Hoof Prints APRIL TTT Horse Trials

Transcription

1 Wandin Park Adult Riders Club Inc. Association No. 1218P Hoof Prints APRIL 2012 President Meg Stafford Vice President Peta Elstrek Secretary Veronica Harris Treasurer Julie Hanssen General Committee Rally Bookings Peta Elstrek TTT Horse Trials Cost: $80 per rider (made out to Wandin Park RCA Inc, or deposit the club account) When: 19th and 20th of May Where: Bulla RC - Greenvale Extras: $13.90 for spit roast dinner, unlimited camping, but NO permanent yards so you must BYO yards. Send your individual entry form to 70 Harberts Road, Don Valley 3139 or me at megstaf@iprimus.com.au Entries by 17th April please Club Uniforms Anita Nathan Green Book Rebekah Harris Instructor and Judge Bookings Narelle Walker Ribbons, Bows and Prizes Teagen Krop TTT Co-Ordinator Meg Stafford Newsletter Kathy Smith Website Administrator Sharyn Symonds Morning Tea & Lunch Adrian Kolvacic Next Rally Sunday 6th May At Wandin Park Instructors : Dressage Claire Knowles Jumping Sue Tufnell For lessons contact peta.elstrek@bigpond.com

2 P A G E 2 I N S I D E T H I S M O N T H President s Report 2 April Rally Report 3 April Rally Report cont. 4 Rally in Photos 5 Rally in Photos 6 WPRCA Calendar Equitech Performance 8 Products - Seville Saddlery 9 - Glenbrae For Sale/lease/wanted 10 Champion Club Member 11 Club Merchandise 12 President s Report Hello Everyone, Daylight savings is over. No denying that Winter is on its way now boo hiss. The upside though is the kids go to bed so much easier with the sky being dark!! TTT Horse Trials entries need to be in to me by 17 th of April at the latest, so if you are looking at joining a team please get them in sooner rather than later. Send them to megstaf@iprimus.com.au or 70 Harberts Road Don Valley Well, we have bought a new Show jump trailer!! I m sure you have all walked past our current trailer and wondered what the hell was keeping the sides from falling off. It was beyond repair, so it has been replaced by a newer, shinier version. A member of your committee is travelling up to NSW to pick it up this Wednesday, so it will be there at the next rally for you to all check out. I sent out the question via and in the last newsletter why people are not attending rallies. I have had a rather dismal response which is a shame. Remember if we don t know what s wrong, we can t fix it!! The answers so far consist of cost/ lack of funds (x2), lame horse (x2), competitions conflicting (x2), too busy (x3), prefer private lessons (x1). Does anyone else have anything to add? 10 responses out of 58 is pretty slack just quietly!! As mentioned in the last newsletter we are looking at holding a competition later in the year (Aug/Sept time). We are proposing a show and a freshman s show jump competition. As soon as more information comes to hand, we will pass it on to you. From my front, Andy has been plugging away quietly. We have mainly been doing EA stuff, but did a comp at Neerim on the weekend. He did well in one test, but we retired in the second after he had a meltdown about a kid twanging the fence wire next to the arena. I feel more desensitizing coming on (either that or a swift slap to a stranger s child!!). In the meantime, I hope you have all had a very HAPPY EASTER, and are quietly eating through a mountain of chocolate!! Meg

3 P A G E 3 Rally Day 1st April 2012 Dressage Lesson A Lesson with Caroline Coleby.by Sharyn Symonds Sit Trot without stirrups did I hear that properly??? Well many of you know I haven t been to club for a while and after today s effort I may not be able to walk tomorrow but they do say no pain, no gain!! And even though the instructor was quite tough and didn t suffer fools lightly I actually learnt quite a lot!!! I was quite looking forward to club and it was probably the fact that I had a new four legged friend to take along by the name of Flash. Flash is a Clyde/ WB/TB cross and hasn t done a lot of work of late so when the schedule came out and I saw that I was having a private lesson with Caroline I did wonder how Flash & I would cope with an intense hour with Caroline. I had heard on the grapevine that Caroline is a great instructor but she can be quite tough. Lucky for me Meg Stafford decided to join me which gave me some breathing space as Caroline worked with Meg and Andy. Transitions were the flavour of the lesson and we worked on transitions and making them from engaging the abdominal muscles instead of kicking, flapping or however else you get your horse to trot and then making the downward transition in the same way. We basically had to leave their heads alone and ride from our core. So being the hard task master that Caroline is she made us ride on the buckle so that we have no choice but to stop and go by engaging muscles. It is quite amazing that when you actually get it right how little effort it takes as a rider to make your horse trot or canter.

