More News (2005)
Halloween Schooling Show and CT Event
Show results for the TVDCTA "Enter If You Dare" Halloween Dressage Schooling Show and CT Event are now posted! This was our first show where we created separate divisions for open and adult amateur riders. This is reflected in the results and the High Score awards.
TVDCTA Riders Excel in Late Summer Shows
Debbie
Hill
and Virginia Moon came away with blue ribbons at the Summer Mountain
Getaway Show in North Carolina in August. Hill
collected six first place ribbons, including two scores of over 74%.
Moon rode her new horse Broadstone Star and won the AA second level test 2 class with a score of 65.946. Other club members competing were Laura Honeycutt, Judith Fiorentino, Jane Hayes, and Karen Boates. The scores for the show are now posted on the web.
Virginia Moon on
Broadstone Star
That
same weekend, Debi Gilbert traveled to Conyers, Georgia for the Georgia
Arabiah Horse Association Summer Classic. Debi
competed in four Training Level classes with consistent scores of around 65%.
The last weekend in August saw many TVDCTA members competing in the Ole South Dressage show, with excellent results. More on Ole South will appear in the next newsletter, although the scores are now posted on the web.
USEF Hurricane Relief List
The USEF is organizing a relief effort for equine refugees of Hurricane Katrina. If you have a facility or pasture which you can offer to house refugee horses and ponies, victims of Hurricane Katrina, please email your name, address, phone number and email address to kcadams@usef.org or call 859-225-6993. Veterinary service volunteers are also badly needed. The USEF has posted a listing by state of these facilities and services for horses and ponies at www.usef.org. Click on Hurricane Katrina Equine Relief.
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has also issued a press release regarding Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams (VMAT). The Department of Homeland Security dispatched VMAT teams to the area as Katrina neared land.
Riders and Horses Sizzle at TVDCTA Summer Dressage and CT Show & Clinic
Flint Ridge Farm was the venue for the TVDCTA Summer Dressage and CT Show the weekend of July 23-24. Ulrich Schmitz “S”, always a popular judge with the club, returned again and presided over the clinic on Sunday.
High Score Award winners for dressage were Debbie Hill (75.0% for Intro through Training), Suzi Jennings (71.0% for First Level and Above), and Caitlin Newberry (68.0% for Jr./YR).
In the combined training events, Christina Catechis won the High Score Award for the Open division with a score of 35 and Makenzie Zaborszki won the Jr./YR division with a score of 32.
Scores are now posted in the Results section.
TVDCTA Eventers on a Roll
While
it is still early in the season for the big dressage competitions, many TVDCTA
members have been competing throughout the Winter months at various HT events.
In
January, Linda Bammann and Nancy Smith traveled to Florida for the
Southeast HT at Canterbury, where Bammann took second place in Novice Horse and
Smith got
fifth place in the Novice Rider divisions.
Danielle
Bolte
rode in the Pine Top Winter I HT in Georgia in early February and took second
place in the Jr. Novice division.
That same weekend, Debi Crowley Bammann, and Smith competed in
Florida at the Rocking Horse Winter I HT, where Crowley captured first place in
the Open Preliminary division and Smith improved to second place in the Novice
Rider division.
Bammann returned three weeks later for the Rocking Horse Winter III HT
and won the Open Novice division.
And finally, TVDCTA was well-represented at the Ft. Rucker HT in late March, where Smith won the Novice Rider division.
See the Results section for all of the scores!
Jump Pole Drive
Debi Crowley
I
have volunteered to head up a jump pole drive for the club. As you all know, the
clubs hosts many shows each year which include combined training divisions and
we typically have excellent participation. Currently, we
borrow the majority of the jumps and poles from other club members in order to
set up the jump courses, but we would ultimately like to be in the position
where the club owns it's own jumps, standards, and poles. For the
near term, we want to focus on getting more poles. We are asking each family
that has been actively involved in combined training at TVDCTA shows to donate
one freshly painted 12' long jump pole in good condition to the club.
If you do not have the time or inclination to purchase a 12' 4X4 and plane the
edges and paint it, we are asking for $20 cash donations which will be used to
hire someone to do this for us. We would like to have these poles by June
15 in preparation for the July clinic with Ulrich Schmitz.
Please reply to me at dcrowley@ardmore.net and let me know if you are willing to donate a pole so that we know what to expect prior to June 15. If you prefer to send a cash donation instead, please make checks out to TVDCTA and mail to Mimi Barnes, 201 Meryal Lane, New Market, AL 35761.
It is important that we all work together so that our club activities continue
to be successful. Your participation will be greatly appreciated!
Comic Relief - Horse Video
Click on this link to go to a web site where you can download a hilarious video of a horse. The video is in .wmv format, so if you are running a Mac, you might not be able to view it. (Don't try this unless you have a broadband Internet connection or a lot of patience, as the file is about 4M).
TVDCTA November Show and Cross Country Clinic
The TVDCTA "Last Chance" Dressage Schooling Show and CT Event was held on Saturday, November 26, 2005 at Red Horse Ridge in Brownsboro and featured "I" rated judge Jim Graham. Like last year's show, weather was a factor and so the clinic was moved to the following Sunday.
High Score Award winners included Katie Jackson, Debbie Hill, Natalie Weil, Megan Zappe, Nancy Smith, and Jules Behmer.
Results for the show are available online.
Great American/USDF Region 3 Dressage Championships
Debbie Hill and Caitlin Newberry made the long trip down to Jacksonville, FL, where Hill completed an exhausting schedule which included eleven rides on four different horses. Hill and Brocken were the champions in the GAIG/USDF Training Level (71.731) and the USEF First Level TOC (75.000%). Riding Gibralter, she was champion in the USEF Second Level Test 2 (72.162%) classe and finished no lower than third in seven other classes. See results for complete information.
