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Re: [AERC-Members] [RC] It's not the distance... - Randy H EilandTammy,
I have never worried about how you ride because I know you have the "feel"
for what is going on with your horses - many times I have been surprised when
you have pulled because your horse looks good to me, then later your intuition
is proved right and your horse may be slightly "not right" but in generally good
shape for the next event.....and you are absolutely right that speed is the real
culprit with "bad luck" being a distant second. I hear about the Aussie
Logbook and no fatalities there, but that is being touted as a solution by
people who don't know the facts - the Logbook helps but is not a
solution and the Aussies have about the same percentage of equine
fatalities as AERC based on number of equine starts per year in each
organization. The difference is when the AERA determines a fatality is
from over riding, they may ban the rider for up to 10 years (which is what has
happened in the past)...however, just as here, most fatalities in Australia are
from reasons not related to over riding. I have sent Truman some
statistics provided to me by an officer in the AERA - I don't know if they will
be of any use but it would be very interesting to be able to compare AERA and
AERC on like issues of equine welfare.
Another interesting point from Australia, they have reduced the number
of "dual sanctioned AERA/FEI" events because "There were six FEI rides in Australia last year and the same this year
and they would total about 500 starts.We have actually dropped the number of FEI
rides and have now settled down to a figure that I hope will be maintained.
We still take the view that FEI is expensive and that their rules have huge
horse welfare holes in them, as seen at WEG."
Randy Eiland
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:31:26 EDT Trailrite@xxxxxxx writes:
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