Follow Up to Brant Ranch Schooling Show

PICTURES: (thanks, Nicole!!)

1. Ronnie and Peppy

2. Dawnna and Moke

3. Mandie and Chico

4. Tiffany and Bandit (I love this shot!! He's trying so hard!!)

On Sunday, Mandy, Dawnna, Tiffany and Veronica all made their way down to the Brandt Ranch in Pritchard for a reining schooling show. From what I hear, the girls had a great time, and Amanda was very helpful with feedback to the riders. Thanks to Nicole for providing me with the pictures. 

Next weekend, a few of our members will be heading to Prince George for the first "big" show of the season, PGRHA SPRING SLIDE (see sidebar for link to show info). BEST OF LUCK!! Be sure to take lots of pictures so we can post them here, and let us know how it goes!!

RIVERSLIDE 2010

PICTURES-FROM RIVERSLIDE 09'

1. Sherri Thomson and Niki

2. Casandra and Cowboy

3. Amanda Self

4. Tiffany and Bandit

5. Austin Selhof and Marv

Entry packages are now available for RIVERSLIDE. The second in the WCRA high point series reining shows. The show starts FRIDAY JUNE 4th and goes until SUNDAY JUNE 6th. ENTRY DEADLINE IS MAY 19th. Dawnna, Tiffany, Mandy, Casanda and I all showed last year at this show. The footing for reining is superb, there is a great atmosphere, and it is not to far away for us Cariboo reiners. There is a full slate of modified classes for us beginners, and on Saturday night, they are having a fun games/team competition, with proceeds going to support the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation! Sounds like fun!! How about a 100 Mile Sliders Team?? You girls who are also doing the barrels/gymkhana circuit should make for a pretty competitive team!!

LYNDA SMITH SCHOOLING SHOW PICTURES

PICTURES:

1. Bella and Jewel

2. Ellie and Sabre Royal Pistol ("Dodge") on her circle

3. Dawnna and Moke large fast

4. Ellie and Dodge spin

5. Tanya and Monty at center

Here are some pictures from the schooling show. Thanks again, Laura for letting me post your pictures here! If anyone else took pictures from the clinic and/or show, please e mail them to me and I will post them here!! 

LYNDA SMITH CLINIC PICTURES

PICTURES: (click on Pictures for a larger view)

1. Look at those Cariboo Cowgirls!!l

2. Gloria and (?)

3. Nicole and (?) working with Lynda

4. Dawnna, Randy and John on "babysitting duty"

5. Tiffany and Bandit

6. Mandy and Chico

7. Tanya and Monty

8. The warm up pen (Nice stop, Dawnna!!)

9. Leona and (?)

10. Barry and (?) working with Lynda

Thanks again to Laura for providing the pictures from the Lynda Smith clinic. I think everyone came away from the clinic with lots of new information and a renewed sense of excitement about reining. 

Sixteen eager participants slid into 100 Mile House April 9-11 to get some horsemanship and reining tips from reining trainer Lynda Smith, of Langley BC. The participants got to put their newfound knowledge to the test on Sunday, in a schooling show, judged by Lynda. The clinic and show were held at the Lakeside Equestrian Center, and despite the biting cold on Friday, the rest of the weekend proved to be perfect and sunny and we were able to use the great footing in the outdoor arena.

This was what one of our participants had to say!!

"Hi Bella and 100 Mile Sliders,

We just wanted to extend our thanks and appreciation for a great weekend of fun and learning.  Most impressive was the high caliber of women reiners residing in the South Cariboo.  We are proud to be part of the 100 Mile Sliders and to know such a great group of dedicated, hard working ladies.

Thanks again and see you all soon.

Best regards,

Nicolle and Ronnie"

The Sliders would like to send out a great big thank you to Lynda for coming up and supporting our club, as well as a thank you to all the people who volunteered their time and energy to make this clinic/schooling show a success.

 

Meeting On Wednesday

We are meeting on WEDNESDAY MARCH 31ST, 6:00 AT THE FARRIER PUB TO DISCUSS:

1) Follow up to the bazaar

2) Our LYNDA SMITH clinic/show coming up fast-we need confirmation on numbers, commitment from volunteers, plans for lunches, do we want to do a potluck or??? necessary paper work, etc. If you can come to the meeting to help it would be greatly appreciated! Even if you don't plan to participate as a rider, please support your club by volunteering some time to this event!!

