Virginia Appaloosa Horse Club

This Saturday July 19 is our open club meeting and social.  It will be held at  Maple Lake Farm Appaloosas, 3528 Winding Rd., Partlow, Va. 22534, Call 540-582-3233 or email g49bear for directions.

Meeting will be at 12:00 and the cookout should start at 1:00.  Please RSVP by Weds. the 16 and if you are bringing a dish to share.   Hope to see many of you there. 

See the Online Photo Album, at the bottom of the page in the Photo section, for pictures from the Picnic/Ride.   Also posted are pictures from the Spring Judged Trail Ride. 

Don’t forget the Club Picnic/meeting/trail ride at Lake Anna on June 22.  The ride will start at 10:00 am with the meeting and picnic to follow.  Please RSVP to our Trail Ride director Dan Conley at debi387@aol.com  by June 17 so we can get enough food for everybody!  If you’d like to bring a desert or side dish to share - YUM- let him know.   Hope to see you all there!

Kathy Coviello and her App Cadet have been doing well training and showing Dressage in the area.  Last year Cadet, at 21 years young, won the VADA “Elder Statesman Award” for the oldest horse with the highest score, and this year they are continuing their winning ways!  They are currently 3rd in ACAAP standings for dressage.  Last month at Morven Park Cadet scored a 2nd 3rd and 4th.  As Kathy reports “… plus we earned the ‘qualifying score’ we needed at Test 4 for the USDF Horse of the Year (HOY) awards (Appaloosa).  We also earned 5 ACAAP points for the Appaloosa Club.  We need 7 more to get our next level of recognition.”

Also doing well is Brenda Gillies on her Games horses.  At what has been the largest Regional Appaloosa show in the country, the Keystone App show, Brenda received a 3rd in open figure 8 (out of 31 entries) and won the non-pro barrels on her lighning fast black horse Mitch. 

On the local level Sharon Fiel and her mare Lucy were Champion Amateur, and Champion Senior Western Pleasure at the VAHA show at Rosemont Farm.   Even winning the payback Western Pleasure Class sponsored by the VaApHC. 

From dressage to speed events to pleasure, our appaloosas are versatile!  Send me highlights of your appaloosas so we can share and enjoy each other’s accomplishments.  Way to go everyone!  Enjoy the ride. 

Visit the PHOTO section in the online album, to see pictures of Cadet (App club folder) and Lucy. 

In what we hope will be a continuing feature on this site, we are highlighting some of our members.   This month its Charlie and Jeanne Davis of Dry Creek Farm.   Some of the nicest folks you’ll ever want to meet.  They have been with this club since its beginning so its a good place to start.  If you’d like to meet them and some of our other members come on out to our Club Trail Ride and Picnic at Lake Anna on June 22, join us and JOIN UP!

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After checking all of the score cards and entry forms, several mistakes were found.  Battlefield Equestrian Society won the club award.  New Plaques have been ordered and will be mailed as soon as they are ready.  The results posting to the web site are correct.  We apologize for the delay, but several questions had to be answered before we could finalize the results.  This was the first time this computer program was used and we had a couple of glitches.  We are correcting them for the August ride.  Thanks for riding with us and hope to see you in August.  Congratulations to BES and all of our winners!

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Thanks to everyone that helped with the “Spring Spotted Spectacular” trail ride.  Another perfect day of weather and everyone enjoyed the trail and obstacles.  Check out the results on the newsletter and on this site.  Congratulations to all of the winners. 

Hope everyone is getting time to ride in spite of the rain, much needed for hay.  A couple of reminders: Keep sending Gretchen your Southern States and Nutrena labels.  Make sure you have signed up for year end awards and saddle log. 

Remember the club trail ride, picnic and meeting June 22, 2008 at Lake Anna State Park.  The ride starts at 10:00 am with the meeting and picnic to follow.  RSVP to Dan Conley, Trail Ride Director by June 17, 2008 so we can get enough food for everyone.  If you want to bring a dessert or side dish to share let me know. 

Also, the July 19, 2008 meeting and social has been moved to Beth and Gerald’s Maple Lake Farm, more info to follow. 

This year is off to a great start, keep riding and showing off our great Appaloosas.  Good luck with the rest of the year.  See you in June and July. 

Gerald

The scores and placements of all classes are being verified.   We are also confirming which club riders wanted their scores counted.  As soon as these are completed the final results with any changes will be posted.   Check back!   

The trail is good and the obstacles are in place!  The rain is suppose to hold off until late afternoon or evening with warm temps through the day.  You can reach Gerald Brooks for any late morning questions- 540-604-8580, or Beth at 540-604-8579.   See you there!

Hope you are all gearing up to enjoy the spring weather and planning to join us at the Trail Ride this weekend!   We have special ordered Nice Temperatures and Clear Skies (hey, it worked last summer!).  Along with food provided by, and benefiting, the Upper Caroline Volunteer Fire Department, we will also be having a silent auction so you can shop for goodies.  If any of you have any items to donate you can contact Jeannie Davis, or just bring your item(s) with you.  There will also be a 50/50 raffle to benefit the White Bird Appaloosa Horse Rescue so you may win some $$ AND be helping out a great cause.  If any updates or changes I will post to this site as soon as possible, so you may keep checking back, otherwise, we will see you at the ride!  

We’d like to welcome new members Traci, and Chuck to the VaAphc.  You have been entered in a drawing to win a gift certificate.   Any new members joining by June will also be eligible so - JOIN US!  Hope to see you at the trail ride this weekend.