Welcome to the Autumn Newsletter!

View this email in your browser Welcome to the Autumn Newsletter! September already - so that's Breed Show month and all the patterns and qualifiers list are available on the website. We would also like to say huge thanks and appreciation to our sponsors too. There is really important legal news about passports - please read - especially if you have bred a foal this year. https://www.aqha.uk.com/horses-forsale/ Don't forget to send in details for the

Have a look at the new Photography competition too and send in your entries - details below. For Sale page of the website. We are getting many hits now and it's where people are looking to buy horses and equipment - info@aqha.uk.com A MUST READ FOR OWNERS, BREEDERS AND YARD OWNERS Things you need to know!

There are two new pieces of legislation that have an major impact of horse owners, breeders and yard owners. All but one of the sanctions come into place on 1 November 2018. The key points are; 1. Two new additional tools given to enforcement officers a) Compliance Notices - the offender will be given the opportunity to comply with the regulations. Failure to do so will incur a Compliance Notice Penalty b) Fixed Penalty Notices - These will be issued in the same way as driving offences. Monetary fines set by Local Authorities. One of the ways these are picked up is through the Central Equine Database and through enforcement officers The actual monetary penalties are as yet to be determined. 2. BREEDERS - You need to notify AQHAUK that you have bred a foal by 1 October. And, register no later than 30 November. I will be developing a new form for this and it will be available on the website by the end of September. Failure to notify could / will lead to prosecution and this is picked up through the CED at registration. 3. Transfers of Ownership MUST be completed within 30 days. This is not new but will be pick up through the CED after 1 November and penalty fines issued. 4. Yard owners can also be prosecuted where horses liveried at their yards fail to meet the regulations. So check that owners have a passport and that it is in the name of the person purporting to be the owner! 5. Yard owners can no longer withhold a passport for failure of an owner to pay their bills. 6. Passports will from 1 November be called ID Documents 7. Passport Issuing Organisations will become known as Issuing Bodies. There are many more regulations that apply to vets and to issuing bodies and thus far it is early days with regards the regulations. I am sure more will follow so we will keep you posted of those that affect you as we become aware. JOURNAL 2018 Attention: Have you won any Awards or high points or ROMS this year? If

so please let us know - we do not get regular updates from the AQHA so we may be completely unaware of your proud achievements! Please send details to us at journal.aqhauk@gmail.com as soon as you can so that we can feature you in the journal and on the website.

Go to the website for details of the qualifiers list, the patterns for all of the classes and all much more. https://www.aqha.uk.com/breed-show-2018/ Thank you to all of the Breed Show 2018 Sponsors! Your generosity is very much appreciated - we look forward to seeing you at the show!

Please note that there will be a photographer at the Breed Show but no live feed or video. We held a vote earlier in the year but sadly had only 13 valid responses, the results of which are below. Members had also expressed to Council verbally that they wished to keep costs down and it was therefore decided at a Council meeting to have a photographer only. The results were 5 votes for video/live stream, 5 votes for still photography only, and 3 votes to keep the usual arrangements. Auction at The Breed Show On Saturday evening there will be an auction for the membership cards photo for the forthcoming year - if you wish your horse to be the face of the AQHA UK then be at the event - or we can take telephone bids on the night! There will also be a general auction of items which will include a portrait of your horse by the artist Kay Irvine. Thank you to Kay for your very generous donation! Images below: Kay Irvine with some of her beautiful work.

Photo above: European Champion Amateur Ranch Riding - Fran Armitage & MD Baby Whiz by LUX Photographers. Congratulations and celebrations to all those who have been competing in Europe over this season. A full report will be in the Journal of the huge successes that have taken place - wonderful to see the Brits Abroad waving the flag! If you would like to submit your story and photos of competing in Europe then please send it in to journal.aqhauk@gmail.com

Congratulations... to Lucy Adams on becoming an AQHA Judge! A fantastic achievement for Lucy, and congratulations too for all your European achievements this

season! Lucy is a member of the AQHA UK Council and is the International Director!

Photography Competition! AQHA UK are delighted to announce a Photographic Competition for the 2018 Journal A prize of 100 will be awarded to the winner. The title of the competition is Horses at Play This competition is open to AQHA UK members who are amateur photographers Please send your photos to journal.aqhauk@gmail.com Please read the rules before submitting your image. Rules: This competition is open to any current member of the AQHA UK Any entry received may be published on the website and in the AQHA UK Journal including details of the entrant. Competition is open to amateur photographers only; you must not have been paid or won a photographic competition. Entrants must ensure that the photographs they are submitting are their own work and that they do not infringe the copyright or other rights of any third party or any laws Entrants must have consent of persons who own the horses, or land, or buildings which may form part of the image submitted. Please include your email, include your details and your AQHA UK member number with your entry. Images must be large format at least 1mb and high resolution JPEG format. Images must be attached to the email and not embedded. All entries will be sent anonymously to the Judge for adjudication. The judge s decision is final. Final deadline for entries is: Friday 12th October 2018.

Membership Reminder As we have previously said the membership is changing to a January 1st renewal system, in line with the majority of equine organisations, and as streamlining benefit for the Association. You will be receiving details soon of payments and how this is going to be implemented. Keep an eye on Facebook and the website for more news soon. Members whose subscription runs out in Oct, November and December will be given the opportunity of paying for 15, 14 and 13 months respectively so that they will not have to renew until January 1st 2020. Thank you for your cooperation. Congratulations to the Youth Team who returned from the Youth World Cup in Texas, and were 8th out of the 19 teams at the competition. A full report will be in this

year's Journal. Thank you also to Charlene Carter, Mary Larcom and Sandra Loder and the team members for all their hard work on behalf of the AQHA UK. By the way - does anyone drive their quarter horse or part bred qh? We would be really interested to know so send in your details and photos to ruthoreilly.aqhauk@gmail.com Thank you! If you do not wish to receive AQHAUK newsletters in the future then please click the link at the end of this email to unsubscribe.