You and your club members are invited to use Misty Mountain Pony Club's customized Google search to find information on horse management topics.
Created to supplement the materials in the Misty Mountain Pony Club library, I have set up this customized Google search to focus on selected web sites which have a variety of horse management articles.

Here is the URL: http://mistymountain.ponyclub.org/Library/library.htm

Trish Camozzi-Ekberg
Misty Mountain Pony Club - Northwest Region
DC / Club Librarian & Webmaster
 

2008 Horse Management Newsletter

The Horse Management Committee has posted the 2008 Horse Management
Newsletter and two new HM rally evaluations on the Pony Club website,  www.ponyclub.org  under 'Publications', 'Rulebooks', 'Horse Management'.

A copy of this annual newsletter must be included in the Horse Management rulebook, which is a part of Tack Room Equipment in Required Equipment for Rallies.

We have three new items of interest for the 2008 rally season:

* C+ and HB rated members will compete as C2's in Horse Management.

* As announced last year, the Required Equipment Amplification is available on http://hm.ponyclub.org under 'Rally Resources'.

* We have created two new HM rally evaluations, which are in a PDF file labeled 'Addendum B'. They have also been incorporated into the full version of the 2007 HM Rulebook.

- #9A - Competitor HM Evaluation: replaces the old #9A, Horse Management Evaluation. We have revamped the evaluation to better help regions determine what horse management topics to emphasis in their teaching, and an overall 'star rating' of how Horse Management
was at that rally. Each team should fill out one evaluation, however an individual competitor may fill out their own evaluation if they request.

- #9A-2 - Officials HM Evaluation: this is a new evaluation to be completed by the assistant HM judges, RS's, organizers, HMO's, etc.

These two forms may be copied back to back. Please destroy any old copies of previous evaluations, our data entry system will be changed to handle the new format and won't be able to handle the old ones.

We estimate we received less than 50% of rally evaluations for 2007. We can do much better than that. The information they contain is very valuable and will help all of us make rallies better. Also, we really like our Instruction Assistant, Pat, so please send the evaluations in within ten days of a rally (we don't want her desk snowed under in November).

Wishing you a happy and safe 2008 rally season,

Mary Waldman
Chair, HM Committee
 

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Dates of CHMJ Seminar: July 21-22 (may actually start on July 20 in the evening;

Dates of USPC Championships: Move in starts July 23, competition begins on July 24 and ends with awards on Friday July 27th.

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