U.S. Equestrian Federation mileage rules will be waived so the organization can allow for “major events” that had to be cancelled to be rescheduled later in the year, USEF CEO Bill Moroney stated today, while announcing an extension of the organization’s original 30-day suspension of its events from April 16 to May 3.
The suspension includes all USEF-owned events, selection trials, training camps, clinics and activities. The federation can only recommend that all its licensed competitions be suspended and that equestrians do not participate. If those competitions are held, however, points, money won and rankings toward USEF awards will not count.
USEF President Murray Kessler is planning to use his Presidential Modification authority to enable the shows to have a new time slot and develop a fair method for altering qualifications for these events. With that direction, “USEF has already implemented mechanisms to provide for flexibility and the ability to make necessary modifications to responsibly manage the competition calendar in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
In that vein, Moroney stated, “We are engaging with organizers daily and continue to review situations on a case-by-case basis.”