This is a notification that the following show with ODS Approval has changed dates from July 8th to July 15th. Please contact the show manager with any questions.
| July 15 | CCTA Summer Show Series This show is an ODS League Show. |
4/1 | 7/1 | To be held at Wildfire Stables, Klamath Falls, OR. Date changed to July 15th from July 8th. Contact Janie Steinbock at 541-884-1425. | Janet Snazuk (L) |
EF, a national non-profit corporation that sponsors high school students from Europe, Asia and South America is currently seeking a host family for a girl coming from Holland to Oregon for the 2007-2008 school year. Time is of the essence as the girl needs to be placed into a home by early July. She will arrive in Oregon in early August and will stay through June 2008. Currently we have openings in the Hillsboro, Beaverton, Tualatin and Tigard Schools so we’d prefer families in SW Washington County. This girl lists Dressage and Snowboarding as her competitive hobbies and has many other interests such as tennis and volleyball. She is a good student who will go through a language course, is excited to learn about our language and states in her application that she is easy going. Thank you for considering her and making her a part of the Oregon Dressage Community. For details, please contact Julie Howard, international exchange student coordinator at 503-642-2340 (home) or 503-708-7646 (cell).
EF sponsors high school students from Europe, Asia and South America. We sponsor approximately 3000 students across the United States. The students are here for a whole school year or a half a school year. They live with a host family and they attend a local public high school.
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Your Last Chance!!
Auditing space is still available in one of the best educational opportunities of the year!
USDF ‘L’ Education Program
Session C
The ‘L’ Education Program is a fantastic educational opportunity for everyone. Competitors, trainers and instructors gain insight into the evaluative techniques of judging.
See article in the June issue of The USDF Connections.
Session C: Collective Marks, Equitation, Rider Biomechanics & Musical Freestyle
July 7-8, 2007
Lecture: July 7th, 7:30am–1:45am at the Chehalem Sr. Center, Newberg, OR.
July 8th, 1:00pm-3:00pm at the Chehalem, Sr. Center, Newberg, OR.
Riding Demonstration: Sat. 2:00pm-5:15pm & Sun. 7:45am-12:45pm at DevonWood Equestrian Center, Sherwood, OR.
Session Leader: Trenna Atkins
Trenna Atkins has been instructing and training Dressage for over 35 years, riding and competing horses from Training through FEI. Trenna has been a USEF judge since 1986 and has been a “Senior” rated judge for 9 years. As a rider, Trenna earned her Bronze and Silver medals with USDF and has won Regional and National awards, including two National USDF Horse of the Year Awards in Musical Freestyle. Many of Trenna’s students have also won USDF Regional Championships and have achieved their USDF medals. Her instructing includes many adult amateurs, FEI young riders, and eventing students and enjoys teaching all levels of dressage.
In 2003, Trenna became part of the Faculty for the Learner Judges Program of USDF and is especially interested in helping to improve the use of multimedia in training Dressage Judges.
Additional Info and Applications for the Oregon Program:
Can be found on the ODS web site at www.oregondressage.com under the programs button. Pre-Registration is required!! Auditor Deadline extended to 6/30/07!
For exact requirements check the USDF web site at the following link. http://www.usdf.org/Programs/LProgram/index.asp
Demo Riders Needed!
The program will also need a variety of demo rides for each session. This is a fabulous way to get feedback on how you and your horse are doing without the pressure of a show. Demo riders do get to audit for free but need to pay for handouts, lunch and stabling. Contact Francy if interested.
Questions or more information contact:
Francy Haupt 971-832-0244 dqhorsestuff@comcast.net
Hope to see you there!
We’re going to hold our second North Region meeting of the year at the Holiday Inn in Wilsonville OR on July 24 at 6:30pm. The full restaurant menu will be available (feel free to eat or not to as the room rental fee has been waived for this meeting). Please let us know that you are planning on attending to ensure that our room space is adequate. North Region Chapters – please be sure to send a representative to this meeting. If you have an issue that you would like to have added to the agenda, please e-mail it to Carol. Items of discussion include shows (2008 date schedule, lotteries, etc.), upcoming training and educational opportunities / possibilities and more. Thank you! Carol Stevens, ODS North Region Representative (organizer of this meeting) – xenophon@teleport.com or 503-692-6611
The CN North American Junior and Young Riders’ Championships (NAJYRC) and would like to invite you to participate as a sponsor, vendor or program advertiser.
The 2007 Championships will be held July 31- August 5, at Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, VA.
