave a period.
I also have to agree that the poster retaliations, and each revelation here, really has sealed the deal on the she said/she said conundrum.
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oh good grief. Forging coggins has been around as long as coggins have. lol.
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The edit feature can be used or worked around on certain machines. Apple doesn’t seem to be one of the certain machines and doesn’t seem to work on phones or tablets.
No conspiracy or black helicopters involved. Sorry.
Carry on.
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Oh, well, in that case, it’s ok.
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Forging coggins, that is.
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"oh good grief. Forging coggins has been around as long as coggins have. lol. "
I don’t find Coggins forging amusing. Here in New York State there have been cases of EIA popping up. People are learning to treat the test, the results and the paper with a bit more respect.
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flyingchange, and that makes it ok??? awesome…
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Flaxenfilly is a genius and figured out if you hold the “edit post” button on your phone until the “open in new tab” box opens, you can edit!
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I am, by no means, the Coggins police. An infected horse can just as easily have a piece of paper from their test 6 months that says negative.
However, the rules for entering show grounds apply to everyone. If I have to have a clean Coggins for my horse, so do you. Also, as a trainer, don’t teach younger generations stupid sh*t like that. A trainer’s responsibility is to teach them that the rules must always be followed. No matter who you are, or how important you fancy yourself.
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I am, by no means, the Coggins police. An infected horse can just as easily have a piece of paper from their test 6 months that says negative.
However, the rules for entering show grounds apply to everyone. If I have to have a clean Coggins for my horse, so do you. Also, as a trainer, don’t teach younger generations stupid sh*t like that. A trainer’s responsibility is to teach them that the rules must always be followed. No matter who you are, or how important you fancy yourself.
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Lol, I can’t take the credit for that knowledge. Someone was kind enough to let me in on that secret 
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Let’s be real here. That ship sailed with the whole Pony Club debacle.
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I don’t know the OP at all, but I am familiar with the trainer and barn. I stayed clear of the trainer after hearing way too many sketchy stories of her behavior, so I don’t know her personally. I used to drive by that barn on almost a daily basis and I know the pasture the OP is speaking of and I remember that terrible flood. It sits at the bottom of one of the steepest hills around and I always felt sorry for whatever stable hand would have to walk back up it after dropping off horses. It took some time for them to repair the fence, but horses are indeed still turned out there. If it was my land there is no way I would put a horse out there unless there was absolutely no chance of a major, flash-flood rain. I hope the barn staff is being that diligent.
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HWood - yes, exactly. I have been surprised to see horses there when it is So clearly a flood plain. Its the drainage area for that big hill.
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I don’t find lying in any form (including coggins switcheroos) ok… but the odds of EIA being passed around in an area with no cases is low. And a coggins test tells you nothing about a horse’s current infectious status… it’s a snapshot of when the blood was drawn. So although it’s dishonest, it’s unlikely to be any riskier than relying on the actual coggins from 6 months ago
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Thst doesn’t make it ok, it just is no more likely to risk other horses than the accepted practice of relying on a coggins test all year
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I could not drive by that place without thinking about the horror that must have taken place that day. And it took months for them to have a crew repair the fence- but even today I still think about it.
BTW I did make this profile to respond to this thread- but in all fairness I only did that because my old user name/ password escapes me. I used to post many years ago, but just occasionally read now.
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I could not drive by that place without thinking about the horror that must have taken place that day. And it took months for them to have a crew repair the fence- but even today I still think about it.
BTW I did make this profile to respond to this thread- but in all fairness I only did that because my old user name/ password escapes me. I used to post many years ago, but just occasionally read now.
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