Ridecamp: RE: [RC] January 2002 European Chef d'Equipe Resolutions for FEI

Alison: Your concept is very good but the factor of strong
personalities within the AERC regime controlling
International Competition is not there.

Realize that the AERC does not have direct input to the FEI.
All communication is through the NGB (USA-E at this point)
and our relationship with the NGB is not the most cordial.
There is a lot of internal realignment necessary for the
AERC to be thought of as being effective.

Bob

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alison
Farrin
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:21 PM
To: Karen; steph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] January 2002 European Chef d'Equipe
Resolutions for
FEI


Ahh, but my suggestion was that we respond with SOLUTIONS,
not finger
pointing.  If we strongly feel that a 100 has to have 5-7
vet gates,
then we need to say so.  Someone mentioned that AERC is far
larger and
stronger than the Toulouse Group and my point was simply
that we need to
stand up for what we believe in a positive way.

Not a "You blew it", but, "It is our strong belief that the
safety of
the horses takes precedence and that adequate time to rest
and recover
is paramount.  As, such we firmly believe that  rule XXX
should be
altered to require a minimum of 5 vet gates with a total
hold time of
not less than XXX on every 100 mile ride."

And if we really want it to have teeth, indicate that the US
will no
longer send a team to events that don't meet our criteria.

Alison A. Farrin
Innovative Pension
Innovative Retirement Services
858-748-6500 x 107
alison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Karen wrote:


Yeah, but -- if we knew in advance that was how the ride was
going to be

run and didn't voice any objections, it doesn't look right
to be doing
so
after 2 horses died.  Why didn't we have the leadership to
stand up
BEFORE
the ride and say that we were going to demand that the ride
vets have
more
veterinary control over the ride?  I just think that we
(americans) are
no
less guilty, and should not be pointing fingers.  Especially
when those
in
charge (whoever they are) are supposed to have the
experience and should
be
trying to guide things in a way that makes this type of
event safe for
the
horses.   If we have so little control or ability to provide
input, why
are
we even participating?    Karen


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