Usrider Equestrian Motor Plan Your Quarterly Guide to Trailer Safety

Usrider Equestrian Motor Plan Your Quarterly Guide to Trailer Safety

USRider Equestrian Motor Plan HITCH UP! TM Spring 2013 Your Quarterly Guide to Trailer Safety & Travel Click the photos above to see what is inside Published by AIM Equine Network Click to Open ➠ TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE Welcome to Hitch Up! Welcome to the Spring 2013 issue of Hitch Up! magazine, brought to you by the talented staffs of USRider Equestrian Motor Plan, EquiSearch.com, and Active Interest Media KEYNOTES Equine Network. In this issue, Rebecca Gimenez, PhD, describes a trailer ride from your horse’s perspective, then gives you ways to make the ride more comfortable. Plus, experts Tom and Neva Scheve give you a spring ME M tuneup checklist, and provide valuable after-winter BER S test-driving tips. TORY If you’re a trail rider, turn to our destinations section, where we take you on three spring day rides not far from major cities in Kentucky, California, and Arizona. SAFE TRAVELS In this issue, we also tell you how to help keep your horse safe at home and on the road with an identifica- tion package, and relate the story of a USRider Member whose trailer broke down five hours from her home in Maine. HAULING HINTS And don’t miss our trailering-gear section with live links, USRider Community news, valuable USRider Member benefits, and more! It´s FREE to Subscribe! DESTI Not a subscriber? Click here to go to the USRider NATIONS website, or click on the subscribe icon on any page. How to Navigate Hitch Up! HORSEKEEPING Sidebar Navigation Tools • Click the bar at right to jump to Click for additional any story. information. ON-THE-GO GEAR Page Buttons Close. At the bottom of each page. Listen to audio. • Click for previous and next pages. Click to play a video. • Click to go to our Facebook page. Download an item. USR • Click to e-mail us. CO Click to watch a slide show. mm • Click to subscribe FREE from UNITY the USRider website. This publication may briefly summarize some of the benefits of USRider membership. In the event of a conflict between this publication and the USRider Membership Agreement, the Membership USR Agreement shall control. Copies of the Membership Agreement are available at www.usrider.org. USRider does not endorse products featured in this publication; they are presented only to provide information to horse owners. USRider receives no income from advertising that appears in this publication, nor does it endorse any advertisers or products that appear. BENEFITS USRider® Equestrian Motor Plan LIKE US ON E-MAIL US suBSCRIBE Hitch Up! e-Magazine •Spring 2013 2 FACEBOOK NOW FREE! TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE T A B L E O F MEMBER stOry CO Spring 2013 ntents Keynotes This issue: Large-Animal Rescue Training sched- KEYNOTES uled; in-trailer first-aid kit; sticky-accelerator control steps; Julie Goodnight’s hay bag tip; more. Member Story East Coast Emergency. This English-riding ME M competitor’s trailer broke down in a cloud of BER S smoke five hours from her home in Maine. TORY USRider quickly came to her aid. Safe Travels Your Horse’s Perspective. Follow this checklist SAFE TRAVELS from Rebecca Gimenez, PhD, to help make your DestiNAtiONS trailer more quiet and comfortable for your horse. Hauling Hints Get Ready to Roll. Has your trailer been stored HAULING HINTS under cover — or parked in the weather — all winter? Here’s how to get it ready for spring, with experts Tom and Neva Scheve. Destinations 3 Scenic Spring Rides. Hitch up, and haul DESTI your horse to day rides that are an easy drive from NATIONS major cities in Kentucky, California, and Arizona. Horsekeeping Equine ID Kit. Help keep your horse safe at USRider COMMUNity home and on the road by putting together an HORSEKEEPING identification package. Here’s how. On-the-Go Gear This issue: A quiet-ride trailer; an insect-barrier fly mask; a portable work light; boot/shoe protec- ON-THE-GO GEAR tors; and neutral-colored fly apparel for your horse. Bonus video! USRider Community This issue: Know your USRider Member ID number; USRider expands its Service Provider USR Resources; alternative transportation defined; CO mm USRider Member testimonials; more. UNITY USRider Benefits USRider recognizes benefits partners in the At USRider, the safety of our Members and their Horses is our top priority. To help us keep the focus on, as well as show our respect to, these invaluable components of USRider, we capitalize money-saving Winner’s Circle Advantage the words “Member” and “Horse” where these words relate to our membership program. USR Benefits Program.Bonus video! COVER phOTO BY Heidi MELOCCO BENEFITS USRider® Equestrian Motor Plan LIKE US ON E-MAIL US suBSCRIBE Hitch Up! e-Magazine •Spring 2013 3 FACEBOOK NOW FREE! TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE KEYNOTES ME M BER BER