OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2012 THE RIDER /73 Sarah Bradley Reappointed as Interim Chair for Dressage Canada
Ottawa, ON, October 10, 2012 - Dressage Canada is pleased to announce that, at the request of the Dressage Canada Board, Sarah Bradley has been reap- pointed as the Chair of the Dres- sage Canada Board (DCB) by the Sport Council Working Group. Bradley, of Roberts Creek, British Columbia, has been named as Chair until January 1, 2014. Bradley was first appoint- ed Interim Chair in April 2012. Options for filling the Chair posi- tion for 2014 and beyond will be discussed at the Dressage Canada Board meeting in November. Decisions related to this will be announced after this meeting. “I am thrilled to be able to continue working with the keen, dedicated group of current DCB members,” said Bradley. “I am
Bradley brings a wealth of experience to the position. In recent years, she has served as a Director on the Equine Canada Board, President of Horse Coun- cil BC, President of Horse Trials BC and Chair of Equine Canada Provinces Council. She is cur- rently Chair of Equine Canada’s Bylaws and Governance Com- mittee, which is undertaking a review of Equine Canada’s bylaws.
honoured to be asked to continue as Chair, and look forward to the next 16 months.”
tees.
2013 Dressage Canada Board Wendy Christoff - Chair, Coach- ing Committee
Joanna Crilly - Chair, Rules Committee
MH Lessard - Chair, Competi- tions Committee
Joan Macartney - Chair, Officials Committee
Chris Von Martels - Athlete Council Representative
As of January 2013, Dres- sage Canada will enact its new governance system, a transition that began in early 2011, and will result in the Dressage Canada Board being wholly populated by the chairs of its various commit-
Kristy Nahirniak - Chair, Devel- opment Committee
Gina Smith - Chair, High Perfor- mance Committee
Henna Hussain - Chair, Youth High Performance Committee Michael Horgan - Chair, Finance and Fundraising Committee
Confusion reins as Canadian slaughter plants halt import of US horses
Market for Butchered American Horses is Slaughtered
“Shove THAT in your pipe and smoke it, ‘Slaughterhouse’ Sue Wallis”
Chicago (EWA) – US horses are no longer being accepted by Canadianhorse slaughter plants, according to multiple sources. The Shipshewanaauction in Indi- ana confirmed reports that they have discontinued loose (slaugh- ter) horse sales for an indefinite period of time.
at least one driver stated that he did deliver horses to an undis- closed plant Friday afternoon. The move came so sudden- ly that many trucks were already on the way when they learned of it. According to Lambright the issue is that theEuropean Union (EU) has banned American horse meat from being shipped for consumption in Europe. The EWA has yet to receive confir- mation from the EU.
A spokesperson for the Sugar Creek auction in Ohio also confirmed that the kill buyers were no longer taking slaughter horses because “the plants are shut down”. This was further confirmed by a Richelieu slaugh- ter house official. An uncon- firmed report by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) indicated it was the result of an EU directive.
Canadian customs officials, however, knew nothing of the action. To add to the confusion,
drawn from as many as half their horses (an unprecedented per- centage) before they were being accepted.
Since most of the meat from both the Canadian and Mexican plants is being con- sumed by the EU, it is reported but not confirmed that Mexico too will curtail imports of US horses.
Following the closure of US based horse slaughter plants in 2007, the export of horses to slaughter in Canada and Mexico increased dramatically. In 2011 the US exported over 64,000 horses to Canada and 68,000 to Mexico for slaughter.
Nancy MacLachlan- Athlete Council Representative
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Call for Nominations-Equine Canada Director-at-Large Election for 2013
October 16, 2012, Ottawa, ON- Equine Canada is a non-profit organization, committed to rep- resent, promote and develop a unified and diverse Canadian equine community.
Each year Equine Cana- da’s Nominations Committee has the responsibility of pre- senting a slate of candidates to the membership for the elec- tion of a Director-at-large. The Committee is composed of a Chair who is appointed by the Board of Directors, and repre- sentatives from each of the four Equine Canada division councils.
The Nominations Com- mittee is seeking candidates who possess passion and drive to work with other committed volunteer board members to build and enhance equine activities (sport, industry and
Documents showing horse meat contaminated with phenylbutazone (a carcinogen) and clenbuterol (a steroid) had recently surfaced, indicating that the CFIA and the EU were both accelerating their residue testing programs. These reports were followed by claims from some kill buyers that blood was being
In 2008, the EU announced that it would require third coun- tries to come into compliance with their standards which require horses to be micro- chipped and all their medications tracked, but few observers expected any action would come before the expiration of a July, 2013 deadline.
The most likely explanation for the sudden move is that the expanded residue testing pro- gram has yielded worse than anticipated results.
Press Release from Equine Wel- fare Alliance and the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition
Merton Bud Hanson inducted into South Stormont Sports Hall of Fame
www.southstormont.ca/halloffame/12-06.html
The late Merton Bud Hanson was inducted into the South Stormont Sports Hall of Fame on September 22, 2012 at the South Stormont Town- ship Community Centre in Long Sault, Ontario, Canada for his contributions as an athlete and builder.
