BC Paint Horse Club – Colour Your World – Ride a Paint By Cathy Glover www.bcphc.com President & APHA Director: Cathy Glover cathyglover@telus.net Vice President: Natalie Hall nataliedhall@hotmail.com
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members. Member applications (for both APHA and BC Paint), and amateur, youth and novice applications are available at the show – but you pay an APHA rush fee if you haven’t purchased before then. Stabling is $60, stalls are pre-bedded and cleaned out after you leave, move-in is on Friday, overnight camping is free, the Armstrong Enderby 4-H Club will keep us fed (it’s a fundraiser), and we are starting with the over fences classes at 4 pm on Saturday afternoon. Volunteers are needed to keep this show (and its entry fees) “backto-basics.” Call or e-mail me for more information and check our Facebook group page for updates.
Provincial Wish Rides The Children’s Wish Foundation (BC Paint’s charity of choice) has rolled out dates for Provincial Wish Rides around the province. While our B2B shows aren’t official “rides,” we do collect donations to the Provincial Wish Ride during both shows and for every $10 contributed, your name will be entered in a draw for two very nice prizes. To date, we’ve been able to send about $1,500 to CWF - helping make wishes come true for kids with serious illnesses. For a ride near you, check www.wishtrailride.ca and if you’re riding your Paint, take pictures and email them to us! We’d love to congratulate your success on our website!
he clock is ticking – it will only be a matter of weeks (even days, depending when you read this) until our much-anticipated “Back-to-Basics” Okanagan show at Mackenzie Meadows in Pritchard – about 30 minutes from the Starbucks in Kamloops (if your geography is rusty!). The weather for last year’s show was totally awesome (as was the turn-out) but show secretary Cindy MacKay and I darn near froze to death overnight in the motor home (the girls had the bedding!), so we beetled to that blessed Starbucks before the sun was up on show day. Thank Happy trails goodness for heated seats! And Starbucks! Don’t forget to log your time in the saddle, too – We’ve added Preliminary Hunter and APHA and be a part of Paint Your Ride BC where you can earn Jumping to the show bill this year and we’re ending the certificates and possibly year end recognition for logging show with a couple of Barrel classes. We’ve also added an the number of hours you’re in the saddle this year! It’s APHA youth walk trot division to this year’s B2B shows free to participate in for all BC Paint members and now (the other is on the Coast, July 26/27). That’s for kids 10 that Kelly Allen and Ron Stolp have returned from their and under, according to APHA rules. annual jaunt in the Arizona desert, they’ll be ramping up The Amateur Walk Trot division sounds like it’s support for this new program. For more information, go going to be a pistol this year. Lots and lots of interest Avery Caron and Desi on to the PYRBC page on our website at www.bcphc.com. in competing at this class – for all kinds of reasons, I the Street competed in APHA Discounts add up suspect. It’s an awesome class for young horses, for new Youth Walk Trot last year. We just bought a new lawn tractor from club riders, for – ahem – aging riders with aches and pains, sponsor PrairieCoast Equipment (they have stores in and for horses that haven’t quite mastered the Western Abbotsford, Kelowna and Kamloops) and saved nearly Pleasure lope. Trainer Sally Saur told us during a clinic at Kari (Scott) 20% off the sticker price (almost $1000) through the APHA Awards Goodfellow’s Windhorse Farm last month that, if she could, she program with John Deere. Who doesn’t love that?! There are other would be riding walk trot. If you are new to APHA showing, this is savings available to APHA members, including Constant Contact – the the perfect entry level class for you! But you need an APHA Amateur e-mail program we use to send out the occasional news update. You Walk Trot card, so make sure you apply before the show (otherwise we should check them out. have to charge you a rush fee). You’re ready for this! If you need more Friendly reminders information, call or email any of our BC Paint directors. We went to our first Armstrong Enderby Riding Club show last BC breds recognized month and were pleasantly surprised by the number of coloured (we Dianne Rouse has ordered gorgeous awards for the Mackenzie assume Paint) horses in the arena. If you have already joined BC Paint Meadows-sponsored BC Bred high points at this show and that this year but forgot to sign up for our Open Show and Competition means somebody’s going to be very (very) spoiled. The Horse Barn in Program, it’s not too late – just download the membership application Kamloops has enabled us to select some terrific high point and reserve and use that to submit your OSCP fee. OSCP allows members to awards for at least 10 divisions (we might split the Amateur if entries compete for totally awesome year end awards while competing at their warrant), and everyone will be eligible for Stampede Tack’s Superhorse local, discipline-specifi c and community club shows. Silver Buckle, awarded to the horse accumulating the most points at Don’t forget the early bird deadline for the “Back-to-Basics” both B2B shows. Okanagan Show is May 23. Early bird deadline for the May 31/June 1 show is May 23. There’s a new checklist on the entry form so you won’t have any doubts about what we need to get you entered. All exhibitors must be APHA HCBC 2010 BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
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