Sheikh Mohammad To Sponsor Endurance Race At WEG

http://www.horsesport.org/news/fei-bureau-review-composition-endurance-task-force

Do you see what has happened?? Both UAE representatives have been nixed.

Making your feelings known , in no uncertain terms, can have an effect. If you remain silent they WILL take advantage.

Well done you, whom have let your feelings be known. Don't let up.. :clap:

I think sometimes that your lovely UK nature makes you hesitant to speak your mind to your (horsey) governing bodies. We in the U.S.generally don't hesitate to call out cheaters (sometimes that is for the good and admittedly, at other times it is just obnoxious).

When so many people say "enough, we're not having this" the FEI has to listen. They will however do what they like if and when we look away. I for one will continue to watch, closely.
 
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skydy said:
http://www.chronofhorse.com/article...tions-express-dissatisfaction-feisheikh-moham

It is corrupt, and I have let my national organization know exactly how I feel about it.

http://www.horsesportinternational.com/2014/04/pedaling-backwards-at-top-speed/
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When you approach your parent organisation (and this applies to anyone, really), and you place before them, your doubts, do you receive any form of acceptance, or acknowledgement? If the National 'Bodies' refuse to support their members, then those bodies need replacing with those who will.

Alec.
 
Alec Swan said:
When you approach your parent organisation (and this applies to anyone, really), and you place before them, your doubts, do you receive any form of acceptance, or acknowledgement? If the National 'Bodies' refuse to support their members, then those bodies need replacing with those who will.

Alec.
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Actually I have received no "personal response" whatsoever. In the U.S. the powers that be tend to notice which way the wind is blowing by the number of emails and the collective shouting on respected horse forums.

Money talks, on this side of the pond just as much as it does in the U.K. regarding the Al Maktoum's (Sheikh Mohammad and P. Haya) "governance over the FEI"as far as our governing equestrian bodies are concerned.
It really is a question of enough people making a nuisance of themselves by complaining loudly, and at length, IN PUBLIC with the (easily obtained) information, to such an extent that our organizations look like twits if they don't address the issue.
 
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Alec,

I have had a personal response from a senior management member, but have been asked not to declare any of the message content. There has been no official reply to the issues from either Endurance GB (whose board are elected volunteers), or BEF. Their silence is deafening.

So Meydan has been replaced by Sobha, same money in different clothes. Okay the two dubai guys are chucked off, but one has been replaced by a bahraini. Well bahrain are also a group vii country with several (including a very recent abuse scandal of a horse being hit by an implement by a crew member to keep it going as it slowed approaching the finish as it was exhausted & rider using excessively long reins to 'whip' horse) abuses still being investigated. Different country, same problem, so I'm not impressed at the change!
 
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Alec,

I have had a personal response from a senior management member, but have been asked not to declare any of the message content. There has been no official reply to the issues from either Endurance GB (whose board are elected volunteers), or BEF. Their silence is deafening.

So Meydan has been replaced by Sobha, same money in different clothes. Okay the two dubai guys are chucked off, but one has been replaced by a bahraini. Well bahrain are also a group vii country with several (including a very recent abuse scandal of a horse being hit by an implement by a crew member to keep it going as it slowed approaching the finish as it was exhausted & rider using excessively long reins to 'whip' horse) abuses still being investigated. Different country, same problem, so I'm not impressed at the change!
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I'm not impressed with the change either. I do take note though,that a change was made in response to members' outrage, which is a tiny step in the right direction, a glimmer of hope, if you will.
As I mentioned in a previous post, we cannot take our eyes off of these people or they will continue with this nepotism and slight of hand..

I do hope, so VERY much, that Haya will be out and that this awful chapter of corruption will be put to an end.

Those of you who care; speak loudly, and long, to your leaders.

Pip6, keep up the good fight!
 
Am I alone in being totally bemused? Am I alone in wondering for how much longer those who administer to our sports, and by their apparent agreement, will be complicit in the support of fraud?

Lance Armstrong didn't get away with it, but then he was a pauper, by comparison..

Alec.
 
Gets worse, egb have sanctioned another class paid by oil money:

FEI Ride at Wordwell June 1st

Is an fei endurance ride (this is a very flat fast track, all on grass track, so will be to uae taste as they don't go for the 'endurance' rides) for former arab racehorses to show their versitility & longevity. There's the joke, in group vii countries, which include uae, the average competition lifespan for an endurance horse is only 18 months! But there are plenty more to buy to replace the damaged ones from thrashing them in what are effectively flat races, not endurance tests. Can't believe egb have sanctioned this. Anyone near Kings Forest on the day go watch them with cameras!
 
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