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Piedmont Paso Fino Horse Association

March 2010 - Piedmont News

From The President

We had a Board of Director’s meeting at Paul Marlowe’s farm on Saturday, Feb. 27. The following are some of the items we discussed and acted upon. The Futurity committee has reviewed all the rules and payouts for the futurity and the updated rules and changes will be posted on the web-site. Please take a look and get ready to nominate your babies and show your 4 yr. olds. This is a great way to get payback on some of the fees spent on breedings.

The Clemson show is coming right along and is right around the corner. This is a great show to start your young horses (if you did not take advantage of the State Fair Show).

Plans for the Asheville show are well underway. Jill and her group have already signed up 7 vendors with 6 of them being new. Tractor Supply has signed on as a Platinum Sponsor and this is great news. Please support your local Tractor Supply to show our appreciation. Farm Sponsorships will no longer come with stall assignments, you will need to send the show committee a check for $100 to reserve your stalls and it will be on a first come, first served basis. You will get credit on your show bill for the $100. There is local radio advertising already set up and this promises to be a great show. The Bella Forma classes will all be held on Saturday Morning. All 4 judges will be in the ring and the horses will only go in for the 1 class. This enables us to have the “Dinner in the Dirt” on Friday and still keep the show on schedule.

The youth will be selling raffle tickets at the Clemson Show and the Asheville show for a “John Deere Gator”. The tickets will cost $5.00 each or a book of 5 for $20.00. Let’s all support them in these ticket sales because all profits will go to the scholarship fund. Angela Dotson has agreed to chair the “Scholarship” fund, so all youth who are eligible for scholarships this year, start thinking about your entries.

The nominating committee for our upcoming election in November is Jill Graff, Rhonda Moreen, Julie Aldred and Paul Marlowe. Please start thinking of who will do a good job of serving the Piedmont for the next term. Sandy Goldenberg has submitted her resignation as Piedmont’s Secretary and Paulette DeNault Bryce has been appointed to fill the remainder of her term. We also discussed having the year end Piedmont banquet in the Hickory area this year. We are trying to spread it over the different areas.

See you in Clemson,
Ali

Ali Casey
Piedmont President

2010 PFHA Amateur Owner of the Year Award Nomination

Please find the PFHA 2010 Amateur Owner of the Year award criteria and nominee form at the pfha website - http://www.pfha.org/documents/pdf/2010PFHA-AOAward_nominateform.pdf. Nominate a deserving amateur owner from the Piedmont region. Deadline for nomination is May 18, 2010.

Kathy Yarbrough, PFHA A/O Committee chair
klyarbrough@bellsouth.net

Piedmont Member Notices

Congratulations to these new Piedmont Volunteers: Angela Dotson is the new chairperson of the Youth Scholarship Fund. Paulette Denault-Bryce is the new interim Secretary and new chair of Piedmont Pathfinders

Upcoming Piedmont and Member Events

Click above graphic button for all the most up todate info on the Asheville Alive 2010 show or click here.

Asheville Alive 2010 is June 24 - 27, 2010

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Don't Miss out on Sponsorship Opportunities - This year's event promises to kick off a new decade of Paso Fino Horse Shows hosted by Piedmont Paso Fino Horse Association. Visit: Asheville Alive 2010 Show News webpage often for more details and updates. Contact Jill Graff at Startown Stables, jill@startownstables.com if any questions. See you in Asheville.

2010 NC State Fair Paso Fino Horse Show
October 18, 2010

The Paso Fino show will be on Monday, October 18th; the fair is going to add/mix in Arabian classes over Mon./Tues. or Tues./Wed. this year, and continue with draft hitches in the evening.

Please let Lynn Gallup or Ali Casey know what you’d change regarding classes and format. Please know that classes consistently having only 0 or 1 entry are not likely to continue to be offered, unless required for sanctioning. The Fair may not be able to continue offering classes for any breed/event that consistently has less than 3 entries in the future, so please get the word out to everyone to support the Fair show! We pay premium money, where are all the entries? We know Monday is not the ideal day for a horse show, but we have to have the youth shows on the weekends (and are looking at expanding the youth show into the second weekend now that the ASB’s are being moved to the weekend after the Fair).

Piedmont exhibitors that support this fantastic show, please let Ali Casey or Lynn Gallup know your preferences and thoughts for the 2010 show.

Lynn Gallup
NC State Fair Paso Fino Show Chair
info@gracewoodpasos.com