Here are a few quick notes for your Wednesday afternoon:
–The Full Gallop live scores don’t appear to be updating yet. Hopefully the scores will start showing up soon. When they do start being posted, they will be available here. Coren is at Full Gallop today, so we’ll keep you posted on anything that happens.
–Thanks to Annie for writing a great first good news post this morning. We hope to make it a weekly or at least bi-monthly series called “Good News Wednesday.” The goal is to draw attention to the many fantastic organizations, people, and stories around eventing that often get forgotten. I have also made CANTER Eventing Nation’s new ‘Cause of the Month’ in our EN sidebar. Again, the goal is just to spread the word about CANTER’s wonderful efforts–there’s nothing in the world like an OTTB.
–In our morning N&N comments, EN reader faybe asked for my thoughts on the USEA’s new policy requiring a bill of sale to change registered horse ownership. We wrote about this a few weeks ago when the USEA first changed the policy, but the USEA’s ENewsletter went out today and announced the change again. I like the policy change despite the slight added inconvenience. It was embarrassing for the USEA that people could (and did) change ownership without any verification at any time, and the USEA has developed a simple and elegant solution. There was originally a controversy about people not wanting to reveal private informantion by submitting the bill of sale (such as purchase price) but the USEA quickly ammended the policy to allow us to black out any private information before submitting the bill of sale.
–If you are in Aiken, be sure to check out the ICP Jumping Symposium with CMP and P Dutty at Paradise Farm on February 7th from 9am to 3:30pm. Phillip will teach XC riding to 3 groups of victims riders. Admission is $40 per spectator. I’d also suggest going to the training sessions at Three Runs Plantation, which are completely free–more on those in a bit. [USEA]
–The USEA will be launching a new online Express Entry system on February 8th. It’s called Xentry–get it, ‘express entry’–and will hopefully streamline the entry process. I don’t know about you, but I prefer to spend more time riding and less time filling out entries. [USEA]
–One last clarification to make from a couple email questions we have gotten is that, as we have said before, even though helmets are now required in all US national divisions up through advanced, the FEI has not changed its helmet rule. This means that in competitions with both FEI and national divisions, there will be different helmet rules in place depending on whether you are riding in an FEI or national division–with strapped/approved helmets only required in the dressage for the national divisions. Clear as mud? Hopefully the FEI will adopt a full helmet rule soon, but I don’t see that as very likely. See the FEI eventing rules for full explanation. [FEI Rules]
–US Eventing High Performance has a new Facebook page. Check it out and ‘like’ it. [High Performance Facebook]
Go eventing.
