Reading Stephs wonderful account of the Malaysian
Team of 40 coming to New Mexico, i got to thinking of just what this would cost,
so i checked out the airfares from Yahoo Travelosity.
They listed no first class and all prices are
coach.
The high was $19,073 and the low was $8366 w/ a
medium price of $13,791.50.
40 people @
$13,791.50
548,780
Rental cars for 40 at 4 to a car $500 per car X
10 5,000
Gas
500
Leasing of 6
horses @
$3000 18,000
Hotels and
Food 10,000
Entry Fees for 6 horses @
$200 1,200
Miscellaneous
expenses
5,000
The Kings Personal
expenses
10,000
$588,480
To me thats a whole lot of money to get 1
Horse/Riders COC. To me to spend this much money and show up and some
never even ride their horses before the ride makes no sense.
Steph, I believe you when you say that they
are kind and gracious and never complain. They seem to be
very wondeful people with a great amount of interest in Endurance and the
hosting of the WEC and i wish them great success in their home
country.
I guess what i am trying to say is that with
spending that much money i would have expected more. But thats just
me. I hope that when the next attempt to get a Team qualified wherever it
is in the world that if that much money is spent they have better results and
pick and choose and ride those horses before the event. I mean this
sincerely. ts
