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Re: [RC] AERC changing to FEI like rules?? - Truman PrevattThe issue gets down to on simple reason - money. While there are a number of people interested in FEI in the US that number is small compared to the AERC membership. Things were going fine until 2001 which was the year US riders interesting in FEI could no longer use AERC rides to qualify - they had to use FEI rides run fully under FEI rules. Till that point the FEI/USEF accepted AERC rides.The first FEI ride in the US didn't go off smoothly and there were some hard feelings among some AERC riders that the FEI was trying to railroad their rules on AERC riders. That's been a complaint off and on since then - still valid or not is not the issue here. Why is there a desire to have co-sanctioned AERC/FEI rides vs. the USEF sanctioned the FEI only rides? Quite simple - cost. There is a lot of cost that goes with FEI rides over and above the for an AERC ride. However, if there are 100 AERC riders and 25 FEI riders, much of the overhead cost (camp, some of the vets, trail cost, food, etc.) is shared over 125 riders vs. 25 riders if it were FEI only sponsored by the USEF. It is just simply more economical for an FEI ride to be run with an AERC ride although the FEI ride can still be quite expensive to enter because of the extra FEI cost involved. I would not be at all surprised if FEI rides were FEI only sanctioned through the USEF the cost to enter would be at least twice of what it is with the current co-sanctioned rides. Therefore, it is very much to the benefit of those interested in FEI to maintain the current process. If the FEI keeps adding requirements - like the new one that riders have to work their way up in distance and if those 25, 50 and 75 mile rides had to be FEI sanctioned - there might become a point where it makes no sense for the AERC to support the current process of co-sanctioned rides. It seems pretty clear that in general the FEI riders are getting much more out of the relationship between AERC/USEF/FEI than the AERC riders. I personally agree with Ed - it is time to cut the cord and send FEI endurance out into the US on it's own. So Ed it looks like there are two lone voices (if there are two are they any longer lone voices?) in the woods. Truman Barbara McCrary wrote: As far as I'm concerned, if some wish to pursue international competition under FEI rules, let them do it. But leave the rest of us with just AERC rules and rides. Thanks for being a noise-maker, Ed. -- "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." H. L. Mencken =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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