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In reaponse to:"However, when we questioned whether this had any 
effect on equine fatalities, nobody seemed to have a clue. 
So...What is the number of endurance related equine fatalities in 
Australia over the past 10 years? How many starts over the past 10 
years? What are the number of FEI endurance related fatalities and 
starts over the past 10 years?. Once we can get these ratios and 
then look at them next to our numbers we will have a better sense 
of the data pro or con for this proposed change."
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These are very useful questions and I've asked them of a national 
organization but w/o knowing the conditions that the organization 
considers as a fatality - the results would be useless.

For example AERC considers a horse  as a fatality if it is related 
 in anyway to a ride.  The horse may have an accident prior to 
the ride at the camp, expire weeks after the ride, or not even be 
entered in the ride but simply present at the camp.

Other organizations may consider a fatality to be counted only if 
the horse is entered and competes.  And may only count if the the 
fatality happens during the ride - not some period of time after 
the ride.

I tried for 2 years to get fatality and start statistics from AERA 
to make a valid comparison and was unsuccessful.

Before I would consider something like a logbook and sanctions 
used by another organization,  I'd need to see data that shows 
there is a reason for a really significant change like this.

My personal feeling is that the fatality statistics if counted the 
same way per 1,000 starts would be no different for an 
organization that has a lot of rules and sanctions to AERC's much 
looser set of rules.

Mike


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