20/ FEBRUARY 2022 THE RIDER
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 OQHA News February 2022
OQHA Queen Contest The 2022 OQHA Queen
Contest package is currently available on our website. Entries are due by March 1st 2022 and the 2022 Queen will be crowned at our AGM April 2nd 2022. Memberships & Reserve
Back Numbers – 2022 member-
ship and reserve back number forms can be found on the OQHA Website. Get a jump on the show season and renew your memberships and back numbers now.
Exhibitors are also encour-
aged to renew your AQHA, NSBA, Area Memberships prior
to the start of the show season. Take advantage of the winter months and get your paperwork in so everything is in order for your first show.
INVITATION FOR TENDERS
Tenders are now being accepted for the following
OQHA Recording Secretary OQHA Treasurer OQHA Webmaster OQHA Points Secretary OQHA Memberships Secretary OQHBF Announcer OQHBF Show Manager
OQHBF Show Secretary OQHBF Treasurer
Send tenders to oqhasher-
rill@gmail.com by March 10, 2022
Virtual Show Wrap Up Thank you to everyone who par- ticipated in our last set of vir- tual shows! Congratulations to our overall winners! 1st Overall Mackenzie Harvey 2nd Overall William Truesdell 3rd Overall Sarah Donaldson
2022 AGM The 2022 AGM is booked
April 2, 2022 at the Ancaster Fairgrounds. We will continue to monitor Covid status and will adjust if needed. Informa- tion on rule changes, agenda items and tender deadlines can be found on our website
oqha.on.ca/hilights page
Proposed Rule Changes #1 - Current Rule OQHA
Meetings Article VII - Meetings (fre- quency, special meetings and who calls them) C·Meet105·2 The voting proce- dure at general OQHA mem- bership meetings will be by straight majority, as indicated by a show of hands, or by secret ballot if duly demanded in ac- cordance with Robert’s Rules of Order. Article VIII - Quorum (num- ber of members required to transact business) C·Q101·1 A quorum of any general meeting of the Ontario Quarter Horse Association membership shall consist of at least 25 eligible voting mem- bers Article XI – Ratification (re- quirements for adopting this constitution) C·Ratif101·1 The Ontario Quarter Horse Association Constitution may only be amended at a general OQHA meeting of the membership by the affirmative vote of two- thirds of the members present.
Proposed Meeting Rule Change
Article VII - Meetings (fre- quency, special meetings and who calls them) C·Meet105·2 The voting proce- dure at general OQHA mem- bership meetings will be by straight majority, as indicated by a show of hands, or by secret ballot if duly demanded in ac- cordance with Robert’s Rules of Order. The secret ballot may
be carried out by a confidential online ballot, carried out during the meeting. Memberships must be verified in advance of the meeting.
Article VIII - Quorum (number of members required to transact business) C·Q101·1 A quorum of any gen- eral meeting of the Ontario Quar- ter
Horse Association
membership shall consist of at least 25 eligible voting members. The members may participate ei- ther
in-person or virtually
through an online meeting sys- tem where memberships would be verified in advance of the meeting.
Article XI – Ratification (re- quirements for adopting this con- stitution) C·Ratif101·1 The Ontario Quar- ter Horse Association Constitu- tion may only be amended at a general OQHA meeting of the membership by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the mem- bers present and will include members present virtually.
#2 - Current OQHA Judge Se- lection Rule
3. JUDGE SELECTION SR·S&C·JS101·1 An AQHA judge can only officiate at one show in Ontario during one cal- endar year. The one-show rule in- cludes the Ontario Quarter Horse Breeders’ Futurity. However, an AQHA judge may judge two shows in Ontario only if the two shows are on consecutive days, and the judge does not judge a particular class but one time dur- ing the two shows. All novice youth/amateur and AQHA intro- ductory shows are exempt from this one OQHA show per year rule.
Proposed change to Judges Se- lection Rule 3. JUDGE SELECTION SR·S&C·JS101·1 An AQHA judge can officiate at one show in Ontario during one calendar year. The one-show rule includes the Ontario Quarter Horse Breeders’ Futurity. However, an AQHA judge may judge two shows in Ontario only if the two shows are on consecutive days, and the judge does not judge a particular class but one time during the two shows. In the event of an International border crossing interruption pre- venting American/International judges from travelling to Ontario
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Area 2 Area 2 Area 3
Mallory McKewen
mallorymckewen@gmail.com Greg Dubiel Corey Taylor
gr.dubiel@gmail.com
coreyelainetaylor@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!
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