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Annual Service Horse School was a treat to see!


OMSSU


Ancaster, ON - The Ontario Mounted Special Service Unit’s (OMSSU) Annual Service Horse School was held on July 5th – 7th at Ancaster Fairgrounds. The School is the OMSSU’s largest yearly fundraising event. Eighty horses and riders (32 of which were OMSSU members) from across Ontario arrived for a week- end full of drill


2019 was the First Annual Drill Team Competition. Joining us this year were the Silver Stars and the Dressage Divas, who went head to head with the OMSSU Perform- ance Team in three categories: themed ride, performance ride and a quad ride. The Silver Stars shone in the competition coming in first place.


perimeter patrols for large re- stricted access areas; community relations and safety events; private functions; and trail patrol. New to Service Horse School


which was open to the public, was hosted by the OMSSU on Friday evening along with the drawing of winning tickets for a raffle that was held to help raise money to offset the cost for our Signature Drill Team to travel to Kentucky Horse Park, with their horses, for the Mounted Police Colloquium in September. The team was invited to the Colloquium to perform and train with some of the top mounted units from the United States and Canada. Service Horse School 2020


(www.chch.com/ontario-mounted- special-service-unit). A wine and cheese reception,


to shoot four segments of our school including obstacles, the drill team performance and scent detec- tion


with horses CHCH TV attended on Friday


school holds level testing. There are three levels to be completed and OMSSU ambassadors are re- quired to test each year in order to remain an active member. Each level is tougher and requires a higher degree of expertise to ac- complish than the previous one. Our ambassadors train regularly throughout the year in order to be ready for the testing during the school weekend. All ambassadors are required to have completed at least a Level 2 in order to partici- pate in any public events. OMSSU engage in mounted


sensory/despooking, obstacles, eq- uitation, self defense for trail rid- ers, high-lining, camping with your horse and what and how to pack. There were also demonstrations in formation riding, scent detection by horse and grid searches used for search and rescue. For OMSSU members, the


training,


Service Unit is a not-for-profit civil- ian mounted patrol unit made up of volunteers who have been through rigorous training, both themselves and their horses, to ensure that they are ready and capable to be deployed when needed.


will be held July 3rd – 5th, 2020 at Ancaster Fairgrounds. To find out more and to look into registration please contact Director Cindy Fuerth at cfuerth@omssu.ca. The Ontario Mounted Special


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