1 2011 HOA Annual Meeting with just bunk beds or a cabin with 5 bedrooms, by Kathy Peacock kitchen, showers and living room, a group of I want to welcome all HOA members you could share. and guests to our Annual Meeting. My name is Friday night is potluck, bring a dish to Kathy Peacock, and my family and I will pass. If you can't, I am sure we will have plenty be your hosts for the 2011 Annual HOA of food. Then we’ll have lots of story-telling meeting. We are excited to host the meeting around a bonfire, so bring your lawn chairs. again this year. If you attended the 2005 Saturday am: breakfast buffet, clinics meeting, you know that Camp Hitaga is a after breakfast, lunch will be available to beautiful and relaxing place to spend time with purchase, then a fun show in the early friends and horses. afternoon. A pork and chicken supper is offered I will be available to anyone who arrives by Hitaga Archery Club (reservations as early as Wednesday October 5th. The camp requested), then the Annual Meeting and has horse trails we can ride in as well as several Auction. Don't forget to bring an item or two to local parks within a 15 to 20 minute drive from auction along with your checkbook. camp. I am more than willing to take you out Sunday am: breakfast buffet, trail ride trail riding if you plan to arrive early. for those interested, and lots of hugs to those Thursday night supper will be headed home. provided by me to all early arrivals. Send me an Feel free to e-mail me at e-mail of when and how many of you are [email protected] with any questions or planning to arrive so I can have plenty of food to make a reservation. Kathy that night. Let me know when you plan to arrive (See the flyer for the 2011 HOA Annual and if you need a primitive campsite or an Meeting on page 3.) electric one. Camp does have primitive cabins Horse of the Americas 2010 Endurance and Competitive Award Winners Horse of the Americas is proud to announce the Open Division Distance and Buckaroo award winners from the Reserve year 2010. Champion: Competitive Trail Champions: Cito Mocha Open Division Raton, ridden Champion: by Trish Cleveland. Building a Mystery, ridden by Victoria Lynn. 2 Competitive Pleasure Division Champion: Jr. Novice Division Reserve Champion: Thief of Hearts, ridden by Becky Rogers. Dreamboat Annie, ridden by Morgan Patton. Novice Division Champion: Timber Ghost, Endurance Champion: ridden by Vickie Ives. Limited Distance Champion: Meet Virginia, ridden by Tomlyn Grey Jr. Novice Division Champion: Amarillo Sky, ridden by Ashley Frazier. The Buckaroo Award is awarded to the HOA members 18 years or under who have accumulated 50 points on any HOA registered horse. This year we are pleased to announce two more winners of the Buckaroo Award: Ashley Frazier-- 226 points Morgan Patton-- 74 points 3 Friday, October 7 thru Sunday, October 9 Camp Hitaga, 5551 Hitaga Road, Walker Iowa 52352 *Trail Rides * Open Fun Show * Clinics* Inspections * Meeting * Auction* Food * Come meet the HOA members and learn more about Colonial Spanish horses. COFFEE is always on! Calendar of Events: FRIDAY: SATURDAY: Trail ride 12:30pm Breakfast-buffet - 7:30 to 8:30am Pot Luck Supper 6:00pm ($6 adults $4 12 & under) *Bring a dish to pass* Clinics 9:00 am Bonfire, Dancing & Camaraderie Lunch - 11:00am to 12:00 pm Open Fun Show (all breeds) - 12:30pm **Everyone is welcome to show or volunteer. Health Certificates for Out of State Dinner - 6:00 p.m . Horses Grilled Pork and Chicken Dinner served Need Interstate Health Certificates by Hitaga Archery Club (within past 30 days) Price of Saturday night meal will be $8, $5 for Current Negative Coggins CO, TX, & NM also need V.S. children under 12. Includes drink, salad, rolls, statement written or attached to vegetable, potato, meat, and dessert. **Advanced registration required*. HC per state code Annual Meeting, then Auction (Bring an item to donate (and your checkbook) for this fundraising event SUNDAY: Breakfast- buffet- 7:30 to 8:30am Trail Ride- 9:00 am Contact: Kathy Peacock for info, camp site and Saturday dinner reservations Phone: (319)-350-4897 or email: [email protected] Camping: Motels: Primitive sites- $6.00 per night Microtel Inn, 5500 Dryer Ave. Electric sites- $16.00 per night Marion, IA (319)-373-7400 Cabins and A-frames available (showers and restrooms available) For more information, check the HOA Online Newsletter at: http://www.horseoftheamericas.com/newsletter.html 4 Garfield Farms the similarities between our horse and the ones by Clarissa Winchester over on Corolla. I