4 P A G E 4 Rally Day 1st April 2012 Dressage Lesson cont... I have only had flash for 1 week and every time I rode him I always felt that I worked harder than he did so for me learning this was a great tool in getting him to move forward. Just when I was starting to get the hang of engaging muscles that haven t been used in a while Caroline yells out ok you girls I want you to cross your stirrups.i am thinking oh what, did I hear that right bugger me this is my 7th ride on this horse and I kinda like having pedals!!! For fear of being yelled at I lose my pedals and suck it up and get on with the job. More transitions and this time sit trot. Sit trot is not a very strong point and Caroline picked up on this and gave me a really handy tool to help develop the sit trot. In the past I would have sat a few strides and then when it got all awkward and out of sync I would have risen a few strides and then gone back to sitting. Instead of doing it that way, Caroline had me sit a few strides and then do a transition to walk and then after 2 strides of walk go back to trot this way you not only get time to reorganise once your balance is out of whack but you also practice another transition (something that Caroline is very big on!!!) well what can I say..it worked a treat and by the end of the lesson I was sit trotting nearly the whole perimeter of the arena something that I have not been able to do before today without bouncing and getting tense and gripping. The other highlight for me was the beautiful drawing that Mary Newham had done whilst I was deep in concentration trying to master those transitions and the sit trot. It is just beautiful. Mary comes to club often to sketch and her work is amazing!!! What is even better still is the fact that she shaved about 10kgs off me!!! Well what can I say it was good to be back at club and I enjoyed every minute even though it was hard work, but no pain no gain!!! See you all next month and in the meantime cross your stirrups even if it s for 5 minutes, it does make a huge difference!!!

5 P A G E 5 Rally Day 4th March 2012 Jumping Lesson with Jenny Parlivliet

6 P A G E 6 Rally Day 4th March 2012 Dressage with Caroline Coleby

7 P A G E 7 WPRCA CALENDAR DATES 2012 Sunday 6th May 2012 Club Rally at Wandin Park Dressage / Show Jumping / Cross Country Instructors : Dressage Claire Knowles Jumping Sue Tufnell Wednesday 23rd May 2012 Club General Meeting location to be confirmed Sunday 3rd June 2012 Club Rally at Wandin Park Instructors : TBA Dressage / Show Jumping / Cross Country Sunday 1st July 2012 Club Rally at Glenbrae Dressage / Show Jumping Instructors : Dressage Claire Knowles Jumping Edith Kane Sunday 5th August 2012 Club Rally at Glenbrae Dressage / Show Jumping Instructors : Dressage Leanne Williams (indoor) Jumping TBA Sunday 9th September 2012 Club Rally at Glenbrae Instructors : To Be Confirmed Sunday 7th October 2012 Club Rally at Glenbrae Instructors : To Be Confirmed Dressage / Show Jumping Dressage / Show Jumping Wednesday 24th October 2012 Club s AGM details to be confirmed Sunday 4th November Club Rally at Wandin Park Instructors : To Be Confirmed Dressage / Show Jumping / Cross Country Sunday 2nd December 2012 Club Rally at Wandin Park Christmas Rally Fun Club Day and Christmas Lunch at Club Rooms

8 P A G E 8

9 P A G E 9 NEW IN STORE 648 Warburton Highway, Seville. Tel Ariat Heritage Boot Promotion - as seen in March Horse Deals, page 46 - buy a pair of Heritage boots in March or April and receive a beautiful Ariat tote valued at $40, free! - Kerrits winter clothing range, including jackets, fleeces and long sleeve tops. See The Saddlery Shop Facebook page for photos. Kerrits Sit Tights; Flex Tights and Microcord breeches all in 3 colours. - Winter rugs - Weatherbeeta and Zilco rugs in now. - Lafitte socks - new colours - Decron leg wrap poultices - Cashel saddle pads, horse boots, wraps, bell boots, flymasks and hay bags. ON SALE - 33% off ladies summer tops including Wrangler & Kerrits - 33% off girls' T shirts and PJs - 50% off winter vests and girls' long sleeve & fleecy tops - 25% off Ariat and Dublin show shirts - good range COMING SOON the new Horze range great products, amazing value Don t forget your 15% Wandin Park discount! Under New Management Arena Hire Agistment Lessons SEEKING SPONSORSHIP We look forward to providing business as usual! Please contact Teagen or Claire Hakek glenbrae@mail.com Like our Facebook page Glenbrae Equestrian Centre

