Endurance.Net Ridecamp Archives

Too bad Napoleon didn't hang around longer in Egypt. The flat races here are funded by the Gulf Arabs for the most part and no one funds anything for bringing along young horses.

Maryanne

On 10/7/07, Leonard.Liesens@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Leonard.Liesens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hi Truman

The funding comes from the SHF (Société Hippique Française) which was funded in the end of 19th century. It's mission is the promotion of the young horses events and at the same way help breeders, owners and the whole world of the horse in France to preserve and enhance the quality of the breeds in France.

It receives funds partly form the Min of Agriculture and partly from the PMU (Paris Mutuel, flat races).

Not only the owners and breeders receive incentives, also the organizers are helped by SHF when organizing an event for young horses. You van see that as a pyramid for the promotion of the french breeding.

Obviously all types of disciples are sponsored. There are obviously also link with all studbooks represented in France.

Beside the SHF, operate the Haras Nationaux (literally National Studfarms) created by Napoleon to enhance the overall quality of the french horse (for his armies). THis institutions offers stallions of all breed all over the country, at very reasonable fees.

So voila Monsieur :-)

Leonard, Belgium
-----Original Message-----
From: Truman Prevatt [mailto:tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sat 10/6/2007 5:29 PM
To: LIESENS Leonard (COMM)
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC]   Uzes - Young Horses Finals

Leonard and/or Steph,

I'm not sure you guys can answer the follow.

What organization sponsors this program and where does the funding
originate? Does the French Government partially fund this program or is
it fully privately funded?

Truman

Leonard.Liesens@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> For the 4 years-40km and 5 years-60km, there is a maximum speed.
>
> For 6 years on 90km, there are two competitions, one with a max set
> speed and one with free speed.
>
> But this is not the most important item in the equation :
> -in the 6 years final, horses are ranked according to a point system (
> 0, 1.. up to 4 points if I remember well)
>
> - 1 point for recovering to 56BPM in less than 10min
> - 1 point for the gaits (attitude at the trotting, energy, quality,
> etc...)
> - 1 point for the speed in the 5% (not sure) of the winner
> - 1 point for the sped in the 10% (not sure neither but I will check)
> of the winner
>
> 4 points eans an 'elite', 3 'excellent, 2 ' very good', 1 'good', 0
> qualified
>
> several of the french champions came from the young horse finals.
>
> one has to know also that the young horse events are organized all
> year round across France to give everyone the chance to compete
> without trailering horses too far away. these regional event are at
> the same time qualifying event for the finals in Uzes.
>
> also every time your horse complete a qulifying race, the owner
> receives incentive money (something like 100 euros for a successful
> 60km) which is nice to pay the gas.
> Hope this helps to feed your debate... now I better go riding
>
> Leonard, Belgium
>
>
> This is the final ride of the season for this batch of young (4,5,6
> yr old) horses - they have to progressively qualify for these rides
> and the older ones have been progressively qualifying over 1 or more
> seasons. Initially the younger horses must qualify over short
> distances with MAXIMUM speeds imposed. France's young horse program
> is not about racing young horses, it is about qualifying and
> producing mature endurance horses.
>
> I don't know if this final ride has maximum speeds imposed for the
> youngest horses, but the previous qualifying rides do.
>
> Anybody out there know the full answer to Kim's questions?
>
> Steph (answering for John :)
>


--

"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong" Richard
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics

-- 
Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
msgabbani@xxxxxxxxx

Egypt Face to Face
www.alsorat.com
Weblogs:
Living In Egypt
miloflamingo.blogspot.com
Cairo/Giza Daily Photo
cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com
Turn Right At The Sarcophagus
haramlik.blogspot.com
Photos of Egypt:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/livinginegypt/