The CN North American Junior and Young Riders’ Championships is the premier equestrian competition in North America for junior and young riders, ages 14-21. Young equestrians come from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Islands to vie for the Championships. Riders compete in the three Olympic equestrian disciplines of Show Jumping, Dressage, and Eventing plus, for the first time this year, The FEI’s only western riding discipline, Reining.
Run under rules of the FEI (Fédération Equestre Internationale, the international governing body for equestrian sport), the NAJYRC gives young riders their first taste of international competition.
The NAJYRC provides a unique marketing opportunity in the equestrian world in that it allows sponsors to reach four distinct disciplines and a constantly changing group of riders likely to develop an allegiance to sponsors that could easily last for decades.
Please have the appropriate person call me at their convenience to discuss the best way that your company can take advantage of the marketing opportunities available with the North American Junior and Young Riders’ Championships. I can be reached at (508) 698-6810.
Thank you,
Beth Gold
Director of Advertising & Sales
www.youngriders.org
Dear ODS Members:
When you see this score….RIDER (position and seat, correctness and effect of the aids) ?? x 3
Does it make you smile? Or wince?
If you wince, or just wish it were a bit better, you may like to know that….
What my students say about the work:
“When I finally felt my horse carrying herself with me just going along for the ride, it was fantastic. Riding with fluidity is key to my comfort as well as my horse’s comfort.”
“My back hasn’t hurt at all since the first lesson!”
“Working with Michele has allowed me to address issues that were preventing me from making any progress with my riding…and if you want one mare’s opinion, she would much rather have me deal with as many issues as I can off-horse, and come to her back as balanced as possible.”
Michele Morseth is a dressage rider and Feldenkrais practitioner who helps riders reach their potential through movement education. Lessons consist of an on-the-ground movement education lesson followed by in-the-saddle work with the student riding or on the lunge. Together we’ll explore your habitual movement patterns, inhibitions and tensions and I’ll help you discover your innate source of strength and balance and more effective, coordinated ways to sit on your horse. I’ll help you find support for fluid, free movement of the pelvis and the capacity to realize true independence of the hands and legs. As you build awareness you’ll learn to recognize and release tension and imbalance and recover your fluidity and balance.
Schedule:
In general, students report feeling a sense of relaxation and well being and increased freedom of movement upon completion of a lesson. Your nervous system will continue to learn between lessons as you integrate your new awareness, new relationship with gravity, new way of riding with elegance and ease. As you discover a deeper awareness of your body and movement patterns your relationship to yourself and your horse may change, patterns of thought related to patterns of movement may be challenged, self-imposed limits may be questioned, and barriers to advancing your riding skills may be shattered—-you and your horse may swing into a more relaxed, potent, balanced way of moving. You might smile more!
Sit the Trot!
Michele Morseth, MA, GCFT (Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher)
m.morseth@att.net
17277 Kent Road, Sisters, OR 97759
541-504-0494
**Sit the Trot is a current ODS Business Member. In return for paying higher dues, ODS Business Members are permitted to send 1 broadcast e-mail per quarter. Please contact the ODS Office for details.
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Awards Nominations Due August 1st!
It is time to nominate all those special people you know for the ODS Special Awards!
The following ODS Special Awards will be presented at the Annual Awards Banquet on September 1st. Later this summer, the ODS Website and Flying Changes Magazine will also have information about the annual banquet.
Mail/Fax/or Email nominations by August 1st to:
Attn. Special Awards Committee
Oregon Dressage Society, Inc.
PH: 503-681-2337 FAX: 503-681-3873
office@oregondressage.com
880 NE 25th Ave, Suite 2 – PMB #173
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Questions regarding the ODS Special Awards may be directed to Joyce Stride, Special Awards Coordinator, 503-647-0168.
2007 Special Awards include:
1. Mary Ann Judkins Memorial Instructor Award
This award for an outstanding instructor is given each year in memory of Mary Ann Judkins. It will awarded at the ODS Awards Dinner/ODS Championship Show in September. Mary Ann was a competitor, instructor, and ODS judge who succumbed to cancer at an early age. To nominate someone please refer to the criteria below, and if the instructor meets these standards, send in a letter of recommendation to the ODS Office by August 1st. The following criteria will be considered. This person should; be a current ODS member, be supportive of the students and efforts regardless of goals, have broad variety of experience in training students at different levels, be continuing their own education in dressage, be involved locally and/or statewide in the horse community, attend and support students in their competitions, give expert advise on suitable horses for the student, have prominence in the area of instruction, retain students over a period of years, and show leadership in the dressage community.
