RIDE INFORMATION

Day Riders - in lieu Membership and Public Liability Insurance add $20

• GATES OPEN Friday noon and from 05:00 Saturday. Please have your 4 day horse health declarations (3 days plus day of pre-ride vetting) and COVID Declaration (see later instruction) ready.
• PRE-RIDE VETTING Friday from 16:00 to 18:00 and about 05:00 Saturday. Normal AERA vetting.

BRIEFING

• 80km 06:50 Saturday
• 40km 07:50 Saturday
• 20km 08:50 Saturday

OTHER INFORMATION

• Canteen by Sassafras Primary School
• No dogs allowed
• Generators off no later than 22:00.
• No smoking on track
• Children are to be supervised at all times
• Electronic timing will be used
• Please leave your site clean - spread manure, bag hay and take home.

HOW TO ENTER

• Online entries will close Tuesday 8 September at 20:00. This allows time for checking/printing of entries and finalising prizes/vets etc. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE IT TOO LATE!
• Please use the online entry form below
• Alternatively, phone entries to Nicole Huxtable
• 0438 352 080

RIDE BASE LOCATION

• Ride base is at 7738 Bass Higway, Sassafras.
• -41.300144, 146.516148
• Perry property - where tractor sits on a pole!
• Click on the map pin below to get directions via Google Maps, or zoom in for more detail.

IMPORTANT BIOSECURITY INFORMATION

• All those attendind must be included on a completed Corona Virus (COVID-19) Declaration to be presented on arrival at the ride base. This must include details of all members in your party.

-------The Declaration Form is available for download here

• All riders and party members must review the Ride Biosecurity Information sheet so that they are familiar with the infection control procedures to be in place at the ride.

-------The Information sheet is available here.

------- The full event COVID Safety Plan is available here

• In order to minimise the risk of disease transmission at the event, riders should consider attending with the minimum number of support people possible (giving due consideration to rider safety).
• Spectators, members of the public and others not directly associated with the running of the event are discouraged from attending.
• All riders MUST present a completed 4 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 horses temperature for three days prior to arrival at the ride base, plus on the day of arrival.

--------The Horse Health Declaration form is available here

OTHER 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

• 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.

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