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[RC] FEI rule against owners in the crewing area - k s swigart

Steph said:


The problem has been that the Federations always
try to get as many passes - credentials - as possible
so they can have as large a support group as possible.
So if the groom was also an owner they could let
somebody else get a 'groom' credential, and they
could get an owner credential - cause 2 credentials
are better than one... but the OC has been (so far)
very sticky about credentials.


So now we have the real story.  The FEI doesn't have a rule against
owners being in the crewing area.  It just has a rule that the only
people allowed in the crewing area are those that have been issued with
a pass that says groom.  Passes that say owner don't cut it, but
apparently at the 2004 WEC in Dubai, the OC wasn't very stringent about
adhering to this rule.  So, here, the US Team (and others maybe, but we
are only told about how the US team is trying to get the exception for
their owner's passes) thought they could get more grooms for their
horses by issuing the owners passes and the grooms passes to different
people.

I must say, I hope the OC here in Aachen is better about adhering the
the FEI's rules than the OC at Dubai apparently was and tells the US
Team (and anybody else), "Sorry, if you had wanted the people you issued
owner's passes to to be grooms, you should have issued them groom's
passes."

As Diane said, it appears the FEI doesn't give a rat's petootie if the
"grooms" of the horse also happen to have their names on the
registration papers of the horse (espeically since most of the US teams
horses are owned by the RIDER); all they care is that the grooms are
issued credentials that say "groom" on them.  And team members CAN, if
they want to, issue the groom passes to the owner and his/her body
guards if they want, and then they will be allowed into the crewing
area.

It will be unfortunate if, by having issued owners passes to the primary
caretaker of the horse, that the primary caretaker of the horse is
barred from the crewing area during the ride.  But if this is the case,
the team has nobody to blame but themselves, and I hope they suffer the
consequences of having tried to circumvent the rules in this way.
Trying to circumvent the rules in this way so that you can get more
people than the rules allow into the crewing area to help care for the
horse during the competition comes under the heading of cheating.  I
hope the OC doesn't let them get away with it.

kat
Orange County, Calif.



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