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ARHA CALENDAR OF Events

ARHA CALENDAR OF Events

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2013 ARHA World Championship Show

2013 ARHA World Show High Point Champions

All Around Open High Point

Reserve All Around Open High Point

Jack Hennig & High Jo Lena

AMA High Point

Jennifer Keeney & Phantom Yankee

Reserve AMA High Point

Dustin Deckard & Custom Boots

Youth High Point

Luke Paulus & Uno Rockin Rooster

Reserve Youth High Point

Katie Shadowens & Creek Rider

Congratulations to all our winners!

All Age Cow Horse High Point

Jim Isley & Barlink Tuff Enuff

Reserve Cow Horse High Point

Jim Isley & Income Texas

AMA Cow Horse High Point

Dustin Deckard & Custom Boots

Reserve Cow Horse High Point

Skeeter Wisecarver & RBR Highbrow Lena

Youth Cow Horse High Point

Luke Paulus & Uno Rockin Rooster

Reserve Youth Cow Horse High Point

Dakota Cox & Poco Miss Blair

Select High Point

Jim Isley & Income Texas

Reserve Select High Point

Penny Cash & Chex Cashin In

JR RHC High Point

Dave DeWell & Cbar Apache

Reserve JR RHC High Point

Zach Hedberg & Haidas Seven Heaven

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By Kristen Smeenk - ARHA Amateur Committee Over the years, we have all heard that expression at one time or another, but it rings true each and every day. Our equine partners work especially hard for us at the ARHA shows and compete in many different events that require fancy footwork, from cutting to reining to roping. It’s especially important that our partners have very well balanced feet to be able to perform these specialty ma-neuvers! Choosing a farrier for your horse can be a difficult task; there are many trains of thought as to what is the best way to keep a foot. With this said, it’s up to us to take into consideration exactly what we expect from our equine partner when making that decision. Shoes or no shoes is the most common question asked when talking about feet. The natural hoof trim is a popular option but not always the right one for competition horses that are required to compete in many different events. If your horse is only doing a few events such as conformation, ranch riding and trail, this may be a good option for you as specialty shoes such as sliding plates are not required. If you are competing in other events, it’s wise to find a farrier experienced in shoeing for that particular event such as reining. The angles of the foot are important to enable our partners to slide with the least resistance and least impact on the joints. Only an experienced farrier is able to attain that for the benefit of the horse. He will also be able to advise you as your horse progresses in his training as to which sliding plate would be best for your particular horse. Overall comfort of our partners is es-sential! Adding a good experienced farrier to your team is almost as important as having a good veterinarian, and one that works together with your vet is even better! Take time to shop around, get references, go look at some other horses that he has done before making a decision. De-spite the many certificate programs out there these days, a certificate is not the only education available, so make sure to ask where he/she has trained to be a farrier. Communication with your farrier is equally as important as he only sees our animals once every 4-6 weeks. Dis-cuss what you are doing with each animal at every visit. If you have changed goals or events that you compete in make sure that this is communicated as well so he can help you keep your partner happy. A happy horse al-ways starts from the ground up!

MIDWEST REGIONAL RANCH HORSE CLASSIC by Sue Hilbrand

Summer is ending, fall is just around the corner, and so is the second annual MID-WEST RANCH HORSE CLASSIC. The ARHA charter clubs from Missouri, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin are once again hosting this exciting event. This year's show will be held at the C Bar C Expo Center in Cloverdale, Indiana October 24th through the 27th. As anyone who attended the show last year knows, our classes were huge and we had some really long days. In anticipation of that, we have adjusted our show bill to help alleviate that problem. This year we are starting the show on Thursday night and will be running all the Working Cow Horse classes that evening starting at 7pm. The show will also start at 8am every day, instead of a 10am start on Friday. We have some really nice awards this year, beautiful buckles to the high point divi-sion winners and trophy saddle blankets to the reserve high point. Awards will also be presented to both the circuit and reserve circuit winners for each class with some special gifts for our little lead liners. How are your roping skills? The ARHA Amateur Committee will be holding a "rope off" on Saturday. Tickets are $1.00 each, 2 tickets will then be drawn and the winners will compete in a rope off for half of the pot, (stationary steer) with the remaining proceeds going to the ARHA Amateur Committee. The Committee will also be sell-ing raffle tickets Thursday and Friday for a class package certificate good for four free classes (value $100) redeemable at the show office. With Halloween just a few days away, we have the perfect excuse to add some "just for fun" activities to our agenda. Fright Night Frenzy - Trick or Treating (bring your costumes) and a Halloween Party. (And watch out for our "Haunted Trail Class"). More info on these events will be posted shortly on each hosting clubs web sites. The show will again be triple judged (triple points). Class fees if your register by October 13th are $25 (this fee includes all three judges) or $30 after that date. The website to register in advance is up and running, go to www.showmyhorse.com. To reserve stalls contact Sam Holwerda at [email protected]. Any questions, contact Sue Hilbrand at 262-859-2178 or email [email protected]. If you are looking for points, or just looking to have some fun, we hope you join us for a "Spooktacular Time "!

