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Re: [RC] New FEI drug rule...question about placings at a ride - Lori BertolucciBut, unless a drug test was already in place to test the FEI/AERC horse when it comes in first, there isn't any other way to know, correct? And this would give an unfair advantage to the FEI/AERC rider over the AERC/only ride, wouldn't it? And if the AERC/only rider requests to have the FEI/AERC horse tested, who has to pay for the testing? From: Dawn Carrie <rdcarrie@xxxxxxxxx> To: Lori Bertolucci <loribertolucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; enduranceopen <theenduranceopen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 8:36:56 AM Subject: Re: [RC] New FEI drug rule...question about placings at a ride <<If, at a ride that is sanctioned for both FEI and AERC, there is an FEI/AERC rider that is allowed to use drugs and does, and an AERC/only rider that cannot use drugs, and they come in 1st and 2nd, in that order, who is actually the winner?>>
I'd guess that they'd be placed in the order they finished, unless that ride was selected for random drug testing, and the FEI horse was randomly selected. But - since the FEI rider is allowed to use drugs, could the AERC rider request that the horse be drug-tested? If it tested positive, the FEI rider would still be first FEI, but would be DQed from the AERC ride. It just seems that with FEI allowing drugs, this opens up a whole can of worms for dual sanctioned rides with mixed fields of riders (some riding FEI/AERC and some riding AERC only. The AERC only riders would be wondering if the FEI/AERC rider(s) who finished ahead of them were riding drugged horses.
I wonder...if the ride is dual sanctioned with AERC, could the AERC rules over-rule the FEI rules, and thus no drugs be allowed? That is, in the US, FEI riders couldn't use drugs?
Dawn Carrie, Texas
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Lori Bertolucci <loribertolucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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