RIDE INFORMATION

• PRE-RIDE VETTING Friday afternoon only 17:00 onwards for all rides.
• Minimal pre-ride vetting available Saturday morning. Please contact Debbie Grull in advance to request Saturday morning vetting.
• BRIEFINGS will be held Saturday 06:15 for 40 and 80 km rides: 08:00 for 20km ride.

TEMPERATURE LOG

• ALL horses at the ride MUST submit a 3 day temperature log for each horse entering the ride base. FAILURE TO COMPLETE THE LOG MEANS NO ENTRY TO THE RIDE BASE

RIDE BASE

• The ride base will be open from 12:00 noon until 8:00 pm on Friday 1 November for temperature logs to be checked, collected and horses cleared to enter the ride base.
• If you are unable to arrive during these times please let us know so someone can meet you at the gate to check your temperature logs.

OTHER INFORMATION

• Any offers of help from TPRs would be greatly appreciated. If you are a TPR and have finished your ride, and can see a busy vet ring, please come on down and see our friendly Chief Steward, to ask to help out in the TPR area.
• Canteen TBA
• Please clean up your camp before you leave.  We’d like the area free of manure, left over hay and rubbish please. Thank you for helping us keep the site clean.
• No dogs on the polocrosse grounds, please.
• There is plenty of camping on the edge of the grounds. Please DO NOT camp on the polocrosse ground proper.
• Please be respectful and show appreciation to our volunteers, land owners, TPRS, CS, checkpoint people and vets. Our ride could not happen without them.
• No smoking out on track.

HOW TO ENTER

• Online entries will close Tuesday October 29
• Please use the online entry-from below
• Alternatively, phone entries to Debbie Grull:
  • 0417 130 774
• If you are coming to a ride for the very first time please give entries contact: Debbie Grull a call on 0417 130 774

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.

RIDE BASE LOCATION

• The ride base is at Gowrie Park Polocrosse grounds, Claude Rd, Tasmania (200 metres along Claude Road before the O'Nieills - Claude Road intersection.
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