10/ JANUARY 2013 THE RIDER


President – Lindsey Farrell-Johnson, Vice President – Becky Riley, Treasurer – Louise Harris,


Judges Committee – Don Stauffer, Director – Melissa Kerwin, Director – Brenda Thompson,


Sponsors


Mike Tucker, WHAO Sr. Judge Norfolk Saddle Club Suzanne Hardcastle Fred Walter Five Star Ranch Sarah Cookson Herb & Jean Towers


Founding member of the WHAO and retired WHA Sr. Judge


Pleasant Ridge Saddlery Fletchers Horse World Park Farrier Service Faydon Farms Brant County Ford Serge's Tack Shop Melanie Gray Jamie Kuhl


L Walter & Sons Excavating Tim’s Tire Bill Stirling


2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS spur_me@hotmail.com


b_riley@hotmail.com harrislouise@yahoo.com


905-929-3388 519-740-9015 519-443-7080


thestauffers48@gmail.com 519-323-2727 farwinfarms@hotmail.com bmctearnen@yahoo.


519-884-4050


Celebrating 60 Years!


Website: www.whao.org Corral Chatter


Happy New Year! Hello and welcome to 2013. Hopefully everyone had a great holiday season and was able to spend some time with family. The new year always brings with it a promise of new beginnings and new dreams. But we will get back to that in a minute. I’d like to intro- duce myself to those of you that don’t know me and send out a warm hello to those I haven’t seen in a while. If we haven’t met before, let me tell you a bit about myself…. We got our first horse when I was three and my sister and I were hooked. Within a year of having ‘Amigo’ mom and dad thought it would be fun to take us to our first horse show. A lovely gentleman by the name of Peter Emick was the judge that day and when we went into the line- up in our Leadline class he asked me how long I had been riding. According to my mom my response was ’All my life!’ Little did my parents know they had start- ed my sister and I on a life- long passion for showing horses.


W.H.A.O.


POINT AWARD SHOWS Aug 25-26 - Trout Creek Fall Fair


Sept 2 - Orangeville Fall Fair (t) Sept 9 - Lincoln County Fair Sept 16 - Niagara Regional Exhibition Sept 22 - Ancaster Fall Fair Oct 7 - Norfolk County Fair Oct 8 - Burford Fall Fair


2013 Sr. Judges Todd Bailey


11842 Ridge Line, Ridgetown, ON N0P 2C0 (519) 674-5312


Email: Peggytoddbailey@rogers.com Scott Carmichael


411 Autumn Cres., Welland, ON L3C 7K1 (905) 687-3023


scott_carmichael@hotmail.com Joe Carter


R.R.#2, St. George, ON N0E 1N0 (519) 448-1127


Peter Emick


R.R.#8, 400 Weir Rd., Brantford, ON N3T 5M1 (519) 647-3369


Melanie Gray


R.R.#4, Owen Sound, ON N4K 5N6 (519) 372-2527


Melodyacres@BMTS.com Lindsey Grice


Orangeville, ON L9W 5G1 (519) 938-8815


120 Fieldcrest Ave., Courtice, ON L1E 2Z1


E-Mail: lindsay@lgrice.com Shari Irwin


(905) 434-5940, Cell (905) 440-5941 shari_irwin@hotmail.com


As children, some of our fondest memories were spent with our two ponies Vicky and Pippin showing at Dry Lake Saddle Club. When we moved up to horses we continued show- ing at local clubs and also decided to try our luck on the WHAO and OQHA cir- cuits. As you can imagine, this involved a lot of dedi- cation not only from us but from our parents as well. See, the problem is you


Esther Johnston


Box 46, 297 Cranberry Lake Rd., Grafton, ON K0K 2G0 905-349-2681


Anne Marinacci 65 Swayze Court, Smithville, ON L0R 2A0 905-957-5619


Janet McClure RR #3, 14156 Ten Mile Rd. Ilderton, ON N0M 2A0 (519) 666-2482


email: coachejohnston@gmail.com


can’t just hitch a ride to the horse shows and expect everything to go well. It’s not just the horse shows that require dedication, it is the long hours of driving back and forth to riding lessons, the racing from fabric store to fabric store to find THE PERFECT shade of blue for that show shirt, the tack shops, feed mills, the lack of sleep due to early morning horse shows, not to mention the costs of these endeavours. And we haven’t even talked about all the daily tasks they all had to finish, just so we could have the opportu- nity to own our dear horses. We developed a strong bond between our horses and ourselves and it wasn’t due to the ribbons we received at the shows, it was due to the dedication that we had. When we were at a horse show it was always a gathering of friends, new and old. We had triumphs and defeats, successes and failures, but with the strong support and dedication our parents gave us we all had a great time. We were part of a gen- eration when the youth classes outnumbered the open classes and the hardest competition was usually your best friend. Because of showing, we learned humility, respect, compas- sion and responsibility. The friends we made through showing are life- long, dedicated individuals who share the same inter- ests and qualities that we do. The love and bond that we developed with our


Sue Robinson


R.R.#2, Kincardine, ON N2Z 2X4 (519) 396-8155, Cell (519) 386-2040 email: sdrob@bmts.com


Tom Saul


4897 Shiloh Line, RR #1, Petrolia, ON N0N 1R0 (519) 882-0958


e: tbsaul@ciaccess.com email: janetmcclure1@gmail.com


Brenda McTearnen-Thompson 284 Whitmore Dr., Waterloo, ON N2K 2N5 Home: (519) 884-4050 bmctearnen@yahoo.ca


Paul Mitchell


43969 Hwy 3, Box 240, RR #1, Wainfleet, ON L0S 1V0 (905) 899-6228


From Nov. - March: (956) 519-8966 Kathryn Powers


91 Croydon Drive, St. Catharines, ON (905) 646-8768


email: silknblues@yahoo.com Penny Ransom


29 Huyck Dr., Arnprior, ON K5S 3W7 (613) 622-1707


E: pen-ran2000@yahoo.com


James Simpson 376 Maltby Rd. E., Guelph, ON N1L 1G4 (519) 821-2425


Kris Simpson 376 Maltby Rd. E., Guelph, ON N1L 1G4 (519) 821-2425


horses is due to the dedica- tion of our parents.


