Monthly Archives: June 2012

Adult Riders, It’s time to get the ball rolling for Scott’s next trip out here.  Scott has suggested a slightyly different format, one day of Show-Jumping and one day of X- Country, though the INT/ADVs may want to just work on Show jumping both days, which can be arranged by talking with the organizers.  We will have room for about 16 riders with four to a group of 90 minutes each.  Priority will be given to riders who have already worked with Scott.  The Caber Clinic may fill up with Training level and above.  Beginning Novice may be offered at Polestar only if space is available.  We may combine groupings for the sake of suitability. We will be at Polestar on July 30-31 and Caber Aug 1-2. 

Attached is the entry form and releases.  For Caber, please go to this link.  http://www.caberfarm.com/PDFFiles/MedicalRelease.pdf

We will have a group dinner with Scott after the first day of both sessions for an additional cost.  Auditors are welcome but will need to contact the clinic organizers.  Aimee Witherspoon is the Caber Organizer and John Meriwether will be the Polestar Organizer..  Some stabling is available through the respective farms and arrangements should be made directly with the farms.

Looking forward to another great session.  Please do not hesitate to call me or Aimee if you have any questions.

John

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 Dear Web Gang,

Thank you so much for changing to the white background. The white on black did look really cool but I am one of those people that had a hard time reading it on my old computer.

The new web site is great! I love that you have both the recognized and unrecognized activities on it. The link to the start box is super convenient too. Thanks for all you have done and are doing to make this website great! 

I’m a little shy about publishing anything online but it you want you can post the following ( after editing of course!):

Congratulations Woodbrook Hunt Pony Club!

You did a great job organizing and running your first 1-day event. We had a great time and everything ran smoothly and very close to your estimated times. We appreciate how much manpower these One-Day Trials take to pull off and it was nice to see all your members, families and friends involved. Thanks for a fun day!

Jeanette and Sarah Fohn

The web gang says THANK YOU Jeanette and Sarah, for such a sweet note.  No editing needed!

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Hi Everyone,

In response to some of the feedback we have gotten on the new website, we decided to make a few changes.  Many of you didn’t like the black background with white text because it was hard to read on some browsers and older computers.  It looked cool but wasn’t user-friendly so we did away with it.  The white background with black text should read much better.  We added the Eventing Evaluation form on the LINKS page but there is now no true direct online form from the USEA.  You have to download it, fill it out and send it back to Melissa via snail mail. Melissa is looking into getting the old online form resurrected and we will keep you posted.  We have had a few inquiries about adding a CLASSIFIED section as a new LINK. If at least a half a dozen of you e-mail us with a classified ad of some kind (horse related of course!), we will add it back in to the website.  Luigi said he got very few submitted on the old site so we decided to leave it out on start-up.

We have also turned off all the COMMENTS buttons since we were getting massive spam.  Please use our admin@areavii.org e-mail address for all kinds of correspondence. We promise to reply in short order!

If anyone would like to submit photos please send them as jpeg attachments to our admin@areavii.org e-mail address and we will post them.  Just include a good tag line!  The lovely new header photo was taken at the 2010 WEG in Kentucky by our web guru Lisa DenBeste.  She is an awesome photographer and we are dragging her to Whidbey Island Pony Club HT in July to take some candid shots!

See you out on course this summer!

Your Web Gang

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A couple of months have passed since the sad loss of Amy Tryon. I will always remember her as someone who had the gift and tenacity to buy and start a young horse that no one else would take a second look at and turn it into an upper level Event horse or go all the way to the Olympics.  Those kinds of horse people are very rare in our sport as most top professionals take over a ride after the horse has at least done Preliminary with someone else…..who has that kind of time these days?  Sometimes all of us occasionally try to do it that way to stay in the game at the top levels but the best of the best still try to take the time to make their own horses like Amy and the likes of Britain’s Mary King.  I admired her for ability to go East and beat the pants off the best horse and rider combinations that resided there, leaving them stunned and in the beginning, wondering who the heck she was. She would then turn around and come back home to the Northwest to resume her Fire Service career and continue to train her small string of horses. She was self-made and that made her special.

It was wonderful to see one of our up and coming Area VII riders take her first crack at Rolex and end up with a completion.  Jordan Linstedt and her horse Tullibards Hawkwind (Jack) did just that. The pair put in a respectable dressage test in an electric environment they had never experienced before. She and Jack had a clear cross country round with some time penalties. She stuck to her plan to establish a good rhythm with Jack and jump everything clean and have a healthy horse at the end of the course.  It is so easy to go off your game plan and take unnecessary risks in the heat of the moment, especially at Rolex, which can often end up in elimination or retirement. Jordan show jumped well and had a few rails but finished with a huge smile and I am sure some relief. She has a great future ahead of her in our exciting but sometimes unforgiving sport.

Our Area VII website is clicking along and we have worked out most of the bugs and are averaging around 10,000 hits per month, which is very exciting! Luigi Meneghelli managed our past website all by himself for years and now we have three volunteers keeping it up to date. I have extra appreciation for him now as it is a BIG job!

Aspen Farms and Inavale Farm Horse Trials are both taking place this month and there should be full fields in all divisions. I hope everyone has a great go to start off the season.

Melissa

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