RE: FEI

[Leonard.Liesens@cec.eu.int]

Hi Howard,
Did you wake up and come from bed with the wrong feet? Or where you in favor
of Al Gore ? 
Leonard, Belgium

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard4567@aol.com [mailto:Howard4567@aol.com]
> Sent: vendredi, 15 décembre, 2000 01:38
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC: FEI
> 
> 
> In a message dated 12/13/00 12:43:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> BMcCrary27@aol.com writes:
> 
> <<  FEI won't let USA 
>  riders compete any more unless they qualify in FEI events. >>
> 
> I say screw them.  Really!  To me FEI (Foreign Endurance 
> Idiots) equals UAE 
> (Sultans of Swing).  We really need to think about their 
> silly rules and why 
> they have to be as they are.  And why we even want to follow 
> those rules.  
> Quite frankly, I don't think we seem to have our fair share 
> of input into how 
> FEI endurance rides are run (someone, please, correct me if 
> I'm wrong).  Way 
> too much money (entry fees), special judges, special vets. 
> And it's pretty 
> obvious we (Americans) don't have the "team" concept down.  
> Who needs this 
> stuff?
> 
> There's a good reason why we, as Americans, perform so poorly 
> overseas.
> Put a human being on a plane, fly him 6 to 9 time zones away, 
> put him on the 
> ground and it will take an incredible amount of time to 
> acclimate to where 
> you are.  This is one of the reasons a football team from the 
> East coast 
> playing a West coast team will most likely lose or be at an extreme 
> disadvantage (at least this is my excuse when the Gators 
> travel west to 
> Tallahassee).  Jet lag is for real; can you imagine what it 
> does to a horse?
> 
> Look, I'll never ever be a hundred miler (sometimes I think 
> 50 is too far on 
> a horse) so I should just shut the heck up.  The only reason I'm even 
> interested is my kid wants to do a hundred so I guess I'd better pay 
> attention.  But until the FEI rides happen in my neck of the 
> woods I don't 
> think I'll even consider entering my kid in one.
> 
> You front runners, go get them.  I'll cheer for you every 
> step of the way (Go 
> USA).  I just hope someday we get that team thing worked out 
> cause it sure is 
> sad how poorly we did in France.  I still say it's because 
> American endurance 
> riders are much more independent, even more than the average 
> American (who 
> are the most independent creatures on the planet) and it's 
> why we can't do 
> the team thing as well as we should.  And I'm talking of the 
> FEI concept of 
> what a team is; if it were more like football or global 
> warfare we'd kick 
> butt.
> 
> cya,
> Howard (OK, I know George is in and, believe it or not, I 
> accept it.  God 
> bless the USA)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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