Tania. STREET PARADE C CERTIFICATE WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS. Inc. No A M PO BOX 1328 Traralgon 3844

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1 1 Inc. No A M PO BOX 1328 Traralgon 3844 Hi everyone, hope your ponies are still all fit and healthy and you are still riding. PONY CLUB CAMP IS ON!!! Remember, those of you who are going to Pony Club Camp will need to have fit, well shod and well fed horses. We have 19 riders from Traralgon Pony Club attending the pony club camp in January 2008, from senior riders to our very newest junior riders. I m looking forward to seeing you all. STREET PARADE Well done to the following riders who braved it out, to represent the Traralgon & District Pony Club in the Street Parade on Sunday. ON FOOT!!!! It was a great turn-out and even though you couldn t ride, you did us proud marching and carrying our banner. Well done to the following members Nikki Vermeulen, Jorja Elfring, Alesha Rogers, Ashlee Travers, Mikayla Milbourne, Jayde Travers, Karina Hinde, Morgan Reid, Hannah Murphy, Maleah Travers, Emma Reid Thank you to Shelley for organising everything, and also thank you to the parents for bringing their children to participate. It was fun for the members to get together at Maccas and have a chat and catch up. Hopefully, next year you will be able to attend the parade on horseback! K CERTIFICATE WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS K Certificate examinations will take place on 2 December 2008 at Traralgon Pony Club Grounds. Good luck to the two Traralgon Pony Club girls, Emily Clifton and Kellie Armistead who are sitting their exams. C CERTIFICATE WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS To all the C Certificate candidates, please study up on your written work, as you may be called upon to do your written exams. Unfortunately, we cannot have it organised for this Sunday, but hopefully we will organise for this to be done soon. Keep riding and having fun with your horses. DC Signing Off. Tania.

2 2 WHEN: WHERE: TIME: Saturday 22 nd December Pony Club Grounds 12 Noon start BBQ lunch supplied Please bring salad or sweet to share BYO cold drinks Fun activities on the day RSVP to Shelley and leave message on or text or BY 16 th DECEMBER Please remember there are to be NO HORSES at the break up. Note: If you have a TPC trophy from last year can you please return them on the day of the break up or prior by arrangement with Andy

3 3 Well done to the girls who represented the Traralgon Pony Club a few weeks ago in the Stockland Plaza Street Parade. As you can see they looked the part and did the Pony Club proud. GREAT EFFORT GIRLS! Next Traralgon Pony Club Meeting will be held on Tuesday 5 th February at 7pm. Venue to be confirmed closer to the date. ALL members (new and not so new) are more than welcome to attend. Did you take any boxes of the White Magic back in July? If so, can you please contact Andy on and arrange to leave money and or left over product NO LATER THAN THE CHRISTMAS BREAKUP

4 4 Taken Taken from PCAV November Newsletter 2007 Equestrian peak body representatives from PCAV, VAS Ltd, Horse Riding Clubs Association of Victoria and Equestrian Federation Australia met with Dr Roger Paskin, Principal Veterinary Officer Epidemiology and Samantha Forrest, Industry Liaison Officer with the DPI on 16 th November. The peak bodies were provided with an update of the current situation in NSW highlighting that things are looking positive in reducing and possibly of eradicating this virus from Australia in the future. Whilst Dr Paskin gave the peak bodies some confidence in returning to activities in the New Year, he informed the group that the Christmas holiday period could prove to be of higher risk, due to the large number of people travelling interstate to visit families for Christmas or take a vacation. Owners must remain vigilant with people moving onto their properties over this festive season. A gradual return to events during the start of the New Year was recommended with the size and number of events increasing as the risk continues to recede. The peak bodies along with the DPI are in the process of reviewing the bio security guidelines for holding equestrian events. The peak bodies envisage there will be some minor changes that will assist event organisers on the bio security side of things. However the contingency planning in the event that horses are required to remain at a venue will still be a major hurdle for many organisers. Despite the risk of shutdown being reduced it is something that organisers cannot afford to ignore. DPI anticipates that bio security measures and contingency plans will be with us well into The peak bodies have agreed that it is reasonable to facilitate a return of events in the New Year providing the present trends continue and Victoria remains EI free. The peak bodies will meet again on 13 th December to review preparations for the expected return of activities.

