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Spotlight on New York Morgan Youth If you've news, notes or photos that you'd like to share regarding our young club members - please send them along to vlow@rochester.rr.com. We're happy to share what's going on! The Berkshire Morgan Youth Club
April – June 2009 In April we visited Fairview Stables and East of Equinox Farm, both of which are located at East of Equinox in Manchester, Vermont. In the morning we got to walk down the barn aisle at Fairview Stables and see all of their horses including Issues and Answers, a very well known stallion. Later, Jaisen and Megan Von Ballmoos, owners and trainers at Fairview, showed us the differences in some of the disciplines and explained what a judge would expect in each discipline. After a very yummy lunch, we moved to the East of Equinox barns. Here, we learned about the history of the East of Equinox breeding program from owner Ivan Beattie. Mr. Beattie explained how East of Equinox has adapted their breeding program to change to a more modern looking Morgan. Before we left, we got to see all of East of Equinox’s foals, which was especially fun. In May we went over the requirements for level two of the Horsemastership Badges. We also received materials for horse keeping records for three months. In June we had two meetings. The
first meeting was to plan out our educational display board for the
Youth Club of the Year Contest. During that time something out of the
ordinary happened - we saw a bear not too far away from Barbara’s house.
It was a very exciting meeting!! The second meeting of the month was at
the Sweet family’s Triple Sweet Farm to put together the display board. Submitted by Emma Kate Flanagan Central New York Youth Love Morgans!
Our group has been working on the AMHAY achievement levels, the Bulrush
level for the newer members and some of us have now started on the
Woodbury level. Our meetings always start with some kind of game or
puzzle. Some are from horse books but some are made by our members!
Allison Romer made up a crossword puzzle from Morgan history questions
and Emma Worrel News from the Morgan Masters: Reporter Taylor Ray Countryman The Morgan Masters meet on 4/19/09 at Sunny Acres from 11-1. We split into two separate groups and worked on judging. One group showed the mares while the others did the judging. The second group showed gelding and thanks to Dale for filling in and being a handler. We all got a chance to show and judge. After we meet one at a time in the ring to explain our how we placed the class and what our reasons were. Katrina, Cayla, and Carolyn did their presentations on their horses backgrounds and bloodlines. The Morgan Masters will be holding their first fundraiser at the Western District show. We are putting together a gift basket that has everything your show horse will need. We will be selling tickets for this at the show and will be drawing the winner there also. Come by Sunny Acres for your tickets, or we will be around to find you. Morgan Masters will have their next meeting at the show. Anyone interested in joining our group contact Nancy at; vidlers@sunnyacresmorgan.com (posted 5/27/09) News From Trinity Trotters; Trinity Farm’s own Trinity Trotters have high hopes for this coming show season. Every Saturday for the month of June, the UVM Morgan Horse Farm is allowing the public to come and see their new foals. In support of the UVM Morgan Horse Farm, the Trinity Trotters is hoping to plan a trip up to the farm to see the new foals as well as learn about the history and the other events around the farm. In addition to the already action-packed Trinity Trotter schedule, Sanford Stud farm will be hosting their second annual open house, which will include the viewing Trinity Farm’s very own horses. Both Sanford and Trinity Farm are hopeful that they will have the help and support of the diligent and lively Trinity Trotters to assist in this public event. Despite a busy show schedule, Trinity Trotters is planning a summer full of exciting events and activities that will be both fun and educational for the young horseman. (posted 5/27/09) Posted 3/35/09...A New Year |
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