A friend sent me this short film about the Nez Perce horse, where the Akhal-Teke breed is mentioned.
Enjoy! We did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S-J1G_gIC4&feature=youtu.be
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Reprinted from the October ATAA Newsletter September 27 – 28, Devon and Malvern, PA (Dressage at Devon show) by Cathy Leddy I arrived in Pennsylvania on Monday evening, so I could start work on Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning, I arrived at the DAD showgrounds in Malvern, PA. I was surprised at how small it was, vs how big the show is. The showgrounds are very old and are nestled in among car dealerships, grocery stores and various other businesses. The barns (for the most part, anyway) are very old fashioned, with smallish stalls with openings between boards between stalls. I checked out where our Tekes were supposed to be and found they were scattered in several different barns, even though the competitors had asked to be together. After some reflection, we decided that was ok, as we had 5 stallions coming and in the interest of peace and quiet, having them with their known associates seemed to be a good idea. Sabine Desper had gotten an extra stall for the ATAA as a hospitality stall. We ended up setting up mostly in the aisle way though, as the barns weren’t very full (horses came and went depending on when they showed). Trisha Urban came with the stall drapes that were donated last year by Golden Years Retirement Home (her place of employ at the time) and I had brought the ATAA banner and shipped some items to Sabine Desper to bring with her horses. Trisha, her significant other (nice guy, but I’ve totally forgotten his name!) and I put up the stall drapes and banners and set up a display in the aisleway outside of Shenandoah Farms stalls. We had an extra stall, thinking it would be for visitors, but the barn was empty enough that we were able to use it for View of ATAA stalls at Devon storage. The stalls were in a good area also, not far from the vendor village and entrance to the showgrounds. We put up the multicolored Akhal-Teke banner outside the barn to help guide traffic in. Sabine Desper and her significant other showed up later on Tuesday with The Akhal-Teke Stud stallions Anikit and Kurizma, as they had classes on Wednesday morning. Katrina and Giles Ardiel showed up Tuesday also with two of their stallions, Gerald and Hendrick. Trisha Urban brought her two-year-old colt early on Thursday morning, as he was only in the AT breed class. We got everyone settled Tuesday night and then I headed back to the hotel. Wednesday morning, we met at the barn bright and early and I helped Sabine get Anikit ready for his in-hand class, as she was still on Kurizma in his under saddle class not long before Anikit’s. I got to shave off his mane and groom him up a bit, what a lovely guy he is! Both Hendrick and Anikit showed in the 4 year and older stallion class (in hand) and placed 4th and 5th with scores of 68.8 for Hendrick and 67.8 for Anikit under judge Carter Bass. Kurizma showed in the 4 year and older stallions and geldings under saddle, which was a very large class and showed himself quite nicely, although he wasn’t in the ribbons. Hendrick showed in the 4 yo stallions and geldings Materiale, coming in 9th out of 10 with a respectable score of 68.00. Katrina had a very busy day Thursday, riding Gerald in 4th Level Test of Choice and Hendrick in USEF YH Test for 4 year olds along with showing in the AT class in the morning. We did our General Membership Meeting during the day on Thursday, as Katrina wouldn’t be available later on. As we only had 9 people show up (not all ATAA members) it worked out fine. We took a table in the beer garden and had a very good meeting and discussion. Our banquet back at the hotel was pretty dismal though. We had wonderful food, a nice room and only 5 people showed up. Live and learn, next year will be a run to the grocery store the day of. The 5 of us that were there had a good time, but it certainly did not make back what it cost us. We had so much food left over that new Teke friend Katherine Levandusky (who took time off from work to come and volunteer and see the Tekes) suggested we donate the rest for the volunteers at DAD. Our donation was very appreciated! On Friday, Katrina rode Hendrick in another USEF YH Test for 4-year-olds. In one of these (or maybe both? I don’t remember), the judge gave comments after the ride to help the riders with their young horse’s training. That was both interesting and informative. We were able to watch