I am sure the manufacturers are utterly gleeful at the thought of it being trendy.
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now that everyone has bought their pelham and standing martingale there needs to be the next new thing
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Pelhamâs are in now?
Oh cool. I ride with one. Maybe I should go try hunters again.
I think everyone has had a standing martingale for a very very long time.
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More than you would think.
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Are those horses mostly aged?
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I donât think so.
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Iâve just hacked my way around various search terms in the FEI website looking to see if there is anything on this rumoured rule change. In the 2021 Rule Book, Rule 503.4 imposes a MINIMUM age for horses at various levels but I could find nothing to support the rumoured maximum age limit.
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I hope itâs just a rumor! Thatâs pretty weird though that I heard it at least twice in the broadcast and none of us can find it.
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I was at a H/J show in California a few weeks ago and Iâd guess about 50% of the hunter and eq riders were wearing them and probably 75% or more of the jumper riders.
Just an idle thought about age limits, what if your horse is unregistered and therefore there is no definitive proof of age?
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From The FEI General Regulations;
âArticle 136 -Age of Horses
Age restrictions on Horses taking part in FEI competitions shall be specified in the relevant
Sport Rules.â
Current proposed rules revisions for eventing;
I donât think a horse can get an FEI passport without proof of age.
FEI General Regulations Article 137;
- All FEI and/or national passports must include the full name, address and signature of the
Owner as registered by the NF. The description of the Horse and the diagram must be
accurately completed in order to be acceptable, and the FEI and/or national passport must
include a record of all vaccinations and medication control tests. Whenever the name of a
Horse with an FEI and/or national passport is changed, or any pertinent changes are made
to an FEI and/or National Passport, the NF must notify the FEI.
No mention of DOB.
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Thanks so much for that link to proposed rule revisions. What in the world prompted the change prohibiting tack that impairs the ears from moving freely?! Iâm definitely missing something there.
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Probably because you would be interfering with senses that a horse uses to navigate the world around him.
I am not sure what point @Saskatoonian is trying to ask about, but I am confused about what piece of tack they would be prohibiting and where is that piece of tack used so much that it requires a rule.
I guess I am more clueless than I realized because I can not think of a piece of tack that impairs the ears from moving freely.
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Exactly - who would do that, why and how? Just strikes me as bizarre. Sound muffling bonnets, sure, that makes sense, but limiting ear movement? Thatâs just weird.
Committee English.
After reading through the proposed changes again, for a third time, I still cannot see anything on âmaximumâ age. I can see a reverse MER for a horse that hasnât run at a level for 18 months. And if there is no DOB, how could a rule about maximum age be enforced anyway?
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I know that the FEI has attorneys but it seems to me that they are legally sticking their necks out by recommending air vests.
I slogged through the rule recommendations and couldnât find anything about the upper limit age for horses. These are the current rule changes though, not what will be proposed when they do a complete look at the rules in 2023 or was it 2024?.
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FEI will do a complete review of the eventing rules next year. https://inside.fei.org/system/files/FEI%20PERIODICAL%20RULES%20REVISION_Reviewed%20Feb21.pdf
