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LaFollett, Megan wrote:

> How is it possible to enforce the “underage” rule?? If a horse isn’t 
> registered, the owner may not even know the foaling date. If a horse 
> is registered, is the rider required to show the horse’s papers? I’m a 
> bit confused about how a ride manager would tell the difference 
> between a 47 month old and a 48 month old.
>
> ~Megan
>
> and Pride (born in a stump-filled, muddy field sometime in September 
> of 1994…and boy was I scared when Mom rescued and bought me, not 
> having been touched before!)
>
> Disclaimer – I fully believe in the underage rule, and am by no means 
> advocating its dismissal. Just curious about enforcement. That’s all. 
> Really.
All of the horses in that have an AERC number have (or should have) a 
foaling date supplied by the owner. This date is in the AERC database. 
The age can be calculated from this date. For a horse that does not have 
an AERC number, it would be difficult to determine the age.

A while back I was looking at some statistics on horse age and speed in 
LD's and endurance. It turns out that for both LD's and the 50's there 
were a few underage horses that did rides (as calculated by the foaling 
date in the AERC data base). For the 100's there were no underage horses.

Truman

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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what 
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." - 
Bertrand Russell


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