Re: ride fees

[Mia Nalias <arabs2go@yahoo.com>]

Easy now...  They don't need any more ideas for new fees!!!



Olympian06@aol.com wrote:
>
> Okay, I have been reading all of your responses to the increased fee
from AERC
> and it has made me look back at my dressage show days.  I just
wanted to let
> you all know this is how much it costs for one dressage show lasting
only 2
> days............
> 
> Class Fee's (per class).........$40 for FEI                **Let me
remind you
> most 
> 									  $30 for adults riders     ride in approx. 4 classes!
> 									  $20 for juniors
> 									  $5 per class for recording championships
> 									  $25 late charge per class after date of close
> Office Fee's (per horse).......$10 grounds prep
> 									  $15 office fee
> 									  $8 AHSA Fee
> 									  $5 missing info (only one that isn't mandatory)
> Stabling(2 days)...................$65.00 (not including shavings)
> 									  $6.00 night charge to have horses checked/water
> Lodging for us......................$50 a night average (you don't
expect us
> dressage 										riders to sleep in anything but a 5 star hotel!!!!
> All meals..............................$??depends on person
> 
> WAIT Were not DONE!!!!
> 
> ASHA yearly fee.................$40 plus dicipline fees ($10)
> USDF yearly fee.................$50 for horse registration/ $40 for
rider
> ADA yearly fee....................$30
> 
> Total..............................$$$$568.00 per show!!!!
> Now all of these fees are if you own your own horse, only you!!! If
someone
> else owns the horse they also have to be members.  You also can not
take
> another horse to the show grounds without paying fees.
> 
> I know this looks like alot and it is, I was showing 5-8 times a
year with my
> horse and believe me.....I WILL NEVER complain about rider fees for
endurance,
> I am just happy to be away from all the dressage scene.  Please if
you think
> endurance is costly please look above, puts things in perspective.
> 
> Hope this helps prove a point......thanks for taking your time to
read this.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Johnna & AM Lilium Dream (thanking God his dressage days are over!)
& MC
> 					(yes, he is a Lipizzan!!)
> 
> Olympian06@aol.com
> 
> 
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