An evening social and change of executive...

Sliders members got together last night to hang out, finalize some of our CRUZ CLINIC details, and to elect a new president, as our current president, Dawnna Robertson decided it was necessary to step down, due to the heavy demands of her current schedule. We would like to extend a big thank you to Dawnna for filling our president role for the last two years, and welcome Elli Meinert  into the position.  

 
Our new president, Elli Meinert

Elli has been a club member since our inception and will serve as a great ambassador for our club. She has been increasingly involved in the sport of reining, and has worked with a number of outstanding professionals to build her own knowledge base. Elli competes at many of the major reining shows throughout the province, and has recently purchased a young mare from Websters Performance Horses, to show in reining and working cow. We are all excited to see her and "Porsche" in the show pen this year.

Elli's new show prospect, Porsche

Elli also helps in the day to day operation of her family's EASY GO RANCH in Lac La Hache, and as a club we have been able to benefit from using their beautiful facilities to host a number of clinics. As well Elli and her mom have launched a new business this year in 100 Mile. THE LOG HOUSE, (website still under construction) tack, harness and western ware store opened it's doors in November.

It is a beautiful log house, and they carry all the popular western styles, quality tack, western decor and have great prices. If you are traveling through 100 Mile House, be sure to stop in!

We're on Facebook!

OK everyone-you can now follow us on Facebook!! Check out the link for all the latest info, and to stay in touch. If you have photos or videos of club members doing stuff, please add them to our FB page-Mandy-would love to have your PG runs as well,  as your Supreme video up there, and Nicole, some of Ronnie's pics from the BC summer games, as well as her trip back east would be fantastic...!!

Sliders Executive Change

The 100 Mile Sliders would like to thank Randy Brodaway, for his service to the club as he will be stepping down as our Vice President. Randy has been instrumental in getting the Sliders started, and has been an active member since it's inception. We wish Randy all the best, and look forward to his ongoing involvement with the Sliders.

(Randy with cutting trainer Dale Shel, 2010 Horse Bazaar)

Tiffany Vaughn will step into the role of Vice President for the remainder of the 2011 year. Tiffany has also been involved with the Sliders from the beginning, and we look forward to having her take on a leadership role with the Sliders.

Tiffany and Sliders president, Dawnna, 100 Mile Horse Bazaar, 2010

Tiffany and Bandit, WCRA's 2009 "Riverslide"

SLIDER SUCCESS!!

Pictures-Cowgirl Creations-from Prince George

Top- Veronica Blatter

Middle-Elli Meinert

Bottom- Casandra Jakubiec

 
Some congrsatulations to some of our Slider members, who have seen success in the show pen this season.

Dawnna Monks-scored a 70, and won the Beginner A Class at WCRA "Riverslide in Kamloops. Dawnna continues to show at a rate that would make most people's head's spins, having success in literally every event she competes in! Barrels, gymkhannas, and reining. She is a true inspiration and a great role model as our club president.

Veronica Blatter- Ronnie has done well with her new horse, competing in the Prince George shows, as well as at Riverslide. She gets stronger with every class, and has now qualified for the BC Summer Games! Good luck, Ronnie!!

Elli Meinert- Ellie has also done well in the show pen this season, with 70 scores, as well as competing with her new 3 year old filly. Most recently, she won the Beginner Freestyle in Prince George, with her rendition of "YMCA" 

Casandra Jakubiec- despite the fact that she underspun by a quarter turn, Casandra was really pleased with her freestyle performance on Jewel, getting her best score ever of 73, and plusing her stop. She continues to work as Sherri's Thomson's riding assistant at the shows.    

A message from our Incoming Sliders President

Pictures-taken from Dawnna's facebook page...is nothing sacred??

As your new new president I thought it was time to introduce myself..as I had been promising Bella I would do all last year! I started riding at three when my parents bought me my first pony..she was rotton of course. I continued to love horses despite her.I have ridden dressage, jumping, gymkhana, cutting and pleasure showing....I rode dressage for 5 yrs with Rex Rhodes..I showed open  and apploosa as a youth and after my son was born I competed hunter jumper for a couple of years...I just didn't have the lion heart for that!  lol I bred quarter horses for a few years until my health deterioated and I sold off most of my herd except for a couple of brood mares and two riding horses...(at the time babys!)...both of the horses I compete on now.  I fell in love with reining about ten years ago and it has been my focus ever since...I do still enjoy showing and compete most weekends..I love trail class and horsemanship.

