Re: AERC News

[Steve Shaw <sshaw@pacbell.net>]

NEW AERC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHOSEN	

Lari Shea's daughter, Kyala, a.k.a. Ky, successfully hacked into the 
Endurance Net list serve for the AERC Board of Directors that Steph 
Teeter maintains. The following information was gleaned from their 
discussions.

After interviews held by the Selection Committee on Friday and Sat. in 
Auburn, committee members were equally divided between three candidates. 
The committee asked Maryben Stover to intercede as a mediator and break 
the ties. It is Robert Gunter of Virginia. Robert owns two Brier horses 
and happens to be the new fiance of Danielle Kanavy.

Upon acceptance of the position, Robert, age 25, presented the Board 
with a proposal he developed with the American Sport Horse Association 
and endorsed by AHSA and USET.  Under the terms of this proposal AERC 
would receive $200,000 a year for horse studies and the Sport Horse 
Association would become the association and voice for endurance riding 
in America.  The Board of AERC is currently divided 60%/40% in favor of 
the proposal and it appears that it will pass in a special Board vote 
today. The American Sport Horse Association press release stated "Within 
the next month we will add and recognize the Limited Distance events to 
our data base and base future awards on Limited Distance statistics to 
better encourage new endurance riders to the sport. We will include 
prize monies as a sanctioning requirement."  Robert will be making 
$65,000 a year as the new head of the endurance committee under the 
Sport Horse Association.

Maryben's tie breaking choice was motivated by the candidate's desire to 
do a ride and tie with her in the future. No fooling.

Steve Shaw