More News (2001)
Winnie's Cookies Presentation At August 2001 TVDA Meeting
Michelle Carlton, a representative from Winnie's Organic Animal Products spoke at the August TVDA meeting. According to their web site, "Winnie’s Cookies"™, their most famous product, "Works like a Supplement, Tastes like a Treat. Winnie’s are made from 100% certified organic human quality ingredients. America’s certified organic farmers guarantee the ingredients are chemical free. Winnie’s have 100% Bio-available vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Since Winnie’s are food based nutrition, your horses digestion system can utilize all the nutrition with complete efficiency. Synthetic nutrition (chemical based) used in other supplements have absorption rates as low as 2-3%, and leave toxic residue in the horses body. Until now equine supplements have been animal grade fillers with chemicals added for nutrition. Winnie’s are baked fresh and shipped monthly to your home or barn."
Ms. Carlton, based in Franklin, Tennessee, passed around free samples
of the product.
Dressage Competition in Ashville, NC
Ginny Moon ventured to Ashville, NC for the recognized dressage show on August 3-5, 2001. She says that this is a great place for a show and managed to get two fourth place and one fifth place ribbons. See the results here.
Koda's New Foal
Ginny Moon's Trakehner mare Koda delivered a healthy foal on
Tuesday, July 10th, 2001. The sire is Da Vinci, a Dutch Warmblood standing
in Florida.
Pegs Drewry Receives Humanitarian Award
Pegs
Drewry (see photos) recently received a humanitarian award from the local chapter of the
National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) for her efforts to provide
therapeutic horseback riding for the children and adults in the Huntsville area.
In 1997 Pegs helped establish HEARRT (Huntsville Equine-Assisted Rehabilitation
and Recreational Therapy), a non-profit organization providing therapeutic
horseback riding to those with physical or cognitive disabilities, emotional
conflicts and communication disorders.
In
addition to serving as Program Director and riding instructor with HEARRT, Pegs
provides equine assisted psychotherapy in conjunction with more traditional
therapy to treat attention deficit disorder, depression, anxiety and youth
at-risk.
HEARRT
has recently relocated to a newly built stable complex owned by Pegs and
designed by an architect specializing in therapeutic riding facilities.
This move will allow HEARRT to accommodate a larger range of disabilities as
well as conduct day camps and horse shows for its riders.
For additional information on therapeutic riding, please visit the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) web site. You may contact Pegs via email or by telephone at (256) 776-4653.
Ariat to Sponsor TVDA Rider of the Year Award
Ariat
has once again agreed to sponsor the TVDA Rider of the Year Award. This
award is presented to the TVDA member with the highest overall score earned at a
TVDA show or Ride-A-Test for the show season at any level. The rider must
have competed in at least 75% of TVDA events for the season and met the required
criteria for volunteer hours. Last year's winner was Stefan Neeley
(see 2000 awards banquet), who received an Ariat gift
certificate donated by Horsing Around.
Horse Portrait Raffle
Karen
Duncan was the winner in the horse portrait raffle which was held at the May
19th Ride-A-Test (2001). The portrait was painted by TVDA member Ginny
Moon (see classified ads). Here is the completed portrait of Karen's
Thoroughbred/Quarter Horse gelding, Ace. (Click to enlarge).:
USDF Certified Instructor Garth Harrison Dies Unexpectedly
A news release from USDF on May 8 reported the death of noted instructor Garth
Harrison. Harrison was an occasional instructor in South Africa for TVDA member Cathy Zappe.
Insurance Update
The April issue of TVDA Bits contained the story "Federal Agencies Propose Adverse Rules on Health Insurance Coverage for Riders" regarding new regulations which allow health insurers to exclude coverage for injuries resulting from riding and other forms of dangerous recreation. You can find this article on the American Horse Council web site in the "News Room" section, along with a follow up article "AHC Opposes Proposed Federal HIPAA Rules Affecting Riders".
Equine attorney Katy Bloomquist was interviewed by Horse'n Around newspaper regarding these new rules. Follow this link to read the interview.