 I have ridden with such great clinicians as Roy Yates, Les Voight, Richard Shrake and Deana Millard, taking from each what knowledge they have had to pass on to make me a better horse person. I have also recently started to compete in barrel racing and joined the BCBRA  this year, hoping to do well.

 I suffer from severe rhumatoid arthritis which has caused me to make certain adaptations in the way I ride and compete...I, at the present time have little use of my hands so must make sure my horses are as light as they can be..I have a weak left leg that is numb  on the back side..I must think and make the leg move as it doesn't do that when it's tired....We all have things that we must over come-each of us has a hill or two we must climb...

 I hope this lets you know more about me and my goals. I will try to be the best president that I can be and hope we can all achieve our goals this year 

Dawnna Monks 

100 Mile Sliders President 2010

Thanks for this Dawnna! I still encourage ALL our members to send me your "bio" so I can post it here as a way to help us learn about each other!! (Isabella MacQuarrie)

Member Bio-Elli Meinert

My name is Elli Meinert and me and my family have been living in Lac La Hache for almost 5 years. 
I am just finshing up my 2 year college program to become a certifie Equine Sports Therapist. After that I am going to travel in the states to learn from some reining trainers.
I have been riding since I was 10 years old and got into reining about 3 1/2 years ago.
I currently own 4 horses. One of them is a bay gelding, Dodge, which I have been competing in reining with for 2 1/2 years. I did a lot of work on him myself and now just have to add finishing touches. 
I also ride and show some of my mother's horses. 
I enjoy every aspect of life with horses and spent most of my time with them.
I am excited to get to know everybody from the reining club and hopefully make some new friends.

So there we go..
The picture I attached is Me and one of our geldings, Zips Deal is Dun aka Dealer

THANKS, ELLI!!

OK, THE GROUND HAS BEEN BROKEN-LET'S HEAR FROM THE REST OF YOU!! FIRST 5 TO E MAIL ME WIN A PRIZE!!

Getting to Know Each Other

Pictures 

Top-Bella, Phil and Casandra with horses, Josie, Jiminey, and Maddie (and dog, Maggie)

Middle- Bella and Jewel, with grandson, Mason and Foxy

Bottom- Bella and Phil

So as I was writing my last post, I was thinking it would be nice to get to know each other a bit better. We need to have a social get together (sooner than later) but in the meantime what I would like, would be for each of you to e mail me a little bio on yourself along with a few pictures, and I will post your info up here on the blog. That way, we can put faces to names when we see each other!!

You've already read and seen enough of me on here, but thought I'd go first just so you know what I'm kind of looking for....

So my name is Bella, and we moved up to the Cariboo about eight years ago from the coast. I'm a teacher, and so is my partner, Phil (although he just retired this year). We bought a beautiful ranch in the Interlakes, with a plan to breed a few horses. We named our ranch "Brushstroke Paint Horses". My daughter, Casandra (whom you have also seen a lot of on this blog), was getting into reining, and was working with our trainer Sherri. We focused our breeding on APHA horses, with performance bloodlines. Now that Casandra is done school, I've decided to focus a bit more on my own horse interests, and hence the involvement with the reining club. I've been around it now for years, so I have some background knowledge, but want to put it to the test on the back of a horse. Jewel is our APHA mare that Casandra competed on, so I have the luxury of riding a horse that knows way more than me! I look forward to developing my skills as a rider, and doing a bit of competing along the way...

We also enjoy the Cariboo lifestyle-trail riding, canoeing, fishing, photography, and all things outdoors!

Now it's YOUR turn!! Don't be shy!! E mail me your info, and I'll post it here!!

email-isabella.macquarrie@sd27.bc.ca

A little incentive -the first 5 members to e mail me will win a little prize!!