Wishing you good health &
prosperity in the year ahead!
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MHAO Offers Several Opportunities to Advertise to Members & The Morgan Community
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Put your ad in the Stable Sheet!
MHAO Encourages inner trade between members.
Such a bargain!
Per Issue:
Full Page - $25
Half Page - $15
Fourth Page - $10
Business Card - $10 per year (12 issues)
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Classified Ads In The
Stable Sheet
& on the MHAO
Website are Free!
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Advertise anything horse related:
horses for sale or lease - tack for sale - equipment - horses -
items wanted, stallion service ads, etc.
Send your ad to Gay Adams
Questions: call (503) 936-4276
Close date is the 20th of each month
This list is shared at all the promotional events
MHAO participates in.
Let Gay know if your ad should be removed
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For Sale:
TG Santa Cruz (Amberfields Blaze N Dun X Ranchboss Reining Gold) He is UC Davis tested E/E, A/A, N/Cr, D. He is a Dunskin, born 5/28/2017. Cruz is a big, beautiful wonderfully bred colt. 2017 Fall pricing $4000.00.
Contact Peggy at peggy@takilmagoldmorgans or call 541-659-0383.
Stallions Standing to the Public:
Athletic and kind, with beautiful Morgan-type, Gladheart Black Harris (2005; DJJJ Ebony Gold x Rogue's Midnight Melody) is producing outstanding individuals with the talent, disposition and beauty that is the hallmark of breed. The 2015 Oregon Dressage Society League Reserve Champion at Second Level Open, Black Harris has earned his AMHA Bronze Medallion and has been shown through Third Level in Open Competition. He is showing excellent talent for upper-level dressage.
Dressage, Western Dressage, Eventing, Driving or Working Western--no matter what your discipline this stallion has the ability and bloodlines to give you the perfect partner. Please visit our website ( www.Gladheartfarm.com ) for more pictures and videos of Black Harris and our other Morgans. $900/LFG.
Contact Nadette at 541-740-2890 or Gladheartfarm1@msn.com.
Horse Lease Opportunity:
You may have admired Anthem's National Treasure (WH Zimbabwe x RGM Viking’s Treaure), the lovely black mare that has carried our flag at shows and been shown by Shelley Bullard the last few years. "Grover" was well started by Jean Sauer and then trained by her amateur rider (Shelley) during her show career. She is cherished, but we do not have a job for her this year and would be interested in leasing her at no charge to a rider who will keep her with a trainer and show her next year. A breeding lease or other options might also be considered under the right circumstances.
Please contact Emilie at ekedling@aol.com to discuss.
For Sale:
Horse trailer/ Toy hauler - 2003 All aluminum Kiefer Built Genesis X-4. All dividers removable. Bulkhead removed for bigger open cargo area (all parts included in case you want to reinstall bulkhead). Huge open cargo area can accommodate 2 horses plus your carriage, a tractor, snow mobiles, ATVs, etc. Perfect for camping at multiple day events with queen size goose neck area. Completely removable (60/40 split)back door divider for wide open entrance/exit. Two (2) locations for movable saddle rack. Pull down windows and bars. Brand new specialty trailering tires (Not the cheaper truck tires on most trailers). New bearings and brakes. $17k or best offer.
Call Denise Angel 805-540-9480 or morganhorselady@gmail.com
For Sale:
1998 Merhow 3-horse gooseneck van with storage/sleeping area over deck. Mats, pads, rear removable tack/saddle rack in rear. Hauls like an absolute dream. Using a small trailer now so this one needs a new home. Some work needed. $10,000.
Call Sondjia at 360-825-5617, sondjia@gmail.com
For Sale:
Western pleasure/trail saddle. Crates, handmade “Mustang” model, very good condition. 15” seat, basket weave, square skirts, 28” latigo ties at back end of skirts. $450.00. Soft woven rubber saddle pad, $40.00. Also Troxel safety helmet, western style, tan color, never worn $65.00.
Contact: Ellie Mason at mmorgans@frontier.com.
For Sale:
Dale Chavez light leather western show saddle. 17” suede seat.
Basket weave and leaf tooled leather, studs, silver plates. Gorgeous. Used at only 2 shows and stored inside a smokeless home. New $4,800. Will sell for $3,900.
Lynae Ireland, Bend, OR - 541-317-0822 or ireland@uci.net
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Your Source For Oregon Equine Industry News, Events, Special Discounts, & More.
