Western Horse Association of PEI March 2015 Inside this issue: *2015 Event Schedule 1 *Meet the Board *Featured Gold Sponsor 2 *Our Featured Silver Sponsors 3 *Training Tidbits 4-5 *Year End Highlights 6 *Member Rewards Program 7 2015 Shows and Events June 27 & 28— “Slide into Summer” Show WHA & IRHA combined show Crapaud Agriplex July 18 & 19 - “Summer Colors Show” - WHA & Maritime Paint Horse Association combined show Crapaud Agriplex August 23- 3rd Annual “Fun Show” - Venture Stables , Freetown September 19 & 20 -”Fall Heritage Show ” WHA & IRHA combined show Crapaud Agriplex more events and clinics to be determined... The Western Horse Association would again like to thank our past board members, Tina Bernard-Arsenault, Helen Creswell and Jessie Dowe, for there commitment and hard work on the 2014 Board of Directors and with our club. You will surely be missed! A huge thank you goes out to our “new comers” for 2015; Heather Smith, Terry Mutch, Debby MacDougall, Tina Taylor, Betty MacDonald and David Park. And of course a huge thank you to our “seasoned” members; Alison Borghese, Melissa Larter, Kerri Anne Fraser, and Tonia Adams for your continued commitment on the Board of Directors. 2015 Board of Directors Executive Directors President Alison Borghese [email protected] Past President/Youth/IHC Rep Melissa Larter [email protected] Vise President Kerri Anne Fraser [email protected] Board Secretary Betty MacDonald [email protected] Treasurer Debby MacDougall [email protected] Directors at Large Tina Ayers- Taylor Show Secretary [email protected] Tonia Adams Marketing/Fundraising [email protected] Heather Smith [email protected] David Park [email protected] Terry Mutch [email protected] WHA Newsletter Page 2 Our Featured Gold Sponsor Sherwood Styling Salon Sherwood Styling Salon has been open since 1963 in Charlottetown. 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We look to protect our clients’ interests and give the best service, information and expertise to keep our customers satisfied. Call on our Certified Electricians Blake MacKay, Kevin Stewart or Chris Gallant today for all your Electrical needs. We are located at 10 Gerald McCarville Drive, Kensington, PEI or you can call our service line at 902-836-3018. WHA Newsletter Page 4 Training Tid-bits Western Pleasure Calisthenics: Part I These five simple exercises will ensure that your horse is ready for show day. By Tina Kaven in The American Quarter Horse Journal A western pleasure horse must be in top physical shape to compete and win in today’s arenas. But when it comes to conditioning a rail horse, there’s more to it than just walking, jogging and loping. In a way, a show horse is like clay. You keep working and working clay, and eventually it becomes very flat and moldable, and you can make anything you want out of it. But if you set the clay on the counter and let it get cold again, it’s going to get stiff and be hard to shape. What I want with my horses is that warm, soft, moldable piece of clay all the time. I don’t care how finished a horse is or how long he has done western pleasure, he’ll go back to that stiff piece of clay if he’s not worked. He needs calisthenics to keep him supple and allow him to do his job properly. To prepare my western pleasure horses for the show ring, I use five simple exercises to enhance movement, transitions, flexibility and balance. The exercises consist of long trotting, shoulder and hip work, departures and transitions, loping squares and backing up. Warming Up Before I move into the exercises, I warm up the horse by lunging him and riding him lightly. I want to make sure the horse is mentally with me. When I lunge, I do not take the horse out there and just crack the whip and make him run around. I take the horse out, and I try to get a feel for where he is mentally. Is he excited, or is he quiet and ready to work? I don’t want the horse to come out with his tail over his back and run around like crazy on the lunge line. If that’s the case, then I will let him work himself down and maybe tie him up for a little while and let him recoup before I ride him. I don’t like to ride right off a hard lunge, because then the horse is breathing hard and is not really mentally open. When I get on the horse, I walk him around and check his mental capacity again. If he’s pretty quiet, then I’m going to do a little lifting exercise where I see if he is attentive. I will raise the reins and ask him to lift his shoulders, head and neck. Our Silver Sponsors WHA Newsletter Page 5 Training Tid-bits If he answers correctly, then I will ask him to move into a jog and see if he continues to pay attention to me. I will then tap him with my leg and ask him to move his body and see if he answers my cues. I also ask him to move into a lope and check my leg and hand cues again. I will then check my brakes and maybe ask him to yield off my leg. But if I feel he still has too much energy or isn’t paying attention to me, then I would not necessarily drill on the movements and