HOA Newsletter April 2012
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Horse of the Americas Newsletter April 2012 Volume 10 Number 2 Membership & Award Program paid members. Any ques>ons, see membership form, or please e-mail or call me -Updated Information ([email protected]). April 1, 2012 Also, small changes were made to the Awards Howdy Members, Spring is here and I am sure all Program, please read over the divisions before of us are looking forward to working with our filling out the forms. Also the point sheets have horses and geng out there to the shows, on the been changed and the name of the rider has trail, riding, driving, and compe>ng. How been added. Please be sure to fill out completely exci>ng with all the foals being born, training the to get all points possible. Please note that you young ones, or just spending >me with your MUST be a CURRENTLY PAID member to be favorite horse and loved ones. eligible to accumulate points, example: points accrued during January-March of 2012 will not The Board of Directors held a mee>ng in March count if you are not a paid member, and if you and has voted to make several changes to the pay in April only points can count from the date Membership Form. you pay, points are not retroac>ve. Please note the due date for ALL membership Please watch the website for more current will now be January 1st. Please see the website membership forms and awards point sheets, we for forms and for payment available with Paypal. are working on making them all available to We have also added an Addi>onal Point Rider print. fee. For example, a family has a friend over oMen As always we welcome new members to the to ride yet they are not an HOA member, if they Awards Commi_ee or any sugges>ons you have pay the Addi>onal Point Rider Fee those trail to improve our program. Thanks for all your hours on that HOA horse can be accumulated. Or, par>cipaon in the past and I look forward to if a Farm/Ranch has someone showing their HOA seeing your point sheets in the future. horse at a show or expo, those points can also be accumulated for the HOA horse. Leased horses Have a wonderful riding season! can accumulate points if the rider and owner are -Kathy Peacock Politics of Color - Bays! - by Beverly Davis Bays have been around since the beginning of was said to have been split by Bayard's mighty human-horse interaction. A bay horse carries hooves. In the next town, down the River both the Extension (E) allele and a suppression Namur stands a locally famous statue of the gene known as the agouti gene (A).The agouti Horse Bayard and the Four Aymon Brothers gene, dominant over the black gene, limits or along the River Meuse. suppresses the black coloring to black points, The Bayard legend is also celebrated in other allowing the underlying red coat color to come towns most notably in the Flemish town of through. Dendermonde, where a large procession is organized every ten years. Processions are also organized at Mechelen and Ath. There are Bayard statues at Ghent and Grembergen. Over time in England the name Bayard came to mean any bay horse, and more often or not a foolish bay horse, thanks to Chaucer naming one of his foolish horses Bayard. He went from noble to ignoble in one stroke of a writerʼs pen. In the Rig-Veda the Hindu god Indra was named the god of bay horses. Achillesʼ chariot horse, Xanthus was a bay, and Justin Morgan was a bay. All three tale-male foundation sires of the Thoroughbred were bays. The Byerley Turk was captured by Capt. Byerley at the Battle of 1904 photograph of a proud Ute man and bay Vienna against the Turkish army. The Darley horse. Arabian was purchased in Syria, and the Godolphin Barb was purchased in France. The word bay entered the English language through the Normans. In French mythology The great Thoroughbred Lexington was a bay during the times of Charlemagne, Bayard (a who set a record for four miles at 7 minutes, 19 magical bay horse) was the property of Renaud 3/4 seconds in Louisiana on the second of April, de Montauban. The horse was capable of 1855. This was all the more remarkable due to carrying Rinaldo and his three brothers ("the the fact that he had a massive head infection four sons of Aymon") all at the same time and of that robbed him of his sight. Although a famous understanding human speech. Near the end of sire of racehorses, his most famous son the work, Renaud is forced to cede Bayard to remembered today has to be Cinncinati, the Charlemagne who, as punishment for the mount of General US Grant in the Civil War. horse's exploits, has a large stone tied to General Grant was renown in his youth as a Bayard's neck and the horse pushed into the ʻHorse Whispererʼ. The ultimate irony in this is river; Bayard however smashes the stone with that Lexington had to be rescued from the his hooves and escapes to live forevermore in Union Army that was conscripting all horses the woods. In a more common myth, when his they found for service. Old and blind, he had to master turns away, he drowns. I like the running be ridden to safety. free in the woods version myself. Outside the town of Dinant in Belgium stands The British Jockey Club was so concerned "Bayard rock", a large cleft rock formation that about Lexington's dominance in the pedigrees Politics of Color - Bays, cont.! - by Beverly Davis of American-bred Thoroughbreds, and the fact that the British Thoroughbred breeders considered him not a purebred, was a large factor in the Jersey Act of 1913, where the British Jockey Club limited the registration of horses not traced completely to horses in the General Stud Book. “In 1913 the Jockey Club and the owners of the General Stud Book passed a regulation named by the foreign press after the Jockey Club's senior steward, Lord Jersey, The Prophet Mohammed owned a bay named prohibiting the registration of horses in the The Torrent, and the following is an Arab legend book unless all of their ancestors had been about bay horses: registered. Despite protests from American The Legend Of The Bay breeders the regulation was in force until “When God created the horse, he 1949. Among the factors influencing its summoned the South Wind and said, "I relaxation were the racing success of shall create from thy substance a new being ineligible horses in Europe (Man OʼWar and which shall be good fortune unto my his descendents) and the damage being followers and humiliation to my enemies. caused to British and Irish breeders by the Condense thyself!" And the wind condensed unavailability of French Thoroughbreds itself. And the angel Gabriel caught a during and after the Second World War. In handful of it and said to God: "Here is the addition, by 1949 the impure ancestors of handful of wind." And God created a horse the American bloodlines had receded far of bay color and addressed it by saying, "I back in most horses' ancestry.” have created thee and named thee 'horse.' “ Proof the money talks. The British and Irish At the Spanish Riding Academy in Vienna, breeding programs were becoming so inbred, where the white stallions dance, there is usually they desperately needed the succussful at least one bay stallion present. According to American lines to keep from becoming second lore, when there are no bays present there is rate. And this all because of one 15 hand bay war. Apparently that was the case in the late horse from America. thirties and early forties. Unless the policy has changed, the academy still does not breed its bay stallions. Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis, the horses of General Grant. Jeff Davis, the smallest horse, was acquired in Mississippi (Gulfport) at the In America, few horses are held in such high home of Jefferson Davis. Choctaw horses were esteem as the half mustang Comanche from considered the finest small horse at the time Custerʼs ill fated attack on the Cheyenne and prior to the arrival of European ponies. King Dakota at Little Big Horn. Found two days after Ranch also shipped many Texas mustangs to the battle, he was the only living thing on the the Confederacy via the ports in Gulfport and battlefield. Nursed back to health, he became Mobile. Could Jeff Davis be a King Ranch the darling of the American public. Spanish Colonial? Politics of Color - Bays, cont.! - by Beverly Davis His remains are on display at the University of In Black Elks Speaks, the horse dance, he rode Kansas in the Dyche Museum of Natural a bay horse that had bright red steaks of History, at the corner of 14th St. and Jayhawk lightning on his legs, and on his back a spotted Blvd. This is because the officers of Ft. Riley, eagle with outstretched wings was painted KS who had him stuffed were too cheap to pay where Black Elk would sit. Black Elk was the taxidermy bill. Sad but true. painted red all over with black lightning on his limbs, and he wore a black mask from which a single white feather hung. http://www.firstpeople.us/articles/Black-Elk- Speaks/Black-Elk-Speaks-The-Horse- Dance.html Lastly, in dreams, if you see yourself riding a fine bay horse, your fortunes will increase and your passions will be satisfied.