100 Mile Sliders Presents Lynda Smith Reining/Horsemanship Clinic/Schooling Show

100 Mile Sliders Proudly Presents

Slide Into Spring

 

April 9,10,11, 2010

 

100 Mile Sliders are pleased to offer 3 days of packed reining fun, from beginner to advanced riders. Join Lynda Smith of Maple Ridge Level 2 EC Reining Coach and BC Horse Council Coach of the Year (2000), for a Friday/Saturday reining/horsemanship clinic and a Sunday reining schooling show. 

Reining is designed to highlight the athletic ability of the “ranch type” horse in the confines of the show arena. Often referred to as “western dressage”, it requires great horsemanship to achieve the willfully guided or controlled horse that shows no resistance.

Of course most of us have not achieved that level, and that is why we all need a lesson or two to get started or to get better. So please join us in making our first clinic/show a success.   

Clinic will run as follows, with 2-3 people per group. Please let us know if you are a beginner rider or you have a very beginner horse and we will try to group accordingly.

 

FRIDAY 9th
1:00-2:30 Group A
2:30-4:00 Group B
4:00-5:30 Group C
break
6:00-7:30 Group D
7:30-9:00 Group E

SATURDAY 10th
9:00-10:30 Group A
10:30-12:00 Group B
break
12:30-2:00 Group C
2:00-3:30 Group D
3:330-5:00 Group E

Sunday schooling show 10:00 start time.

 

Clinic

Two days with 1 ½ hours of riding in each session.

Cost:

Clinic only_______$ 125.00

Clinic and show_______$ 150.00 

(Show only: see entry below)

Riders name _________________

Horses name__________________

phone #_______________________

Number of years riding________________________________

Main discipline of riding __________________

Level of experience of horse ______________

Checks payable to: 100 Mile Sliders Reining Club

 

email: mpincott@live.com or call Mandy (leave message) 250-397-2960

 To enter clinic and show

May enter show the day of.

Schooling show class list 

1.	Beginner A	WCRA Modified A
2.	Beginner B	WCRA Modified B
3.	Green as grass	(jog/trot) WCRA modified A
4.	Beginner Reiner Open	WCRA Modified C
5.	Beginner Horse Open	NRHA pattern 8
6.	Beginner NRHA Pattern	NRHA pattern 4
7.	Beginner Freestyle	REQUIRED  -a three-minute time limit starts at the beginning of the music or the beginning of the introduction (whichever is first) and ends with the music or when the rider indicates that the run is complete. Minimum - one large fast and one small slow circle in each direction Minimum - 3 consecutive spins in each direction Minimum - one rollback in each direction Minimum - one stop and back up.

Classes 1-4 and 7 do not contain lead changes and any legal NRHA headgear may be used. Classes 5 and 6 contain lead changes and may be ridden two handed if in a snaffle bit.

Horse_______________________________________

Rider_______________________________________

HCBC#_____________________________________

WCRA#____________________________________

Owner______________________________________

Phone_____________________________________

Class# entered ____/____/____/____/____/_____/____

Sliders member: _______ x $12.00 = $_______

Nonmembers:    _______ x $15.00 = $_______

Or $ 50.00 for the show day.............$ _______

Remember this is a fun weekend there is no need for clipping, bathing, fancy clothes or tack!!

Waiver

I hereby release Western Canadian Reining Assn, 100 mile sliders reining club and all volunteers or representatives from any loss or damage or injury that may occur and it shall be the condition of entry that each exhibitor shall hold the show management blameless of any loss or accident to his or her horse or horse’s equipment, any accident or injury that may happen to the rider/handler of any horse during the event. All owners and exhibitors will be held responsible for any damage incurred by them or their agents tot the barns or properties on the show grounds and will be billed accordingly.

