JULY 2020 THE RIDER /21


Ontario Quarter Horse Association Inc. 2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS


President 1st Vice 2nd Vice


Past Pres. Treasurer Sect’y


Area 2 Director


Sherrill Tisdale Klaus Zabel


Andrew Dewar Pete Hammer Carrie Farr* Suzy Glaab Suzy Glaab


oqhasherrill@gmail.com


dewarperformancehores@hotmail.com AQHA Director oqhapete@gmail.com


kzabel@liefmarkinsurance.ca


oqhatreasurer@gmail.com sfarr@hotmail.ca sfarr@hotmail.ca


www.oqha.on.ca • info@oqha.on.ca Affiliate


Area 2 Area 2 Area 3 Area 3


gr.dubiel@gmail.com


Mallory McKewen mallorymckewen@gmail.com Greg Dubiel Corey Taylor


Pat Chamberland pchamberland4@gmail.com Kathy Patterson tbrkathy@hsfx.ca


* Tender Positions If you are interested in joining the board as a director at large please reach out to Sherrill Tisdale at oqhasherrill@gmail.com


Check out our website for the latest OQHA information!


coreyelainetaylor@gmail.com


By Suzanne Farr


tion is saddened to share that the Hot Hot Summer Sizzler scheduled July 18th to August 3rd 2020 has been cancelled. Please keep an eye on their Face- book page for details regarding a virtual clinic with Brian Isbell Garcia. Don’t forget to check out the EOQHA 2nd Annual Online Auction on Face- book.


announced that the 2020 Summer Circuit planned August 14th to 16th 2020 has been cancelled.


Thank you to everyone who participated and spon- sored we had 122 entries overall.


OQHA Virtual Horse Show Series https://oqhavirtualshowseries.com/ The first OQHA virtual show is in the books!


Area 3 Quarter Horse Promotional Club has


tion has cancelled their show originally scheduled for July 16th to 19th 2020. The Eastern Ontario Quarter Horse Associa-


2020 Update on Shows Area 1 Quarter Horse Promotional Associa-


Congratulations to Sarah Donaldson & Crossin The Line winning both the Overall & Amateur Di- visions. Taylor Carney & Sweeterinthemoonlite won both the Novice & Youth Divisions and San- dra Duhamel & Totally Undressed won the Select Division Our Walk- Trot Class had 17 entries! Con- gratulations to our Youth Winner Claire Little with


eryl Chillson & The Petite Secret being the Overall & Amateur Winner and Kamyl Mathieu & Treas- ure My Stars winning both the Youth & Novice Di- visions. Our Horsemanship Class had 39 entries!


The Overall & Amateur division winner was Mal- lory McKewen with OneGoodHotPine. Novice Di- vision winner was Taylor Carney with Sweeterinthemonlite, Youth Division winner was Kamyl Mathieu with Treasure My Stars, Small Fry Division winner was Claire Little with Hope Hes Hot and Select Division winner was Cathy Perron with Lazy Lopin Version. Our equitation class had 25 entries with Sh-


Our showmanship class boasted 41 entries!


Hope Hes Hot and Congratulations to our Adult Winner Chloe Moore with Just An Evening ty.


Overall Show #1 Winners are as follows: Overall & Amateur- Mallory McKewen & One- GoodHotPine Novice- Taylor Carney & Sweeterinthemoonlite Small Fry- Claire Little & Hope Hes Hot Youth – Kamyl Mathieu & Treasure My Stars Select – Sandra Duhamel & Totally Undressed


is to provide a venue for people to compete with their horses from home, but also to provide educa- tional opportunities for our members, participants, and followers to grow and advance with their horses.


will be implementing to promote learning. Our Judge will be providing a breakdown of what they were thinking about the winning run in each class. Score sheets and videos will be posted online to


able “I love how inclusive virtual


shows are. Seeing people who have never shown before, or are showing for the first time is really cool. Also the par- ticipation in the EWD classes that some of the shows offer is absolutely amazing, and inspiring to watch!”


Shauna Zwicker of Shauna Maclean Performance Horses


“We just bought our first house, so


5 Reasons to Participate in Virtual Horse Shows


COVID-19 has been challenging


for everyone, and unfortunately it’s led to the cancellation of many “real” shows. While virtual showing certainly isn’t the same as the real thing, a few of our coaches and exhibitors have uncov- ered some awesome benefits!


1. It’s a chance to perfect your events and step up during the down-time “Clients are working hard in les-


sons and are highly motivated to knock out their personal best pattern. It’s al-


most more of a challenge to be satisfied with less then a “perfect” run when you are on home turf and can redo a video. It has been an interesting learning curve as a coach to figure out the ideal warm up plan and the number of re-takes that are both fair to the horse and maintain the sanity of the rider, coach and video- grapher. It’s quite a bit different than a show where you only get one chance!” Jodi Mallette,


AQHA Professional Horseman “Since I’ve often had green


‘showing not to lose’ instead of ‘show- ing to win’. Virtual shows take away some of the pressure and risk, and I’ve started to ride more aggressively in my patterns and strive for higher scores.” Mallory McKewen, Amateur Exhibitor


It’s flexible “Virtual horse shows are great be-


cause they work with your schedule! No days off work is a bonus!”


Mackenzie Harvey, Amateur Exhibitor Jodi Mallette, horses, I’d found that I’d fallen into Virtual showing is inclusive and afford- AQHA Professional Horseman


I need to be really strict with my budget. While I really miss the social aspect of the real shows, it’s nice to still be able to have the competitive aspect of showing in an affordable way.” Mallory McKewen, Amateur Exhibitor


It’s a chance to try a new event “The benefits of this format are


giving us a great chance to use our time well and develop and hone skills that will see stronger riders when we get back to showing off site. While these virtual shows are catered to scored pat- tern classes, it’s also fun to see riders who may focus mostly on a rail event try something new like horsemanship.”


A normal day at the barn becomes a new challenge “It’s so much fun to have the chal-


lenge of the virtual horse shows. It’s exciting to go to the barn and try to per- fect those horse show patterns again! Thanks OQHA and the Summer Pan- demic series for your hard work!”


Clare Roman, Select Amateur Ex- hibitor


“We are loving the chance to con-


tinue to grow, challenge our skills and step out of our comfort zones - all while remaining in the familiar settings in our barns and following the safety protocols for pandemic compliance set by our governments...The more laid back attire and equipment is also just that perfect balance - enough that you need to come out with intent to show/video that day, but comfortable enough that you can enjoy the experience in a more relaxed manner than an actual show.”


Jodi Mallette,


AQHA Professional Horseman And finally, check out this fun


video of what OQHA member Sandra Continued on Page 22.


Learning Opportunities The mission of OQHA’s Virtual Show Series


use as learning tools


Ranch Riding Challenge OQHA is very excited to announce that we have added a Ranch Riding Challenge to Show #2 in our series running June 27th to July 5th 2020. Our next show in the series will run June


27th to July 5th 2020 and Show #3 will run July 18th to July 26th 2020. For further information re- garding show rules and procedures please check out our virtual show series platform at https://oqhavirtualshowseries.com/ Thank you again to everyone who has par-


We have come up with a few ideas that we https://oqhavirtualshowseries.com/


ticipated and sponsored. We look forward to two more exciting shows in our series. We are offering overall awards at the end of the series and we have also teamed up with the Summer 2020 Virtual Show Series to offer special combined overall On- tario High Point Awards. Our full list of fantastic sponsors can be show platform.


found on our virtual


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