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Ontario Quarter Horse Association Inc. 2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Area 1 Director
President 1st Vice 2nd Vice
Past Pres. Treasurer Sectretary
Shari Irwin
Sandra Duhamel Katie Thompson Sherrill Tisdale Carrie Farr Val Love
shari_irwin@hotmail.com
oqhasherrill@gmail.com
Carrie50f@gmail.com
vlove@sympatico.ca
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info@oqha.on.ca Affiliate OQHA NEWS: APRIL 2024
2024: Area 2 Spring Kick Off - Ancaster, Ontario May 9-12, 2024 Area 3 Spring Classic - Thornton, Ontario May 17-20, 2024 Area 1 Sunsational Summer Circuit - Ilderton, Ontario May 30- June 2, 2024 with a free clinic offered on May 29th with AQHA Judge Mary Luther. Area 3 Summerama - Thornton, Ontario June 29-July 2, 2024 EOQHA Hot Hot Sizzler Circuit - Carp, Ontario August 1-4, 2024 OQHA Summer Finale - Ancaster, Ontario August 28-September 1, 2024. Please see
www.oqha.on.ca for more information and details.
Sponsorship Spotlight:
JS Quarter Horses - Platinum Sponsors JS Quarter Horses, operated
by Jason and Suzanne Duquette, is located in Glencoe, Ontario. Both Jason and Suzaanne have been members of OQHA since they were youth. Their daughter Erin has also been a member since she started showing lead- line at around 3 years old. Jason and Suzanne are proud lifetime members of both AQHA and NSBA. JS Quarter Horses enjoy
supporting the OQHA Shows and they believe it is important to show in your own province. Their favourite show in Ontario is the EOQHA Summer Sizzler.
They enjoy going to the EOQHA show in Carp and Cheryl Norris does a great job of making ex- hibitors feel welcome. This sum- mer Erin will be showing her horse IM THE GREATER GOOD in the Youth Hunter Under Saddle and Non Pro 3 year old Hunter Under Saddle Classes. Jason and Suzanne shared
Photo credit: Forestlnd Photo, Tara Carrington Photo with “Miley”
that their favourite horse is THIS GIRLS HOT (Blazing Hot X Chips Mariah), aka Miley. Miley is a familiar face to many OQHA members and she showed the OQHA for years. She is special to them because she was bred and raised by JS Quarter Horses. She was then sold to Annika Rear, trained and showed her through her show career. Jason and Suzanne also bought her first baby from Annika, (Lopin In Hot) who was sired by Lazy Loper. She was then leased by Jason and Suzanne in 2023 and she was bred to ENTICED. On December 25th, 2023 Annika gifted Miley to Jason for Christ- mas and they were overjoyed to have her back in the family. On February 11, 2024, Miley had a beautiful bay filly sired by AQHA World Champion En- ticed, named Martina. Jason and Suzanne shared, “There is just something extra special when you breed, raise and show one and then get to show their ba- bies.”
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Ontario Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame. Risty bought his first Quarter Horse in 1964 and Jan and Risty own two farms located near Petersburg, Ontario. The Schmidts have proudly bred, owned, trained and shown Quarter Horses and have many accomplishments and awards won over the years. The OQHA Show season includes following horse shows for
Banquet and AGM On Saturday February 3rd, 2024 at Hockley Val- ley Resort in Mono, Ontario. Congratulations to all the award win- ners from the 2023 show season. At the banquet, Jan and Risty Schmidt were inducted into the
The Ontario Quarter Horse Association held their 2023 Awards
2024 Ontario Quarter Horse Association Executive:
1st Vice - Mallory Melville 2nd Vice - Katie Thompson Treasurer - Carrie Farr Secretary - Sarah Williamson Area Directors: Area 1 - Lindsay McDougall Area 2 - Greg Dubiel Area 3 - Andrew Dewar Area 4 - Valerie Love Area 5 - Sheryl Chillson Area 6 - Blair Woodley Area 7 - Jane Cryderman
President - Shari Irwin Past President - Sherrill Tisdale
Sponsorship Spotlight: Rod Jeffries - Platinum Sponsors Rod Jeffries-Tyendinaga
Mohawk Territory, has been a proud member of OQHA since 2002. He purchased his first AQHA horse when he was 17. Rod moved to Ontario from British Columbia in 2001. His first year showing OQHA in 2002, Rod showed his mare named A Hot Woman. For the 2024 show season, Rod will be showing her 4 year old great granddaughter My Heart Will Go On. He has 3 horses to show in Ontario this year – Prefabricated, My Heart Will Go On and Levitating. All 3 horses will be shown in the Western Pleasure and Perform- ance Halter. His horses are in training with Shauna Maclean. They are planning on attending the Premier Sires show at the end of May in Kentucky. Aaron Moses will also show a homebred 3 year old mare Fashionnista, sired by
Area 2 Director Greg Dubiel Area 3 Director Area 4 Director Area 5 Director Area 6 Director Area 7 Director AQHA Director
Val Love
Blair Woodley Kathy Patterson
Lindsay Allen Andrew Dewar Sheryl Chillson Jane Cryderman
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vlove@sympatico.ca
sherylchillson@gmail.com
Blair.woodley@outlook.com
waywestqh@gmail.com
tbrkathy@hsfx.ca
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Prefabricated
now as it would scare me!!!” His favorite horse show in Ontario is the
EOQHA show held in Carp, Ontario. Rod shared, “The show committee is very welcoming and they also have many non-show events that bring people
Machine Made Fantasy and Rod Jefferies.
Machine Made, in the Virginia Maiden in April. A highlight of Rod’s show career is when he showed Machine Made Fantasy in Western Pleasure. He was undefeated in his first 40 shows in Select Pleasure. Prefabricated and Levitating are full brothers to this great mare. Rod owned and stood the
stallion Hot Pretense when he lived in the west. He still has one daughter of his in his broodmare band. This broodmare is now a AQHA World and Congress Champion producer. Rod has a few mares that he breeds every year – expecting a total of 7 foals in 2024 sired by Machine Made, VS Phantom Code, Madefourit, Heart Stoppin, Im Willy Fabu- lous, LL Cool Bay and No Doubt Im Lazy. His mares are daughters of Hot Pretense, Zippos Mr Good Bar, Zippo Jack Bar, Too Sleepy To Zip, Good I Will Be, No Doubt Im Lazy and The Best Martini. Rod shared “I don’t count how many horses I have
Pretensioso
together in a positive way. Many memories and fun times have come out of the Carp shows. Look- ing forward to the 2024 show season!”
Four broodmares belonging to Rod.
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