That sounds good to me... *Heidi*




--- In youthpoa@yahoogroups.com, "Shane" <oatiepoa@...> wrote:
>
> Here is my rough draft for the 8&U W/T class proposal that we
> discussed at the International. I'm asking everyone to look over it
> and tell me what they think about both the concept of the class and
> the wording of the proposal. I will submit this and the Team
> Competition Proposal (posted on this forum somewhere already) to the
> BoD agenda for the meeting in October, and I will hopefully send them
> in by the end of this month.
>
> Shane
>
> -----------
>
> Proposal for Nationally Pointed 8&U Walk/Trot Pleasure Class
>
> Submitted by the Youth Advisory Board to the Board of Directors,
> October 2006
>
> There has been a lot of talk recently about an 8&U Walk/Trot Pleasure
> Class. The Youth Advisory Board discussed this issue at the
> International meeting and came up with the following plan.
>
> A new nationally pointed class would be created, called 8&U Walk/Trot
> Pleasure, for both English and Western divisions. Conditions would be
> placed on these classes such that any one exhibitor would not be
> allowed to participate in both the traditional 3-gait 8&U Pleasure
> and the new W/T Pleasure during the same show. However, it would be
> possible for an exhibitor to show 3-gait Western Pleasure and
> Walk/Trot English or vice-versa.
>
> This class would benefit novice and young riders by providing an
> additional pointed class for them to gain show experience before they
> are ready to begin loping.
>
> Concerns were raised in the course of the discussion that an 8&U
> child could technically graduate to 9-12 without any experience with
> loping in the show arena. To ease these concerns, the following
> options could were considered and are presented as alternatives or
> supplements to this proposal:
>
> 1) A warning or notice that 8&U riders should have experience
> with loping in the show arena by the time they age out of 8&U
> inserted in the rule book with the rule for this class.
> 2) Instead of a nationally pointed 8&U class, a state-points
> only (not submitted to national office) 7&U Walk/Trot Pleasure class
> meeting the same specifications as the 8&U class described in this
> proposal could be defined in the rule book as an option for
> individual state clubs to add to their show programs.
>