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Purina Senior Horse Tales
Contest
Purina is kicking off
their Senior Horse Tales Contest, which is an online contest for
horse owners to submit their best senior horse story.
Purina is giving away one ton of feed to the
top three submissions.
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Unwanted Horse Coalition’s
Operation Gelding
Continues into New Year |
WASHINGTON, DC – January 5, 2012 - The Unwanted
Horse Coalition’s (UHC) Operation Gelding program continues into
the new year with three additional clinics completed in November and
December 2011 and three more on the schedule for March
2012. The UHC’s Operation Gelding program has aided
in gelding 359 stallions to date.
The program, which was first launched in late August
2010, is able to continue aiding in the castration of stallions
thanks to the support and seed money provided by the American
Association of Equine Practitioners Foundation (AAEP). Operation
Gelding is designed to offer funding assistance to organizations,
associations, and events that wish to conduct a public gelding clinic
under the name and guidelines of Operation Gelding. An organization
that has completed an Operation Gelding clinic will receive funding
of $50 per horse, $1,000 maximum, to aid in the costs associated with
the clinic.
The Operation Gelding program is in its second year,
with seven clinics already completed since September 2011. Clinics
have been held in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan,
Texas, and Washington.
The UHC was pleased to be involved with Georgia Equine
Rescue League’s (GERL) first ever Stallion to Gelding Castration
Day on November 12. The GERL had an incredible 96 horses signed up
for the event, with twelve equine veterinarians signed up across the
state of Georgia. Patty Livingston, president of the GERL said,
“Additionally, senior students from the University of Georgia
School Of Veterinary Medicine as well as Veterinary Technician
students were invited to take advantage of this learning opportunity.
A large number of students participated and actually performed or
assisted with the surgeries at Countryside Hospital for Animals near
Jersey, GA. These students were under the supervision of UGA Vet
School Instructors and the veterinarians at Countryside.”
Ande Miller, with Hope in the Valley Equine Rescue
located in Valley Center, Kansas, castrated 13 horses at their second
Operation Gelding clinic. Springhill Equine Veterinary Clinic also
conducted their second Operation Gelding clinic on December 3rd in
Newberry, Florida, castrating 13 horses.
The Denton County 4-H Veterinary Science Club
conducted their first Operation Gelding clinic in Pilot Point, Texas.
Youth member, Lacey Garrison, only 14 years old, organized this
clinic for her 4-H club along with the help of her veterinarian, Dr.
Paul Dean. With the help of the rest of the youth 4-H members, they
were able to geld 17 horses at their clinic on November 19.
Ericka Caslin, UHC Director, said “We are excited
to be able to continue this important nationwide program, thanks to
the generosity of the AAEP. The UHC continues to seek public support,
via tax-deductible donations, to extend the program year round. Each
generous donation of $50 goes entirely toward funding the gelding of
a stallion. We hope to gain assistance from the equine industry in
order to offer more grant money for Operation Gelding clinics, to
help tackle the problem of indiscriminate breeding.”
Currently there are six more Operation Gelding clinics
on the calendar. Upcoming clinics will be held in Florida, Kansas,
Iowa and Texas.
For more information on Operation Gelding, how to
conduct a clinic, the schedule and location of Operation Gelding
clinics, or how you can help continue this program, please contact
Ericka Caslin, UHC director, at ecaslin@horsecouncil.org
or 202-296-4031.
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NRHyA Awards Varsity
Reining Club Scholarships
2011 Recipients Named
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Oklahoma City, Okla. – January 5, 2012 – The National
Reining Horse Youth Association (NRHyA) offers members an online
program that rewards youth for leadership and community service
activities outside of the show arena. The Varsity Reining Club (VRC)
provides scholarships totaling $5,000, to be awarded to the most
active participants in two age groups. In its sixth year, VRC will
provide 13 youth scholarship monies, with the top-placing individual
in each age group receiving special recognition as “Youths of
the Year.”
Youth members are awarded points by doing any combination of projects
listed at vrc.nrhya.com. Participants can submit activity
reports in four subject areas: philanthropy, creativity, publicity
and academics. Members aged 14 years and older are placed in the
varsity category and members 13 years and under are classified as
junior varsity.