Mary Ann Judkins Memorial Instructor Award Past Recipients
1993 Mary Ann Judkins
1994 Teri Emrich
1995 Janet Harvey
1996 Barbara Cathcart
1997 Harriet Hauser
1998 Kathy Everman
1999 Ernst Herrmann
2000 Debbie Evans
2001 Judith McName
2002 Linda Jones
2003 Mary Spini
2004 Brooke Voldbaek
2005 Janice Dill
2006 Darrel Purdy & Michelle Ives-Purdy
2. Teresa Dunlap Trophy – Special Recognition Award
This award, originally a perpetual traveling trophy donated by Oregon State University and Crescent Valley Equestrian Center, was first presented in 1988 in memory of Teresa Dunlap. It is awarded at the ODS Award Dinner/ODS Championship Show to the person who has done the most to further dressage in Oregon in both the last year and in previous years. A committee made up of previous winners will make a choice based on brief nominating letters received from any ODS member or group. If you feel someone deserves this recognition, please write a letter describing this person’s contributions and mail it to the ODS Office. It must be received no later than August 10th. Recipient may only receive this award once in a lifetime. Teresa was a longtime boarder CVEC, a strong promoter and supporter of dressage who, unfortunately, succumbed to cancer at an early age.
Teresa Dunlap Trophy Past Recipients:
1988 Joyce Heinke
1989 Joyce Steinbock
1990 Barbara Funk
1991 Joyce Stride
1992 Donna Longacre
1993 Linda Coates-Markle
1994 Ann Hartell
1995 Carey Evans
1996 Gaye McCabe
1997 Linda Landre
1998 Dagmar Fancher
1999 Winnie Heiney
2000 Linda Wick
2001 Alice & Lynn Loomis
2002 Justin & Ginny Rattner
2003 Janet Snazuk
2004 Cynthia Prater
2005 Tory Kelly
2006 John Craven
3. Support Person Extraordinaire Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize those who work hard behind the scenes helping our competitors ride and show. To be considered they must not receive any pay for their work. Do you know someone who fits the above criteria? If so, nominate them by writing a letter describing why this person deserves an award and mail it to the ODS Office by August 1st . This award is sponsored by Karla Baur, M.S.W. EMDR Equestrian Performance Enhancement Consultant. The awards committee will review the nominations. The winner will be announced at the ODS Awards Dinner/ODS Championship Show.
ODS Support Person Extraordinaire Award Past Recipients:
1996 Don Weidner
1997 Stan Young
2003 Pete Jorgensen
2004 Sylvia Kantas
2005 Kaye Phaneuf
2006 Sarah Diebert
4. Volunteer of the Year
The purpose of this award is to recognize a special volunteer who has done outstanding service for ODS as a volunteer. If you feel someone deserves this recognition, please write a letter describing this person’s contributions and mail it to the ODS Office. It must be received no later than August 1st. The winner of this award will automatically be submitted to USDF as a nomination for USDF Region 6 Group Member Organization (GMO) Volunteer of the Year award.
ODS Volunteer of the Year Past Recipients:
2000 Joyce Stride
2001 Betty Brown
2002 Joyce Stride
2003 Karen DeLano
2004 Rose Newman
2005 Jeffrey Jones
2006 Rose Newman
5. Sportsmanship Award
This award was created in 2005 in honor of Lynn Lunde, former NFL football player and lifelong sportsman and is sponsored by Quailhurst. The purpose is to recognize an individual who, under adverse circumstances or situations, displays a positive and supportive outlook toward fellow competitors and show management. If you feel someone deserves this recognition, please write a letter describing this why this person deserves an award and mail it to the ODS Office. It must be received no later than August 1st.
ODS Sportsmanship Award Past Recipients:
2005 Bernadine Diers
2006 Nancy Connolly
6. Chapter Newsletter Award
The Oregon Dressage Society would like to recognize outstanding efforts to write, produce and publish newsletters.
Any ODS chapter in good standing with ODS may submit its own newsletter for the contest. A newsletter published as part of a magazine is not eligible for nomination. All newsletters nominated must have been published and circulated during the current year.
Nominations are due by August 1. It is the responsibility of the Chapter to select one entry for competition, and to provide 3 original copies. Entries are to be mailed to the Oregon Dressage Society office.
The newsletter will be judged on:
* Service to readers
* Quality of content
* Quality and attractiveness of the layout
* Clarity of writing and editing
Awards will be presented at the Annual ODS Year End Banquet. Winner of this award will automatically be submitted as a nomination to the USDF Newsletter of the year award.