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Amateur Committee Announce-ments

The Amateur Committee will be at the ARHA Midwest Regional Show in October at Clover-dale and will again hold the Rope Off Chal-lenge. The Rope Off has been a great fund-raiser for our Amateur Most Improved Awards and Amateur Sportsmanship Awards. The most people that participate in the Rope Off, the more we can raise, and the more money we raise the nicer the awards we can give to these deserving Amateurs! Also at the Midwest Regional Show, the Com-mittee will be selling raffle tickets for a Mid-west Package valued at $100, redeemable at the Midwest Show office. If you’d like to try and save money on your Midwest show fees, please show your support for the Amateurs and pur-

chase a raffle ticket. Tickets will be sold at the show on Thursday and Friday with the draw-ing held on Friday evening. Tickets are $1 each. Please see either Nancee Ward or Bandy Rus-sell to purchase your tickets!

ATTENTION ALL CHARTERS! The deadline to submit the names for Amateur Most Improved and Amateur Sportsmanship Awards is December 1. Please submit ONE name for each award. The guidelines for select-ing these deserving amateurs is on the Ama-teur Committee’s page on ARHA’s website. There is no voting. Each name submitted is a winner! The Amateur Committee has been working hard all year with fundraisers to pur-chase awards. Thank you to ARHA for being one of our sponsors and donating towards our efforts! All questions regarding the committee or to submit names should be sent to Nancee Ward: [email protected]

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YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! By Robyn Wade - Amateur Committee Someone told me once that you could never have too much tack…I have to disagree with that! After cleaning out the tack room and taking our “trash” to the sale so it could be someone else’s treasure and making a little money, somehow we still seem to have more than we really need! I am a firm believer in buying quality tack though. Go to your local sales, watch for tack swaps. Save for that big in-vestment that will last a life time! Not to do any advertising but I must share a story about a Martin Saddle we purchased. We had gone into the tack shop to buy a leather halter to do showmanship in and as we were walking out, there it was! A beautiful roping sad-dle and yes…on sale! We had decided to get saddles for Christmas and this one called my name! Home it went, fit my mare and all was good, until.... Don’t you just hate that! Suddenly there was a popping noise right under my right thigh. Not only could you hear the pop, you could feel it! I called the store we bought it from and Martin had them send it back. They looked at the saddle and thought they fixed it. Not a month later sure ‘nuf there it was again! This time they took it back and put a new tree in it. Now, usually the third time is a charm.

All was going well, showed in the saddle, no problem. One night, we were riding and my husband hears the pop from across the barn! Martin took the saddle back again, offered a full refund of what we paid or they would replace the saddle with whatever we wanted! I have another Martin and will buy another because of how they handled this. This saddle was not the cheapest saddle in the store but the way Martin handled the situation, it was money well spent. Buy good quality leather products and keep your tack clean. Check it all often for any areas that may need repair. Keep girths and boots clean. Sometimes it may cost a little more but you will have tack that will last. Be sure the tack you purchase fits both you and your horse. If at all possible take the sad-dle home and ride in it. There are several ways to check the fit of a saddle. Have you and your horse be comfortable with your investment.

Left: Brenda Wolfe’s son Ryan working cattle for first time with his pony, Raggie. A big thanks to ARHA for the inspiration. Ryan wants to be just like the "big kids" in WRHA. Lead line at the World Show in July, cattle work in September!