The top eight individuals in the varsity level earned $3,500 in
scholarships collectively. The title of Varsity Youth of the Year was
earned by Amy Stoney who earned 4,244 points by submitting more than
150 activities mainly in her favored area of photography. Stoney also
logged participation in youth meetings, creative artwork and recorded
her tales of reining horses in the creative writing category. Stoney,
15, is from McClave, Colo. and was named Junior Varsity Youth of the
Year in 2010.
Second place went to Alexis Daggett who submitted more than 100
activities and earned 3,470 points for her work in philanthropy which
included helping at horse shows in the North Central region and
volunteering for community service with her FFA chapter.
Christi Gordon earned third place by accumulating 3,215 points for
hours spent volunteering in her community and with the Rocky Mountain
Reining Horse Youth Association. Fourth place went to Morgan Burns
who earned 2,341 points by volunteering time at her local library as
well as community service activities with the Auburn University
Varsity Equestrian Team. Reilly Quist earned fifth place and 1,670
points by tutoring local students at school and creating enhanced
photos in the creative artwork category. Sixth place was Mary
Nuernberger with 1,110 points in submissions including good grades,
community service, photography, fund raising and creative artwork.
Tara Power earned 1,015 points and seventh place with her more than
10 community service submissions which included volunteering with the
children’s ministry at her church. Rounding out the varsity
scholarship earners was Rylee Justus in eighth place with 775 points
for her photography and involvement in her affiliate as an officer at
meetings and helping out at horse shows.
In the junior varsity level the top five individuals earned a total
of $1,500 in scholarships. Jordan Scott earned the title of Junior
Varsity Youth of the Year, earning 1,000 points. She logged hundreds
of hours of community service with various organizations, including a
specialty drill team that presents the United States flag at
functions in her area, as well as submissions in three of the four
activity areas. Scott, 13, achieved her goal of earning a stall at
the 2011 NRHA Futurity and Adequan® North American Affiliate
Championships through the VRC prize program and earned Youth of the
Year in her first year of participation in the VRC program.
Kellie Boykin earned second place with 586 points in the publicity
and philanthropy categories. Her sister Kaitlyn Boykin placed third
with 545 points for her submissions that included tutoring peers at
school. Fourth place was Samantha Fritz with 490 points for
philanthropy submissions and good grades. The fifth-place scholarship
earner for the Junior Varsity level was Katie Firmin with 305 points
for her work in her community, good grades, and photography
submissions such as her award-winning submission of her horse Copper.
For more information on the National Reining Horse Youth
Association’s Varsity Reining Club, please visit vrc.nrhya.com,
find NRHyA at facebook.com/nrhya
or contact 405-946-7400 and youth@nrha.com. |
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Palomino Horse Breeders of America
Palomino for Life |
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Life Membership Campaign
Adult memberships begin when you become 19 years of
age and reduces in cost in $60.00 increments every ten years.
Please refer to the following schedule:
Age
19=$400
29=$340
39=$280
49=$220
59=$160
69=$100
79=$40
There is, also, a special deal for youth members.
Any youth can become a Youth Life Member for $200. The year a
youth turns 19 and leaves the youth ranks, they can pay another
$200 and get their permanent Adult Life Membership. However,
they have that one year and one year only to pay the remainder.
Members who have paid forward with a three year
membership will have a credit and the cost of the their Life
Membership will be reduced accordingly. Life members, both
adult and youth, will still be required to pay annual incidental
costs. Currently, the annual fee for an Adult Life Member is
$9.00. The annual cost for all amateur categories(Novice
Amateur, Amateur and Select Amateur) is $10.00 and the annual cost
for a Youth Life Member is $5.00.
