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Re: [RC] Endurance - FEI, UAE - Truman Prevatt

Bob,

I guess I wasn't clear. The AERC NC does have the requires it has which is some miles (300 maybe without looking it up) and a top five in the event.

What my statement referred to was the USEF requirements (which Steph posted) when I said.

"

We also dropped a requirement that a horse and ride must
have completed a 1 day 100 together as a team from the nomination
requirements for the NAC this year. So that opens up the issues again that can
arise with riders not knowing a horse until they have to put the pedal
to the metal because they want to be "selected." Is that really good for
our horses?"

Sorry about that too many "we"

Truman


bobmorris@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Truman:

To quote directly from page 22 of the January 2005 Endurance
News; 

Requirements:
2. Horse and rider team must have one top five finishing in
their weight division in an endurance ride with a minimum
distance of the championship ride in which they intend to
compete.

So, I would say your initial statement is incorrect.

Bob

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID 

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Subject: Re: [RC] Endurance - FEI, UAE


We also dropped a requirement that a horse and ride must
have completed a 1 day 100 together as a team from the nomination
requirements for the NAC this year. So that opens up the issues again that can
arise with riders not knowing a horse until they have to put the pedal
to the metal because they want to be "selected." Is that really good for
our horses?

While we beat ourselves up over qualifications that many
feel too lax for the AERC NC, USEF is basically eliminating all
requirements to nominate for an FEI championship ride. Then they throw out a
13:20 time standard for a rider to have to do their first 100 at the
Biltmore or Ft. Howes or don't apply. A horse that is not even qualified
for the AERC NC can nominate for the WEC. Does any one else (except
Steph) see something wrong here.

About the only thing this will accomplish is to produce more
dead horses. Is this really the direction we in the AERC want to
see? Is the evolving FEI sport a sport we want to be associated with? I
think it's time the AERC have an open debate over this direction in
international and to decide if it is in the best interest of the AERC and
our sport of endurance riding, to cut international loose. It has evolve
in a direction which was unanticipated and in a direction that I
must say I find repugnant and not compatible with the our standards of
care and compassion for the horse.

FEI endurance seems to have evolved into a sport of the
throw away horse. It is a sport some might want to pursue, and that's
their choice. However, I would prefer that they not do it under any
official recogonition of the AERC. It's time for International
endurance to leave the nest and go out on it's own in this country.

Truman

StephTeeter wrote:



(Caution: the following paragraph is totally subjective,


I'm going to

vent a little ). At a recent conference call of the USEF


High

Performance Athletes committee (USEF riders elected to the


committee),

of which I am a member, a motion was put forward to


recommend to the

USEF Endurance committee that the mileage requirement


qualification for

horses to be nominated for the 2006 WEC be eliminated. The


proposal put

forward by a committee member was to allow riders to


nominate horses

with no previous mileage requirement. By majority vote, the


committee

recommended that the horse requirement to have completed


two 100 mile

rides be eliminated. The committee recommended by majority


vote that

the requirement of the horse to have completed 500 lifetime


miles be

reduced to 200 lifetime miles. The argument of persuasion


was that 'we

need younger faster horses to compete' and that 'we have


too many old

high mileage horses trying to compete'. I have to ask -


what was the

age of the US horses that have won World Championships in


the past? It

appears to me that some are now promoting the quest for


'victory' at

all costs. This is short sighted and IMO foolish. Do we


really want to

allow riders to nominate 6 year old horses, that have done


4 50-mile

rides, to be considered to represent the US at a World


Championship

160km race. The potential for pushing horses beyond the


limit of

conditioning is very high in this circumstance. We might


see some

younger horses turning out faster ride times w/o the


lameness issues

that often accompany high mileage horses... but we probably


won't see

these horses compete successfully for very long. What is


the cost? And

do we, USEF, really want to endorse this attitude, this


'message'. I

personally do not.

Ok, venting over.

later -

Steph





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