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Hey Heidi
Lighten up! The IAHA and AHA have merged and have people from both 
organizations-- there is no division anymore.  I am one of the people 
who had given up (on IAHA if you still choose to maintain a formal 
division) and I've received e-mail from others who have. You can 
nit-pick if you want--- you didn't give up on them-- they gave up on 
you--- whatever--- I am not about to become sucked into a pissing match. 
Must you comment on every e-mail I send? (This is a rhetorical 
question--- you need not respond!) ;-)
I have the letter on-line, those who want to sign it can-- and if you, 
Heidi, don't it is fine with me. You need not take every comment I make 
and direct it to you or point it at everyone else on ridecamp. Who made 
you hall monitor? ;-)
No pressure for ANYONE to sign. I'm going to proceed as though the 
Registry is open for feedback. IF I am wrong, then I have tried my 
best... and if  I am right, some of us could make gains. I've always 
found that it does not help me to go in with a pessimistic attitude or 
blame for the state of things. I am starting fresh with good intentions, 
hoping for a positive response.
Never asked for your help because I never expected it from the way you 
have always responded to me in the past.
Oh, I am perfectly aware of what Jim's job duties are. I guess you 
missed my previous post that I am sending this to him because I know he 
is a man of action and he will re-route it to the best action-oriented 
person. He has never dropped the ball in the past and I am relying on a 
friendship here--- always works for me to have an inside connection help 
and not just direct it to a dept.
Now John Teeter has asked that we not discuss this matter on ridecamp 
and I will respect that and ask that if anyone has comments or 
suggestions or anything re: this matter, that they e-mail me privately. 
I won't respond publicly about this again except to remind people just 
before I wrap things up and send this to Jim.
This is just a group of us' attempt to address an issue that has been 
bugging many of us. We'd like as many people to join in as possible and 
if others have other suggestions as to how to make positive change, I am 
open to those and will participate to the best of my ability.
Bette

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > I know many of you have given up on the Registry in the past
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> Well, actually, no--I don't know of very many people who have "given up"
> on the Registry.  In my experience, the service from the Registry has done
> nothing but improve over the past 30+ years.  It is IAHA that we have
> "given up" on.  (And I know a LARGE number of people who have done that.) 
> Many people seem to confuse the two different functions--registration
> ensures parentage verification, makes sure that the horse in question is
> who he is represented to be, takes care of transfers of ownership, etc.,
> and the former AHR did a very good job of this.  The promotional arm, the
> former IAHA, is the one that sanctions shows, hires judges, enforces show
> rules (if one can call it that) and is responsible for most of the current
> public image of the Arabian horse.  Granted, the Registry did put out a
> certain amount of breed informational material--but they are NOT the ones
> who have made a mockery of our breed.  One needs to have the two different
> organizations and two different functions straight when looking at this
> situation.
>
> And despite the merger, in which both functions are now under the AHA
> name, Mr. Benedict (a great guy) is still the director of Special
> Services, which is a function of the Registry portion of AHA--NOT on the
> "show side" of the organization.  Special Services deals with such issues
> as how to get papers when there are legal issues involved, how to sort out
> and seek out necessary paperwork for horses that have transferred through
> several owners without the paperwork keeping up with them, etc.  I have
> the utmost respect for Mr. Benedict and others in the Registry side--they
> do a great job, but they have had to reap what IAHA has sowed, right along
> with the rest of us.
>
> So please, if you are going to state that some of us have "given up" on
> something, at least get it straight what it is that we have given up on.
>
> Heidi
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Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians
Home of Bunny and 16.2h TLA Halynov
who lives on through his legacy Hal's Riverdance!
http://www.arabiansporthorse.com

Always remember: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." (George Carlin)



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