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PA RESIDENT CROWNED 2011
AQHA AMATEUR JUMPING
WORLD CHAMPION, SLATED
FOR NATIONAL HONORS |
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OKLAHOMA CITY – On November 11, 2011 Rosa
DiPiazza of Cedar Springs Farm in Seven Valleys, PA, and her American
Quarter Horse, Generals Investment (“Leia”) flew through
two perfect jumping rounds to win the coveted title of American
Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Amateur Jumping World Champion. The
next night, DiPiazza and Leia finished fourth in the open jumping
class, performing solidly against a field of professional
competition. DiPiazza’s younger horse, Diva Gone Gray
(“Diva”) finished seventh in the amateur class and
thirteenth in the open. The win became official at the end of
December when the lab results from the post-competition drug test
confirmed that Generals Investment had earned her title fairly.
The 2011 World Championship Show offered exciting
competition for AQHA members November 6-20 at the Oklahoma State
Fairgrounds. The World Show is the world’s largest, single-breed
world championship horse show. This is the pinnacle event for
competitors around the world, who must qualify for the event by
earning a predetermined number of points to secure a spot in each of
the 94 classes representing English, western and halter disciplines.
More than 3,320 entries from the United States and 12 other countries
competed for more than $2.6 million in prizes and awards.
As the youngest competitor in both divisions, DiPiazza
and her horses needed to complete a course of fences up to
four feet in height (in the Amateurs) and four and a half feet in
height (in the Open) as quickly and accurately as possible to win the
title and a coveted prize package that included a Montana
Silversmiths sterling-silver buckle with 14-karat gold overlay, a
neck wreath, custom designed gold-tone trophy, Cripple Creek jacket
with World Champion patch, custom designed ostrich leather boots and
a cash prize.
At only twenty years old, DiPiazza has already
accumulated an impressive competition record that includes
appearances at the Junior Olympics, North American League
Championships, the United States Pony Club East Coast Championships
and the AQHA Youth World Championship Show. She accredits much of her
success to her mother and trainer, Tonia Hockman, who is herself an
accomplished horsewoman. DiPiazza recognizes that Hockman taught her
not only the equestrian proficiency necessary to engage in high-level
competition but also the discipline and time-management skills
required to simultaneously pursue a bachelor’s degree in
neuroscience at Franklin & Marshall College.
DiPiazza has worked extensively with “Leia”
since 2001. In the past two years, the duo has won more than 75% of
their attempted AQHA open jumping competitions. In 2010, Leia was
named the AQHA reserve national open jumping champion and received
the award for AQHA national high point open jumping mare. That same
year the pair rode an impressively executed double-clear round to a
fourth-place finish at the AQHA Youth World Championship show. Last
year, DiPiazza was also named AQHA’s national high point limited
open jumping rider, a title recognizing the achievements of
outstanding up-and-coming equestrians. Leia is slated to end 2011 as
AQHA’s reserve national open jumping champion and high point
open jumping mare. DiPiazza is again leading the national rankings
for both amateur and open limited jumping rider.
This is DiPiazza’s first year competing
“Diva,” but she has high hopes for the young gray mare.
Diva completed her first high profile competition at the All-American
Quarter Horse Congress in mid-October with a top-ten finish in open
jumping against contenders from across the United States and Canada.
Diva is currently ranked fourth in the nation in open jumping.
The World Show was made possible by AQHA’s
Corporate Partners: Adequan, Bank of America, B&W Trailer
Hitches, Farnam, Featherlite Trailers, FedEx, Ford, John Deere,
Justin Boots, Markel Insurance, Merial, Montana Silversmiths,
Nutrena, Pfizer, Professional’s Choice, SmartPak, WeatherBeeta
and Wrangler.
For more news from the World Show, or to see a video
of DiPiazza’s winning run, visit www.aqha.com/worldshow or
become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aqha1. AQHA news and
information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information
on The American Quarter Horse Journal or America’s Horse, visit www.aqha.com/magazines |
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Dressage at Devon and Devon
Horse Show and Country Fair Foundation Unite to Raise Funds for New
Footing in the Warm-Up Arena |
November 29, 2011 (Devon, PA) – Dressage at Devon conjures
up images of years of tradition, with international competitors and
thousands of devoted fans. There is a reason Dressage at Devon
has been a premier dressage show for almost four decades attracting
riders and their horses from around the world. It provides
excellent facilities and rider services, technology that enhances the
experience on the show grounds, and an ongoing commitment to making
the show experience the best it can be. For the past 36 years,
teams of committed volunteers have worked year round to make it an
annual destination for breeders, owners, riders, and spectators.
