RE: Re: Qualifying for NC or Partners ride

["Susan Swope-Attardi" <Nagzarus@worldnet.att.net>]

Whoops... guess that wasn't very clear in my earlier post, my apologies...
the qualifications are Top Five in your WEIGHT division and at ANY AERC
ride, not just "qualification" rides as it stood for '99 and 2000.  This
change was made in hopes that more folks would be given the opportunity to
qualify and will make the championship a more interesting challenge and a
more economically feasible task for both AERC and the manager/host, etc.  Of
course, we want more entries! With qualifications being Top Five in your
weight division, the ride could well draw as many as 200+ entries between
the 50 and the 100, and that's a good thing!  Another good change, in my
opinion, is the fact that horse/rider combination must have 200 miles
together before achieving that Top Five qualification.  It will be more
difficult to come over and lease a horse just for this ride, thus adding
more integrity and prestige to a National Top Ten win!

Susan Swope-Attardi, secretary
Daniel Boone Distance Riders
Host of the 2001 American Endurance Ride Conference National Championships
http://home.att.net/~distanceriders/

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Flemmer [mailto:bluewolfranch@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:58 PM
To: ridecamp
Subject: RC: Re: Qualifying for NC or Partners ride


First, let me thank the Daniel Boone Distance Rider's
for offering to host this ride in 2001!  The remainder
of the post is aimed at AERC members who have any say
in setting the qualifications for the NC rides...

This post brings up one of the problems with the NC
ride.  The MUST be consistency in various aspects to
help draw riders.  At the very least, keep the general
qualification requirements the same from year to year,
even if dates for qualifications have to change based
on the date of the NC ride.  If it was finish in top
10 in certain rides, then so be it.  Suddenly we
switch to top 5?  Did we have too many riders in the
100 or 50 for 2000?  Do we need to exclude or limit
riders to keep the ride to a reasonable number of
entrants?  Didn't look like it...

Secondly, take up offers from volunteers!  A web page
& coverage would have been fantastic!

Third, set up and advertise the qualifying rides more
clearly and FAR in advance.  This aspect has always
been weak in my mind.

One of the draws for the ROC when the ROC still
existed was that I could qualify my <horse> over its
lifetime.  I could advertise my horse as ROC
qualified.  It was a goal to work towards that no
longer exists.  It's too bad.

Should the AERC move into a "Partners Ride" where the
horse must qualify over its lifetime to enter?  It
would be more in line with the old ROC and certainly
fill a void.  Listen to the pride in voices when they
say "I rode the ROC".

"nuff said.  Back to work.

Linda Flemmer
Blue Wolf Ranch
Bruceton Mills, WV


--- Susan Swope-Attardi <Nagzarus@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> The ones published on our web site in the March
> article to which you refer
> then came under discussion by AERC.  The finalized
> qualifications are due
> any day.  Either I, or Daniel Boone Distance Rider's
> President Connie
> Caudill can let Ridecamp know.  <SNIP>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tina hicks [mailto:tina@liveonthenet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 7:01 AM
> I have a question about qualifying for next year's
> ride in KY. This is
> off the the 2001 Nat'l Championship page at
> http://home.att.net/~dbdistanceriders/page14.html -
> the emphasis is mine:
>
> "In order to qualify for the 2001 National
> Championship ride, horses and their riders must
> **finish in the top 5 in any AERC sanctioned ride
> throughout the United States, held up to one year
> prior to the championship**.  In addition, the horse
> and rider combination must accumulate 200 miles
> together in 50 and/or 100 mile AERC
> competitions."
>
> I thought you had to place in the top 10 in
> specified qualifying rides
> for that ride year - that's the way it was this
> year, right? That's not
> what this paragraph is indicating though.
>
> Anyone know if this is indeed the way qualifying
> will be done for the
> 2001 ride?
>
> Tina
> tina@liveonthenet.com

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