<< As many of you probably know, the First Annual Cosequin (sp?) Challenge
Endurance race is scheduled for Memorial Day in Ft. Valley, Va. It is
offering $30,000 in cash prizes (non-sweepstakes prizes), which apparently is
legal under AERC rules as long as there is an AERC steward present.
It would be interesting to know how you on this list feel about cash prizes
for an AERC event? Do you think it would change the sport? For better or for
worse? Do you think most people ride the big -name endurance races (like the
ROC, for instance) for the prizes (as the organizers of this ride have been
quoted as saying)? What about it?
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Of course it will change the sport, the same way sports agents ahve changed
pro sports. This will lead to the demise of AERC as we know it. Guaranteed. i
am married to a collegiate coach of a major university. I have seen what $$
can do to otherwise reasonable adults, let alone unreasonable folk with
helpless animals at their "disposal". We are adamantly against this - what
can be done?
san