There are some situations where it is really easy to short change a horse on nutrition. One such situation is feeding weanlings. Keeping them in good (if not actually too good) weight/body condition and growing is the easy part. That only takes calories. Provid-ing adequate protein, vitamins and minerals to build a strong body is another story. If you feed the adult diet to the weanling, you will meet calorie needs but not protein and minerals. For example, a 6 month old weanling requires about twice as many calo-ries/lb of body weight as an adult horse every day, however 2.5 times more protein and 4.5 times more minerals. Obviously if you are feeding your weanlings the same diet as your adult horses, they are not getting what they need. To illustrate this another way, the weanling just under half adult weight needs the same amount of calories as an easy keeper adult but protein requirement is 676 grams/day versus 540 for the easy keeper adult and 38.6 grams of calcium versus 20 for the easy keeper adult (based on adult weight of 500kg). If you wean earlier than 6 months, the dis-crepancy between calories needed versus pro-tein and minerals is even greater. There are also individual considerations. Horses that naturally have bulky muscling will need more protein and those with larger bones need more calcium and phosphorus. There are several different ways to meet these needs. One of the most common, especially when raising horses for yearling sales, is to use a top of the line commercial 16% weanling feed. When fed in large amounts as recommended, these come close to meeting the extra protein and mineral needs with the balance provided by a high quality mixed

grass/clover pasture or mixed hay with alfalfa. There are problems with this approach. For starters, it's relatively easy but very expensive. An even greater concern is that the horse is getting a large proportion of its calories from sugar and starch. It has been well documented that young horses on this type of diet are far likelier to become insulin resistant compared to those fed less starch. It has also been shown that some young horses on high sugar/starch diets do not adapt well and have exaggerated growth hormone responses that appear to pre-dispose them to osteochondrosis dessicans. Other developmental orthopedic diseases such as physitis (aka epiphysitis) and contracted tendons have also been linked to excessive in-take of concentrated calories and the rapid growth that results. When other nutrients are tied to calories it becomes impossible to main-tain a healthy weight without sacrificing pro-tein and minerals. Many of the modern breeds do need more concentrated calories to grow well. However, you can provide a high protein, highly digesti-ble feed without going overboard on starch. The following simple formulas are high protein (at least 15%) and are naturally high in calcium and phosphorus in good balance when mixed in these proportions: • 4 oz flax, 1 lb alfalfa, 1 lb wheat bran • 4 oz flax, 1 lb alfalfa, ½ lb rice bran • 4 oz flax, 1 lb each of alfalfa, beet pulp and rice bran Combine this with high quality hay or pasture and a 25% protein vitamin and mineral mix designed for mares and growing horses. Ad-just the amount of the feed mix up or down as needed to keep the ribs lightly covered but avoid allowing the horse to get fat.

Feeding Weanlings

To anyone that owns a ranch horse, just try it. That is always my answer. There is joy in helping others take that small leap of faith that they and their horse can "do it" no matter what it is. Some will say, "my horse has never..." and my answer to them is, “Great! This class will be a great way for you to get started!" I know I don't have the ability to prac-tice on cows away from the show either. But just trying a new class will give opportunities to learn a little more about your horse, and have the advan-tage to gain some more horsemanship skills can be very exciting and rewarding. Hopefully the newly gained skills are not from just staying on, but more from building the partnership with your horse. In any good relationship, exploring the unknown to-

gether can be very invigorating!

If you are already the type of person that is willing to try anything, share that energy and confidence to your fellow competitors. Encourage them to gain self confidence and to explore new classes whether it is a new member to ARHA or an old member with a new horse. One never knows what may hap-pen! I have to remember giving a nice shove (ok practically breaking her arm) to try the ranch rop-ing with her new horse. Hearing every "reason" of

why she didn't think they should or not knowing what he would do, she finally went for it! She walked away with the blue ribbon from that class! So amazing for them,

and glad to have been there to encourage the risk.

Now, feeling this confident to support others in trying something new only happens because of the overwhelm-ing sportsmanship that can be felt by every exhibitor around. Knowing that one can travel to the shows alone, and never know a stranger is a very strong foundation from which to build confidence. Knowing that everyone around you will have what you need, help explain classes, and cheer you on allows one to try a class without fear of ridicule. Knowing that if you ask others, they will help give you tips on what you can work on for the next time is priceless. In fact they have been known to not only help hold your cattle, but coach you at the same time. ARHA provides a wonderful support system through the quality and integrity of the participants that come to enjoy the fellowship and experiences made possi-

ble by the show.

So - when in doubt - just try it! You and your horse will walk away with an experience to share and jump start from as you continue to build a strong partnership be-tween you and your Ranch Horse!

Just Try It! By Bandy Russell - ARHA Amateur Committee

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