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OHC Annual Meeting & Holiday Potluck
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OHC is excited to re-unit with old friends, welcome new ones, celebrate 2017, and tell you about our exciting 2018 plans! The short annual meeting will begin at 6 pm. The rest of the time is to network and socialize!
Join us for our annual holiday potluck and bring some horse-lovin' friends along! Beverages are provided, please bring a dish to share! Non-members and guests are welcome to attend!
Please RSVP in advance to help us plan.
Friday, December 1 - 5:30-8 pm
Annual meeting from 6-6:30 pm
Hosted at Lake Oswego Hunt Club
2725 Iron Mountain Blvd.
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
or
When
Friday, December 1, 2017 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PST
Where
Lake Oswego Hunt Club
2725 Iron Mountain Blvd
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
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Be Included in the 2017-2018
Oregon Horse Directory
Going to Press
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Claim Your FREE Listing Today!!
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Basic classified listings are FREE for all equine businesses or organizations in Oregon. Basic listings include business name, city/state, phone number. Or upgrade to a PREMIER Listing for only $30 and have your business name bolded, include your address, email, and website.
We also have low cost display advertising starting at only $110 for an 1/8 page full color ad in 15,000 copies! No where will you get this much promotion for such a great price! Be seen (and found) in the 2017-2018 Oregon Horse Directory!
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OHC Welcomes New 2018 Board Members
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We appreciate the time that our members took to vote for our 2018-2020 board positions. We will have 2 new faces joining our current board starting in January - Sherri Williams, from Dodge Creek Stables in Oakland, and Teal Shoop, owner of Sterling Essentials in West Linn. Ed Hamilton, with COUNTRY Financial was elected to another term as well. Board members remaining for 2018 will be Kathy Hall (Kathryn A. Hall, PC from Hillsboro), Melodie Holliday (individual member from Powell Butte), Catherine Ulrey (owner of Homes With Horse Sense from Scio), and Gay Adams (President of the Morgan Horse Association from Oregon City).
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Featured Oregon Equine Events
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MHAO is a member of Oregon Horse Country
OHC members are horse owners as well as businesses & associations
in Oregon that serve the Equine Industry.
Amplifying the power of the Equine Industry in Oregon!
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High Desert Horse Expo
April 20-22, 2018
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Attention Vendors!
Now is the time to sign up.
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Hosted by Oregon Horse Country, the High Desert Horse Expo is Central Oregon’s largest equine event. This event is sure to have something for everyone who loves horses - with nearly 150 booths to shop, clinicians, demonstrations, and energizing educational experiences.
Planning is in the works now, so please check back for clinicians, demos, presenters and more!
Admission is only $5 at the door, ages 12 & under are free! Season 3-day wristbands can be purchased for $10 (non-transferrable).
If you love horses or are a horse owner, this is the event of the year that you don’t want to miss! More details are on our website -
www.HighDesertHorseExpo.com
If you would like to be a vendor, contact Brandi Ebner
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Things We’re Thankful For:
Equestrians Helping Equestrians
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The equestrian community pulled together after a series of natural disasters, donating money, time, and effort to aid horses
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In the wake of major Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and devastating Western wildfires, the equestrian community banded together to help horses in need in a variety of ways, whether by donating to the
USEF Equine Disaster Relief Fund
or by helping to evacuate or shelter animals.
Countless individuals and groups donated to the
USEF Equine Disaster Relief Fund
to help during the trying times, totaling just over $653,000 this year. That included sizeable donations by
Brooke USA
and USEF partner
Ariat
. Due to this generosity, thousands of dollars in financial aid was provided to local emergency response teams, veterinary hospitals, humane centers, and other organizations on the ground in the aftermath of the hurricanes. Inspired and grateful for the equestrian community’s ability to band together, we wanted to highlight some of the fundraising and relief efforts around the country.
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Six Ways to Prevent Mud
by Glenye Oakford | Nov 14, 2017, 3:00 PM EST
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Places where horses congregate often feature bare, compacted soil.
Photo credit: Taylor Pence.
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Mud is hard on human and horse alike, and many a barn manager undoubtedly has wished they could simply wave a magic wand to get rid of it. Reducing mud around the barn and pasture isn’t quite that easy, but there are things you can do to prevent it. We asked Dr. Stephen Higgins, director of environmental compliance for the University of Kentucky’s Agricultural Experiment Station in Lexington, Ky., for his top mud-prevention tips.