5 5 The Camp is on, the grounds are cut, the hay will be baled, the Christmas rally is on (without horses) the girls have done their K certificate exam (and passed) and it looks like things are starting to come good again in the world of pony clubs. Latrobe Group Annual Camp for 2008 will still be going ahead as planned. The Organising Committee will be reviewing the situation at their December meeting. All forms and payments should now be in. In the event that camp is cancelled or postponed due to the Equine Flu, even at the last minute, all monies received will be refunded in full. There will be working bees leading up to the camp and you will be notified of these as the dates are made. Please make every effort to attend. Remember that old saying... Many hands make light work! At this stage we are still looking good for our annual pilgrimage to pony club camp. As you can see from the spot to my left the camp is a goer at this stage. Please be aware that there will be notice sent out soon advising of the outcome of the December meeting and when the working bees will be held. I ask that every family attending the camp make themselves available to assist with the working bee. They re generally not overly hard work, more or less a bit of a tidy up of the area. Make sure you do take the fly repellent though. Those black budgies are mighty friendly. Our grounds have been cut and we will soon bale. An will be sent out with the details shortly for those who wish to buy some bales. Congratulations to Emily Clifton and Kellie Armistead on their success with the K certificate exam. Good luck with the ride element and to those who will soon sit their C certificate. Thank you to Shelley Vidler, Mikayla Milbourne and Marnie Ellis for helping clean up the grounds prior to Spud Ellis coming in to cut it. Look forward to seeing everyone at the Xmas Rally. Merry Christmas and safe New Year to all. Giddy up, Andy. BIRTHDAY S Happy Birthday to Emily Clifton, Georgia Everett, Krystal Pattinson and Victoria Ludlow all celebrating their birthdays in December. Happy Birthday to all of you

6 6 02/12/07 Written exam for K Certificate 22/12/07 Traralgon Pony Club Christmas party TPC grounds 08/01/08 Latrobe Group of Pony Clubs Annual Camp **ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED** 13/01/08 13/01/08 TADARC Rally at TPC grounds 20/01/08 Stratford Pony Club Combined Training day TO BE CONFIRMED 26/01/08 27/01/08 Mounted games skills and coaching weekend Open to all PCAV members Werribee Park all information available from PCAV website 03/02/08 Boolara Gymkhana 10/02/08 EGZ Dressage and SJ Qualifying for State. Grades 1, 2 & 3 Dressage A, B & C S.J Zone Grade 4 Dressage & D Grade Show Jumping Bairnsdale Race course Traralgon Pony Club is rostered on to supply helpers for this event!! Contact Shelley if interested in competing. Championships. 14/02/07 Barastoc Horse of the Year Show 17/02/07 17/02/08 Pakenham Horse Trials 17/02/08 TPC CLOSED GYMKHANA 17/02/08 Nowa Nowa Gymkhana 24/02/08 Moe P.C. Gymkhana 08/03/08 Zone Horse Trials at Orbost 09/03/08 Morwell Horse & Pony Show 22/03/08 Buchan Horse Trials 30/03/08 State Dressage & Show Jumping Championships Swan Hill See below Entries close March 12 th. (Venue to be confirmed) May be at Rosedale!!!! 27/04/08 Games, musical ride & flat teams qualifiers EGZ - Bairnsdale 03/05/08 State Horse Trials grade 1 & 2 Venue Yeringberg 10/05/08 Interzone Horse Trials grade 3 & 4 Venue Werribee 14/06/08 15/06/08 State Flat, Musical Ride and Games Champs GYMKHANA UPDATE Venue Werribee all information available from PCAV website At this stage no decision has been made as to whether we will be staging our 2007 gymkhana. As you would know due to the EI outbreak and the grounding of all horse movement in Victoria, we were not able to run the event on the scheduled date of November 11 th. The organising committee are looking at alternatives at the moment. These alternatives include a new date of February 17 th 2008, or cancelling it all together for The issue we have is that a terrific amount of sponsorship money has been pledged and if we don t run the event that money will have to be returned to our sponsors. The committee are looking at applying for Government Grants at the moment to try and offset the loss of funds. The other issue that has to be considered seriously is the why the gymkhana would be run as there would have to be strict bio-security measures adhered to. These security measures in themselves may be enough to cancel the event for the year. As soon as all the various avenues have been explored a decision will be made.

7 7 Committee Co-ordinators President - Andrew Milbourne Mob ajmilbourne@bigpond.com Newsletter Editor Marnie Ellis Ph Mob ellisms@wideband.net.au Vice President Krissy Travers Ph rktravers@bigpond.com Canteen Co-ordinator Vivianne Everett Ph vivianneev@latrobe.vic.gov.au Secretary Shelley Vidler Ph vids@netspace.net.au Treasurer Julie Bond Ph njbond@bigpond.com.au Canteen Supervisor Kerry-Ann Cornwall Ph Canteen Supervisor Cathy Murphy Ph mob murphee@optusnet.com District Commissioner Tania Vermeulen Mob taniavermeulen@bigpond.com Grounds Coordinator Dale Pattinson Ph Thanks to all those people who have provided information for the Newsletter this month. For those people wishing to include items in the Newsletter please ensure that all information is sent to me by the 25 th day of each month, as I would like to have the newsletter ready for sending out on the first week of each month. Send to ellisms@wideband.net.au or post to PO Box 1636, Traralgon 3844.