FEI courses

[terre <tobytrot@bigfoot.com>]

Debi writes:
"There are many places that would be great for championship rides, but like 
you said FEI wants fast rides not challenging ones.  Pan Am in Canada this 
year was not flat and it had a lot of deep sand and it was a challenging one. 
 Too bad that Pan Ams are challenging rides with terrain that tests a horse 
vs. Worlds that want very fast rides."

In order to be selected as an FEI course (World or PanAm), a ride must
first "nominate", or express an interest in hosting.  It is possible that
this is less a question of FEI selecting flat courses than it is of flat
courses selecting FEI!  In order to host one of these rides, ride
management needs to be able to supply a huge camping area, electricity,
water, easy road access, etc, etc--these things tend to be easier to come
by in flat terrain than in mountainous.  Still, there are mountainous rides
that have hosted ROC--Bighorn and Shar Ranch come to mind--maybe someone
should 'encourage' them to apply?

Terre


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