NOTES to the NERA Ride
Calendar 2008
1. HW = Home Weekend.
2. SW = School Weekend.
3. SH = School Holiday.
4. SD = School Day
5. VG = All rides in Namibia will only be Vet Gate Rides, both club
and NERA rides.
6. CH = Compulsory Hold Rides.
7. Two type of rides will be hosted under the NERA authorization,
NERA Club Rides and Nera Council Rides. The Organizing Committee at
the NERA Club Rides will be one of the six NERA affiliated clubs and
the NERA Council Rides will fall directly under the NERA Council
with a designated NERA Council member as the Head Official.
8. The maximum distance of club rides is 100 km
and the three FEI rides will be 3* rides of 120 Km and / or 160 Km
and all rides may be day or night rides or a combination thereof.
Noorde was granted special permission by Council to host a 120 Km
club ride as an exception and any club that wishes to host an event
in excess of a 100 Km have to apply annually at Council.
9. NERA will not host any rides or activities
on a religious weekend and / or days like Easter Weekend, etc.
10. As far as possible NERA would try and
finish our Endurance rides at the end of September and have no
Endurance rides during the months October to December as part of
NERA’s policy to protect our horses due to the summer heat, horse
sickness inoculation programs and to give the horses at least three
months rest from Endurance activities.
11. Wherever possible we will try and host the
Endurance rides over Home Weekends and during school holidays due to
the fact that many of our children also participate in other school
sports like ruby, Netball, hockey etc. and these activities are
normally held over the School Weekends.
12. The Walvis Bay event is scheduled, as far
as possible, to be on a Wednesday during the Namibian school holiday
during the August / September, There are mainly three reasons for
this arrangement, namely to make it possible for our South African
guests to be away from their work only for one week where they can
departure on the Saturday prior to the ride and be back home by the
following Saturday after the ride. The second reason is that we want
it to be during the Namibian school holidays due to the fact that
our Namibian school children are absent from school for at least a
week during the SA Leg of our Annual International competition and
should the second leg at Walvis Bay be during our school holiday.
With this arrangement both the school children from SA and Namibia
have one test during their school term and one during their school
holiday which is fair to both countries. The third reason for the
last Wednesday is to get in as much as possible rest time for the
horses who have participated at Fauresmith and again at Walvis Bay.
As far as possible NERA will try to host this event as close as
possible to a full moon date.
13. The Walvis Bay ride will simultaneously be
the Namibian National Championships as well as the International
Championships between Namibia, South Africa and any other competing
countries. Council also intents to elect an official Barbarian team
consisting of riders from both SA, Namibia and other foreign
competitors to compete against the official Namibian and SA team and
any other National official team. We are also investigating the
possibility to have National Official Development teams from SA and
Namibia to compete against each other as well as against any other
National Development team(s) that which to enter.
14. Our Independence ride will be hosted on the
weekend closest to the Independence Weekend irrespective of the moon
phases and will therefore be named “The Independence Ride”
15. All Namibian/ NERA riders must remember
that it is compulsory to apply via the Council (Secretary) to the
Namibian Sports Commission should they wish to compete in any other
country. The NSC must also be notified via the Council Secretary,
should any foreigner wishes to participate in Namibia at any of our
rides.
17. No other NERA Ride may be hosted on the
same day that the National Namibian team participate anywhere in
Southern Africa.
18. NERA does have three international Tri
Nation rides this year against SA and Botswana on the basis that
the SA and the Namibian legs will be Official National sides
from Namibia and Botswana and the Botswana leg will be official
Development teams from the three said countries.
Analysis of Endurance Rides on NERA Ride
Calendar.
1.Club or Association Quantity
1.1 NERA Club Rides
| 1. Kalahari |
5 |
| 2. Noorde |
4 |
| 3. Okanjande |
3 |
| 4. Otjivero |
4 |
| 5. Tsumeb |
2 |
| 6. Windhoek |
4 |
| Total Club Rides |
22 |
1.2 NERA Council Rides (FEI) 2
1.3
Botswana 1
1.4 ERASA FEI
Rides 7
1.5 ERASA Compulsory
Hold Ride 1
1.6 World
Championships 1
Total Rides
34
Vet Gate
Rides 33
Compulsory
Hold Rides 1
