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Come on guys. Let's get real. The people whose minds you want to change aren't going to show up. The people who show up are already open to new ideas. Don't bend the great rides of the US to attract the FEI. Vampires have to be invited into the house.

Maryanne

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Beth Walker <bwalker2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 13, 2008, at 10:20 AM, David LeBlanc wrote:

>
> I'm of the opinion that taking our marbles and going home isn't
> part of the
> solution. You lose even a voice in things that way. Moving to a
> percentage
> of winning time seems like a move in the right direction.
>

Agree.

> Speaking of going to more technical courses, and encouraging people
> to keep
> their horses well enough to go again, I wonder if we couldn't take
> a page
> from the cycling world, and have a series of 100's across the US? Same
> horse, same rider. That would be a whole different challenge. Ordinary
> people couldn't do that much travel, but these FEI folks don't seem
> especially hindered by such things.
>
>

This is an interesting idea.  Have an "FEI Challenge Series", and
include rides like OD and Tevis.  It would certainly be entirely
different from the UAE-type rides.

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