In the past few years, we have seen a decrease in the numbers at our WHAO shows, which seems to be a trend with many local asso- ciations and we have been trying to figure out the cause of this. Is it the cost of fuel? The cost of owning a horse? The vehicles required to go to those shows? The cost of train- ing the horse? The cost of showing itself? The classes offered? Are people losing interest? No matter how hard we try, we cannot determine the reason why there are less entries at the shows than there were in the past. Unfortunately we cannot decrease the cost of fuel, or owning a horse, or any of the other costs asso- ciated with our beloved past time but we can encourage new and old members to come out and try a few new classes. We made the deci- sion at our Annual General Meeting that we would remove Youth Hunter Under Saddle and Youth Dash for Cash from our mandatory classes and would exchange them for two classes that might encourage a few new entries. We will now be offering 13 & over Walk Jog and 13 & over Walk Jog Horsemanship at each of our shows. You may ask why we would take out classes that are usually stan- dard at most shows. Well we have seen a decrease in the entries for these youth classes in the past few years and if there are youth that


Cambridge, On N1R 4T7 (519) 624-1592


e: gatorrocks@hotmail.com James Teed


5982 Little River Rd., RR#3, Oxford, NS (902) 447-2285


email: dreamcreek@yahoo.com


Mike Tucker RR #4, 1581 Maple St N., Fenwick, ON L0S 1C0 (905) 892-5610


richlandshowhorses@sympatico.ca John Ward


R.R.#4, 5190 Line 13, Harriston, ON N0G 1Z0 (519) 327-4541


e: richlandshowhorses@sympatico.ca Don Stauffer


9626 Wellington Rd. 14, Box 14, Conn, ON N0G 1N0 Phone 519-323-2727 Cell 519-604-8864


Rick Storey 994 St. Paul’s St.


Robyn Storey 6-120 Dudhope Ave.,


Peterborough, ON K9H 6J6 (705) 876-7303 e: rickstorygmail.com


e: jglassward@wightman.ca Jr. Judges


Megan D’Allaire 2757 Eagle Lake Rd.,


E-Mail: thestauffers48@gmail.com Michelle Jones


537 Porthier Rd., St. Charles, ON P0M 2W0 705-867-1074


Jamie Kuhl


50 Fairglen Ave. Brampton, ON L6X 1K6 905-230-1304 cell 647-290-6093 e: colidakid@rogers.com


www.equineniagaranews.com


Keeping the Niagara Region Horse Industry Informed Since 2008


South River, On P0A 1X0, 705-724-1313 e: megandallaire@gmail.com


want to show they can still enter the corresponding open class. We would like to give an opportunity to those who may or may not have previous show experi- ence to make their own appearance in the show ring. This is an excellent opportunity for those won- derful parents with all the dedication to now focus on their own show career, or maybe newcomers in the show ring altogether. These two classes will be offered as closed classes meaning an entrant will not be able to enter any class other than Showmanship or Halter if offered. Maybe this new beginning will be the start of a new dream for some of our members. We would like to encourage our members to enter these new classes, or maybe bring out a new member to enter? We would love to see some new faces in the ring and hope- fully this will give them a comfortable way to start. We hope that we can help you and your family start this new year with a new dream, maybe enter a new class, show a new horse, encourage a family member to fulfill their dream of showing. This is our new year’s resolution. I would like to have the opportunity to say hello to each of our members, so please come say hello the next time we meet. Last but not least, I would encourage you to say hello to the people around you at the shows you go to. You never know the friendships


Glen Patterson


R.R. #2, 5030 Blackheath Rd.,Binbrook, ON, L0R 1L0 905-692-3748 cell 905-512-5250 e: Zippo5030@aol.com


Tracy Patterson 5030 Blackheath Rd., Binbrook, ON L0R 1C0


905-692-3748 e: Zippo5030@aol.com Kristy Rinzema


2969 Kingsway Dr. Apt. 414 Kitchener, ON N2C 2H7 Phone 519-504-7074


E-Mail rinzema.kristy@gmail.com Inactive Judges


Louise Harris Bruce Ionson


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Attend a Judge’s clinic at Equine Canada


coaches, parents or aspiring judges are invited to attend the General Performance judging clinic Feb. 9, 10 in Ottawa. Workshop will include judg- ing and scoring Reining runs, Hunter rounds, Western Rid- ing patterns, Showmanship, Jumper, Equitation, Western Horsemanship, Pleasure, Trail and Driving classes. A great way to get ready for the show season and for coaches to update their professional development hours.


Clinician - Lindsay Grice is an AQHA Specialized Judge, Equine Canada (EC) Senior Western & General Perfor- mance Judge and Ontario Provincial Hunter/Jumper Judge.


Other clinics include hunter, jumper, course design and EC stewarding.


More info at www.equinecanada.ca


Contact Wendy Gayfer to register. wgayfer@equinecanada.ca


Convention in Feb.! Competitors, trainers,


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