A Monthly Publication of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association
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A Monthly Publication of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association • NOVEMBER 2010 • Volume 46, Issue 11 Please join us for a Dressage Committee, a judge terrific evening at The instructor/examiner, and USDF Laurel Park Race Track PVDA Annual Awards Dinner "L" program faculty member. for cocktails, dinner, guest Saturday, November 20, 2010 Don't miss PVDA's "New Test speaker, a silent auction, Laurel Park Race Track, Laurel, Md. Clinic" with judge Axel Steiner at and fun! Happy hour and Wyndham Oaks, November 20 & hors d’oeuvres begin at 6:30 p.m. Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres 21, 2010, for tips on the newly 6:30 p.m., and at 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Dinner and Entertainment revised 2011 USDF tests. Demo enjoy a great dinner and Reservations Deadline: Nov. 10, 2010 • $45 per person riders will perform the movements some entertainment! with commentary from Axel about Our guest speaker is what the judge is looking for. "O" level judge Axel Steiner. He received his first national judges The Silent Auction needs your help to make this the best auction license in 1968, and was promoted by the FEI to Official status ever. Do you have any special skills or professional services that (FEI-O, now FEI Five Star*****) in 1988. Axel has judged in more you can donate? Perhaps you have a special item to contribute, or than 35 different countries, including the World Cup Finals, Pan something that you can make for the Silent Auction? American, and Olympic Games. He now concentrates on teaching The awards ceremony will recognize the key achievements of and is a sought after clinician. Axel is a member of the USEF our PVDA members. We look forward to seeing everyone! RESERVATION FORM AWARDS DINNER Please make reservations for ____ people at $45 per person. LOCATION Checks should be made payable to PVDA. Laurel Park Name:____________________________________________________ Race Track Address: __________________________________________________ Racetrack Rd. & Rt. 198 Phone & E-mail: ____________________________________________ Laurel, Maryland 20725 I will donate: _______________________________________________ 410-792-7775 Reservation Deadline: Nov. 10; order tickets now to ensure seating. Mail to: Shari Glickman, 13979 Unionville Rd., Mt. Airy, MD 21771 Questions? E-mail Shari Glickman at [email protected]. 2 Deadline is November 10 for Reservations about entering your teams at [email protected]. See the for the 2010 PVDA Annual Awards Dinner PVDA Web site, www.pvda.org, for more information. This year’s Annual Dinner is Saturday, November 20, at Southern Maryland Chapter Reorganized! the Laurel Park Race Track, Racetrack Rd. and Route 198 in The Southern Maryland Chapter of PVDA held a Laurel, Md. Deadline for reservations is November 10. Cost meeting at Pam Link's home in Harwood in September and is $45. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres begin at 6:30 p.m. and elected new officers and restructured. The new co-chairs are dinner and entertainment at 7:30 p.m. The guest speaker is Linda McDowell and Julie Gross. The secretary is Aviva FEI “O” judge Axel Steiner. There will be an Awards Nebesky and Treasurer is Lydia Wainwright. The Chapter Ceremony and a Silent Auction. The Silent Auction needs plans to field four teams at the Chapter Challenge. Events your help. Do you have items to donate? Or special skills or planned include a series of schooling shows to review the professional services? Let us know! new 2011 tests and several social activities. If anyone is E-mail Shari Glickman at [email protected] with interested in joining us, please call and come on down! any questions. See ad on page 2 for the reservation form. 2011 PVDA Memberships Now Available Volunteers Needed for Chapter Challenge One year memberships end December 31. To ensure that The PVDA Chapter Challenge is almost here! It will be you continue your membership and newsletter without a held at the Prince George’s Equestrian Center, November 7, break please take a few minutes to renew. Go to www.pvda. 2010. It’s not too late to earn your volunteer credits for the org/membership to do it quickly online. Memberships that year. Please consider volunteering and contact Wendy are using volunteer slips as payment should still be sent Emblin at [email protected]. Contact Manager Linda Speer regular postal mail. You can find a 2011 membership form on page 22. PVDA membership cards are available by e-mail. The electronic membership card can be printed and presented as proof of membership. Traditional membership cards are still available. Any questions? Write [email protected]. The President’s Window Devon and the WEG are