Good Morning, This discussion on Valerie and
the sale of her horse to the Mideast is a story that we as outsiders will never
know, so its impossible to have an adequate discussion on it at all and we
should not consider ouselves capable of formulating a viewpoint on something we
have no idea at all of the ramifications. We will never
know.
What I would like to bring to this discusssion is
my situation on Nominating to a WEC, and specifically the 88 in Ft. Royal.
I was on the Long List and did not make the Short List and the event came to my
area and we a doing the catering and I hear there is the opportunity to Lease
horses for at the time $1,000 and i meet the Portuguese and a discussion comes
up on Leasing BayMar.
Iniatially, I was refused the opportunity to Lease
because I was on the LL and therefore not allowed. To make a long story
short it took an agreement between me and the Chef d'Equipe that allowed
me an opportunity to Lease. He had the power to prevent a USA LL horse
from competing against the USA in an event that it was in the nomination
for.
Obviously, Times have changed drastically since
then and the Chef or the NF does not have this powe,r or choose to follow thru
on a procedure that was applied to me in 88.
