Re: Mileage / Wealth

Laney Humphrey (laneyh@mbay.net)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:20:34 -0800

Luke - You always add great thoughts and information to this list! I think
y'all down under have some great ideas: Log Books and "elevated/graduated"
rides for example that we here in the "great U.S.of A." would do well to
think about. Keep posting (pun intended!) Laney

Luke wrote: ...The national body for endurance riding in this country is the
Australian Endurance Riders Association Inc. (AERA)... We also have to
qualify horses to >be able to compete. An important part of our system here
is the use of Log
>Books for endurance horses. These take the place of the individual vet
cards The log books contain anidentification page,... For a horse to be
>entered in an affiliated endurance ride, it must be accompanied by a valid
>log book. The ride and vetting information is entered in the log book. Thus
>the owner has a permanent record of the horse's competition history, and
>ride vets can review same.