“You have to be willing to try things and think out of the box,” Higgins said, “and sometimes you’ve got to be willing to break bad habits and traditions.”
1. Assess your horse’s daily environment.
Taking your area’s climate and average rainfall into account, consider how water moves through your horse’s paddock or pasture. “Is there natural drainage going through their paddock? Is there a summit position? Is it well drained or does water pool?” said Higgins. “A lot of people will lay out a horse farm looking at aerial photography and planning on two dimensions, length and width. They look for areas to place square paddocks or large paddocks, but they don’t consider the drainage.”
Ideally, gateways should be away from drainage areas—at the top of a slope rather than at the bottom, for example. Mud will be more likely in high-traffic areas, like gateways and spots where horses gather naturally, so it’s important to minimize that by shifting gates away from natural drainage paths.
2. Use pasture grass to help manage water flow.
“You want to protect your pastures from excess water by having them in a full canopy of grass,” Higgins explained. “That’s crop science 101. You don’t want any bare spots or denuded areas, because rain can cause a lot of damage.
“You want what we call sheet flow, where water flows as a shallow sheet across a big area. You want thick stands of forages or grasses to slow water down to filter it and hang on to it as much as possible” to prevent rapid soil run-off—and to water your pasture grass naturally, Higgins explained.
3. Control horse traffic.
Keeping horses in for part of the day allowing a paddock to “rest” without horses for a time helps prevent overgrazing and soil compaction—both contributors to mud. During prolonged, heavy rain, consider stabling your horses to help prevent soil damage. “If they’re out in a field, they’re out there trampling it,” said Higgins. “Keep them confined and let the water perk in those soils, then turn the horses out.”
4. Control the flow from barn downspouts.
Barn and arena roofs create a lot of run-off that needs direction, and horse activities—from washing to grazing—require water. That’s a marriage made in heaven, says Higgins.
“You need to harvest or manage every drop of water that falls on your farm,” Higgins said. “You need to manage water coming out of downspouts so it doesn’t create gullies and concentrated flows that end up eroding soil and moving soil away—which also creates mud areas.”
Collecting roof water in tanks or via rain barrels under downspouts is another idea. “Then you can use that water to keep down dust in your arena or to water vegetation or any number of things,” Higgins said. “That reduces mud and also saves you money.”
5. Install pervious concrete.
Unlike traditional concrete, pervious concrete captures water and allows it to filter down into the underlying soil, reducing run-off, mud, and erosion. “When you put water on that concrete, it actually goes through it,” Higgins said. “I’d definitely recommend it for a wash pad. You can also create a form and pour this stuff about a foot wide and 30 inches long, and it becomes a splash block under a downspout.”
6. Consider creating an all-weather pad.
In unavoidable heavy traffic zones—like feeding areas, water troughs, and places where horses hang out as a group—Higgins advises installing a heavy traffic pad that creates an all-weather surface. First, choose a flat site with well-drained soil on relatively high ground. For geotextile material, Higgins suggests trying farm stores and even highway construction suppliers. Ask for non-woven fabric, which is more suitable for water management.
Higgins has overseen installation of all-weather areas in pastures using geotextile fabric and 8” to 10” of compacted dense-grade aggregate gravel. It’s important to compact the gravel with a roller, Higgins said. “And the dust is essential, because it helps lock in the rock when it’s wet,” Higgins said.
“I’ll have horse owners who complain about gravel, saying it’s hard on horses’ feet, but mud also is hard on their feet,” Higgin said. “If you do the rock correctly, it’s a moot point.
“You want to hog out or remove the topsoil, probably 8” to 10” of it, until you get down to a compactable clay layer. Put the geotextile fabric in the bottom. It doesn’t go up on the sides or on the grass, just the bottom.”
Then fill in 8” to 10” of aggregate and cover it with no more than two inches of Class I sand or agricultural lime. “That gives the horses sandy footing to stand on,” Higgins explained.
“That soil you’ve removed will expand to 50% more than its original volume,” he added, “so you can use it to fill other problem areas, like holes or ditches, or you can sell it as topsoil and use that to pay for the all-weather pad project.”
Also helpful: plastic gravel pave and grass pave interlocking matrix bases, which can help prevent wear and gulley erosion and also provide more traction in gateways, run-in sheds, around water troughs, and more.