quite a bit of the Friday afternoon and evening classes before heading back to the hotel. Saturday, Katrina showed Gerald in 4th Level test 2 and Pat, Amrita and I got to watch. She tied for 9th place with a 63.889. Sunday, they did 4th Level test 2 again and got 4th place with a score of 61.25. Our association name was up on the big reader board many times during the show, but every time I’d try to take a photo, it would be too late. It was pretty neat though, to see our ‘name in lights’. We did hand out quite a few brochures and DVDs and several people said they had come to DAD specifically to see the Tekes. I did enjoy the vendor village (and spent quite a bit of money there!) I spent quite a bit of time shopping. I bought 4 nice browbands for the ATAA Holiday Silent Auction (going on through December 17th at: https://www.32auctions.com/ATAAholidayauction2017 It really was a wonderful week and I have to say, Pennsylvania is quite lovely (at least around Devon!). I hope I can get back next year and that we will have more horses showing there. It is excellent exposure for our breed. Thank you again to everyone that brought and showed horses, and everyone that made this possible! IBC Akhal-Teke Class, Judge: Carter Bass R(VA) 1. Kurizma, Phil Case, 71.400 2.Gerald, Giles Ardiel, 71.400 3. Arslan Jorap, Trisha Urban, 71.225 4. Hendrick, Giles Ardiel, 69.025 5. Anikit, Phil Case, 68.950 Incentive Awards, which are cash awards given to participants in recognized sport events (USDF, USEA, AERC, to name a few). Checks are handed out at the national organization's yearly Conferences, or sent in the mail.
This year’s pot is $2000 to share. Our Incentive Fund Pot gets bigger every year ! Make sure you get some of it! 2015 pot $350 2016 pot $1000 2017 pot $2000 2018 pot $3000 To participate: Incentive Fund Awards: 1) Must be a member in good standing with the ATAA 2) Horse competing must be registered with the ATAA either as a pure or part bred. 3) Send in 2 or more pictures from the event (must be 375kb or bigger) (if you placed please send a picture with your ribbon and/or prize) 4) Sign a release that the ATAA may post photos and results to our website and use photos in promotions for the ATAA (release form below) 5) Email the link to the results page for the recognized event you participated in for proof to Catrina Quantrell at [email protected]. After January 15th, 2018 the ATAA will send you a check, so the more you compete the larger your share of the "jackpot" will be. The amount you receive will be divided out of the set amount in the awards fund and therefore will depend on how many people participate in the incentive program. The incentive program does not depend on you placing or earning points, it is completely about competing in recognized events in all disciplines and sending in the above listed information to the association. Contact Catrina Quantrell for more information and send your results to her at: [email protected] release_form_for_professional_photos.docx Download File We have an online survey (thank you Caroline Dudkowski!) to see what you want for ATAA Awards. Please complete the survey and let us know what you would like for 2018!
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It’s that time of year again! The ATAA Newsletters for the year are done and we’re now working on the 2017 Annual Report, which will showcase the promotions and programs we’ve completed/started this past year. It’s been BUSY this year. 2018 should be even better, as the ATAA plans to have a vendor booth at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon, NC, along with our Dressage at Devon AT class and several other promotions, funds, and awards. YOUR membership fees make this possible! AND, it’s Early Renewal (or joining) time. If you join or renew before December 31st, 2017 for 2018 membership, you will be put in a raffle for a free electronic Friends Membership to be given to the person of your choice. You may pay via PayPal or send a check via snail mail. Forms and PayPal links are here. Let’s make 2018 bigger and better for Akhal-Tekes and Akhal-Teke Sporthorses (and their people)! Please note any address/phone/email updates when you renew/join. Thank you and have a wonderful holiday season. The ATAA BOD Photo is of our Dressage at Devon Akhal-Teke class winner Kurizma, with his handler Sabine Desper and ATAA BOD member Pat Johnston ATAA Holiday Silent Auction
New Items added! Check it out! Ho, Ho, Ho, it’s time for the ATAA Holiday Silent Auction! Bidding starts December 1st and ends December 17th. OUR LARGEST FUND RAISER OF THE YEAR!!