the calisthenics. Instead, I’m going to say, “What do we need to do to get your energy level down? Do you need to get out and play? Do you need to go on the hot walker?” If he is willing and listening to me, answering all my questions correctly, then I move into the calisthenics. Western Pleasure Calisthenics: Part II Learn how to use the long trot and shoulder and hip exercises in your horse’s calisthenics routine. Long Trotting This exercise is a medium working trot with the horse using a full stride. It is more than a jog but isn’t fast. The purpose of this exercise is to emphasize balance, strength, complete extension of the legs and use of the back while keeping it rounded. Although the horse is in a working trot, he is still expected to maintain a proper frame, which is a show-ring frame with the horse’s head and neck as level as possible. One of the most important things when long trotting is that the horse is responsive to my spur, leg and seat cues. So when long trotting, I will check with the horse to see if he is listening to my cues. For example, I might vary by asking him to ease his rhythm down a bit and do a slower extension, and then ask him to speed up to a faster extension. This exercise is a real attention-getter and helps to harness the body and the mind as one. It really emphasizes obedience in a greener horse who is not accustomed to going into a working trot without breaking into a lope or slowing down. This exercise is a way to tell him, “You go the pace I ask you to go. No more. No less.” Shoulder and Hip In this exercise, I focus on a shoulder or hip. I will have him either pivot around or move in any direction I ask. For the shoulder, I will place my outside leg a little forward and ask him to move his shoulder. For the hip, my leg is behind the relaxed leg position. I usually do this exercise with two hands on the reins, and I am typically in the middle of the arena or riding across it diagonally. The purpose of this exercise is making sure the horse is obedient to my legs and my requests. If I find an area of resistance, then I know I need to focus longer on that. ...Stay tuned for Part 3 & 4 in our next newsletter WHA Newsletter Page 6 2014 Year End Highlights High Point Champion and Reserve - 2014 Season Open Halter Champion 385 Jessie Dowe Krymsum In Color Reserve 97 Krista Blackett PF Big League Youth Champion Reserve 117 N/A Katie Bryson Blazing In The Moonlight Novice Youth Champion Reserve 66 91 Karlin Larter Adrianna Groshko Solely For Pleasure Mui Doc Tivito Sharon Churchill Mr Blue Zippo Green Horse/Green Rider Champion 250 Reserve N/A Adult Champion Reserve 13 114 Alison Borghese Anna Bryson Ricochet An Impulsive Creation Novice Champion Reserve 64 122 Amber MacDonald Alyssa Mutch Ziprageous Rebel Ona Lazy Impulse Junior Horse Champion Reserve 385 114 Jessie Dowe Anna Bryson Krymsum In Color An Impulsive Creation Open Champion Reserve N/A N/A The PEI Western Horse Association would like to thank everyone who came out to compete and enjoy our shows in 2014! Congratulations to all Year End Award Winners! All of your hard work and training spent with your horse certainly shows! WHA Newsletter Page 7 New! Member Rewards Program Our Bronze Sponsors Running our WHA shows takes much time and resources, both human and financial ones. In an effort to keep providing these shows for our Island riders , we are asking for support from all of our WHA members, to help obtain sponsorships. Each member that obtains any sponsors falling under any of the sponsorship levels, will be eligible for the following rewards. Our request for sponsorship letter, which explains the different levels of sponsorships and advertising we offer, can be found on the homepage of our website www.peiwesternhorse.com . Platinum Season Sponsor - $ 1000 and above Members will receive a $100 WHA gift certificate redeemable towards any of our WHA Store items, or $100 discount off of one show entry. Gold Sponsor - $400 - $999 Members will receive a $50 WHA gift certificate redeemable towards any of our WHA Store items, or $50 discount off of one show entry. Silver Sponsor - $200 Members will receive a $20 WHA gift certificate redeemable towards any of our WHA Store items, or $20 discount off of one show entry. Bronze Sponsor - $100.00 Members will receive a $10 WHA gift certificate redeemable towards any of our WHA Store items, or $10 discount off of one show entry. Class Sponsor -$50.00 Members will receive a $5 WHA gift certificate redeemable towards any of our WHA Store items, $5 discount off of one show entry, $5 Tim Horton’s card, or one free non-divisional class in one show. Donation of Products or Services Members will receive a gift certificate for 10% of dollar value of product or service obtained for WHA shows or clinics. Records will be kept of members who obtain sponsorships, and members can combine their “member rewards points” . “Lend a helping hand and receive the rewards!” Our Class Sponsors
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