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By Joan Olson Hello to all of our Curly members! Fall is coming and soon we will be riding in our winter jackets. Make sure you are prepared for the cold and that your horse is ready too. We do not blanket our Curlies in Nevada unless there is a lot of wet rain with the snow. If the weather stays wet for more than two or three days we check to make sure we do not have any runny noses. Just like having kids! The newly elected Board of Officers of the ABC wish to give to Melinda Martino a very big THANK YOU for all the work she has done with all of our transitions the office has made in the years that she was President of the ABC. The Registry could not have done it without her. Melinda will still be the Registrar and will be running the office in Kentucky. Let’s all give her our full support and help with any information she needs. Our 2013 Annual Convention in Kaufman, Texas was hosted by Angie Gaines, an At-Large Board member. Wow, what a great time we had meeting new Curly People! The demos and food were great; we especially liked seeing the Curly Horses perform. Our 2014 convention will be hosted by Marion Huurman-de Roos of Hidden Cave Curly Ranch. We hope to see you all there!! Look for information to be posted on the ABC website in the future. That address is www.abcregistry.org if you did not know. We also want to give a Big Thanks to Caren Schumann for dragging us into the Tech age. Computers are not fun for the older people who did not grow up with them. We are learning to adjust and do need help with having to do everything online now. Please have patience with our registry office when awaiting any certificates. We are updating our database as we go and want to make sure everything is correct before you get your ABCR certificates. If any member would have a problem, do not hesitate to call or email your district representative with your questions. That is what they are there for. You will find their email addresses and phone numbers on the website. Good Bye for now and enjoy your Curly Horses! Joan

Joan‘s Corner Articles

- President’s message ... page 1

- ABC Convention 2013 .... p2

- ABC Convention 2013 .... p3

- Photo Contest .... p4

- Photo Contest .... p5

- A Romantic Curly Tale …. p6

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ABCR Convention 2013

By Angie Gaines & Sue Davis

43rd Annual Convention, American Bashkir Curly

Registry

Wahoo, we were so excited to share our Golden Curly

Horses and Mustangs with friends from around the

World October 3-6th. We had 17 ABC members,

breeders and friends attend. The convention started out

Thursday evening with an educational update on the

progress made in finding the curly gene with Dr. Gus

Cothran, DVM of Texas A&M University, College

Station. We are making progress but it seems the gene

is a bit more elusive than originally thought and there is

still more research needed to find it.

When asked specifically for what his definition of a

breed is he stated that "...it is a closed group of

individuals that are being bred specifically for a trait or

traits...",

thus agreeing with us that the closed book Full Curlies

do indeed qualify as a breed

On Friday, the weather was perfect and we had a full day

of riding demonstrations and presentations including lots

of ABCR registered Curly Horses and Curly Mustangs.

Adena Warner and Cody Killingsworth shared the

history of roping and western side saddle riding with

their stallion, Warrior Seek Justice and Shaw Mead.

Our Lakota and student, Brianna Glascox shared their

trail pattern freestyle and our Stallion Chester was quite

content to lend a great body for a Chiropractor

demonstration with Dr. Joe Parrish.

Golden Curls Ranch veterinarian, Dr. Brian Ator shared

updates with us about the do’s and don’ts about equine

vaccinations and our Curly Mustang, Copper D's Golden

Red was great in a natural barefoot trimming

demonstration with new member Natalie LaBelle.

Our grand finale of our ranch day presentations was our

BLM gather Curly Mustang Stallion, ABCR #CM-1,

O'Sparky and our in-house trainer, Frank Wilder sharing

gentle partnering with your Curly Mustangs.

True to Texas style fun we had great Boot Scootin' music

while munching on lots of slowed smoked BBQ and

fixings

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ABCR Convention 2013 For more in depth information on the meeting, the

minutes can be found on the ABC website.

Some new board members were inducted and the

executive board was named. The new district board

directors named were Lyndsey Dubbelde to District 4,

Marion Huurman-de Roos to District 6 and Caren

Schumann will now head up Canada as well as Europe.

The new executive board is Joan Olson as President,

Caren Schumann asVice President and Donna Laroux ,

Sue Davis and Caren Schumann will share the Secretary

position. Diane Mitchell remains at Treasurer.

