Come to the Hawaii Island Horse Expo 2008!
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Hawaii Island Horse Expo 1 Letters & Opinions 2 Akamai Horseman 3 10 Secrets to Success with Horses 4 Events: Hawai`i 5 Performance Horse Results 6 Business Directory 7 Parker Ranch Rodeo 8 Price Watching 9 Cowboy Magic: Rodeo Queen 10 Advertising Info 11-12 Events: Maui 13 Classifieds & Product Reviews 14 Events: O`ahu & Kauai 15 Equiloha Farms Hoofcare Clinic 15 Paniolo Preservation Trail Ride 16 Volume 1, Issue 5 Price: $1.00 July 2008 Come to the Hawaii Island Horse Expo 2008! On August 9 and 10, the Hawaii And entertainment will be provided by Island Humane Society’s Horse Expo Templeton Thompson, a country singer, 2008 will bring to Waimea a number songwriter and horsewoman from Texas. of internationally known trainers, authors and clinicians, including: The HIHS Horse Expo will be held • Lester Buckley, champion Saturday and Sunday, August 9 and 10, at the cutting horse trainer and Kahilu Theatre and adjacent YMCA park German-licensed dressage grounds, with demonstrations, discussions, and trainer; Q&A sessions. There will also be an opportunity • Robert Miller, DVM, for visitors to participate in trail rides, farm veterinarian, trainer, clinician tours and private sessions with the clinicians on and author, perhaps most Monday and Tuesday, August 11 and 12. Learn, famous for his work on enjoy, participate and support! imprinting foals; Co-chairs for the event are Mary Buckley, • Dale Myler, trainer and designer photographer, and Nancy Jones, owner of Circle of the highly respected Myler J Horse Sanctuary. For tickets and registration Bits and Spurs; information, contact Nancy Jones at 887-2301, • Curt Pate, trainer, cattleman, or visit the website HawaiiHorseExpo.com. AQHA clinician and Western Registration fees and donations are tax Horseman author, known for his deductible, and all proceeds will be used by the low-stress horsemanship and Hawaii Island Humane Society to help establish livestock handling methods. an Equine Fund for the care of abused and abandoned horses. c The host and panel moderator will be Rick Lamb, author and host of Bottom, left to right: Rick Lamb, Brady Bergin, The Horse Show on RFD-TV. Local Robert Miller. At right, top to bottom: Lester Buckley, speakers will include Brady Bergin, Dale Myler, Curt Pate, Lisa Wood. Photos courtesy of DVM, and Lisa Wood, DVM. Mary Buckley. 2 Mālama Lio: The Hawai`i Horse Journal Mana`o: Opinions and Comments Mālama Lio: The Hawai`i Horse Journal is Hawai`i’s ONLY statewide Where have all the trails gone? not going to happen. We now do not horsemen’s publication distributed in Do you remember riding through have an improved Equestrian Trail— both print and electronic format. fields and forests and gravel roads we have no Equestrian Trail because and ranchland as a kid? Whether we lost total access to the old trail DISTRIBUTION: Published you grew up in Hawai`i or some- and were told we would be breaking monthly on the first of each month and where else, if you had horses as a the law and will be subject to fines if distributed in feed stores, tack shops and kid you’re probably wondering what found on the trail with horses. other outlets in Hawai`i. SUBSCRIPTIONS: By e-mail: Free happened to all those places you used “All of this happened over a electronic subscriptions are distributed to ride. You probably just hopped on period of 5+ years with many, many by e-mail. Visit www.malama-lio.com. your pony or climbed on aunty’s old people doing hours of research and By first-class mail: $24 per year. cowhorse, and off you went across the doing their best to answer every ques- Send name, address, and a check made fields. tion or problem the County Council out to Mālama Lio to the address below. But much of that easy access threw their way.” BUSINESS ADVERTISING: See to open space is gone. Farmland Our places to ride, our trails, are page 11 or visit malama-lio.com for turns into suburban housing. Forests vanishing. And it’s not just here in advertising rates and information. become malls and parking lots. Dirt Hawai`i. According to the United CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: See page roads and donkey tracks are trans- States Department of Agriculture, 12 for rates and information. CIRCULATION: 1,200 copies printed formed into paved highways. open space all across America is dis- monthly; 900 e-mail subscribers. Our readers report that it’s get- appearing at the rate of 250 acres an Estimated readership: 5,000 ting harder and harder to find and hour. What can we do? gain access to good trails. One reader • Take care of the land that you can NEWS & ARTICLES: We welcome comments, “The best trail riding is ride on. Be a courteous land user your Hawaii-related news, letters, closed to the general public by large and be sure to say thank you to articles and event results, which may be landowners because of fear of poten- landowners! edited for content and space. tial liablility issues.” • Ride on organized rides to help Others cite restrictions because of support organizations that are The publisher will make every effort invasive species concerns; new own- working to keep trails open. to ensure accuracy in printed material, but assumes no responsiblity for any ers who put up fences and lock gates; • Know what’s going on in your claims made in advertisements, nor for rezoning that chops up agricultural community. Speak out to make the opinions, statements of fact, or advice land for commercial growth and sure our government officials offered in articles contained herein. housing; formerly open military land and decision-makers know how now being leased to private trail ride important it is to keep access to Publisher & Editor: businesses; and mismanagement by open land. Lobby legislators for Sarah Blanchard planning groups. open-space funding, reduce the Mālama Lio: The Hawai`i Horse Journal In Kauai County, one reader re- liability risk for cooperative land- P.O. Box 11511 lates a sad story: “A few years ago the owners, and include safe access Hilo, HI 96721 County received federal funds to de- for horseback riders in designated Phone/fax: 808-969-3608 velop a Pedestrian Pathway,” includ- recreation areas. [email protected] ing an equestrian portion which had • If you own land, learn how you www.malama-lio.com been an existing horse trail for over can preserve it for future recre- 40 years. Safety concerns caused the ational riding. Consider selling or A note to our readers planners to separate the horse trail donating development rights of from the pedestrian trail. your property, and talk to a lawyer Because of rising postage and “No matter how many examples about creating a land trust. printing costs, we can no longer dis- of multi-use trails there are nation- • Go to malama-lio.com and take tribute the print version of Mālama wide, they could not understand the this month’s survey to give us Lio for free. Beginning with this concept. They started grading the feedback about your use and issue ( July), we’ve begun charging a trail and then the County Council access to trails currently. We’ll cover price of $1.00. submitted a proposed new county continue to publish your com- However, we’ve dropped the cost ordinance to BAN horses from the ments and views. Is it time to of classified ads! See page 12 for proposed Equestrian Trail. form a statewide equestrian trails more information. c “So now the Equestrian Trail is council? c Mālama Lio: The Hawai`i Horse Journal 3 The Akamai Horseman Horsemanship: It Starts on the Ground by Yod Neal Riding the horse is not the same as horsemanship. Horsemanship encompasses the entire horse-human relationship. A great deal of that relationship takes place with the human’s feet flat on the ground. It is from the ground that we feed our horses, clean their stalls, groom and clip them, lead them, load and unload them from trailers, de-worm them, doctor them, clean their hooves, and ultimately saddle them and bridle them. When a good rider is not also a good horseman, what is usually missing is a foundation on the ground. Groundwork for many people could be just bringing the horse from the pasture to the barn. For other people it could be lunging the horse in circles or simply putting plastic tarps over the horse or on the ground. still, relax or not move to energy, and stand calmly when Groundwork has many faces. My belief is groundwork saddled; not react when a rider waves or swings a rope; should free the horse’s feet in all directions when asked, not spook at flapping or plastic bags, lawn ornaments, or and have the horse calm to a stimulus when asked. show ribbons; and calmly accept the presence of traffic, There are two purposes in groundwork, as in all horse dogs, or other horses. To desensitize your horse, apply training. You either sensitize or desensitize a horse to consistent rhythmic movements (energy), until he relaxes a stimulus. You can never do a combination of the two. and what you’re doing no longer bothers him. If you want to sensitize the horse to a specific stimulus, A lot of people get confused and think that all you want to liven his feet in a certain direction, so you they have to do is desensitize their horse and then must generate energy that requires an active response they’re good to go. It is not the case.