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RE: [RC] FEI rule against owners in the crewing area - Steph TeeterKat - please don't try to read too much into this - the only thing I was trying to say is that 'Owner Credentials' do not permit entry into the crewing areas, as of the latest report. The US team is not necessarily trying to 'get the exception' - they're just trying to ensure that the right people are allowed into the crewing area. When grooms and owners are possibly wearing the same hat, and the credential/access rules are not always clear in the beginning, or the same from OC to OC - there may be complications. Steph -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of k s swigart Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 6:10 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] FEI rule against owners in the crewing area Steph said: The problem has been that the Federations always try to get as many passes - credentials - as possible so they can have as large a support group as possible. So if the groom was also an owner they could let somebody else get a 'groom' credential, and they could get an owner credential - cause 2 credentials are better than one... but the OC has been (so far) very sticky about credentials. So now we have the real story. The FEI doesn't have a rule against owners being in the crewing area. It just has a rule that the only people allowed in the crewing area are those that have been issued with a pass that says groom. Passes that say owner don't cut it, but apparently at the 2004 WEC in Dubai, the OC wasn't very stringent about adhering to this rule. So, here, the US Team (and others maybe, but we are only told about how the US team is trying to get the exception for their owner's passes) thought they could get more grooms for their horses by issuing the owners passes and the grooms passes to different people. I must say, I hope the OC here in Aachen is better about adhering the the FEI's rules than the OC at Dubai apparently was and tells the US Team (and anybody else), "Sorry, if you had wanted the people you issued owner's passes to to be grooms, you should have issued them groom's passes." As Diane said, it appears the FEI doesn't give a rat's petootie if the "grooms" of the horse also happen to have their names on the registration papers of the horse (espeically since most of the US teams horses are owned by the RIDER); all they care is that the grooms are issued credentials that say "groom" on them. And team members CAN, if they want to, issue the groom passes to the owner and his/her body guards if they want, and then they will be allowed into the crewing area. It will be unfortunate if, by having issued owners passes to the primary caretaker of the horse, that the primary caretaker of the horse is barred from the crewing area during the ride. But if this is the case, the team has nobody to blame but themselves, and I hope they suffer the consequences of having tried to circumvent the rules in this way. Trying to circumvent the rules in this way so that you can get more people than the rules allow into the crewing area to help care for the horse during the competition comes under the heading of cheating. I hope the OC doesn't let them get away with it. kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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