WEG Selection process

["Liz Carpenter" <cvsec@south-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk>]

Hi all,

I am in the UK and have been reading your WEG 
posts with interest.

Whilst I agree that performance in one selection 
ride is inadequate as it doesn't tell the 
selectors who is *consistent*, there is a case 
for having selection rides. 

AFAIK, in the UK there are a number of selection 
rides, timed appropriately so that there is still 
some 'horse' left by the time Dubai comes round.

So instead of a single selection ride there are 
several. Then, the final selection ride for the 
accumulated longlist is run in a way and on 
terrain that most closely approximates conditions 
in Dubai (don't laugh, I know it is tricky to do 
this in the UK, but they try :-) and a team of 
riders is finally chosen.

Sometimes people moan about the composition of 
the team (why isn't x in it? why did they choose 
y? and so on) but it is a case of it being the 
riders responsibility to make sure the 
appropriate rides are completed in a way 
befitting a future team member if they wish to 
be considered for the team.

Keeping the selection process entirely secret and 
having no qualifying rides seems like a recipe 
for disaster in this respect. At least in the UK 
people know what they *should* be doing to be 
considered for the team, so if they fail then it 
is their own hard luck.

Can someone explain the US selection process? 
Sorry if someone already has and I've missed it.

Cheers!

Liz and Basil The Nag
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