28/ JUNE/JULY 2011 THE RIDER INSIDE


AQHA Director’s Report .........28 Rianna Storey.........................28 OQHA Queen.........................28 AQHA News..........................28 OQHA News..........................29 OQHBF Slots .........................29 AREA 3 News........................30


AQHA Pilot Rookie Show.....30 Quarter Horse Events.............30 EOQHA News........................31 Skills Development................31 QROOI News.........................32 Four Days In July...................32 AQHA Convention ................33


The Canadian Quarter Horse Association is an affiliate of the AQHA. Annual membership is free to current members of AQHA. To enroll on-line, visit the CQHA web site: www.cqha.ca, and choose


“Membership” section. Choose “Affiliates” to link to provincial Quarter Horse & Racing Association sites. Contact: Marnie Somers, President (204) 834-2479 or email: marnie@horsescoops.com


AQHA Director’s Report From Kathy Patterson.


I would like to begin by saying how truly honoured I was to be named the new AQHA Director from Ontario at this year’s AQHA Convention and to thank the many people who supported me with letters of recommendation and kind words and best wishes upon my appointment.


Also, I have been reappointed to sit on the AQHA Youth Committee, until 2014, an assignment that fits nicely with my cur- rent position as OQHA’s Youth Advisor. AQHA is working very hard to offer classes that will appeal to newer, less expe- rienced exhibitors, allowing them to partici- pate in AQHA shows while competing with their peers.


A new initiative in this direction is the trial run of Rookie Classes. It’s exciting that the Eastern Ontario Quarter Horse Association has been chosen to produce the only Canadian Rookie Show. It will be held on Wed. July 27th at the Carp Fair- grounds in Carp, Ontario.


Basically put, a Rookie is a horse and


exhibitor combo that hasn’t earned 10 AQHA points in the class in which they are competing. All information is available by going to the OQHA website.


You must be an AQHA member to compete and if you haven’t been an AQHA member for the past three years, the Associ- ation is offering Rookie competitors a free 90 day trial membership. Just fill out the novice application and bring it to the show. AQHA Professional Horsemen will be on hand offering informative clinics and advice throughout the show day, so come on out and experience the fun of an AQHA Show first hand.


Equine Research is of great concern to AQHA and recently nine equine research projects were approved for funding, by the American Quarter Horse Foundation, to investigate infectious diseases, metabolic syndrome, genetics/reproduction and mus- culoskeletal, cardiovascular/respiratory and immunological conditions in our horse. Data gathered from this and all research is essential to our horse owners


Congratulations to


Rianna Storey


Rianna Storey of Cambridge, Ontario earned an AQHA Supreme Championship in 2010. The honor is awarded in the amateur and youth division to the exhibitor/horse combination that earned 50 points in recognized.


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IMA RAVEN STAR, 3515156, blk.m. 96 by The Next Star; exhibited by Rianna Storey, Cambridge, Ontario; bred by Paula Cramer Ross, London, Ontario.


and will help veterinarians better diagnose and treat conditions associated with colic, strangles etc. and can lead to improved test- ing methods or even vaccines for diseases. Donations to the Foundation help pro- vide continued research that is vital to the future of our industry.


The Standing Committee Reports have been approved and are now available to the general public on the AQHA website. As you may know, each committee meets at the Convention and prepares a report to be presented at the General Meeting. Follow- ing that, the staff cost out and


investigate the possibilities of implementing the reports and all information is then pre- sented to the AQHA Executive Committee for approval. The Reports are the results of much hard work at all levels of our Associ- ation and contain all the rule changes that will, in most cases, be included in the 2012 Rule Book.


I’d like to thank Barry Finn and The Rider for their continued support of the Quarter Horse Industry and for allowing me


Jenna Woodley New OHA Queen


this forum to pass on information regarding the AQHA to The Rider’s large readership. A spe- cial thank you also to Lynda Har- rison-Sisson for her writing exper- tise and assistance in bringing these articles to you.


If I can be of any assistance, please contact me at: Phone: (519) 345-2861, Fax: (519) 345-2742 or by e-mail at: tbrkathy@hsfx.ca.


AQHA New Exhibitor Recognition


The American Quarter Horse Journal — The American Quarter Horse Association will be recog- nizing a new level of exhibitors at four of its world championship shows this year.


At the 2011 Built Ford Tough AQHYA, Adequan Select, Bank of America Amateur and Fedex Open world championship shows, AQHA will recognize the top three Intermediate exhibitors in each youth, amateur, Select and open class.


“This is a great way to intro- duce some of the show or compe- tition-leveling concepts that AQHA has been exploring over the last couple of years,” said AQHA President Peter J. Cofrancesco III. “Recognizing the Intermediate exhibitor is a way to shine the spotlight on exhibitors who have worked hard to qualify for our world shows and are tough competitors at our world shows year after year, but don’t make it into the top 10.”


An Intermediate exhibitor at the AQHA world shows is defined as follows:


2011 OQHA Queen - Miss Jenna Woodley. Photo by River Bend Design - http://www.riverbenddesigns.org


An exhibitor who has never been in the top 10 at a world show in the particular class in which they are competing. Halter classes (including performance halter) will be all-inclusive, meaning any top-10 placing in halter, regard- less of sex division (ex. a top-10 finisher in 3-year-old geldings is not considered an Intermediate exhibitor in any halter class even though he/she might have placed outside of the top 10 in a different halter class). Open performance classes will be the same. For example, AQHA will not separate junior reining from senior reining, or junior western pleasure from senior western pleasure, for pur- poses of determining if an


exhibitor is an Intermediate. How- ever, AQHA will recognize the Intermediate exhibitors in each of the junior and senior open class- es.)


Intermediate will run as classes within classes, not sepa- rate. AQHA will not bring back the top Intermediate riders for a ride-off or in a separate class. Intermediate exhibitor status is based only on an exhibitor’s life- time, combined world show record, not on the number of points he/she has accumulated. An exhibitor does not have to make it to the finals of his/her class to be considered for an Inter- mediate award.


There is no entry fee or nom- ination procedure for an exhibitor to be considered for an Intermedi- ate award.


The awards will be called the AQHA Intermediate champion, AQHA Intermediate reserve champion and the AQHA Inter- mediate third place. Intermediate accomplishments also will appear on the exhibitor’s and horse’s AQHA official record.


The Intermediate exhibitor recognition package will include an 8-inch clear globe for first place and 6-inch clear globes for second and third place. Each Intermediate champion will also receive a specially designed patch that can be placed on a qualifiers jacket that can be purchased by the exhibitor. The top three Inter- mediate exhibitors will also have the option to purchase a champi- onship buckle.


AQHA news and informa- tion is a service of AQHA publi- cations. For more information on The American Quarter Horse Journal or America’s Horse, visit AQHA Publications.


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