over and we the new board at our Annual Dinner on have the Chapter Challenge at the Prince November 20 at the Laurel Racetrack. That George's Equestrian Center and the Region will be a big weekend for PVDA with our 1 Finals yet to come, the latter at a facility New Test Clinic at Wyndham Oaks with new to these finals in Williamston, North Axel Steiner on Saturday and Sunday. Carolina. Good luck to all of our members Come and join us for the clinic and dinner who are riding in each. and awards. By Betty Thorpe This is the last moment for our 2010 Back to the World Equestrian Games. I [email protected] Board of Directors; we will be welcoming Continued on page 14 NOVEMBER 2010 3 PVDA Supports Three Teams at USDF Region 1 Adult Team Competition By Ruth Frey The three teams that PVDA sent to the 2010 USDF Region 1 Adult Team Competition, held this year in conjunction with VADA/Charlottesville’s Twin Shows over Labor Day weekend, represented a true cross-section of our membership. The 11 riders hailed from Northern and Southern Maryland, the Baltimore-Washington suburbs, and the Northern Neck of Virginia. There were men and women, photo by Pics of You young and old, a professional, a couple of barn managers, The Intro Level team at awards ceremony: Joanne Leuschner/International Baron, Camilla Cornwell/Larisa, Wes Minyard/Perikles (who came up lame and several who support their horse habit with “real world” just before the ceremony), and Ruth Frey/Sunstream Cove. jobs. The horses were equally varied—two draft crosses, a Welsh cob, a Thoroughbred, and Westfalian, Hanoverian, Virginia, said, “I don’t cross paths with many Northern Swiss, Belgian, and Dutch warmbloods. Maryland riders. I can now brag about my several new friends PVDA gave us generous support and we had a great time! and we [can have a] reunion at the Chapter Challenge!” For Jim Armstrong, watching everyone ride with a supportive We were the envy of the other teams at the show because of and enthusiastic team spirit was the best part of the show. the decorative stall name signs that Annmari’s sister, Christina Rebecca Wilson felt that “dressage is so often an independent Ingersoll Mulqueen, made for us. Christina, owner of sport; it is nice to have the camaraderie of a team.” Joanne Claddagh Equestrian Center in Leonardtown and art business Leuschner “had an owner of Horseviews, drew marvelous cartoons ascribing unbelievable weekend in various desirable dressage attributes to each horse—each with the company of some of a clever twist and sometimes from the horse’s point of view. the finest people ever! Teakwood, a TB-Percheron cross, was depicted from the rear, We shared rooms, ate exhibiting roundness; Rudy, equipped with a bucket labeled meals together, and got “treats,” exemplified collection; Sunstream Cove (aka Tigger), to know each other while drawn spronging along like his namesake Pooh character, sharing common ground stood for activity; the stallion Karat, pictured offering a shiny enjoying people and our diamond ring to a shapely filly, showed engagement. When sport.” And Camilla trying to convince me to go to the team show, Joanne had Cornwell, who aptly promised that Christina’s cartoons alone would make it worth- termed the weekend a while, and she was right! My framed cartoon hangs in my “little horse retreat,” said, home and is a constant reminder of a great weekend with my “I gained new friendships horse and new and old horse friends. Christina Ingersoll Mulqueen, sister Other major contributors to the team experience were of Annmari Ingersoll, sketched right and left, and since unique name signs for the stalls of I usually travel to horse the unmounted and unofficial team members. Liz Erwin the PVDA team members. shows on my own it was organized the teams and handled the paperwork. Joanne’s great to have helping daughter, former Pony Clubber Jessica Leuschner, not only hands from the rest of the PVDA team members. This show turned the tables and groomed for her mom, but also, in true was a great opportunity for me to bring my young mare to a Pony Club fashion, helped everyone else with everything from recognized show, with the added benefit of stabling and room- mucking stalls to calming upset horses. Not to be left out, ing with the rest of the team.” Finally, our Chef d’Equipe, Joanne’s husband Don rendered both moral and physical Annmari Ingersoll, who has moved to the Northern Neck of Region 1 Adult Team Competition continued next page 4 NOVEMBER 2010 5 Adult Team Competition continued from page 5 new horse Cappuccino, Lisa Feit on her homebred Releve (Ella), and Rebecca Wilson on Lisa’s Midnight Glamour support. And Jim’s partner, Tom Matthews, not only groomed (Emily), who is Ella’s dam. Despite some initial high-jinks, for Jim and gave super A-show braid jobs to half the team Ella also qualified for the 28th Annual Col.