Virginia Appaloosa Horse Club

Mary Ann Beverly

Champion Halter: All Ways Sassy (Eddie Buchanan and Diana Buchanan): $546.
Reserve Champion Halter: All Ways Included (Eddie Buchanan and Diana Buchanan): $456.

Champion Trail: Twisty’s Lil Rebel (Mary Ann Beverley): $546.
Reserve Champion Trail: Hope’N I’m Lope’N (Laura/Kelley Cutler): $456.

Champion Youth: All Ways Included (Diana Buchanan and Kerrigan Rae Beason): $546

VA Bred Awards given at our Judged Trail Ride:
Champion: Twisty’s Lil Rebel (Mary Ann Beverley): $100
Reserve Champion: Hope’N I’m Lope’N (Laura/Kelley Cutler): $50

Thank you to the Va Horse Industry Board for their support of the Virginia Bred Horse. This years grant is smaller but will be no less exciting! The Virginia Appaloosa Horse Club has divisions from Trail horse to Sport Horse. This year’s cost is only $10 per division for members. Join us, and sign your Va Bred Appaloosa up! You can go to the updated “Forms” tab to download your forms and see official rules.

The Banquet is just a few weeks away on Jan 8th, 2011. Get your RSVP’s in to Sharon as soon as you can. We will have updated directions to send out to all who are coming (the invitation directions have a turn missing). We have the cake and another dessert on the list of goodies being brought by members. If you plan on bringing something to share, include that in your RSVP and it can be posted so we can let each other know. We will also accept any donations to keep costs down if you feel particularly worn out with all the holiday baking and cooking. Or, just bring yourselves! Good people, good food, fun awards and BIG checks to the VA Bred Appaloosa Award winners! You don’t want to miss it.

The VaApHC would like to announce that the Va Horse Industry Board has again awarded us with a grant to continue our Va Bred Appaloosa Award! Thank-you Horse Industry Board!

The Awards Banquet this year will be held at The Hunting Lodge on January 8th 2011. It is the same place as last year banquet and the club will again cover the cost for members to attend. We will hold the elections for 2011 Officers and Board. So mark your calendar, we will have the menu and invitations mailed soon with your choice of Entree’s and RSVP’s. Hope to see everyone there.

Don’t forget to send in your2011 memberships!

The Saddle Fitting Clinic will be this weekend at Gordon and Roxanna’s Farm in Unionville. We will have lunch afterward with a meeting to follow. The clinic is $15 and all are invited to attend the clinic and meeting. Bring a dish to share for lunch – the club will provide sandwich’s and drinks. Call Sharon at 540-972-8568 if you need last minute directions or more information.

This month, Oct 29-31, is the Equine Extravaganza at the Meadows Event Park in Doswell. Hope many of you will be attending and support Virginia’s horse industry.

Good Luck to member Brenda Gillies at the World Show!

The newsletter will be coming out soon after the meeting, so get your news items or sales items to Amanda. Also, your Saddle Log and Points need to be turned in to Jackie by November. So get your riding and points in for end of year awards. Give us your stories, brags, or funnies to share in the newsletter. We love to hear how everyone is doing out there!

The Hoof Clinic with Paige Poss was great! We’d like to make this an annual thing, we learn so much from Paige. The weather was perfect for sitting outside and talking horses, Paige is an excellent speaker who truly enjoys teaching. You can see pictures from the clinic in our online photo album under the Photo tab (ignore the date, pictures are from Sept 11). Thank you Paige and thank you Roxanna and Gordon for hosting.

The photo album has been updated with some pictures of the Day at Kelly’s Ford meeting, lunch and ride; and a few members enjoying a ride and swim with their horses at Lake Anna over the Labor Day weekend.

Hoof Clinic: On Saturday Sept 11, we will again be hosting a hoof clinic with Paige Poss of www.ironfreehoof.com. For those that came last year, we are still talking about the great clinic she put on and all we learned about the hoof, lower leg structures and seeing hoof balance. Whether your horses are barefoot or shod you will find it interesting. The clinic will be held in Unionville. Contact Sharon for details and to sign up to attend. Cost will be $40, VaApHC members $25.
Saddle Fitting: In October we will be hosting a saddle fitting clinic. Watch this site for details.
Green Horse problem horse clinic: working on a fall clinic.

It was good to see everyone at Kelly’s Ford for our get-together! The ride turned out great, the weather cooperated, and we had a great group of horses and riders. We enjoyed a break in the temperatures, the rain held off and it was a great ride along picturesque streams, country lanes, pastures and a few hills to challenge us. We ended the day with tubing down the Rappahanock – which was more comic relief than adventure – as we pushed and dragged our tubes over the rocks in the low water, laughing all the way! (we’ll have to return after a rain)
There was a productive meeting where it was approved to donate $200 to the USERL (U.S. Equine Rescue League) to aid them in their work caring for the recent Virginia Horse cases.
We thanked all our sponsors and workers for making our Judged Trail Ride a success. With the support of so many members and local business we were able to again offer great prizes to our riders. Watch your upcoming newsletter and this site for updates on our sponsors.

Its mid-summer and time for us all to get together and just enjoy the day. We are having a Member’s Day at Kelly’s Ford on Sunday Aug 1st. We will go out on a trail ride starting at 10am, have lunch provided by Kelly’s Ford at 12:30, have our general membershp meeting, then spend the remainder of afternoon tubing down the Rappahanock River. Come Join us! Get your RSVPs to Sharon by friday July 23th.
You may come for all the activities, just lunch, or other activities if you’d like. Kelly’s Ford has horse camping, The Inn, canoeing, and a pool you can enjoy. Horses are also available to rent if you don’t want to trailer in with yours. If anyone is interested in becoming a member you are invited to join us! See you there.

We’d like to congratulate some of the Winners from the Judged Trail Ride last weekend:
Overall High Point for the ride and winning the $50 prize:
Annissa Koontz Baldwin riding “Diamond Rio”
Reserve High Point with the $25 prize:
Susan Hartman on “Jest Dancin”
Winner of the Virginia Bred Appaloosa and $100, which is sponsored by the Virginia Horse Industry Board, is:
Mary Ann Beverley riding “Twisty’s Lil Rebel”
the Reserve Virginia Bred Appaloosa with a $50 payout is:
Laura Cutler riding “Hope”
June 26 results for posting
Judged Trail Ride Placings ’10
We like to give all our sponsors a big thank you for supporting Virginia’s Horse clubs, horse owners and riders. Thank you again for participating !

Pictures from the Trail Ride are posted under the Photo Tab in the
“Online Photo Album”. We want to thank everyone who came out. It was great to see everyone and see everyone enjoy themselves with their horses. It was hot, but the morning wasn’t too bad and the stream crossing was refreshing! Alot of you braved the heat and stuck around for the awards, for those of you that headed for home we’ll get your awards mailed to you soon. We’ll recheck our results and will have them posted soon. For now enoy the pictures and
THANK YOU riders and volunteers!! Horse people are the BEST!