Hanson was one of 8 new members to enter the Hall of Fame for the class of 2012 during an induction ceremony that takes place every two years. He was inducted into the Cornwall Sports Hall of Fame in August 2012, and the Hall of Fame of the American Morgan Horse Association shortly after his death in November 2009. In the American Morgan Horse Association, Bud served as a member of the Board of Directors and By Laws committee, and chairman of the Open Competition Awards Program. He was a member of the show committee of the 1977 Grand National & World Championship Morgan Horse Show. In Equine Canada, he was a member of the Board of Directors and chairman of the Morgan Horse rules committee. In the Canadian Morgan Horse Association, he served as President, and chairman of both the Horse Show Committee and national Zonal High Score Award System which he and his son Calvin founded. Bud was also the Morgan Horse breed director to the Canadian Livestock Records Corporation.
Hanson bred champion Morgan horses for four decades at his Big Oak Morgan Horse Farm in Lunenburg, Ontario. Offspring from the farm won championships and/or produced champions at the
Equine Canada wishes to recruit and develop directors who bring a range of needed professional skills, back- ground, and diversity that is reflective of the community it serves. Knowledge in equine activities and strategic exper- tise in various aspects of non- profit governance is deemed an asset. Functioning on the Board requires logical, innova- tive, forward thinking individu- als able to work well in a team. Application Packages for the Director-at-Large election are available on Equine Cana- da’s website. Nominees, nomi- nators and seconders must all be Equine Canada Individual
recreation) in Canada on our Policy Governance Board. The Board of Directors meets twice a year face-to-face and month- ly via conference calls.
Members in good standing. Any Equine Canada Indi- vidual Member in good stand- ing as per Equine Canada bylaws (18 years of age or over in the year of election) on or before October 30 shall be eli- gible to cast one vote for the Director-at-Large. Election will start on Friday December 14, 2012 and will close on Thursday January 10, 2013. Results of the election will be announced at the 2013 Equine Canada General Meeting. We invite interested can- didates to explore the opportu- nity further by visiting Equine Canada’s website at
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Niagara’s “Double Whammy” clinic September 22, 2012
On a rainy and somewhat miserable Saturday morning I had the privilege of watching a unique and very relevant clinic format for the rider of any dis- cipline who’s constantly seek- ing to learn and improve. Hosted by George Tirp- ko, at Rivendell Arabians in Pt. Colborne, this clinic was dif- ferent; featuring the coaching duo of Linda Reavely & Janet Henderson; Dressage Niagara competitors, and multi-disci- plined coaches, plus three local riders with three very different horses. Riders faced off with the two coaches, who if com- bined have most likely taught most of the Region’s riders over the years of their varied careers, and experienced many of the various types of “dres- sage” horses. In these days of belt tightening, and cost cut- ting, where clinics with BNT (big name trainers), aka George Morris or Stephen Clarke, we’d pay upwards of $200 to ride, or $75 to audit, but we already have the knowl- edge, and the experience right here in Niagara Region and it was freely shared at this clinic. The first horse & rider combo was George and Juman- ji; a 20yr old TB and former racehorse. Over the past two years George has been working
world, Grand National, international, regional, state, and provincial levels.
Playing center position in basketball, Bud and his team won the New Brunswick Inter- scholastic Basketball Championship for the Wood- stock New Brunswick High School in 1940. In 1941, Bud was team captain. At the University of New Brunswick, he was a Letter Winner in the sport of basketball in his sophomore year (1946), and in 1947 Bud and his team won the Maritime Intercollegiate Senior Varsity Basketball Champi- onship. In his graduation year 1949, he played for the famed UNB Senior Civils basketball and bowl- ing teams. He was also Manager of the Sports Committee, and Student Council representative.
not only on physical training with correct dressage, but also in rehabilitating Jumanji emo- tionally. Linda asked George to try out a few of her favourite exercises for the development of through-ness, using suppling movements such as leg yield- ing walk to trot, & shoulder-in to medium trot. The important message for Jumanji was to keep the relaxation in her work.
Second Rider was Linsey riding her feisty 7yr old Mus- tang Nick. Linsey and Nick compete at jumping and dres- sage. Janet and Linda worked together on the idea of leg yielding without slowing down - and actually activating his hind legs into a quicker tempo to teach him to push from the hind legs, rather than pull with the front legs. Linsey wanted to know how to make him more sensitive to the “go for- ward” aids and the coaches and auditors engaged in a discus- sion about teaching work ethic to a horse and bringing along a “willing partner”.
The third Rider was Sher- ry on her stunning 8 year old Canadian horse Radar in West- ern Tack. Relatively new to Western Dressage, Sherry is previously a Reiner, and so having Radar relax over his
back, and reach for the bit was a suggestion for them. They worked on position corrections, and having Sherry sit deep in the western saddle and drape her whole body into Radar’s back “like molasses”. Sherry is working on quiet, consistent steady rhythm at each gait, as well as response to the leg aids. Similar exercises of leg yield and then going forward at the moment he recognized the aid and responded by stepping sideways. Janet pointed out that in training; the horse’s moment of learning is not in the application of the aid, but in the release of the aid. A little insight was gained from each ride, and auditors were able to apply the lesson to their own horses and experiences, by watching and asking questions in this totally open format.
There were 18 auditors at the clinic, and the feedback and enthusiasm for this format was overwhelming. At least 4 peo- ple asked if we would please do this again, and if they could ride the next time. Feedback comments included apprecia- tion for the welcoming atmo- sphere and sense of cama- raderie. We do hope to repeat this clinic format and welcome riders of all disciplines.
Lindsey & Nick
Sherry & Radar
George & Jumanji
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