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Re: [RC] For what it is worth...yet to be seen - oddfarm

I am not sure why people are so surprised and upset about this latest race involving kids. It wasn't that long ago that toddlers racing camels was exposed. I guess just because it is kids, but the adults do it all the time. This kind of "racing" is promoted by the adults.
 
If you are an AERC member, you are in fact supporting FEI and all that involves pertaining to endurance. People, just read the minutes of the meetings and you will see. AERC-I. What do you think they do, and how do you think they do it? With who's support do you think AERC-I riders are riding? As long as the membership stays mum, it will continue. For this past ride season, there are 10 FEI rides put on, supported and sanctioned by AERC. In the last AERC-I meeting, the minutes reflect"

"It was decided that we will have two educational sessions. The first will be to raise enthusiasm for the 2010 WEG. This will be accomplished by using footage from past international events, materials from the WEG OC, and putting together a panel of prior WEG participants to discuss their experience. The second session will a ?how to? session. A panel can be created to discuss each step of preparing to ride a FEI ride. The panel should include a USEF representative (probably Vonita) as well as others knowledgeable in passporting, etc. Carolyn will continue to work on this upon her return from Malaysia."  (I put the bold face on the one sentence)

I think it was the WEC or the WEG where the course record was a 6:30something for a 100 mile ride. Remember? Most of you must think that kind of riding is fabulous because that is what AERC members continue to support in one way or another. I'm not saying if AERC vowed never to be involved in FEI rides again, that kind of riding would cease to exsist, but those who wanted to ride that way could do so at thier own expense and with the support of someone else.

Lisa Salas,the Oddf ARm

 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:07 AM
Subject: [RC] For what it is worth...yet to be seen

I sent this note.


Thank you!
Your question has been sent to the appropriate person.

I have been following the accounts of the recent youth races in the Emirates as part of the President's Cup with little short astonishment that such conduct of sporting events for young people could be condoned by a group who is first of all supposed to be on hand for the safety of the horses being used in such events. Runaway horses, riders who have been given no chance to know their assigned mounts, and excessive speeds do not bode well for the future of endurance racing for youth in the Gulf. For that matter they do not bode well for the future of the youth that partakes in such events, since the risk factors are way above acceptable by any parents' standards.

While I know that many of the FEI personnel on hand for these events are also employees of the stables entering horses in them, I would still like to believe that the points 1.4 and 1.5 of your purposes and principles are actually being followed even if it occasionally means telling one's employer that something cannot and should not be done.

I truly hope that the FEI will change from being a rubber stamp organisation for a small but influential group of riders to being the regulatory body it claims to be.

Sincerely,
Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Egypt



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