A pulled rider is not suppose to continue. In reality some of the AERC
rules have to be tempered with where the ride is held. For example take
the old LBL ride where the basecamp is at a USFS public for fee
campground. The camping is a treaty with the USFS not the ride manager
or the AERC. The AERC nor the ride manager have no preferential use of
the trails - as is true on most public lands.
As soon as a rider is pulled or gets his completion he is no longer in
competition - hence any AERC authority over such a rider ceases. So if
a rider decides to take his horse out once he is say pulled for
lameness to see if he could figure out where or why - he is on his own
time in a on public trails in a public equestrian camping facility.
The only thing the AERC has jurisdiction over is those people entered
in the event. I am sure one could file a protest against a person if
they did what I described above related to "horse welfare" issues. But
that I think is a somewhat slippery slope since the only time a person
is considered in competition is after they check in till the time they
are pulled or have received a completion. If they are not in
competition - the AERC rules do not apply. The AERC rules do only apply
to those entered in an AERC event during the time they are in the
event.
Truman
sherman wrote:
I any
non-entered horse riding with you, whether in front, alongside or
behind, was considered pacing or prompting, and most horses think it is
too since most are competitive to some degree, unless they are only
walking, but many horses are even competitive at a walk and want to get
ahead or feel pushed to go faster from the horses behind them. I
thought I'd even read that a DQd rider could not continue on the trail,
but I suppose that would affect only AERC members.
Kathy
Truman
wrote:
But you
would have to establish the rider was paced or prompted by the other
riders not the mere fact that the person was riding with them. There is
be a difference between riding with a group of trail riders say for a
mile at an area like LBL with a lot of trail riders - even if you knew
them - and being paced or prompted.
It's not the act of riding with someone - it's the act of being paced
or prompted to gain a competitive advantage. If I remember correctly
this rule came out of people whose crews were driving behind them in
100 mile rides at the end to prompt their horse to go on.
-- "There is always a well-known solution to every human
problem--neat, plausible, and wrong
"There is always a well-known solution to every
human
problem--neat, plausible, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
