Re: RC: Agree with Wendy re FEI Endurance

[hikryrdg <hikryrdg@evansville.net>]

Will you stand your horses for BC using the AERC format?  Jerry
>Wendy, Hear, Hear!  I agree with what you say - 
>
>Up here in the frozen north we Canadians are totally unfunded for
>International competition (as Terre has already stated) but some people
>want to field a Canadian team at International rides and why not?  
>There is no fight between FEI and AERC, their needs are different.  Let
>people choose what their goals may be and others who have different goals
>do different things.  
>I am one RM who is giving the rest of Canada and the US (should anyone wish
>to be brave enough to travel here!) an opportunity to compete
>Internationally by putting on the FIRST Canadian FEI CEI-A ride in Canada. 
>And yes, FEI has made it easier for me to do that - lower sanction fee,
>fewer officials needed, and no obligatory stables or "bed and breakfast"
>for riders.  This FEI ride will be run alongside the AERC rides affecting
>it in NO WAY.  If a rider does not want to play then they don't have to! 
>but we have to continue to give them the choice and let FEI and AERC (or
>CaLDRA) continue down the same road but on different sides.
>B
>
>Barbara Holmes-Balmer
>Secretary Treasurer, ERABC
<http://www.img.net/erabc/>http://www.img.net/erabc/
>Ride Manager, Ride Over the Rainbow
>Kelowna, B.C.
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