COLLECTIVE REMARKS VOLUME 3 ISSUE 10 - OCTOBER 2013 COLLECTIVE REMARKS –WWW.ESDCTA.ORG PAGE 1 UPCOMING EVENTS: RESULTS OF OUR 2013 ESDCTA EVENTING CHAMPIONSHIPS There’s so much By Cathy Brogan for the Eventing Committee happening at Below are the results of the championship divisions: ESDCTA. Come Championship Training Rider join the fun! Check Mary Bancroft Ringwood Amistad 39.5 Christy Pellegrino Christmas Eve 40.8 out ESDCTA.org Wendy Furlong Jazz Blues 56.6 for more Wendy Furlong Jazzmine 62.8 information. Championship Open Novice Junior Rider Jenny Lackey Moonlit Starz 40.0 Madison Everett Idle Hour Odyssey 40.0 Gia Spargo Mi Amoré 47.0 Katie Cantine Mama Mia 107.5 Championship Open Novice Senior Rider Elizabeth Posilico Fernhill Cork Blues 38.5 Lindsay Alston Almost a Saint 40.0 Teena Olson and Em A Pro (owned by Carey Williams) – Starter Championship Open Beginner Novice Junior Champions - show off their ribbon and trophy after a wonderful Catherine Futterman Rius 38.3 day! Photo by Mica Scalia Ava Reverendo Badlands Billy 42.4 Rachael Brink Half Blood Prince 44.3 This year’s joint ESDCTA Championship Kaitlyn Scripko Ali Oop 48.4 shows for Dressage and Eventing were blessed with outstanding weather. In fact, it Championship Open Beginner Novice Senior felt a little more like October than September. The weather and the courses made it a Holly Cornell Zoe 37.2 memorable day for our competitors, officials, Kathryn Nelson Liberal Media 55.3 and volunteers. Brandi Williams Top of the Pops 57.7 We can never thank our volunteers enough Championship Starter Rider for helping us make this event a reality for Teena Olson Em A Pro 35.5 our competitors. From the scribes, warm-up stewards and score runners in dressage, our Results for the Open Divisions cross-country stewards, starters, fence judges, Open Novice and our stadium stewards, jump crew, and Jessica Tucker Happy Hunch 50.0 timers, and all of those who helped before the Tiffany Ruocco Emerson Star 52.5 event with set-up, decorations, flagging the Wendy Lewis Nautique 54.2 course, etc., running a horse trials is always a Katie Schroder Regent Street 78.0 huge undertaking and impossible without our volunteers. Thank you to all from ESDCTA. Open Beginner Novice This year’s event had a slightly different Lauren Chumley SNF Maarta 33.3 element in that we ran both a championship Judy Bull Diego 42.4 horse trials for our qualified members and a Melanie Rys Macho Mambo 92.1 schooling horse trials open to all. We had a Hillary Charen Place to Be 145.90 total of 39 entries this year and look forward to doubling those entries next year as we spread Open Starter the word about the open schooling horse trials Wendy Lewis Cover Girl 40.4 to all. Kathryn Nelson Feisty Dreamer 58.5 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 10 - OCTOBER 2013 COLLECTIVE REMARKS –WWW.ESDCTA.ORG PAGE 2 Board Of Trustees OFFICERS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE President Susan Lax [email protected] 609.466.4178 It’s that time of year: sweaters and jackets, hot Vice President Debbie DelGiorno 609.744.2265 cider, and pumpkin pies and – BLANKETING! [email protected] The same questions year in and year out, haunt Keith Adams Treasurer [email protected] us at this time of year. Should I let my horse go naked this winter and just let him be a horse or Secretary Beth Ann Adams 610.868.3615 should I blanket and have the extra time and [email protected] effort, not to mention expense? When do I start Member-at-Large Eventing Carey Williams 732.932.5529 to blanket so he does not start growing a big [email protected] coat and I miss the opportunity, and once I do, Member-at-Large Dressage Jessie Steiner 561.358.6055 is it a done deal until spring? [email protected] Well, in my research I found the answers all in one place: The Rutgers Cooperative Extension TRUSTEES Office. The office’s web site has this article archived: “To Blanket or Not to Blanket.” And, Dressage Committee Terry Masters 609.912.9401 it is written by ESDCTA’s very own Board of [email protected] Trustees member, Carey A. Williams, PhD, Eventing Committee Gary Maholic 215.489.1557 [email protected] Extension Specialist in Equine Management, along with Animal Doctoral Student, Nettie Youth Committee Jill Kuc 570.977.1406 Liburt, MS. [email protected] The article is clear and concise and covers all Heidi Lemack 609.758.4918 [email protected] the questions we seem to discuss annually, Cindy Roesener 908.797.9754 regardless of the decisions we made the year [email protected] before. Education Committee Francine