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While most people in the SE do stay overnight - we can stay overnight. 
The US is a huge melting pot of rides - they all are not homogeneous. 
That is the challenge we face. At the end of the day I suspect we, 
however, do a hell of a lot better than the FEI in caring for our 
horses. If you just look at the data from the last two WEC's (two dead 
in Spain, one dead after tying up in Germany) how many have we killed in 
the AERC NC?

We have issues we have to deal with. However, I think we have come a 
long way since the HWC has been in place. While they have tended to get 
a bone headed idea from time to time (and I've probably pissed them off 
by publicly pounding on them for such) - bone headed ideas are human 
nature (especially when it comes to the welfare of our horses) and all 
in all I think we have a pretty good system.

Truman

sherman wrote:
> I’ve never been to a ridecamp where vets circulated around during the 
> night to check on horses, instead it’s my experience is that it’s time 
> to go home for most, unless there is a problem already being 
> addresssed. Often, our rigs have to be moved out by 10PM after the 
> ride as we are on private property and gates are being locked, and 
> sometimes, such as at the American River Ride, the rigs need to be 
> moved while we’re on the ride as it is a point to point ride and there 
> is certainly no room at the end point for all the rigs to stay another 
> night.
>
> I think we’d be eliminating many of the non-competitive “just ride for 
> the finish & enjoy the trail” riders, (and the rides they attend) if 
> we resorted to rules like this. Just my thoughts.
>
> Kathy
>
> Leonard.Liesens wrote:
>
> Also, we are happy to go to bed after the race knowing that there will 
> be one or two vets circulating around the stables... Now it is not 
> always as ideal as one would like it. Sometimes there can be also some 
> anarchy in the way the FEI rules are enforced in some countries. But 
> in most western europe countries, I can tell you that we can rely on 
> the vets to take care of the horse.


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