Delegation to Council PLEASE NOTE: The information provided below and/or attached is for distribution at an open session of City Council and as such, becomes public information. Office of the City Clerk 410 - 9th Street Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A2 Fax (204) 729-0975 RE:Keystone Centre Presentation to Council I/We wish to appear as a delegation at the May 20, 2008 regular meeting of Brandon City Council. The purpose of my addressing City Council is: To present to City Council a power point presentation on "The Round Up", an equine event that took place in the Westoba Credit Union Ltd. Agricultural Centre of Excellence April 18-20, 2008 I hereby acknowledge that I have read the Procedural Requirements for Delegations and agree to abide by such regulations. First Name: Dan Last Name: Robertson Email: [email protected] Phone: 726-3506 Address: 1175 18th St Brandon, MB Postal Code: R7A 7C5 Receipt will be confirmed by E-mail. 2008 The Round Up 2008 Horseman's Challenge • 3 Professional Colt Trainers • 9 – 2 year old colts (unbroke and only worked with enough to get to the event) • Each trainer gets to pick one colt to work with in 4 - 1 hour sessions. • They must complete the competition with the final show down in the Westoba Ag Centre show ring. The Round Up 2008 Horseman’s Challenge • Largest attended portion of the event The Round Up 2008 Horseman’s Challenge • The final show down had everyone on the edge of their seat, waiting to see which clinician would be named 2008 Champion of the Horseman’s Challenge. The Round Up 2008 The Round Up 2008 Glenn Stewart/ The Horse Ranch • Partnered to help bring in the Clinicians • Name the event • Endorse it • Bring volunteers The Round Up 2008 Local Talent • Elaine Banfield – Dressage • Neil McLeod – Ball training The Round Up 2008 Outstanding Talent • Lee Smith – Horsemanship • Neil Dimmock – Driving and Harnessing The Round Up 2008 • Keith Stewart - Ranch Roping • Lyle Jackson - Reining • Everit Moore - Equine Dentistry • Stuart Lambert - Hot Shoeing • Crystal Neudorf – Saddle fitting • Andrea Graham – Equine therapy • Todd Craplewe – Equine structured alignment The Round Up 2008 The Round Up 2008 Evening Camaraderie • Singing along with great talent such as Ivan Daines and Mel Hyland. • Socializing between clinicians and the public • Good ol Country time fun The Round Up 2008 The Round Up 2008 The Round Up 2008 • The positive promoting of the Westoba Credit Union Ltd. Agricultural Centre of Excellence was taken in from folks all across the world including Switzerland, USA, Australia, Germany and Canada The Round Up 2008 Tradeshow • There was exhibitors from all related equine Industry – Trailer Companies – Western and English Tack – Western and English Clothing stores – Feed, health and Breed representatives – And much much more. The Round Up 2008 • Lecture Hall - different speakers on Health care, Dentistry, Equine Therapy, Saddle Fitting (English and Western), Equine washing, Hoof Care, Nutrition and Equine Structured Alignment The Round Up 2008 • Revenue Opportunities for 2009 – Sponsorship, we felt that it would be more beneficial to the Keystone Centre to have the event and then sell the sponsorship. Example it would have been easy to get a few $500.00 sponsors but it is really hard to up sell them to a $5,000.00 sponsorship the following year. We feel that The Round Up is now an event that we can successfully sell to potentially larger sponsors. The Round Up 2008 • Revenue for 2009 cont. – Tradeshow will also grow in the number of exhibitors – larger numbers at the gate At The Mane Event in Red Deer, we spoke to Ron and Jan Mansfield the coordinators of the event. Friday nights attendance surpassed the total number of people thru the gate for the entire weekend in 2007, their first annual. The Round Up 2008 THE ROUND UP FEEDBACK 08 Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:12 AM To: Sandra Worley Subject: The Roundup To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to take the opportunity to commend the Keystone for holding the Roundup held this past weekend. The show was well organized and run and presented an excellent array of equine information. I would especially like to recognize Chas for organizing and running the weekend. This type of weekend highlights the potential we have in the Keystone Centre and this type of event can only get bigger and bigger and more popular. I hope this will be the first annual event. I will certainly tell my equine friends who didn’t or couldn’t come that they missed an excellent event. Sincerely, Rick Andrews Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:48 