Was really considering the best interests of riders in planning the Eventing calendar?
Some of you may have received this link to a Survey Monkey survey in your email. So far, it seems random as to which members have received it.
While it may seem relatively harmless, what this does is to finally give Stable View what it has wanted for a long time. Week 10 WAS Red Hills week. We fought USEF with everything we had, short of a full on lawsuit in Federal Court, and finally had to give up and shut down because they absolutely, positively, refused to give us the 4*S that we had run on week 10 for almost 20 years.
And yet, here we are, less than 18 months later, and they are asking riders – or at least some riders, what their opinion would be to transferring that date to Stable View, and restoring the 4*S to that place in the calendar.
Red Hills was told over and over and over, there would be no change. We were told to run this year on spec and then maybe, they’d see if they could consider restoring that level. We were told “It is too early in the year for a 4*S” and “it doesn’t work there in the calendar.”
Though we had run it there for years.
In any event, I’m not sure what I want to encourage you all to do, because the event that I put my heart and soul and untold hours of my life into is gone now. Our jumps have been sold and all of the Park looks almost as if we never existed.
I guess what I’m doing here is just calling out what a farce this entire process has been since the beginning.
FWIW, we also suggested a swap with another event, as they are apparently trying to engineer here, with Chatt Hills and SV swapping places. We were told “absolutely not, because under the new system, no dates will be awarded without a bid process.”
Apparently that was subject to change as soon as they got rid of our event. Maybe we were too old fashioned and couldn’t offer the powers that be enough perks. I’m not sure, but I am sure of one thing. I’m still mad about it.
