Here is the from for the 2014 conference.

I have been breeding, training, riding and competing on Akhal-Tekes for 28 years now.  I saw my first live Akhal-Teke in 1986, when my husband and I were moving from Michigan to Washington State.  I stopped off at Eberhard Sprandel’s farm in Colorado (it happened to be on the way!) and lost my heart.  I bought my first Teke mare, Molnija, sight unseen later that year and have never regretted it.  She died in 2006 at age 20, but left behind quite a legacy!

I bought my second Teke at the Sprandel Auction in 1990 and Mirija joined my herd.  At this time, these two Teke mares were the only Akhal-Tekes in the Pacific Northwest.  Since 1986, I’ve ridden dressage, done some jumping, had a few children and I’m now dabbling in endurance.

In 1993, I bought several more Tekes and I was on my way.  Since then, I’ve had over 40 foals born at my farm, many of them by my now retired stallion, Astrachan.  There are now about 100-250 pure and part-bred Akhal-Tekes in the Pacific Northwest and several other breeders.

I started The Akhal-Teke Quarterly in 1995 and published it until 2003. I hosted the 1st Annual North American Akhal-Teke Conference in Snohomish in 1995 and have sat on the Board of Directors for the Akhal-Teke Association of America for many years, mostly in the capacity of secretary, although I’m now acting as registration secretary too.  I have been editing the ATAA Newsletter since January of 2012 and helping out with some beeed promotions, including the first Akhal-Teke DVD and our upcoming one and the Breeder’s Co-op booth at the 2010 World Equestrian Games, along with giving lessons, competing and breeding.    I enjoy getting the word out about our fantastic horses and plan on continuing my efforts for years to come.

ATAA member Eron Owens and her Teke sporthorse mare Arslana (Lilly). Eron says "She will be in her first sanctioned beginner novice event this weekend. I do have some great pictures of her. Her teke definitely shines through "

Hi there!
Hendrix completed his first schooling show at Catalpa Corner Horse Park (http://www.catalpacorner.org/Catalpa/Welcome.html) at Starter Novice and got 3rd!  He is doing well in his training and with continued work I hope to enter him in a recognized Horse Trial soon.  He is very brave to the jumps and seems to love it!  He has become part of the family and is gaining condition and confidence….hopefully we will have more to report soon! 

Hi everyone,

We have 3 terms up on the current BOD:  Terri Fender, Jas Shearer-McMahon and Cathy Leddy’s terms all end this year.  That means that if you would like to serve, let us know now!

Just send our Nominations Chair, Jas Shearer-McMahon an email at [email protected] or give her a call to get your name on the ballot.  As we need to publish this in the next newsletter, please decide soon.  Then you’d just need to write up a bio that will be sent out with the ballots before the Conference.  Of course, coming to the Conference is a great way to get voted in too.

If you get elected, we will need to pick a President and Vice President.  I suppose if anyone else wants to be Secretary we could do that too!

And, even if you don’t get voted in this time, we have plenty of other things people can be involved in…hint, hint..

Thanks, Cathy

Turkmenistan is holding it's fourth International meeting April 24-27.
Interested parties should contact them and write a short bio about themselves and their horse activities.

COLOR PAGE:
According to out stats, horse color is almost always #1 for search topic.
Our color page needs updating and finishing.
We need help with this!
We need a volunteer who can writ up little paragraphs for each color and a picture of the horse for visual.
If you feel compelled or know of some one who would be good for this, please contact the webmaster!

TEKE'S IN SPORT:
    We need a person to write up why one should ride a Teke in enduarance.
If you feel compelled or know of some one who would be good for this, please contact the webmaster!
Thank you!

My kids just did the drawing for the ATAA Logowear raffles.  The winners are:

Early renewal/membership winner:  Annah B.

Foals of 2013 registration winner:  Betsy Wandler

Please contact Tish Saare at: [email protected] with your preferred size and color of sweatshirt!

Thank you to everyone that participated!!

Cathy

The winner for the saddle pad graciously donated by Karen Freitas is Darla Dickinson from BC, Canada.