Re: Firemountain 50 -2nd that!!

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

You tell me...what DO ride managers get?  Not many MAKE money, and if they do
they have worked HARD to get donations and most $$ go to some club or
charity.

I am in favor of making PRE-ENTRY mandatory with a UNIFORM refund policy.

Championship ride should ALWAYS give first priority to riders entering that
division...provided they have met a pre-entry deadline.

If AERC News failed to notify riders that is was a Championship ride, then it
is AERC's responsibility to correct the situation...even if it takes phone
calls to LD riders to tell them their place is being replaced by a
Championship rider.

teddy

"Angela C. McGhee" wrote:

> >Unfortunately, I think it is indicative of AERC LACK of policy.  >Ride
> managers>are given NO guidance, NO support, NO thanks.  >Hence, they get
> NOTHING >in>return a
>
> Oh come on.  If they had a stack of rules to cover the situation we'd
> complain that they were tieing up our hands with red tape.
>
> Sounds like management was probably caught off guard.  Biltmore has a
> limit of 150 horses.  I think they take 50 in each distance.  Since
> there's seldom 50 100 milers, they sometimes allow riders from the
> shorter distance's waiting list in to take up the extra room.  For awhile
> they didn't bother with an LD.  Seems like when they had a championship
> they didn't have and LD.  They probably should have done something like
> this at Fire Mountain.
>
> As a manager, I don't care for pre-entries.  All it tells you is how many
> PLAN to come, and that's usually about 30% above the number who actually
> get to show up...that's enough to break you if you actually made
> preparations for that many more horses.  I've had much better luck just
> looking at how many showed up last year.  It seldom varies plus or minus
> 10 riders.  If we're short of T-shirts, we give the locals theirs later.
> We are allowed to tell the caterers how many meals on Friday for a Sat.
> meal.
>
> Angie
>
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