RIDE INFORMATION

160km and 95km are elevated
You can retire at any leg after 80km, or continue on to finish.

All rides will be Vet Gate Into Hold
This means that your ride time doesn’t stop until you present to the vet.

• BIOSECURITY Ride Base will be open between 13:00 and 20.00 on Friday, reopening at 02:00 Saturday. ALL horses at the ride MUST submit a 3 day temperature log for each horse entering the ride base. NO FORM - NO ENTRY
• PRE-RIDE VETTING Friday afternoon from 15:00.
• 42km AND 20km RIDERS can be entered and vetted on Saturday morning - please be there at least 90 minutes beforehand to enable the paperwork to be done. Day Members remember to enter on-line and then bring your paperwork etc. with you.
• BRIEFINGS for 95km and 160km rides will be held Friday 18:30. Briefing for the 42km ride will be Saturday 07:30. 20km at 08:30.
• BEST CONDITIONED will be decided as the ride progresses
• PRESENTATIONS for all rides except 160km will be approximately one hour after each ride is completed. 160km time to be decided on the day
• CANTEEN will be available Friday night through until midnight Saturday. All welcome to camp on Saturday night.
• TIMING and CHECKPOINTS on track by NTARC with electronic timing within Base.
• NO DOGS
• QUERIES Pam Shadbolt 0409 423 432

RIDE BASE LOCATION

• Pat & Dicky Lamprey property, Smith & Others Road, Sassafras

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Horse registration and log book needs MUST be in the hands of the Logbook Registrar a full week BEFORE the ride.

• Changes affecting "Day Membership" Riders who are not full members must take out "Day Membership". Arrangements for this have changed. Information is available here

• All riders MUST present a completed 3 day Horse Health Declaration, for each horse, on arrival at the ride base. If you arrive without this you will not be allowed onto the ride base and will not be allowed to ride. In effect this requires you to take and record your horse's temperature for three days before the ride. The relevant form is available here. This includes any 'companion' horse coming onto the ride base. Information on any such horses needs to be entered where provided for at the end of the on-line entry form.

• New riders can find lots of information here
• You are encouraged to look at the National Rules which can be found here
• Particular attention needs to be paid to the yarding of your horse at Ride Base.

AERA Rule 54. HORSE CONTAINMENT

• 54.1 The person responsible for a horse has a duty of care to all other persons to ensure their horse(s) are contained at all times. A competent responsible person must supervise horse(s) at all times when horse(s) are in the horse yard.
• 54.2 The preferred method of horse containment are metal yards, substantially fixed to a solid object such as a horse float, truck or permanent fence or appropriately pegged into the ground. Alternatively, electric fencing is permitted, but shall as a minimum, have 2 strands of tape, preferably white and a minimum of 1cm wide, with the top tape to be 1.2 to 1.4 metres above the ground. The posts used should be of substantial material (steel pickets) and installed so that the tape does not sag. The fence shall be energized at all times the horse is in the yard.
• 54.3 Only one horse is permitted per enclosure.
• 54.4 Ground tethering or the hobbling of horses is not permitted.