Letter To The Editor
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
Posted April 9, 2002 I would like to set the record straight with regard to
the letter to the editor I just read on the Saddlehorse
Report website is inaccurate concerning the INS or SEN
or whatever you want to call the scoring system being
used in the Equitation Finals.
I can remember quite well sitting in Nealia McCrackens
house with her, Mike and Dale Arnston working on a
scoring system in the early 90's. We have been using
the scoring systems that was utilized at the first
World Cup at the Pleasure Olympics which is a National
Finals since the early 90's. I am sure we can find the
exact date by looking at old records but I believe that
we first used it in 1991 or possibly 1992. We first
used it when the Pleasure horse show was still in
Springfield Illinois. The first time we used it was
the year that Ellen Beard was judging the olympics. We have since spent untold hours refining various aspects of
the system, explaining it, and making presentations
about it.
We did in no way copy anything that was used in South
Africa or as a matter of fact did we even know a
similar system was being utilized there. Actually we
couldn't have copied it as we started using it before
you developed anything according to your letter. What
we had on the computer at World Cup was strictly a
spread sheet that was developed at the request of Anne
Judd. Is it possible your system was developed after
talking to Anne about what we had? We have used the
same scoring system manually for years at the Pleasure
Horse Show.
I appreciate the fact that you have a system but please
don't try and confuse the issue of where the system
being used in the US first came from.
Sincerely
Pat Johnson
[email protected]
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