RE: European Information needed

[Leonard.Liesens@cec.eu.int]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani [mailto:maryanne@ratbusters.net]
> Sent: mardi, 12 décembre, 2000 14:20
> To: Ridecamp
> Cc: Magdy Abdul Aziz
> Subject: RC: European Information needed
> 
> 
> For reasons that it would not be diplomatic to go into in 
> public, even on
> Ridecamp, I desperately need some input from some of our 
> European endurance
> riders as soon as possible.
> 
> 1. When you want to participate in an endurance ride in your 
> own country, do
> you just sign up or is there any special procedure? For 
> example, must you
> belong to a club or organisation? Do you have to have your 
> horse examined
> and certified in any way? Do horses have passports that must 
> be presented at
> every ride and are these done once or each time?

In order to participate at a National ride, you have to have your horse
registered, good vaccinations and the rider needs a rider licence which
price is depending on the importance of the ride (distance). There is a
national federation which supervises all this (like the AERC in fact)

> 
> 2. Is there a different procedure if the ride is FEI 
> sanctioned than if the
> ride is not FEI sanctioned? Are the costs different?

FEI rides are a little bit differents! More expensive for the organizer
because FEI officials have to be invited (one FEI official in the Jury, one
FEI vet as a minimum... the number depends on the number of
invited/participating countries)

The horse needs a passport (delivered by the national federation); the rider
needs a licence which permit him to compete internationaly + he/she needs
the approval of his/her national federation if going to a foreign country;
horse circulation inside Europe is also subject to EU regulations!

> 
> 3. Are all rides connected with an organising body at a 
> national level;
> local level?

there is is alocal level (2 regions in Belgium for example) and one national
level

Rides are sponsored by the national government (sport organisations) and
elite riders are also sponsored, like any other athletes

Leonard, Belgium
> 
> 
> We have had a locally organised ride that went well and was 
> fun. Strictly LD
> and training as it should be right now, but our national 
> branch of the FEI
> has $$$ signs in its eyes and is making life a bit difficult. 
> Surely things
> are not so regimented elsewhere. Unfortunately, for the EEI, 
> the USA is not
> considered an example because they say that there is no 
> national branch of
> the FEI there, whereas in Europe, at least theoretically, 
> there is. These
> guys are show jumpers for crying out loud...we are trying to 
> introduce them
> to reality.
> 
> TIA
> Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> Cairo, Egypt
> maryanne@ratbusters.net
> www.ratbusters.net
> 
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