10 P A G E 10 Got Something to sell/lease or want... No thoroughbreds, please Dear All, After thirteen wonderful years with my beautiful TB girl, I'm looking for something else a very quiet gelding! Not too big (15 to 16 hh) and not too old (8 years and under) with good movement and an impeccable temperament. I currently ride HRCAV Level 3 and although I will mostly focus on dressage, I would like to think my jumping days are not entirely over. If you could please forward this to anyone who has anything to do with horses, I would very much appreciate it. I figure someone somewhere must know the right horse Many thanks!!! Suzanne (mobile: ) BACK PROTECTORS available in club colours, manufactured in the UK & worn by top 3 & 4 star riders in Australia and around the world. 5% discount to WPRCA members. Please contact peta elstrek to view them or try on or peta.elstrek@bigpond.com.au

11 P A G E 11 Champion Club Member Champion Club Member Championship Points The Green Book Members please remember to complete the Green Book at each rally to ensure you accrue points throughout the year towards a free chaff chat or free entry to a TTT event/s the following year. The person with the most points at the end of the financial year (October) will receive a trophy and a free WPRCA Membership for the following year as well as the Champion Member title. You can earn points by just attending club rally days (either mounted / un-mounted), helping at rallies, writing for the newsletter, competing at official HRCAV competitions, or helping at our competitions, attending the AGM and General Meeting during the year. At the end of the year, Members who earn: h points - 1 x prize Prizes Are : - 1 x Chaff subscription h400+ points - 2 x prizes - 1 x TTT Entry The Club Champion will receive free WPRCA Membership for the following season. This rule is assessed annually. Committee Members DO NOT receive points for the committee jobs they do. Any member can earn the same amount of points as each other. NAME (last update March 2012) TOTAL 1 Sue Symonds 195 =2 Nicole Gilbert 150 =2 Anita Nathan 150 =2 Meg Stafford 150 =2 Veronica Harris 150 =3 Adrian Kolavcic 140 =3 Rebekah Harris 140 =4 Jenelle Martin 130 =5 Carol Foote 125 =5 Narelle Walker Barbara Geoffrey 120 =7 Julie Hanssen 115 =7 Sharyn Symonds 115 =7 Anita Hummer 115 =7 Kathy Smith 115 =8 Debbie Walsh 110 =8 Mardi Trease 110 =9 Kim Anning 105 =9 Peta Elstrek 105 =10 Jenny Wall 100 =10 Michelle Oliver 100 =10 Patricia Ellis 100 Description Points Attendance at AGM 100 Attendance at General Meetings 50 Attendance at Working Bees 30 Helping out at WPRCA Competitions 30 Helping out at WPRCA Rallies 5 Official team helper at HRCAV Team Event 25 Attending rally mounted/unmounted 5 Competing at our competitions 10 Newsletter Contributions 5 Competing at Official HRCAV Events 5 Every WPARC Member has the opportunity to win this award!!

12 P A G E 12 NEW ARRIVAL: For the dressage people, this lovely satin Stock is hand made in Teal and White with gold embellishment. Easy to put on with a Velcro fastener. Matches our existing uniform. Contact Anita Nathan for any enquiries or for purchase. Cost : $ Club Merchandise.. Uniforms are available to order through Anita Nathan. We have many members out and about in the new uniforms and they do look very smart. Contact details for Anita are Home: or Mobile: ggryder@bigpond.com Soft Shell Jacket $80.00 Polo Neck T-Shirt $ Polar Fleece Vest $45.00 Polar Fleece Jumper $50.00 Rugby Top $40.00 Soft Shell Vest $65.00 Knitted Scarves $15.00 Peaked Caps $15.00 Military Style Cap $20:00 Bucket Style Cap $20:00 Knitted Beanie $15:00 Stock $35.00