AM To: Chas Lambert Subject: ROUNDUP Chas, LOVED IT!!! I hope it will become an annual event. Learned lots, enjoyed all the clinicians. And hopefully the tradeshow end of things could grow. Great job! Congrats! Yvette Kirk Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:17 AM To: Chas Lambert Subject: horseman's challenge winner? Hello Chas, My daughter and I had to leave prior to the final event. Who won the Horseman's Challenge? Also, I saw that the events were recorded. Will DVDs be available to purchase or view sometime in future? My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend, and learned so very much. We will definitely be returning next year, and spreading the good word among our friends. Best wishes, Anita Daher Winnipeg Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:27 AM To: Sandra Worley Subject: The Round Up Just wanted to thank the Keystone Centre for bringing The Round Up to us, it was a fantastic 3 day event that I hope you will continue to sponser and bring back year after year. I came with a friend from just outside Winnipeg - my first time in Brandon. I will definitely recommend this event to other horse lovers in my area and hope to have increased attendance next year. It would be nice to have a bigger arena in your facility for the comfort of the people in attendance, the seats can be hard after 3 straight days. Chaz did a fabulous job of keeping this event going and entertaining. Thank you again for sponsering this event and keep it coming back. Patricia White Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:06 PM To: Ag Subject: The Roundup was awsome well arranged and really enjoyable Chas You did an awsome job of being there all the time professional at all times and made sure everyone was happy HATS OFF TO CHAS LAMBERT VERY WELL DONE Sandy Donald DONALD QUARTER HORSES BRIAN & SANDY Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:44 AM To: Chas Lambert Subject: RE: Contract Hey Chas , I want to congratulate you on a show well run...you are amazing , seriously . And always smiling no matter how stressful it must have been coordinating such an event and no matter how many directions you were being pulled . You were impressive every step of the way . I have been to many symposiums and clinics across North America over the last twenty some years and can say through experience that yours was most certainly one of the smoothest running , well organized and interesting . Thankyou very much for your invitation to be a part of this wonderful show ....would love to repeat the performance next year if you need me . Now that I've done the Roundup this year, I already have ideas to improve what I could do for next year. If you have someone else in mind for next year that's ok as well as I will certainly be there next year as a spectator ....I picked up a lot of good info this year from watching the other wonderful clinicians. The feedback from all the spectators was very enthusiastic and ,as we all know ,that in the horse business , the best advertising is by word of mouth. Gauranteed the project will snowball from here and keep building momentum with each year . It was a great show and that is the "word on the street" , and people hearing that ,.are already commenting on attending next years "Roundup ". Well done, Chas Sincerely, Elaine Banfield Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:51 AM To: Chas Lambert Subject: The Roundup HI Chas. I just wanted to send you a note in regards to The Roundup. Congratulations! It was fantastic. My husband took the whole weekend off to watch which is extremely rare considering that he is only home on weekends. We both agreed that $35 was cheap for what we got out of it. Those trainers use the same approach we like but take it a whole lot further. I hope that it does become an annual event. It would have been nice to have the whole thing videoed for purchase because it was hard to see it all and it was all great! I thought I would also just send you ideas that I was listening around at for next year. Take them or leave them. I really, really pushed my club members and parents to come, but only a couple came. I was very disappointed since a lot of the presentations were totally applicable to them. Their comments were that it was too expensive by the time they brought their families, and I would have to agree that younger ones really wouldn't have been that interested. Maybe 8 and under should be free. Jason is 10 and he really wasn't that keen. Maybe you can have something for them to do (a kid friendly lounge) so that their parents will come and the kids can hang there when not listening.