This year, Dressage at Devon, in conjunction with the Devon Horse
Show, is embarking on a joint effort to raise the funds necessary to
excavate, improve the drainage, and replace the existing footing in
the warm-up arena with the same euro-felt about which competitors
around the world have raved. The improvements made at Devon will take
this historic facility one step closer to being an
international-caliber facility, attracting competitors of the highest
quality from all over the USA and other countries.
Top competitors agree.
“Dressage at Devon has always been a wonderful event, with
excellent facilities and strict security that makes the rider
experience a great one. Their dedication to improving the
facility is obvious at every show. This campaign will be
critical for the future of Dressage at Devon and I, for one, want to
help make it happen,” said Catherine Haddad –Staller. FEI
Competitor and 2010 Grand Prix Freestyle Winner at Dressage at Devon.
“Dressage at Devon and the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair
have had a strong and productive relationship for many years. We look
forward to many more years of working together to produce two of the
best equestrian events in the country. The success of this
campaign is an important step toward the future of our shows,”
said Leonard King, Chairman of the Devon Horse Show and County Fair.
“Our goal is to install the same excellent, all-weather footing
in the warm-up ring for the 2012 Dressage at Devon and Dressage at
Devon has committed to giving the first $25,000 of the estimated
$300,000 it will take to bring this vision to life. We’re asking
our supporters, exhibitors, spectators and sponsors to show your
support by giving what you can to the effort. All contributions are
tax deductible and go directly into the ‘footing fund’
which can only be used for the warm-up footing,” said Lori
Kaminski, President and CEO of Dressage at Devon.
Time is of the essence. In order for the footing to be in place for
the 2012 show season, excavation will need to be started in late
winter.
To support the future of Dressage at Devon, visit
www.dressageatdevon.org. All contributions are tax-deductible and
will be directed to the Footing Fund.
About Dressage at Devon
Dressage at Devon (www.dressageatdevon.org) has been the premier
North American Equestrian event since its founding by the Delaware
Valley Combined Training Association in 1975, and became a separate
organization in 2006. It combines world class dressage
competition and the world’s largest open breed show with the
international Fall Festival show and special activities for the
entire family. The six-day event attracts more than 700 horses
and 35,000 spectators each year.
Dressage at Devon, a 501(c) (3) PA non-profit organization, benefits
Thorncroft Therapeutic Horseback Riding Inc., one of the oldest and
largest therapeutic riding program in the nation. Since 1991,
Dressage at Devon has raised in excess of $1,000,000 for Thorncroft. |
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Great Start for Post
University’s Newest Team |
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Waterbury, CT – Post University’s fledgling IHSA
Western Team ended its fall season on a high point, with student
coach and team captain Brooke Fowler of Meriden, CT coming away with
High Point Rider in one show and Reserve Point Rider in the other.
Both shows were held at Mount Holyoke on December 3rd. The Post
University senior also got two blue ribbons at both shows in Open
Horsemanship, and was 3rd and 4th in Open Reining. Brooke is
currently 4th in regional standings, from her 3rd place in
Horsemanship and 4th in Reining.
Also at Mount Holyoke, Brooke was backed up by the other team rider,
junior Amanda Nygren of New Hartford, CT, who placed 1st and 3rd in
Intermediate Horsemanship. Amanda added to her ribbons from her 4th
place showing at the UMASS show on November 12th.
This is encouraging for everyone involved with the team, including
instructor, Post University alumna Dawne Wilson, who mounts the
riders for team practice at her Colonial Hill Quarter Horses barn in
Portland, CT.
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50th annual John Hervey Awards
for excellence in harness
racing journalism winners |
Freehold, NJ --- Darryl Kaplan, writing for Sportsnet
magazine, and Melissa Keith, writing for Atlantic Post Calls, were
named winners in the 50th annual John Hervey Awards for excellence in
harness racing journalism, the U.S. Harness Writers Association
announced today.
