Convention Regional Awards

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Well we went to the convention to go get our awards and the awards really 
sucked! We got a thow rug with our placements on them embroidered on the 
bottom where you can barley see it ( three of them, they all look the same 
too whoo hoo!). We were very saddened and very disapointed. My son 
especially, what does a 11 yr old boy want with a little blanket. We wanted 
Jackets, like they have been giving out for the last 30 years that you can 
show off at the rides. The convention in general wasn't so great either, they 
didn't have very good topics for the seminars, most topics were old news. No 
training topics, nothing like Linda Tellington Jones. They had a 
dimonstration on conformation but... the guy giving the dimonstration has 
never dealt with endurance horses duh, track horses I was not impressed. The 
only simanar I liked at the convention was Susan Garlinghouses Nutrition 
simanar. She did a wonderfull job! We donated her some produts to fund  her 
reseaarch and it was well worth it! There wasn't even close to as many people 
as last year. Some people at the awards didn't bother walking up to the 
podium to get there blanket they were so insulted in the award! The blanket 
is somthing maybe you would get for a single ride award. Not for all year 
long for riding almost 1000 miles. It's value if you were to go buy it is 
about $30.00 - $15.00 at cost. The AERC is getting Cheaper! Go figure, they 
doubled their membership this year and got cheaper on the awards? So we are 
going to buy (yes, spend some more money) are own Jackets! As many others are!


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