Virginia Appaloosa Horse Club

Our Annual Awards Banquet and Meeting will be held on Sunday Jan 15th at 1:00pm at the Charity Hill Lodge in Ladysmith. Dinner will be provided for the members – members may bring a guest for a fee. Watch your email-box for your invitation and RSVP by Jan 4th to Sharon. The Lodge cooks us [...]

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The News is Out. The Virginia Appaloosa Horse Club will be teaming up with Tom Seay to co-host several events at his farm for 2012. These will be open to the public and promoted on a national basis and on his RFD-TV show “Best of America by Horseback”. First planned event will be May 18-20. [...]

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Please note the changes to the ballot that was sent out in the newsletter. Volunteering for President – Roxanna Genovese Vice President – Elizabeth Weakley Secretary – Sharon Fiel Treasurer – ** OPEN POSITION ** Board: Dan Conley; Sylvia Marshal; Gordon Genovese; Altie Moore Membership Chairman: ** OPEN ** Point Keeper: Susan Sperry Newsletter: Debbie [...]

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The holidays are right around the corner. With it come the end of the year happenings. Points are being counted, Saddle Log hours are in the mail, and the search is on for a few more volunteers for open board positions. The newsletter will soon be in the mail. Please consider the open positions on [...]

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Congratulations to the Pleasure Ride winners! 1st Adult Rider – Gretchen Awles with 84 points wins a $25 Miller’s Farm Gift Certificate 1st Senior Rider – Patti Goettler with 92 points wins a $25 Champion Gift Certificate 1st Appaloosa – Maryann Beverly with 88 points wins a $25 Southern States Gift Certificiate 1st Other Breed [...]

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Thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy the ride today. The obstacles were fun with headless horseman guarding ditches, pumpkins to trot through, “bodies” under bridges and even bones next to the water crossing – the best part for the horses were treats at every obstacle. It only took a couple of obstacles until [...]

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We’d call it a SPOOKtacular Ride, but with horses .. maybe not the spooking part. Ride the obstacles and if you tell the judges “trick or treat” there will be treats for your horses! Hope you can come out and enjoy the day with us. Next saturday Oct 22nd. Best horse or human costume will [...]

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October 22nd we will be hosting a fall Judged Pleasure Ride at Andora Farm in Culpepper VA. This Fall’s ride will be a FLAT $20 Fee to ride ! So if you’ve never tried a Judged Trail ride, or just wish to get a final practice ride in before the end of the season, come [...]

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We had another great ride at Kelly’s Ford Equestrian Center for our mid-summer general membership meeting. We seem to get a break in the weather! It was cool in the shade of the woods and the horses and riders appeared to enjoy getting out for a change in scenery. We went over our activities for [...]

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Happy summer to everyone! We are holding our summer General Membership Meeting at our Member’s Day at Kelly’s Ford Equestrian Center on Sunday July 31st. We will have a trail ride begining at 10:00 am, Lunch and a meeting at the Pelham’s Pub about 1:30 after the ride; then we will go tubing down the [...]

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