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Well you should attend 20 Mule Team, Jim, cuz:

 

You have the whole desert to crew--take a couple acres if you need it.

 

Your crew could probably drive their Hummer along side you if they want. (BTW, your crew can't meet you along the trail at Tevis either)

 

The only time I experienced a line to vet besides at the check in the day before the ride, the vet started examining two to three horses at a time to speed things up.

 

Nobody knows or cares who is non-fei so everyone is treated like a first class citizen.

 

It is the farthest I travel to do a ride and always have a good time.

 

Gary

 

 

Jim Holland <lanconn@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> You're not the only one who feels that way, and I won't do ANY ride that is
> FEI and AERC sanctioned. The spring Biltmore is the closest ride to
> me...and I don't attend for the very same reason. I will not attend a ride
> where they confine me to a tiny space to crew, my crew can't meet me on the
> trail, I can't feed my horse in the vet line, and non-FEI riders are treated
> as "second class citizens". I miss that ride...but I will NEVER attend
> again as long as it is FEI sanctioned. Once was enough.
>
> Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Mgic
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [RC] 100 mile rides
>
> I suppose I should have explained
>  myself better when I posted the comment 
> about not wanting to do an upcomig 100 because it is sanctioned AERC and 
> FEI together. I didn't intend for it to mean that I won't do a ride that 
> is an FEI 100, because that isn't the case. If Tevis were FEI sanctioned, 
> it would not deter me from doing it. Because, the Tevis is already largely 
> formatted and managed similarly to what the FEI standards are. The reason 
> I'm not attending the ride in question is because I don't think that it's a 
> good combination -- at least, some rides, and FEI are not suitable to be 
> merged together. I know I'm not making any sense, but I do think that the 
> AERC and FEI both need to understand that it does not help either 
> organization when they put rides together that are not suitable for that 
> type of structuring. I'm sure some of you understand. If by virtue of a 
> ride being sanctioned in this country dual FEI it meant that there were 
> certain guaranteed ways the
>  ride was going to be 
> run/managed/marked/whatever -- and it is that way consistently, then that 
> would completely change my feeling towards the whole issue. Till then, you 
> can just call me a woos for not attending the next 100 that is coming up 
> nearest to me. :-) Besides, somebody from the AERC organization needs to 
> stand up to the FEI people and tell them that if we want to feed our horses 
> in the vet line, to butt out. If I'm stuck waiting ten or fifteen minutes 
> in each vet line four or five times in 24 hours and I'm not feeding my 
> horse I'm an idiot. Or at least my horse thinks so!
>
> Karen
> in NV