After the meeting many folks found fun things to do in

nearby places like Ft. Worth, shopping in Mesquite and

the giant tack shop in Ben Wheeler!

Saturday night's Banquet was another opportunity to

share great fun with friends who were awarded for their

dedication and service to our Curly horses and

American Bashkir Curly Registry.

Only 4 awards were given this year. Elana and Emily

Oakes received the Grand and Reserve National Youth

Titles, Donna Laroux's horse WWW Proud Prince

received the National Versatility title and Diane

Mitchell received the National Frequent Rider award.

All received beautiful embroidered jackets for their

efforts.

We also announced winners of our photo contest whose

submissions reached over 80 entries this year.

Sunday following the board meeting we enjoyed

breakfast, took pictures and said our farewells until next

year.

We are so excited that our new board member, Marion

Huurman-de Roos will be hosting the 44th Annual

ABCR Convention in Kentucky and hope to see all of

Curly friends soon.

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Photo Contest Winners 2013 ABC Convention

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Photo Contest Winners 2013 ABCR Convention

Winners in the Horse and Rider category: 1st place - Marion Huurman-de Roos and Warrior Freedom

2nd place - Marion Huurman-de Roos - Mailbox

3rd place - Betsy Lirakis and ABCR mare - Keri Orla

Winners in the Foal category: 1st place - Marion Huurman-de Roos - "meeting dad" with

Mallie, Alshain, Lydiker

2nd place - Shawn Tucker

3rd place - Shawn Tucker - TFN Warriors Pemni

Winners in the Head Shot category: 1st place - Shawn Tucker - TFN-Warrior's Wase Pemni

2nd place - Krista Harvey - Sassy

3rd place - Krista Harvey - Sassy

Winners in the Human Interest category: 1st place - Marion Huurman-de Roos - Mallie and Holihoop

2nd place - Krista Harvey - Sassy

3rd place - Shawn Tucker - TFN Nagi

Winners in the Action category: 1st place - Krista Harvey - Sassy

2nd place - Shawn Tucker - Nagi-TFN

3rd place - Krista Harvey - Sassy

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A Romantic Curly True Tale

By Sue Davis

Early this year I received a phone call from a young man

named Lee. His girlfriend, Erin loved horses and he

wanted to take her on a trail ride and propose to her! The

only problem was that she was very allergic to horses.

Erin had ridden as a young girl but had gotten so allergic

she was no longer able to be around horses. Lee knew

that it would make her so happy if she would ever get the

chance to ride again, so he set out on a quest to find out if

there was such a thing as hypo-allergenic horses. In his

research he found the American Bashkir Curly! Lee then

set about trying to track down Curly ranches that might

be able to accommodate his desire to propose

marriage…on a trail ride. Sadly he was met with much

disappointment as everywhere he called, he was told that

they were unable to help him.

Finally, on one of his calls, the ranch owner suggested to

him to call High Desert Equine in Reno, NV. Thus he

called us! Of course we specialize in trying to provide

well trained Curlies, so we were more than happy to

accommodate his needs! Noticing that the phone number

was long distance I asked where he was phoning

from….New York!!! You can only imagine my surprise!!

We decided on a mid-May date and Lee went about setting

up their “vacation”, where they planned to fly into Reno,

visit Tahoe, then head to Napa and on to Southern

California. Of course Erin knew nothing of the surprise he

had planned! Fortunately Lee arranged it so that he was

flying out ahead of her and was able to come out, visit the

ranch and make a plan for the next day!

He had even worked out that he would bring along a bottle

of anti-histamine, “just in case”, and of course that was

where the ring would be hiding!! The next morning, they

arrived as planned and the horses were saddled and ready to

go. They were taken on a beautiful, scenic 2 hour ride,

where at the top of the mountain they “stopped to check out

the scenery”, at which point Lee suggested that morning

maybe, just to be on the safe side she might go ahead and

take an allergy pill. Of course, much to her delight she

found the ring, and much to his delight she accepted! And

much to OUR delight she had absolutely NO reaction to the

horses! They had a wonderful time, as did we and we were

thrilled to get the opportunity to be a part of such an

important step in Lee and Erin’s future! We want to

congratulate them on their upcoming marriage and wish

them joy and success for their future! And maybe, just

maybe, they will come back and visit us again….or even

buy a Curly!