Ridecamp: Re: [RC] What Constitutes a Start & Electronic Communication

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:31:00 -0600, Randy H Eiland
<renegade12@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

...
>6k. Not having been paced or prompted by an un-entered, withdrawn, or
>otherwise unauthorized equine, vehicle, or a person other than another
>entrant. ...

>This criteria is in a gray area - could a "drag rider" be construed as a
>"pace or prompt"? If they are authorized by ride management to be on the
>trail, then they are not in violation of this criteria.  Is radio or cell
>phone use between a rider and the crew 'prompting"?  Please note 
>that this is an area that is still being debated by your Rules Committee. ...

Randy, I have always believed since the inception of this rule (I was
there when it was drafted), "prompting" refers to prompting the
*horse,* it never applied or was intended to apply to providing
information to the rider, or even encouraging the rider.  The two
words "pacing" and "prompting" are used to refer to someone in front
of the horse (paced) or someone behind the horse, hazing or pushing it
along (prompted).

I'm a bit incredulous that anyone could consider simply providing
information to a rider (or crew) to be "unfair."  But I agree with you
that crew people riding up and down the trail on motorbikes (other
than on a public road) is not good and quite possibly a violation of
6k. Radios, though, have nothing to do with that -- it's the vehicles
on the trail that are the problem.

-- 

Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxx
http://www.rnbw.com


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