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And does that rule mean that the UAE can only field one team or do they count each emirate as a separate state? Bet they do.

Maryanne

On 7/22/07, Bob Morris <bobmorris@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steph:

A bit of clarification please.

Why can the European Union field a team from each of their
regions, i.e. France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, etc. and
the USA can only field one team? By comparison we should be
allowed a team for each state (Not practical of course) or
at least each region .

Just because we call them states, instead of countries,
should not enter into the equation. Where are our FEI
representatives on this matter?

As for your comment "Earlier in the year USEF decided to
fund riders to go to the European Championship (Portugal,
September) rather than the Pan Ams since they thought it
would be good to give US riders experience competing in
Europe."

To me this is bordering on the elitist mind set I so abhor
in the FEI. The Europeans are that much better equestrians
than our neighbors to the south that we need to have them
train us to their mind set?

Bob

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steph
Teeter
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:25 AM
To: FXLivestock@xxxxxxx
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] Pan Ams


The US didn't field a team for a variety of reasons. Largely
the
expense, since riders would have had to pay their own travel
(horse
and rider and crew). Two of us (Cia Reese and I) were going
to ride
local horses, but  weren't qualified (hadn't done an FEI 100
in the
last 24 months within CoC time) to enter!   And a couple of
the
riders had horse issues arise.

Earlier in the year USEF decided to fund riders to go to the
European
Championship (Portugal, September) rather than the Pan Ams
since they
thought it would be good to give US riders experience
competing in
Europe.

This is one of the 'fallouts' from the FEI decision in 2006
to only
allow each Federation to field one team of 4 riders for
continental
championships. The US (and other Federations) can no longer
field a
team of 4 from each region. And since we (the Americas) are
so
geographically large and spread out, Pan Ams can no longer
draw
enough entries to make it worthwhile to host the
competition.  If we
were to hold a Pan Am in the USA or Canada, we'd essentially
be
looking at a competition between 8 horses and riders - a
team from
Canada and a team from USA - nobody else (Mexico, all of
South
America) could ship their own horses such distances so
they'd be
looking at leasing horses - and then we'd probably have no
more
entries than the Brazil Pan Am did.

Steph

On Jul 21, 2007, at 7:56 PM, FXLivestock@xxxxxxx wrote:.

> I just checked the results from the Pan Ams.  Did I read
correctly
> that only two nations finished teams?   It looks like only
gold and
> silver was awarded.  Now looking more closely, were there
only
> three (senior) national teams competing?  Maybe I am not
reading
> the results correctly.   If this is correct, it is really
too bad
> only three nations were able to send teams for such a
prestigious
> competition.  Is there any particular reason for this,
perhaps
> quarantine/travel issues?  I thought I had read that a few
months
> back in a USEF publication that the US was sending a team
and that
> Vonita Bowers was to be the chef d' equipe for both the
Pam Ams and
> European Championships.
>
>
>
>
>
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