Thank you to everyone, let’s make this one the best ATAA auction yet! The ATAA would like to congratulate Caroline Dudkowski for winning our "Volunteer of the Year" award. Thank you to Caroline and all our other wonderful volunteers and volunteer nominees. We can't do it without you!
Betsy Wandler, our ATAA Awards Chairperson, will be contacting Caroline about her award. I don't have a photo of it, but it is a drawing (or painting?) from The Painting Pony. Thank You! The ATAA BOD The ATAA and our membership would like to congratulate Laura Spear and her Akhal-Teke Sporthorse Diesel on winning our "Horse of the Year" award. Thank you to everyone that participated!
Hi everyone,
We had a fantastic week in sunny, (then chilly) Pennsylvania at Dressage at Devon. Several people told me that they took time off from work and came specifically to see our Tekes in their various classes! The General Membership Meeting Minutes and a full recap will come very soon, but today we want to let everyone know our new Board of Directors members. We had 4 well-qualified nominees, thank you to Gretta Teets of TX, Cindy Sither of KY, Laura Spear of OR and Dean Miller of FL. We’d also like to shout out a huge THANK YOU to retiring BOD members Catrina Quantrell and Betsy Wandler. Both ladies have done a wonderful job for the past several years and will continue to volunteer on the Awards Committee. Drum roll please…… Our new BOD members are: Gretta Teets of Texas and Cindy Sither of Kentucky. We will be having our new BOD meeting via conference call soon and will send minutes out to the membership after it. The ATAA BOD General Membership Meeting Agenda
The Annual General Membership Meeting of the Akhal-Teke Association of America, held at Homewood Suites, Malvern, PA Starting Thursday September 28 around 7 pm in the Mallard Room, Homewood Suites, Malvern PA Order of Business as follows: Roll Call, Vice President, Jas Shearer-McMahon Reading of unapproved minutes of the previous General Membership Meeting and taking any necessary actions, Secretary, Cathy Leddy Presentation of Officer and Committee Reports: President’s Report – Catrina Quantrell, read by ? Treasurer’s Report- Amrita Ibold Secretary’s Report – Cathy Leddy Registrar’s Report – Amrita Ibold Website Report – Amrita Ibold Newsletter Report- Cathy Leddy Awards Committee- Catrina Quantrell/ Betsy Wandler read by? Promotions Report – Tish Saare Nominations and Election Report – Cathy Leddy Farm reports during ballot counting Old Business: Jumps at venues: Tabled until meeting, need sponsors ATAA Awards- Incentive Awards doing well, trying new ATAA Awards this year, more volunteer awards? Betsy is happy to continue doing ATAA Awards, but wouldn’t mind help. Discuss different volunteer awards. Breed standard and grading – Powerpoint on YouTube? Discuss. New Business; VNIIK registration – less N. American horses are being VNIIK registered. Need to send measurement forms to Russia – how to do so? Amrita suggests we keep repeating blurb in Newsletter, put on scrolling pix on website. Pat thinks we are getting further from preserving, need suggestions. Motivation to register in our closed studbook – showing, economics, how to facilitate? Danger of horses not being recognized by Russia in the future if we don’t register. End dates for finishing registration – Amrita and Cathy both discussed people that pay and then don’t do anything for years. It is very difficult to figure out what has been done (if anything). Should we have a cutoff date? After x time, they need to pay again and restart? Discuss, vote next year. WEG 2018 – in Tryon, NC, September 10-23, 2018. ATAA booth? VOLUNTEERS needed. Cathy will find 2010 WEG stuff, approximate costs, etc. Committee to work on it? |
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