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79 Riders are entered in the AERC National Championship 50 from all 9 AERC 
regions.

Lowest mileage rider has 300 miles, highest has 38,465.  That is a range 
from between 6 rides completed, to 600.  Talk about a range in rider 
experience!  The average mileage by rider is: 4210.  If I take out the 
lowest and highest 5 riders the average is then:  2507.

Horse mileage is interesting.  There are 5 horses with less than the 300 
miles required to qualify.  This is probably because results are not 
posted.  Rides count that were completed thru September 15, 2003, so this 
will have to be verified later on those 5.  So, throwing out those 5 and 
the top 5 highest mileage horses you come with up an average lifetime 
mileage figure of  1032 miles.  The horse with the highest mileage entered 
in the 50 also belongs to the highest mileage rider and that is Tulip with 
12,635 miles.   The next closest horse is Remington with 6060.

How the riders met qualifications for this ride is a lot different than for 
the 100 mile event.  The majority of the riders met qualifications by 
having 300 or more miles and top fiving their weight division in a ride in 
the last year.  Only 20 or less out or 79 riders and horse teams have 1000 
miles together.  So roughly 25% versus a rate of 85% for the 100 mile 
entries.

Weight division breakdown.

100 Mile Event: Juniors: 0, Featherweights: 14, Lightweights: 16, 
Middleweights: 10, Heavyweights: 9

50 Mile Event: Juniors: 3, Featherweights: 13, Lightweights: 30, 
Middleweights: 16, Heavyweights: 17

Of the 79 riders in the 50:  54 have 1000 or more miles.  14 have more than 
5000 miles.  9 have more than 10,000 miles.  4 have more than 20,000 miles.

Of the 79* horses in the 50:  42 horses have less than 1000 miles.  7 
horses have 3000 or more miles.  Only 2 have more than 5000 miles and are 
listed above.

*There is one horse not included in the stats listed above.

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