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RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] FEI/AERC - Jim HollandEspecially if they look at the AERC rule book and find little there outside of the vet checks that protect the welfare of the horse....not even a rest period to prevent a rider from repeatedly riding their horse into metabolic distress. Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic Richard T. "Jim" Holland Three Creeks Farm 175 Hells Hollow Drive Blue Ridge, Ga 30513 (706) 258-2830 www.threecreeksarabians.com Callsign KI4BEN -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Diane Trefethen Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 3:01 PM To: Ridecamp Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] FEI/AERC Ranelle Rubin wrote: So, Sandy it sounds like you are of the opinion that if the FEI riders do harm to their horses, it will cause those of us who don't to somehow loose the freedom to ride? I am not sure I understand, and obviously have missed something in the conversations about this. Please enlighten me. I really want to know..I am not being sarcastic here..honestly. The thinking goes like this: AERC supports FEI Endurance with money and personnel. John Q Public will assume we do this because we want to further the goals of FEI. The fact that what we want to further may be the development of better horses or the promulgation of more International events is immaterial. People will see us as supporting FEI. Fast forward to 2012 or whenever FEI style endurance debuts as a new, Olympic discipline. While millions of viewers all over the world watch, 9 out of every 10 horses in the endurance event fail to complete, two or three die on camera in beautiful, dying color and then it comes to light a few weeks later that another 10 or 20 participants have died or been put down. All those kids who grew up loving horses, most never actually owning one, can't believe that these wonderful creatures are so dispensable. THEN they discover that we have, right here in the good old US of A, an organization called AERC that gives money to the people who promote this carnage. In fact, this AERC group runs poor defenseless horses 100's of miles every month, sometimes as much as 100 miles in just one day! Horses by the thousands need veterinary treatment. They are lamed, run to the point of exhaustion and then quickly taken home where they can die, out of sight, alone, forsaken. Clearly this is a job for Super Senator, aka Barbara Boxer, who brings to the Senate floor a resolution condemning the cruel and inhumane "sport" of Endurance, equating it to that Mexican contest where horses are raced and thrown violently to the ground and mentioning that every year several horses are brutally killed at the Omak Endurance Race (actually it's the Omak Suicide Race but hey, Babs wants to nail Endurance so it suits her strategy to paint Omak as endurance). The resolution passes overwhelmingly and flushed with success, SS BB drafts legislation outlawing any so-called sporting competition where horses are stressed beyond what they might naturally suffer in the wild if that stress lasts more than 15 minutes (that to keep all the $$$$racing alive as well as not piss off the $$$$hunter/jumper types). Does that help make our concerns a little clearer? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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