Ok…
I had just sent out my applications for my horse and I so we could ride in rated events this year. Well i got my packet it today and i got the All Renewing Member Packet. I’m not renewing…i have never done rated events before. I just paid over a $100 for this and i haven’t gotten the stuff i need. So i called and they said that they would send my stuff out. Now i won’t get it until next month. Anyone else have this problem or is it just me?
whoahorsie, since I grew up in Area 1, I know that NOTHING happens there until a couple of combined tests the last weekend in APRIL in MA/CT. So unless you are planning to head very far south to compete out-of-area, I suggest you be patient, use the online omnibus and rules to develop your schedule for the year, and stop complaining.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by olympicprincess:
Opps! 
Guess it’s a little obvious that I have never competed outside of Area 8!! 
I thought that logically it would just make sense to go LEFT to RIGHT in numeric order…who numbered these areas anyhow?? 
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>The numbering of the Areas is reflective of how the sport of Eventing grew in the US.
When it ceased to be a strickly military endeavor, Eventing was pretty much based in the East (Sorry Heather 
). Because the USEA, then the USCTA, had not yet been formed, Eventing used the Zones of the USEF, then the AHSA, to divided the country into workable segments. Once the USCTA was formed, the country was divided using Areas that were much larger than they are at present. I don’t recall how many areas were created at that time, but I do know that there were less than what we have now. In fact, an old Omnibus from 1973 listed only four Areas (I-IV) as hosting events in that year.
As time passed, when the concentration of eventing in one Area got too large to be handled in an efficient manner, that Area was split. Instead of giving the segmented portion the next highest number and renumbering the remaining areas, it was given the next available number. This is why you see an Area like VIII stuck between Area I, II, III, and IV. By the time eventing grew in that portion of the country to the point where it was necessary to give it its own Area, Areas V, VI, and VII had already been formed.
If you look at a map of our current areas, I believe it gives a general idea of how the sport of eventing spread throughout the US. Since I don’t know how the original Areas were configured, all of the following is purely an uneducated guess, but I think it would be reasonable to assume that Areas I and II stretched all of the way to Area IV, Area III contained much of the southern portion of the country incuding Texas and states west of it, and Area IV was made up of the northern portion of the country west of Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River.
Once eventing in the south grew to the point where a new area was necessary, Area III would have been split and Area V created which probably included the southern states west of the dividing line between Areas III and V.
When eventing started to flourish on the West Coast, it probably became necessary to divide out Areas VI and VII from Areas IV and V. Then, because Eventing in the East was continuing to expand, Area VIII was probably carved out of Areas I and II when they grew to the point where they needed to be divided. Areas IX and X would have been the result of the same thing happening in Areas VI and VII, but after Area VIII had already been formed.
They say cats have nine lives. They would settle for one good one. Adopt a cat (or dog) today.Is WhoaHorsieWhoa a newbie to eventing? She says (in another post and in her profile) that she competes at Training Level in eventing.
JenniferS
Yes, you STILL need to chill out. It happens to everyone, including people who ride upper levels and have bigger sponsorships from big name companies (I am assuming yours are local considering you haven’t competed higher than training level).
You are no more important than anyone else, and the USEA has great customer service if you just call them up and explain POLITELY what happened and ask them to send you your packet. It will most likely be at your house within a few days if you call them up.
Today i went to check the mail and i got the remaining items that i didn’t get in my packet. That was fast. Thanks USEA! 
GotSpots, you’d best come to Area I. It is really nice here. When it isn’t below zero. Or snowing. Or muddy. Or the Black flies hatch. Or during a tick bloom. We are a hardy bunch, and never snobby and very friendly.
yep, parties make everyone REALLY happy in the end 
! Even those people (or maybe, hu-hum, person, no names stated 
) who have/has crappy attitude(s)!
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Yes- everyone has these problems. But most of us don’t consider them a big deal.
I also did not get my winter omnibus. No big deal. It is availiable on line. Tthere is nothing I was planning to enter in it. My first events of the year will be in the Spring omnibus.
I just got my USEA rule book last week. (I renewed in November) If you don’t get it soon, call or email them, and they will send another one. In the mean time, use the on-line version.
Take a DEEP breath. Count to 10.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by olympicprincess:
…I thought that logically it would just make sense to go LEFT to RIGHT in numeric order…who numbered these areas anyhow?? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
The same people who placed the letters in the dressage arena?
Well, obviously the USEA is personally targeting you and does not want you to compete in events but wants to misappropriate your money and not give you whatever it is that you didn’t get in the packet (which is, I guess, a copy of the rules? Your armband? Even renewal members get copies of their membership cards and numbers, which is basically all you really need to compete, since you can get a copy of the form to put in the armband and fill it out and you’re good to go).
Geez. If this is how you react to something minor, which quite honestly could have been a legitimate mistake, I’d love to be around the first time your ride times get switched around.
Aww, but Heather, if we didn’t repeat it, we’d never have all the fun fights about gags, out of control riders, horse-flippin, and the importance of dressage.
Med cards came in USEF renewal packet? Not in this gal’s. Sigh. I’ll stick with the lime green for now. And C’lope, thanks for the history lesson. So far I’ve gone from VII to X to II to III to VIII to IV. I’m slowly working my way around the country, it seems.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ~WhoaHorsieWhoa~:
Today i went to check the mail and i got the remaining items that i didn’t get in my packet. That was fast. Thanks USEA! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
And I can bet that all that bitching and whining had nothing to do with it either—sure hope you don’t need anything else from them in the near future.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ~WhoaHorsieWhoa~:
devildog- i believe “the Victim” was suppose to be droped, so i’d be careful!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
What the he*l did you just try and say?
I wuldnt sponser no one so atriculate as ure!
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593 even
got to break the record…
UPDATE - 593.5!
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[This message was edited by JDufort on Feb. 03, 2004 at 12:47 PM.]
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I think I heard somewhere that the medical card is white this year, so all you have to do is photocopy someone else’s and fill in the info! No more carrying colored paper around.
Nature is correct (see below), the color is GREEN, not white.
[This message was edited by IFG on Jan. 28, 2004 at 09:52 PM.]
Area 1 is new england AND new york like I said.
I can understand being a bit miffed at the USEA. If you are new to the sport you really wouldn’t know about the website either. Also if you became a member close to a competition season in your Area then yea I’d be a bit miffed also. USEA is a good organization but I’ve had some run ins with the people who run the horse registration department. One woman was very snotty and snippy and RUDE (that doesn’t mean the whole organization is like that though because they aren’t).
Anyway, welcome to eventing and call the USEA and tell them. I guess that is all you can do at this point. No use getting angry because it would be a waste of energy.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by IFG:
I think I heard somewhere that the medical card is white this year, so all you have to do is photocopy someone else’s and fill in the info! No more carrying colored paper around.
Nature is correct (see below), the color is GREEN, not white.
[This message was edited by IFG on Jan. 28, 2004 at 09:52 PM.]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>The United States Equestrian Federation sent out those white medical cards in their renewal packets. The United States Event Association is still using the green cards, the same ones that were in use this past year. Rusty Lowe, Chairman of the USEA Safety Committee posted a short while ago on another thread that the green cards would be good through the end of this year.
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