Re: Firemountain 50 -2nd that!!

["Robert Morris" <bobmorris@rmci.net>]

I think you all should set back and take a good look at the Endurance News
for December. Here in the Northwest the Championship rides are not even
indicated in the Ride Calendar while the Fire Mountain one for the Pacific
South is.Conversely the Northwest rides are indicated in the announcement on
pg. 33 but the Pacific South one is not.

Now this could be confusing to many persons. Sorry to say, someplace along
the line, editorial content was not proofed by someone knowledgeable!
Continuity and completeness are primary requirements in listing
announcements.

Then again put your selves in their clodhoppers and try to run from the
masses.

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID
-----Original Message-----
From: Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>
To: Angela C. McGhee <rides2far@juno.com>
Cc: karen@chaton.gardnerville.nv.us <karen@chaton.gardnerville.nv.us>;
ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: Firemountain 50 -2nd that!!


>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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