Because at official practices you can 1) perform authorizations and 2) submit IKEqC scores. You can also announce them in the kingdom newsletter and on the kingdom listserve with no concern over "official announcements". If these aren't important, then unofficial get-togethers are often the way to go. The problem is, at this point, we don't seem to have enough people in any one place to have official _or_ unofficial practices. If anyone is willing to haul to Jackson, TN, let me know -- we have a sand arena, most games equipment, and enough pasture subdivisions to separate several visiting horses. I'd be happy to host some practices. But I think the closest GA riders to me are ~4 hours away in Arkansas.
If you set up a regular official practice at one site and can schedule the dates in advance, you can get the entire year's worth of monthly practices for one $50 insurance fee. And the landowner "additional insured" thing is only required if your site owner requests it (many don't because a horse business is already going to have horse activity insurance, probably better than ours). So if you have a decent size group of people and a good site, it's pretty cheap to do the regular practice -- Meridies has near-monthly practices in Mentone, AL, with rental horses at a lesson stable, and also regular practices in southern Georgia at a private home.
But again, moot point until we can pull more people into equestrian in closer proximity to each other.
Lora
--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Neal <zekestrikesagain@...> wrote:
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