10/ MARCH/APRIL 2011 THE RIDER VISIT OUR WEBSITE
www.orha.on.ca
Ontario Reining Horse Association Treasurer
2011 Board of Directors President
Carol Ivey - 705-686-3074 email:
president@orha.on.ca
1st Vice-President Mike Munroe
2nd Vice-President John Purdie
Michelle Mahabir
Secretary Linda Barnes
Youth President Darby Mailhot
2010 Directors Julie Bacon Tom Cudahy Joanne Milton John Purdie Art Roberts Ken Van Alstine
President’s Message
Our Annual General Meeting on February 13th was very well attended, and it is great to see so many members take an active interest in how their Association is being run Reiny Season Clinic, featuring Bill Rinzema as the clinician, scheduled etc..
At the meeting, a new Green As Grass Wel- come class was announced, where riders can come out and try reining without having to take out an ORHA membership to do so. We encourage you to bring a friend out to try this class and enjoy our great sport.
And on the topic of new reiners, Board mem- ber Art Roberts unveiled our New Member Orien- tation Package. We are very proud of this publica- tion, which includes detailed information about reining, the classes, your Board of Directors, show tips and so on. It is something I am sure even sea- soned reiners will enjoy reading. Copies will be available at the shows, but it is also on our website at
www.orha.on.ca and I encourage you to take a look at it.
Many of you may already know that any paid- Youth Association
The ORHA youth (ORHyA) is a sub-group of the ORHA, made up of members under the age of 19. Our goal is to have fun doing something that we each share a love for, and to support each other. We have our own President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, and the ORHA appoints an adult member as the Youth Advisor, to support and guide the ORHyA Committee, and to approve its activities. This year, we have two Youth Advi- sors, Dana Mailhot and Carol Ivey.
We have regular meetings at the shows, where we plan fundraising events for the year, the pro- ceeds of which go toward a year-end award for every member of the ORHyA. Every youth that shows at a minimum of 50% of the shows, or is
involved in the ORHyA on an active basis, is enti- tled to a year end award, which is presented at the ORHA year-end banquet. The ORHyA selects and votes on its choice of award each year. This year we also plan to do more things in the spirit of fun and friendship, and there are big plans in the making for a fantastic year filled with riding, socialising and the making of memories that will be forever. This year I am looking forward to see- ing new faces, helping the youth grow, and making friendships that could last a lifetime.
Darby Mailhot, President, ORHyA
NRHA Alert and Update
Please verify that you have received and sub- mitted your 2011 NRHA renewal form before the first show, and that you have declared ORHA as your Affiliate Designation for 2011. The Member- ship Form can be downloaded from the NRHA website under “NRHA,” “Forms and Documents,”
and the Affiliate Designation Form is under the “Affiliates” tab.
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NRHA also has a new pattern and new non-pro definitions, so please make sure you check out the 2011 NRHA Rule Book
www.nrha.com/forms/2011/patternbook.pdf
Rule Changes
1. Effective this year, a member may only be eligi- ble to win an ORHA year end award (Champion or Reserve) if he or she has volunteered a minimum of two hours in service to the ORHA. This service can be time served on a committee, writing articles for the Slider, helping in the Show Office, manning the gate, scribing and so on. An alternate may be assigned to complete the service
on a member’s behalf. completed.
The time is to be logged at the show office once
2. GREEN HORSE RULE CHANGE A horse may now be shown in Green Horse for TWO years, provided it has not been shown in any other class in a previous year.
up member of the ORHA will now automatically also be a member of Reining Canada, and there will be no RC membership fee, so this is very exciting. Unless you tick the box on your ORHA membership form to indicate otherwise, your name will be submitted to RC for this membership and any attached benefits that offers.
And on the topic of RC, if you won a RC year-end award last year and were not at the AGM to pick it up, please contact Lee Foster at leefos-
ter_50@hotmail.com or 519-538-7939 to arrange to get it. The jackets are absolutely gorgeous this year.
The first official reining event of the year will be Joanne Milton’s annual Reiny Season Clinic on April 30/May 1, featuring Bill Rinzema as this year's clinician. This is an ORHA fundraiser, so I encourage you to participate if you can. And after that, we’ll be riding and sliding at Fletchers the first weekend of May, and I look forward to seeing you all there.
Stay warm and safe. Carol
Reining Canada Beginner
Four of our members earned Top Ten spots in the Reining Canada Begin- ner Class in 2010, with one of them, Michelle Mahabir, making Champion:
1st - Michelle Mahabir and A Skirt Chaser 3rd - Nancy Marian and Mr Jac Fox 5th - Sarah Learn and Mifs My Dad 8th - Liz Turnbull and Sabers Roan Gal
Introducing Our New Welcome Class
We encourage any rider interested in trying reining to come out to one of our shows and ride in our new Green As Grass Welcome class, where you can try out reining without having to take out an O.R.H.A. membership to do so. Since you also do not need to own the horse for this class, maybe you can talk one of our members into lending you a trained reiner to ride! Come on out and see what this exciting and fast growing sport is all about and what a great group of people Ontario reiners are. For more information, please contact
president@orha.on.ca.
ORHA 2011 Calendar of Events
(Please note that all shows are tentative until marked Confirmed)
Mar. 26 - OBBO Trots for Slots Fundraiser, Flamborough Downs Apr 30-May 1 - Prepare for the Reiny Season Clinic, Rustic Mead- ows, Hillsburgh, Ont. Contact Joanne Milton 519-855-6865 info@rus-
ticmeadows.com May 7-8 - Spring Thaw, Waterford, Ont.
Contact Fletchers’ Horse-
world 519-443-7333
johnfletcher@sympatico.ca **Affiliate Qualifier Saturday May 7 June 18-19 - Kemptville Slide, Kemptville, Ont. Contact Maureen Venables 1-800-585-1784
mvenable@kemptvillec.uoguelph.ca **Affiliate Qualifier Sunday Jun 19 July 16 - Spirit Of Excellence, Meaford, Ont. Contact Ron Lubinski 519-538-0510
ynotfarms@ynotfarms.ca **Affiliate Qualifier Satur- day July 16 July 29-31 - Canadian Reining Classic, Waterford, Ont.
Contact
Fletchers’ Horseworld , 519-443-7333
johnfletcher@sympatico.ca **Affiliate Qualifier Sunday July 31 Aug 12-14 - Spooks Gotta Gun & Sired Stakes Derby, TBA, Contact Dana Van Alstine, 905-384-2008,
www.vanalstinereininghorses.com **Affiliate Qualifier Saturday Aug 13 Aug 27-28 - Knowlton Ridge, Powassan, Ont. **Affiliate Qualifier Sunday Aug 28 Sept 12-15 - OBBO, Western Fair Agriplex, London, Ont.
Contact
Harvey Sevens 705-639-5767
reinersrus@sympatico.ca Sept 23-25 - NRHA Affiliate Finals, Blainville, QC Oct 1-2 - Grand Finale & Sired Stakes Futurity, Western Fair Agriplex, London, Ont. Contact Mike Munroe 519-938-0620
mmunroe@rjburnside.com Oct 7-30 - American Quarter Horse Congress, Columbus, Ohio
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