S TORY SAFE TRAVELS HAULING HINTS DESTI NATIONS DEL MAR, CA TAMPA, FL REDMOND, OR LEXINGTON, KY HARRISBURG, PA AUSTIN, TX DENVER, CO FEB MAR APR JUN JUL AUG AUG HORSEKEEPING 2-3 9-10 6-7 22-23 13-14 3-4 24-25 ON-THE-GO GEAR DISCOVER THE IT ONLY TAKES TWO DAYS TO BECOME A BETTER HORSEMAN. Begin your journey toward real horsemanship, attend a Walkabout Tour stop near you. METHOD USR CO PRESENTED BY OVER $6,000 IN PRIZES GIVEN AWAY AT EACH TOUR STOP! mm JOIN WWW.NOWORRIESCLUB.COM TO GET 5 FREE TICKETS PER YEAR UNITY Call with code 13TOURTIX for discounted tickets BROUGHT TO YOU BY DOWNUNDERHORSEMANSHIP.COM • 888-287-7432 USR BENEFITS USRider® Equestrian Motor Plan LIKE US ON E-MAIL US suBSCRIBE Hitch Up! e-Magazine •Spring 2013 4 FACEBOOK NOW FREE! TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE Keynotes Large-Animal Rescue Training Scheduled The USRider EKU Large Animal Incident Command System. 324, Eastern Kentucky University, K E Y KEYNOTES Emergency Rescue Training is Contributions to the Large Animal 521 Lancaster Ave., Richmond KY N O scheduled for April 5-7, 2013. Rescue Endowment Fund may be 40475-3102. The development tes 1 1 The Leg-Up Fund, created by sent to the Division of University office may be reached at (859) 2 3 4 USRider in January 2002, assists Development, CPO 19A, Jones 622-1583. USR in training students at Eastern ME Kentucky University in Richmond, M Ky. Firefighters, emergency re- BER S sponders, veterinary technicians, TORY and veterinarians are also invited to the classes. Class times for the 2013 Large SAFE TRAVELS Animal Emergency Rescue Train- ing are as follows: • Friday, April 5, 6 p.m.-10 p.m. • Saturday, April 6, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. • Sunday, April 7, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. HAULING HINTS The training will include an overview of animal physiology, The USRider EKU Large Animal Emergency Awareness Training will in- ropes, knots, vertical lifts, hitches, clude an overview of animal physiology, ropes, knots, vertical lifts, hitches, and mechanical-advantage haul and mechanical-advantage haul systems with a focus on the Incident systems with an emphasis on the Command System. DESTI NATIONS HORSEKEEPING ON-THE-GO GEAR USR CO mm UNITY USR PHOTOS COURTESY OF EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY BENEFITS USRider® Equestrian Motor Plan LIKE US ON E-MAIL US suBSCRIBE Hitch Up! e-Magazine •Spring 2013 5 FACEBOOK NOW FREE! TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE HSUS Launches Safe Stalls The Humane Society of the Program participants will include United States is launching a new prescreened equine-rescue groups, K E program to help horses rescued foster homes, trainers, farriers, Y KEYNOTES N O from cruelty or natural disasters, and other professionals across the tes 1 as well as those suffering from country. Participants may also be 2 neglect. individual horse owners and en- 3 4 The HSUS Safe Stalls Horse thusiasts who can supply transport, Rescue Network will be a na- food, and other care for horses on ME M tionwide system of horse-rescue their own property. BER S groups, equine professionals, “Horse lovers across the coun- TORY and enthusiasts who can provide try are joining together to find emergency care and shelter to solutions and respond to the call horses in need. for help when horses are in dis- SAFE TRAVELS When animals are suffering tress,” said Elizabeth Zarkos, Safe The Humane Society of the from neglect or abuse, or are in Stalls network coordinator for The United States is launching Safe crisis because of a natural disas- HSUS. Stalls Horse Rescue Network, a ter, participants in the Safe Stalls Organizations and individuals nationwide system of horse-res- program can provide to law en- interested in becoming partic- HAULING HINTS cue groups, equine professionals, forcement and communities a ipants in The HSUS Safe Stalls and enthusiasts who can provide network of local resources to help Horse Rescue Network can apply emergency care and shelter to horses needing immediate inter- online at www.humanesociety. horses in need. vention and housing. org/safestalls. USR DESTI NATIONS Organize Your Grooming Tools When you’re on the road with your horse, can you always find the brush you need right when you need it? The Husky Bucket Jockey is a hardware-store tool caddy, but HORSEKEEPING makes a great grooming kit for on-the-go equestrians. The Husky Bucket Jockey sits over a standard five-gallon bucket. Its pockets fit currycombs, brushes, hoof picks, thermometer, supplements, treats, and more. GEAR TIP And there’s plenty of room inside the bucket for your other supplies, such as ON-THE-GO GEAR protective boots, a small canister of feed, and large brushes. The bucket is sturdy and won’t get overly dirty when you set it on the ground while grooming your horse at the trail- er.

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