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[RC] Cost of rides - get LDers to enter multiple times! - Ridecamp Guest

Please Reply to: Sharon Hahn sharon.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or 
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Note in Ed's response below that he offered 2 LDs and 2 CTRs in
addition to his endurance ride.  In the Midwest, it is very common for people 
to ride 2-3 LD and/or CTR in one weekend.
So even though they are paying less per event(typically about
$45), you get multiple entries (and multiple fees!) from people
who bring an extra horse or ride 2 days of 25s instead of a
one-day 50.  I've even seen people ride one horse in an LD that
started at 7 am, then get on a second horse and do a CTR with a
1 pm start that same day.

Ed Hauser wrote:
Yup! Any endurance ride has very high fixed costs. When we did a ride in the MW 
(which by the way is much less costly) we could break even at 70 entries (for 
the whole weekend, 2LD, 2CTR, 1 endurance ride) at 98 we could give $1000 to 
the park have a couple hundred left over to pay for 3-400 hours of work.


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