Anyway, the reason why I included your beautiful Märchen (I took a peak at her - she's amazing!) in the horses that should have been disqualified wasn't because of her age, but because of her competition points.
- She's been extremely successful (competition points 20,000+), and this event had been designed for young, inexperienced horses with 3,000 or less points.
There's no way for me to know how many competition points she had when the event was supposed to run. Running it got seriously delayed while waiting for enough entries. It might have even been delayed by three days, and an awful lot can happen in three days of training and eventing a horse!
It's hard to stay within requirements, anyway, because events run in real time and training and signing up for events occurs as fast as you can take turns. So maybe there will never be a solution, or maybe eligibility should be "frozen" in place at the time a horse signs up for an event?
What do you guys think? And sorry for the long post!