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This or something similar would be good. I'm not sure FEI or many other 
countries would go for it since one goal is to get as many countries 
participating as possible and this runs counter to it. However, some 
sort of COC requirement for the rider might work. So here goes - A rider 
to ride an FEI championship has to have a COC from the FEI. That would 
be based on amoung other things the competition rate in 100 mile rides 
sanctioned by either the in country sanctioning authority (AERC in the 
case of the US) or FEI. If a rider is pulled for any reason in a FEI 
championship ride their COC is revoked for one WEC cycle. This would put 
the responsibility right on the rider where it belongs and at the same 
time not penalize all the other riders in a country for the 
irresponsibility of a few.

Truma

kimfuess wrote:
> This sure would reduce the the number of riders in the competition.  
> How many countries actually even finished a team at the last two WEC?  
> But Kat, I think you are on to something here.  This would be one way 
> for FEI to incorporate the importance of "finishing" into one day 
> championship level events.  Something along these lines would temper 
> the "all or nothing" perception that can dominate one day events or 
> races.  It would also really put the emphsis on finishing as there 
> would be real consequences if a team did not finish.  I think that 
> this idea would work if the WEC event was held every year.  Sitting 
> out one year is not that big of a deal.  I am not sure about being 
> banned from an event that is only held every two years.
>
> I am not sure that teams would be as willing to go for broke or not be 
> prepared to ride to finish IF there was some kind of consequence or 
> qualification sequence had to be followed if a team did not complete.  
> Make the qualification sequence more difficult or more of a pain in 
> the *ss than finishing a team at the WEC event itself.  This concept 
> is something that should be looked at seriously.  It would benefit 
> endurance as the public perception may be improved by a higher 
> completion rate at these high level events and it would benefit horses 
> to be prepared and ridden in a manner where a completion REALLY 
> matters at this level.

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