Higgins suggests that farm owners also contact their county conservation district and county extension office. “You might be able to use taxpayer dollars to help implement some of the suggestions on your farm through cost-sharing programs,” Higgins said.
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USEF is a fantastic resource for all equestrians!
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USEF Membership Renewals Due
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2018 US Equestrian Annual Meeting
January 17th - 20th, 2018 - Lexington, Kentucky
You're Invited!
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Register today for the 2018 US Equestrian Annual Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. This event will take place January 17-20, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency and adjoining Lexington Center. You can
register online
using your US Equestrian account name and password. Lock in now to secure the early bird pricing, which will end on Friday, December 15.
US Equestrian has secured a group hotel rate of $153 plus tax. For reservations, please call the Hyatt Regency at (888) 421-1442 and ask for the "USEF Annual Meeting Rate." The cut-off date to receive this special rate is Friday, December 22. Make your reservation today!
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New US Equestrian Rulebook App
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Accessing the USEF (US Equestrian) Rulebook on the road or at events is easier than ever, thanks to the new USEF Rulebook App, featuring a search function.
The app allows users to view the entire 1,200-page Rulebook chapter by chapter and to filter results by keywords and chapters or divisions, quickly sorting by the most relevant information or page. Users also can access recent Presidential Modifications (Pres-Mods) and Drugs & Medications documents.
Other features of the app include:
- The latest rule and regulation updates for all 29 USEF-recognized breeds and disciplines
- An archive of past Rulebooks for the last 10 years
The USEF Rulebook App is ideal for US Equestrian members, show officials, judges, volunteers, and staff, who can now reference current rules on the spot during competition. Internet access required.
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FEI World Equestrian Games
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Tickets Now on Sale for
FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018
in Mill Spring, North Carolina, USA, on September 11-23, 2018
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Tickets for the
FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018
(WEG) are now on sale. Set for September 11 through September 23 in the scenic Carolinas region of the United States, spectators can choose from a variety of ticket types to experience the world's largest equestrian championship. With all competitions happening on site at Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) in Mill Spring, N.C., attendees can come for the day, a week, or the entire Games.
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Select "Buy Tickets" from the menu.
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Save the Date!
AMHA Convention
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February 15-17, 2018
Hyatt Regency, Lexington KY
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Mark February 15-17 on your calendar to join AMHA at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington, Kentucky, for the annual AMHA Convention! This convention will be all Morgan, complete with farm tours, clinics, fun seminars, and honoring those in our Morgan community! Spend this winter weekend with your Morgan family!
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AMHA Announces Board of Director Candidates
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AMHA is pleased to announce the following slate of
candidates for the 2018 election.
Eastern Region (1 position
)
Steven Handy, Marlborough, MA
Karen Marlin, Brunswick, ME (incumbent)
Central Region (1 position
)
Kristen Breyer, Wauconda, IL (incumbent)
Mary Westman, Norman, OK
Western Region (1 position):
Terri Sturm, Las Vegas, NV
The Annual Meeting of Members of the American Morgan Horse Association, Inc., will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington, Kentucky on Friday, February 16, 2018 at 3 p.m. Eastern time.
Each AMHA member who is in good standing as of December 31, 2017 and who has attained at least 18 years of age as of January 1, 2017 is entitled to vote. Ballots will be emailed to those 2017 AMHA members in good standing who have email addresses on record.
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AMHA Revamps Star Rating Program
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The AMHA Board of Directors recently voted to accept changes to its Star Rating program, to take effect starting with the 2018 show season.
The program no longer will have four star rated shows, there will only be one show, a Star Rated Show. These shows' criteria is similar to the previous 3 Star Show;
they are not USEF rated
; shows will have
places 1-2 qualify for the Morgan Grand National;
the fee to become a Star Rated show remains at $50; and it will follow USEF rules in terms of show dates.
USEF "r" or "R" judges also need be hired. High-point certificates are available upon request.
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Qualifying for Grand National at
all USEF shows
will continue to be places 1-6.
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New Log-in Instructions for
AMHA Website
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Click image above for more information.
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2018 Horse Show Dates
2018 CDE Dates
Board Members
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Gay Adams, Acting Editor | MHAO | (503) 936-4276
sunstonemorgans@comcast.net | www.morganhorseoregon.com
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