January Zone 8 Update
Thank you for being a Zone 8 member! Mark your calendar for 2019 championships, catch up on the latest sport news and see what is coming up in our zone!
Dates and locations announced for 2019 Zone HOTY & Stirrup Cup Championships
Dates and locations for 2019 Zone HOTY and Stirrup Cup championships have been announced! Mark your calendar for championships coming up in Zone 8:

Zone 8 Stirrup Cup Championship 
September 27-29
NMHJA Fall Festival
Albuquerque, N.M.

Zone 8 Horse of the Year Championship
November 20-24
Arizona Season Finale II
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Applications open for USHJA Zone Jumper Team Championships!
Applications are now open for the USHJA Zones 7 & 8 Jumper Team Championships!
 
The Championships will be held at Hipico Sante Fe, Santa Fe, NM, July 24-28, 2019 !
 
The qualifying period is July 2, 2018-June 10, 2019 . Click below to apply by June 10 to have your points count toward qualifying this year!
 
Congratulations to Mackenzie Carreras!
Zone 8's Mackenzie Carreras of Chandler, Arizona, participated in the USHJA Gold Star Clinic - West Coast in Thermal, California, January 16-20. Way to go, Mackenzie!
Bernie Traurig Clinic in Colorado
Don't miss the Bernie Traurig Clinic at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Contact Laurie Grayson at (303) 579-3837 or Justalittlefarm@gmail.com for more information.
Enroll in the Green Hunter Incentive and International Hunter Derby Programs before the price goes up!
More Green for Green Hunters: More than $2.6 million paid out!
Three ways to earn great prize money for your 3', 3'3", 3'6" or 3'9" Green Hunter:
  1. Enter a USHJA Green Incentive Stake class at a competition near you
  2. Participate in one of five Regional Championships
  3. Participate in the Platinum Performance/USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Championship
 
Horses must be enrolled to participate and recorded with the USEF and registered with the USHJA. Enrollment fee is $350 through Feb. 1 and increases to $550 on Feb. 2. For more information visit ushja.org/greenincentive .
 
2019 Derby Goals: More than $12.7 million paid out!
If you have the Championships on your list of goals for this competition year, enroll today and save! Enroll in the USHJA International Hunter Derby Program to be eligible for inclusion on regional and national money won tracking lists and to participate in the 2019 Platinum Performance/USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship.
 
Enrollment fee is $350 through Feb. 1, and increases to $550 on Feb. 2. Horses must be recorded with the USEF and registered with the USHJA to participate. For information, visit ushja.org/IHD .  
Sport History: Fun facts from the USHJA Wheeler Museum!
Do you know why an “oxer” is called an “oxer”? 

The name came from the practice of putting parallel rails on either side of a hedge to keep oxen from damaging natural hedges.

In the early day of foxhunting, riders jumped these hedges and rails as they followed the hounds, and those obstacles became known as oxers.

An authentic example of an oxer is still seen at Hickstead in England. Modern-day oxers can be any kind of jump with parallel rails, but the back element can only have one rail.
A “true” oxer at Hickstead.
Photo credit: Rex Coleman
Don't miss these great opportunities!
Applications are open for the USHJA Foundation Gochman Grant for USEF Pony Finals presented by Collecting Gates Farm and the $25,000 Hamel Family Scholarship for Further Education. Read more.
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