Kaplan was honored in the feature writing category for
his piece titled “Win or Die Trying,” which was published
in Sportsnet magazine on Oct. 31, 2011. Keith was recognized in the
news/commentary category for her story titled “HPI: The Future
of Live Racing?” in the March 18, 2011 edition of Atlantic Post
Calls.
The contest was sponsored by harness racing executive
Jeff Gural.
Kaplan’s feature told the story of veteran driver
Roger Hamm’s brush with death on the racetrack and his eventual
return to the winner’s circle.
“Roger Hamm’s quote said it all: ‘If
they want me to stop racing, I’ll have to die on the track.’
Well, that’s almost what happened one night in Canada as he
collapsed in the sulky, nearly dead but still, somehow, driving to
the finish line behind an 11-year-old mare,” judge John Quinn
said. “And all he could think about was that they didn’t
cut open his driving suit to save him because ‘these things
aren’t cheap.’ It is a great tale told with style, grace
and nuance, as well as great reporting and attention to detail
without overdramatizing the event.”
Receiving honorable mentions were Rob
Longley’s story “Why I Left (And Why I’m Coming
Back),” which appeared in the September 2011 issue of Trot
magazine, and Perry Lefko’s piece “The Four Billion Dollar
Man,” which appeared in the March 2011 edition of Trot magazine.
Of Longley’s story, Quinn said: “Steve
Condren is a legend and a 2011 Hall of Fame inductee, but his biggest
moment came when he fought cancer and won. The story chronicles his
journey. The words paint the picture of the man, especially in the
lead where he “looks so calm in the race bike that you might
wonder if he has a pulse, nevermind a fighter’s punch.”
Longley won last
year’s Hervey Award for feature writing.
About Lefko’s story, Quinn said: “Dana
Parham is a big-time bettor, one who does it for a living, and even
formed his own company. This feature gives you an interesting look
inside the game, behind the scenes of a part of the sport that is not
well known, with great quotes and insight.”
Feature writing judge John Quinn is the sports
editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and a longtime follower of
harness racing. He also is a volunteer instructor for the U.S.
Harness Writers Association’s annual Clyde Hirt Sports
Journalism Workshop for college students, held in conjunction with
the Hambletonian.
Keith’s story examined online wagering
sites, such as HorsePlayer Interactive, and how they affect
racetracks. Keith received honorable mention in last year’s
contest.
“This is a thoughtful, well-presented piece
that deals with a question on everyone’s mind: are services like
HPI siphoning dollars away from small-track betting pools – or
are they the solution in an increasingly challenged environment?”
judge Maryjean Wall said. “This article addresses the dilemma
facing small tracks: the small pools that characterize wagering at
these venues discourage wagering from those who could help grow these
venues. Would an on-line presence become their new lifeblood, or
merely another form of competition?”
Honorable mention in the news/commentary division was
awarded to Bill Heller’s “In the Eye of the Storm,”
which appeared in the Nov. 17, 2011 issue of Canadian Sportsman
magazine and reported on the absence of several top drivers and
trainers at the Breeders Crown because of a snowstorm.
“This story details some fascinating
background on why 37 driver changes occurred on the sport’s
championship night,” Wall said.
News/commentary judge Maryjean Wall, Ph.D., was a
three-time Hervey Award winner while working as the horse racing
writer for the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader for 35 years. She is
author of How Kentucky Became Southern: a Tale of Outlaws, Horse
Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders (University Press of Kentucky, 2010).
Kaplan and Keith will be honored at USHWA’s
annual Dan Patch Awards dinner, to be held Feb. 12, at the DoubleTree
Hilton at SeaWorld of Orlando.
For tickets to attend the banquet contact Steve Wolf
at stevejw@bellsouth.net; to take out a congratulatory ad in the
Dinner Journal, contact Kim Rinker at trotrink@aol.com.
Discounted room rates, available until Jan. 16, at the
DoubleTree can be made by calling (800) 327-0363.
Winners in the broadcast category will be announced
Thursday and photography on Friday.
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