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Re: [RC] Angie's 100 Mile comments & New Junior 100 Mile Award - Steven ProeHi Folks: I have a question for all: Are you riding for the Sport which includes all of the wonderful parts that come with horse ownership and riding?.Or are you riding for Points & or other Awards or Gifts? I think this is a question that all must answer for themselves. Awards and gifts are a part of the sport but I wouldn't exchange the pleasures that I have received from horse ownership and the bond that is usually a part of this Sport. Nothing in Life is guaranteed to be fair. Just my thoughts Steven Proe ----- Original Message ----- From: "DreamWeaver" <nvrider@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 10:39 AM Subject: [RC] Angie's 100 Mile comments & New Junior 100 Mile Award At 08:20 AM 5/15/2004, you wrote:I find it bizarre that an organization called the American Endurance Ride Conference gives out a whole separate set of awards for people who are literally done by 10 AM and no separate awards for people who choose to try 100's. The bonus point advantage is easily cancelled out by the higher attrition rate. The financial gamble is higher, we don't have incentives for them to do it, if anything we offer every incentive for them to stay in the lower distances and it's showing up in the numbers. People who do 100's do it for personal reasons...period. I don't have a horse to ride in 100's right now so I'm not speaking for myself but if any group gets shortchanged that's where I see it happening, funny how you never hear them complaining.wow, Angie --- you got that right! It is really disheartening to see how much the #'s have dropped on 100 mile entries. As a member of AERC, I personally feel that very little (if anything) is done to encourage 100 mile participation. Perhaps they do expect us to figure out on our own if that is what we want to do, and we'll either do 100's or we won't do them. Since my post on the lists a couple of weeks ago about Junior 100 mile riders, we have come up with an unofficial 100 Mile Junior Award. Hopefully we will eventually get the AERC to offer an official 100 Mile Junior Award. NEW 100 MILE JUNIOR AWARD: PLEASE READ AND PASS THIS ALONG TO ANY JUNIORS OR FAMILY MEMBERS/SPONSORS OF JUNIORS THAT YOU KNOW!! Any Junior rider who completes two one day 100's on the same horse within a one year time frame, starting with the 2004 ride season will receive an embroidered blanket. The sponsor for this award is FX Arabian Sporthorses. We already have at least one junior rider who is planning on getting this award! I hope that we can get the word out (ideas appreciated) so that we can maybe encourage more participation in the one day 100 mile rides. When the juniors ride, they need to take a sponsor along with them :-). In case anybody would like to see what has happened with the 100 mile distance and junior riders: http://aerc.org/Education_Max_Junior.asp Or, to summarize: 2003 Ride Year: Ride Starts on one day 100's for juniors in 2003 was: 27 Junior 100 Mile Ride Starts/19 Completions Completion rate: 69% Junior Members Year 2003: 387 2000 Ride Year: Ride Starts on one day 100's for juniors in 2000 was: 74 Junior 100 Mile Ride Starts/49 Completions Completion rate: 66% Junior Members Year 2003: 273 It's easy to see that while membership of junior riders increased, the # of juniors entering 100's decreased considerably. Except for the Tevis and Virginia City 100's, I've never done a 100 that gave me an award that was just for the 100. It has always been the same award that the 25s/50's got, and often it is what was leftover after the other distances got to choose theirs first since they had their awards ceremonies before the 100's were even finished. One time a few years ago there was a letter in EN from a 25 mile rider who complained about the cheap completion award that they had got. Well, I had got that same award for completing the 100 and thought it was great. Karen in NV ============================================================ Just because someone tells you that your horse isn't "fit" for endurance...doesn't mean it isn't, it just means your horse isn't fit to be "their" endurance horse! Go for it, you never know what you'll accomplish with that "saddle horse" or "trail horse" of YOURS! ~ Darlene Anderson - DPD Endurance ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ ============================================================ One of the great joys of being a pompous idiot is that you can do and think whatever you want. ~ Homer Safferwiffle ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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