got the opportunity see other rare Tom and I (and our horses) returned to breeds of chickens, horses, cattle, sheep, and Garfield Farms in Geneva, Illinois, for another pigs. Many of these have been featured in the fun spring Sunday. Garfield Farms is a member ALBC newsletters. I saw a Shire, Red Wattle of the ALBC and has hosted this annual event Hogs, a Cleveland Bay stallion, and a Mammoth for the last 25 years. Mule that liked to eat black berry cobbler. The This was our third time at this event. exhibitors are eager to talk about the history We had another wonderful and educational and uses of their animals. The volunteers of experience. This year’s event had fewer Garfield Farms also put on demonstrations of attendees than previous years so we had more sheep shearing, blacksmithing, and plowing one-on-one time. with their Devon oxen team. We got to speak with new people about our horses alongside other rare breeds. Many of the people who come out to the event may have never seen a horse except in the movies. THE AMERICAN INDIAN This gives us an opportunity to explain to them HORSE REGISTRY, INC. that the horses they see in westerns like “Jerimiah Johnson” and “3:10 Yuma” are acting out what our horse’s ancestors DID! Something new was that we were given a 30 minute demonstration time. Sparkey and Echo came along. Tom Norush gave a lecture on the horses explaining the history, conformation, care, and temperament of our Since 1961, AIHR has been dedicated horses compared to modern breeds. Sparkey to honoring the Horses of Native American and I assisted by demonstrating the mobility of tribes & nations. our horse’s joints and the bond that develops This year’s AIHR/HOA National Show between horse and rider. Sparkey has earned in Marshall, Texas on September 23-24-25 will th the nickname “Yoga Horse” from the be its 30 anniversary. You and your Indian spectators. We had several return spectators Horse deserve to be there! Unique awards program for those who show, those who trail asking us to show off the “Yoga Horse’s” moves. ride or those who enjoy their horses at home. Our horses had a great time showing off! It seemed we had the largest audience For more information contact: at one time than most of the other booths AIHR because Echo loves to give pony rides. This 9028 State Park Road Lockhart, TX 78644 even nabbed the attention of another exhibitor 512-398-6642 (evenings) Email: [email protected] across the way from us who listened to our conversations with others. We also met a American Indian Horse—an Original! gentleman from the East Coast who recognized 5 Horse Coupon Book’s Season The Essay: of Excellence Contest Ok. Close your eyes. No really -- I mean it! Close them tight. Imagine the vast herds of by Andrea McGregor horses that once roamed the United States. The horse brought over by the Conquistadors - prized I had the privilege of participating in a by the Native Americans. You see the ponies Facebook contest put on by Horse Coupon Book swift and fleet. You remember the words written called Season of Excellence. The winning essay by J. Frank Dobie : "Well the wild ones-the would win a free breeding to the stallion of their coyote duns, the smokies, the blues, the blue choice - and the stallion owner would get $5,000 roans, the snip nosed pintos, the flea bitten in prizes. While we did not win the response was grays, and the black skinned whites, the shining overwhelming -- many of you and many who blacks, and the rusty browns, the red roans, the simply just read the essay and voted for it. We toasted sorrels, and the stocking legged bays, the received enough votes to make the final judging, splotched appaloosas and the cream colored done by an independent panel of 10 judges. Out palominos, and all the other shadings of color as of 25 essays we came in 3rd overall - less than various as the hues that show and fade on the two points away from the winner. There was clouds at sunset- they are all gone now." --- OR over 400 essays originally submitted. The re- are they? printed essay is below for those that don’t have Fast forward to 2011. A few breeders and enthusiasts are forging ahead to preserve the remnant that is left of these vast Spanish herds. We build upon what was started in the early 1900’s by breeders of Spanish Mustangs that sought out the remaining few pure Spanish type horses. Often lending to confusion is the term “Spanish Mustang” - this is a breed, and is not the same in type, temperament, or history of that as the more well known “mustangs” managed by the BLM.