Re: [RC] Training Facilities (was too quiet) - Heidi Smith
>How can anyone explain what is seen on line such as the
multitude of vehicles around the
horses?
Most likely by the fact
that the President's Cup and many of their other rides are sanctioned not by FEI
but rather by their national federation, as several have suggested earlier in
this discussion.
At the 1998 WEC in Dubai,
although there were a lot of us charging around in the desert in vehicles, we
were not driving along the trail, but simply following other routes to
get to specified check points. Even the Defense Minister's helicopter had
to keep a certain distance away from the trail--as one of our crew people
discovered after she hiked over a sand dune to attend to nature, assuming in
fine Western tradition that "distance is decency," only to discover that she was
far enough away from the trail to be in direct view from the helicopter
instead. <g> (Lucie, are you out there??) When it was an
FEI WEC, the FEI rules on this point were indeed
followed.
What specifications about
support vehicles that other countries have on their own rides is up to
them, surely.... AERC doesn't follow all of the FEI rules on AERC rides,
either.
