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If your talking about making it a "standard" off time between rides, be very careful while treading that direction.

Most of what goes on HERE  (AERC) is not a problem of repeat offenders, but some that do override, and some that just have things go wrong.  Not to say that we don't have a few repeat offenders and I am certainly against them being

allowed to continue...but they are only a couple.  The rest of us don't need to be policed.

 

Jody

Jim Holland <lanconn@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Especially if they look at the AERC rule book and find little there outside
> of the vet checks that protect the welfare of the horse....not even a rest
> period to prevent a rider from repeatedly riding their horse into metabolic
> distress.
>
> Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada
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>
> Richard T. "Jim" Holland
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Diane Trefethen
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 3:01 PM
> To: Ridecamp
> Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] FEI/AERC
>
> Ranelle Rubin wrote:
> > So, Sandy it sounds like you are of the opinion that if the FEI riders 
> > do harm to their horses, it will cause those of us who don't to somehow 
> > loose the freedom to ride? I am not sure I understand, and obviously 
> > have missed something in the conversations about this. Please enlighten 
> > me. I really want to know..I am not being sarcastic here..honestly.
>
> The thinking goes like this:
>
> AERC supports FEI Endurance with money and personnel. John Q Public will 
> assume we do this
>  because we want to further the goals of FEI. The fact 
> that what we want to further may be the development of better horses or the 
> promulgation of more International events is immaterial. People will see 
> us as supporting FEI.
>
> Fast forward to 2012 or whenever FEI style endurance debuts as a new, 
> Olympic discipline. While millions of viewers all over the world watch, 9 
> out of every 10 horses in the endurance event fail to complete, two or 
> three die on camera in beautiful, dying color and then it comes to light a 
> few weeks later that another 10 or 20 participants have died or been put 
> down. All those kids who grew up loving horses, most never actually owning 
> one, can't believe that these wonderful creatures are so dispensable. THEN 
> they discover that we have, right here in the good old US of A, an 
> organization called AERC that gives money to the people who promote this 
> carnage. In fact, this AERC group runs poor
>  defenseless horses 100's of 
> miles every month, sometimes as much as 100 miles in just one day! Horses 
> by the thousands need veterinary treatment. They are lamed, run to the 
> point of exhaustion and then quickly taken home where they can die, out of 
> sight, alone, forsaken.
>
> Clearly this is a job for Super Senator, aka Barbara Boxer, who brings to 
> the Senate floor a resolution condemning the cruel and inhumane "sport" of 
> Endurance, equating it to that Mexican contest where horses are raced and 
> thrown violently to the ground and mentioning that every year several 
> horses are brutally killed at the Omak Endurance Race (actually it's the 
> Omak Suicide Race but hey, Babs wants to nail Endurance so it suits her 
> strategy to paint Omak as endurance). The resolution passes overwhelmingly 
> and flushed with success, SS BB drafts legislation outlawing any so-called 
> sporting competition where horses are stressed beyond what they might
>  
> naturally suffer in the wild if that stress lasts more than 15 minutes 
> (that to keep all the $$$$racing alive as well as not piss off the 
> $$$$hunter/jumper types).
>
> Does that help make our concerns a little clearer?
>
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