Signature: ______________________________________________

Signature or parent or guardian (18 and under)__________________________________

Riders 18 years and under must wear an approved helmet

CLICK THE LINK TO GET THE ABOVE ENTRY FORM OT BY E MAILING MYSELF (isabella.macquarrie2sd27.bc.ca) or MANDY (mpincott@live.com)

http://www.wcra.info/Files/Lynda%20clinic%20registration%20sheet.pdf

Completed forms can be mailed to:

 Isabella MacQuarrie

C 26 Crossraods

RR#1 Lone Butte, BC V0K 1X0

Details on location, and stabling if required will be available shortly. 

Info for The West Coast Classic and WEG Team Selection Finals

If there is ONE reining show you plan to attend this season, this should be it! As one of the premiere reining shows in Western Canada, and now the site of the World Equestrian Games Team Selection, it is sure to attract some of the best reining talent in Canada! Not to mention that it is organized and hosted by our Lower Mainland WCRA affiliate club! The website for the West Coast Classic and the World Equestrian Game Canadian Team Selection finals has been launched. The website is http://www.westcoastclassic.info/

ROCKSLIDE 2010

Application forms are now available for our Island Chapter WCRA/NRHA affiliated show, ROCKSLIDE. The show runs MAY 7-9th. Check out some cool added classes for us rookies!!

Rockslide with a Twist-open to non pro riders, two handed option, modified pattern, and rider need not own the horse

Rockslide Prime on the Rock-for riders 45 years and older, with a modified pattern. 

ENTRY DEADLINE is APRIL 15th.

WCRA members should have received an e mail with application forms, or it is available on the WCRA website.

http://www.wcra.info/shows.htm

Sun Reiners Schooling Show May 2nd

Here is another opportunity to "get your Game on" before the show season heats up!! 

Check out the Sun Reiners Facebook Page at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=51115229452

Brandt Ranch Reining Schooling Show

Picture-playing with cows at the Brandt Ranch in Pritchard (recognize that paint horse..?_

Here's a great opportunity to get out and play/show without the big time show pressure!! 

April 25

Brandt Ranch Reining Schooling Show & Cattle Sorting Pritchard, BC Contact Jan 250-577-3775 or Jeanette/Stan 250-577-3156

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE WCRA!!

Picture- 2006 FEI Reining Gold Medalist, Duane Latimer

West Coast Classic Will Welcome WEG Finalists! 

The members of Team Canada, who will compete at the World Equestrian 

Games in Kentucky in September will be chosen at West Coast Classic, it was 

announced today.  

This means that reiners such as NRHA Futurity Winner and Million Dollar Rider 

Duane Latimer may well be competing at our show this year. Duane won the 

Individual gold medal at the 2006 World Equestrian Games. After winning the 

Junior Reining at the 2009 AQHA World Show on Shiners Lena Dust, he said 

he’d like to take the 6-year-old to Kentucky to defend that title. If he wants to do 

that, he and his horse will have to come to Heritage Park in July! 

WCRA’s West Coast Classic has been chosen as Canada’s World Equestrian 

Games Selection finals, Sharon Hall learned in a phone call today from Ottawa. 

After WCRA voted at its AGM in November to make the pitch, Sharon got busy 

and put together a first class proposal that EC found too good to turn down. 

The World Equestrian Games, at which all the FEI disciplines decide their 

World Championships at one time and place, were first held in Stockholm in 

1990. Like the Olympics, WEG happens every four years and it wasn’t until 

2002, in Spain, that reining was included for the first time—the only western 

discipline that has a place in the FEI world. 

This year the games come to North America for the first time, to the newly 

refurbished Kentucky Horse Park, and Canadian reining will have its best 

opportunity ever to showcase itself to the world. 

Reiners who want to represent Canada at WEG in September have to first 

qualify by obtaining a score of at least 68 at three CRI competitions. Then they 

must vie for the coveted team positions at the Canadian WEG Selection finals. 

Each rider can compete on up to three horses. 

So – we’re over the first hurdle. We’ve won the bid. Now we need to roll up our 

sleeves and get to work. Fund raising is going to be “Job One” so start thinking 

about what you can do, and how you can help. We look forward to hearing from 

you and to working together with everyone in this great club, to make this show 

a tremendous success. 

~ Kathleen Keating 

President, WCRA 

This is the WCRA's premier show. The 100 Mile Sliders Chapter is pleased to offer up an Air Ride Saddle Pad as a prize to the winner of the Beginner A WCRA class at this year's show.