ODS Chapter Newsletter of the Year Past Recipients:
2001 North Willamette Valley
2002 North Willamette Valley
2003 Central Oregon Chapter
2004 Siskiyou Chapter
2005 Central Oregon Chapter
2006 Central Oregon Chapter
*The Winner of this award will automatically be submitted to the USDF to represent ODS for the USDF Newsletter award
7. Connie J. Keith Memorial Trust Award:
Either a lifetime guaranteed quartz movement clock and plaque, that shall not cost more than $175.00
Application: to apply, competitors must submit a copy of their U.S. Equestrian amateur card or signed declaration of amateur status, a copy of their ODS membership card, and a copy of the front of their qualifying tests to the ODS office. Recipients will be chosen from those qualifying by a drawing.
Requirements of Eligibility: Adult Amateur owner-rider, 35 years of age or older at the beginning of the ODS awards year, with a minimum of two ODS Championship Show qualifying scores at Training Level, First Level, or Second Level, from a minimum of two separate judges at USEF/USDF/ODS recognized shows during the competition year on any number of his/her own horse(s). Competitor need not show at the Championship Show.
Eligibility Limitations: Any recipient who previously received this award at any of the designated levels shall not be eligible to again receive the award at that same level. That person shall be eligible to receive the award at a higher level in subsequent competition years. Recipients shall not be eligible if any of the qualifying scores were received while exhibiting a non-owned horse, including but not limited to any leased or borrowed horse.
ODS Connie J. Keith Trust Award Past Recipients:
1995 Tracey Moneta (Training Level)
1995 Nancy Montheith (1st Level)
1995 Linda Acheson (2nd Level)
1996 Linda Yeates (Training Level)
1996 Suzanne Ronning (1st Level)
1996 Elizabeth Kierkegaard (2nd Level)
1997 Marsha Williams (1st Level)
1998 Diane Hansen (1st Level)
1999 Jackie Paul (Training Level)
1999 Cynthia Chevrier (2nd Level)
1999 Cathleen Woore Vanzwol (1st Level)
1999 Patti Goodwin (2nd Level)
2000 Jeanne Getman (Training Level)
2000 Karen Corsini (1st Level)
2000 Cathleen Woore Vanzwol (2nd Level)
2002 Dorothy Richardson
2004 Janet Jones (Training Level)
2005 Helen Ferguson (2nd Level)
2005 Elizabeth Harris (1st Level)
2006 Debra Ringold (Training Level)
Also to be awarded at the ODS Annual Awards Banquet on September 1st:
Horse Ambassador (President’s Choice)
The recipient is selected by the President of ODS. It is presented to the horse who has best represented dressage in Oregon and beyond, thru competition or demonstrations. This horse is not necessarily at the highest levels but demonstrates the attributes that make him or her a “Goodwill Ambassador”.
1991 Rufus
1993 Armed and Alert
2000 Conversano Pirouette
2001 Nick
2002 Simon
2003 Kasper
2004 Jakarta
2005 Farrari
2006 Suzy
ODS Chapter Merit Award
A cash award for the ODS chapter who provides the best gift basket to the ODS Annual Auction, will be given each year at the Awards Dinner at the Championship Show. The winner of this award will be chosen by popular choice vote in conjunction with the ODS Auction.
ODS Chapter Merit Award Past Recipients:
2004 Chehalem Mountain Chapter
2005 Chehalem Mountain Chapter
2006 Pacific Crest Trail Chapter
Please join the ODS Office in welcoming three new business members since the printing of the ODS Roster:
More information on how to contact these new business members and a complete list of all of the current ODS Business Members can be found on the ODS Service Directory page of the ODS Website.
If you are interested in joining ODS as a Business Member or upgrading your current membership for the added benefits and exposure of your business to the ODS Membership, please contact Corinne in the ODS Office at 503-681-2337.
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The ODS League Championship Show Manager is looking for volunteers that can assist at the show this coming weekend, June 9 & 10 at the State Fairgrounds in Salem, OR. Show Management could also use help with setting up arenas on Friday June 8. If you are able to assist please contact Gaye directly. Thank you!
Gaye McCabe
503-378-0309
J-G.McCabe@juno.com
Preliminary Ride Times have been posted for the ODS League Championship Show. You can view them (sorted by rider) here.
Volunteers are needed all weekend. If you are able to help, please call or e-mail Gaye McCabe at j.g-mccabe@juno.com or 503-378-0309.
There are also still some sponsorship spots available and room for vendors. Sponsorships start at just $25 and vendor spots are very affordable at $80. Please contact Kate Van De Coevering at 503-453-6261 or kate@eqbytes.com.
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