Gentile 267-226-3280 Here are some of the points discussed: [email protected] Awards Committee Melissa Pribic 610.762.9419 • If a horse is clipped, whether a trace, full [email protected] body, or hunter clip, it needs to be blanketed. Finance Committee Gary Maholic 215.489.1557 • Once you start to sheet or blanket, it must [email protected] continue for the entire season. NJEAB Representative Earlen Haven 856.769.1916 [email protected] • More hay will keep horses warmer. Marketing Committee Lisa Toaldo 570.491.5147 • When blanketing, you may need more than [email protected] one kind of blanket to transition to different temperatures. • Don’t put a blanket on a wet horse or it will be even colder. Use a cooler to dry the horse out first. OFF-BOARD • Overweight horses have more insulation, COMMITTEE CHAIRS underweight horses do not and may need to Calendar/Activities [email protected] be blanketed earlier on in the season. • Don’t leave the blanket on all winter Grants Committee Julia Peterson 908.326.3120 without taking it off regularly and seeing what’s going on underneath. Nominating Committee Jen Morris 201.986.4601 [email protected] • Make sure the blankets and sheets fit well to avoid sores and discomfort. Omnibus Committee [email protected] • If you don’t start to blanket, the horse will Newsletter Committee [email protected] grow its natural coat. Ice balls and frozen whiskers do not mean Webmaster Gary Maholic 215.489.1557 • [email protected] the horse is not weathering the cold. Show Results / Jean Goeltz 732.577.0272 To read the complete article, go to: www. Volunteer Bucks [email protected] http://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/publication. asp?pid=FS1081. It is well worth it. I am going Become a Friend to ESDCTA on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter: @ESDCTA Continued on pg 3 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 10 - OCTOBER 2013 COLLECTIVE REMARKS –WWW.ESDCTA.ORG PAGE 3 Continued from pg 2 to share it with my boarders. Of course, every horse is an individual, so if you have questions, direct them to your veterinarian. Only she or he can answer the specific questions you have that cover the nuances of your own horse’s health. I blanket my horses. They always have something on, even if it is just a fly sheet in the summer. One of mine makes Peanut’s PigPen look like he’s ready for a stroll down the red carpet. If there is a patch of dirt or a mud hole in the pasture, that is where you will find him, and not just once a day. My mare, dubbed the Princessa by one of my boarders, just gets the royal treatment. But despite these reasons, I blanket, so I have a somewhat clean horse when I go to grab somebody for a ride. It’s not that I don’t groom, or I am lazy. I love to groom. But there are groomings that take 20 minutes max and then there are groomings that can take an hour before you want to put a saddle pad and saddle on the horse. Blanketing definitely helps minimize the latter. But it is expensive. I must have five blankets for each horse that are used throughout the season, depending upon the weather and temperatures. (Much to Howard’s chagrin.) I also have riding blankets for the winter. There are days, however, that I do admit that I don’t need them all. You can spend less and still do right by your horse. The important thing is to be prepared for the change in season and make that decision early on so your horse is well-protected and comfortable regardless of the route you take. Now, it’s time to stock up on hand warmers and toe warmers for me! GETGET SOCIAL! “A horse doesn’t care how much you SOCIAL! know until he knows how much you care. Put your hand on your horse and your heart in your hand.” - Pat Parelli, Horse Trainer, Author Like us on ESDCTA Susan and Chevy Follow us on @ESDCTA VOLUME 3 ISSUE 10 - OCTOBER 2013 COLLECTIVE REMARKS –WWW.ESDCTA.ORG PAGE 4 CROSS COUNTRY... New Across our Region COMMUNITY NEWS COMMUNITY CALENDAR We know you are busy and being pulled in many directions, but the ESDCTA needs you. We are a volunteer organization that won’t survive USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Eastern Finals at without volunteers – no more shows, clinics, newsletter, or local Octover 4-6 USEF Headquarters community. Even if you can only commit 1 hour a month (or 1 hour a year), you can make a difference to your club. We need writers for the October 6 Golden Gait Farm Show has been cancelled newsletter, volunteers at our horse shows, members for our committees, Halloween Hunter Pace in Atlantic County Park.