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[RC] Tevis Sponsorship - rides2far@xxxxxxxxPeople are asking "What did the UAE sponsors have to sell?" I really doubt that any amount of exposure at the Tevis would bring them $35,000 worth of business at their facility. You also mentioned that they are sponsoring Steph's ride. It seems to me that their focus on the international level is to encourage participation in FEI and CEI events (feel free to correct me if I use the wrong terminology or initials.) It is expensive to put on these events but they are necessary to make the overall world wide competition legitiment. Makes perfect sense to me for them to be interested in backing these events to put out some money to encourage more USA rides to be FEI rides. So...back to Tevis...Tevis is World Famous without FEI or CEI sanctioning. It gets international competitors without being either, just like it used to do without AERC sanctioning. Is there any chance that their goal is to eventually get the WSF to sanction FEI? Just a thought. Not a conspiracy theory, just wondering. I do Biltmore and it's FEI. I have ridden the FEI at times and at times have ridden along side them. Didn't affect me that much but from the complaints from some others afterwards I would guess there would be some "kicking" from people who waited so long to get AERC sanctioning for fear someone would tell them what to do. Am I close or in left field? Angie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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