Re: Dog Rules

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

So...if a ride manager decided that there is no safe place for a "race to
the finish" and makes that announcement at the pre-ride meeting...i.e...no
finish line racing allowed.....and gives everyone a flyer stating the same
thing...and people race across the finish line anyway...then they can be
denied completion??

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From: <guest@endurance.net>
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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:47 AM
Subject: RC: Dog Rules


> K S SWIGART   katswig@earthlink.net
>
>
> The AERC rules DO provide for Ride Managers to deny entry, completion, or
> whatever they choose to a participant if that participant breaks a
> published ride rule.  Even one about dogs.
>
> I quote from the opening paragraph of the AERC rule book:
>
> "Additional measures may be taken by any ride to provide greater safety
> for equine and rider. However, except in the event of emergency, these
> additional measures must be explained to the competitors and made
> available to them in written form at a pre-ride meeting."
>
> And it does provide for both the ride manager disqualifying and the AERC
> supporting a Ride Manager for disqualifying any such person in the
> subsequent sentence:
>
> "We not only feel it is necessary to regulate our sport, but also to
> penalize infractions and to provide mechanisms for addressing grievances
> and appealing decisions."
>
> I am not suggesting that Ride Managers with rules against dogs go on dog
> patrol and shine a flashlight in everybody's trailer.  People who sneak
> their dogs into camp, keep them in their trailer, and nobody is aware of
> them are not the problem  or the reason that some people want the AERC to
> have rules about dogs at endurance rides.  The Ride Manager only has to do
> something about enforcing their dog rule when they become aware of an
> infraction, they don't have to go out looking for offenders.
>
> But the complaint I am hearing from just about everybody is that there are
> a few people who think that a ride's dog rules (whatever they may be)
> don't apply to them and their dogs, and many ride managers complaining
> that they can't enforce their own rules because dog owners are ingorning
> them.
>
> I assert that this would not happen if ride managers let participants know
> that they are as serious about the ride's dog rules (whatever they may be)
> as they are about any of the other published rules of the ride.
>
> And if it came to a protest to the AERC on the part of a disqualified
> riders, the AERC needs to let people know that they are as serious about
> allowing/insisting ride managers to enforce their dog rules as they are
> about allowing/insisting that ride managers enforce any of the other AERC
> rules.
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
>
> p.s.  All of this presupposes that ride managers and the AERC are serious
> about enforcing other ride rules too (including those in the AERC Rule
> Book which DO apply to all riders at all rides).  Historically, ride
> managers' and the AERC's track record has not been particularly good on
> this aspect, but I have seen a subtle shift in the direction of "let's
> enforce the rules that we already have."
>
> The AERC rules are already firmly in place providing ride managers with
> the support that they need to apply whatever rules about dogs that they
> want to at their rides.  All that is required is for both ride managers
> and the AERC to be consistent in actually doing so.
>
>
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