ECAHS Business & Information
Editor’s Notes:
Dear ECAHS Members & Friends:
Hello to all and Happy New
Year.
As many of you know, December
marked Pat Bobb’s last issue as editor of the ECAHS section of the Arabian
News. First and foremost, we would like
to thank Pat for all of her hard work and the wonderful job she has done. She will be a very tough act to follow. It
takes two of us to take her place and we hope we can do almost as well. Please bear with us as we mount up and take
our test ride.
We are planning a new item
that we hope will become a regular monthly feature. We plan to have a write-up on one or two member farms each
month. If you want to have your farm
featured, please submit a write-up and pictures (no more than one page) to
include any information you wish to share about your farm and your horses.
Many thanks to all our members who contribute stories and photos for the Newsletter - please keep them coming.
We also plan to enhance the Crabbet Kids section and provide additional activities for varied ages.
You may contact Lynn at Mayhem Farm, 460 West Parkins Mill Road, Winchester, VA 22602, by phone at 540-667-5199 or by e-mail at lynn@mayhemfarm.com. You may reach Michele at 1411 Mercer Road Haymarket, VA 20169, by phone at 571-248-4063 or by e-mail at mefailla@hughes.net .
Lynn and Michele
President’s Corner:
Dear ECAHS Members & Friends:
Happy New Year! I want to
start 2007 with a special thank you to everyone. I appreciate all of the
support and help that I have received from so many members of ECAHS as I take
over as the new president.
When you read this letter,
Lynn Blake and I will have been to Cookeville, Tennessee to visit the Hyder
Burks Agricultural Center, the site of our Celebration XIV. I wanted to go and
visit with the management and view all of the facilities for myself.
We are having the celebration
in that part of the country for the first time. We hope to encourage not only
more of our members to attend, but to get new members from the states close to
that part of Tennessee. We also hope
that the regulars who show each year will be willing to come, even though it is
further than what they are used to traveling. I have several ideas to share
next month on how to help those who would like to come from the east and
northeast.
I would like for all members
to advertise in your various horse groups about our next celebration and about
ECAHS. Make plans now to attend and start making arrangements to get your
horse(s) there. Gaye and I have attended every celebration starting in 1998,
and each one has been not only educational, but a wonderful fellowship with
other horse owners as well.
We have a celebration show committee
and I would like to arrange a meeting with all of the volunteers in the near
future. If anyone would like to work on this committee and have not yet
notified me, please feel free to contact me at wmwhit@swva.net,
or 540-320-4892. We are always ready to accept volunteers.
The Board of Directors is
scheduled to meet on February 10, 2007, at the Mayhem Farm in Winchester,
Virginia. More information will be published on our website.
You should be able to see our
new website by now and, as always, we are open to suggestions and will post any
announcements that we need to make.
I close this article by
encouraging everyone to make an effort to see what can be done to make the
Eastern Crabbet Arabian Horse Society even better, and to put those efforts
into action.
Mike
Whitaker, President ECAHS
Cross-over-W
Arabians
Pulaski,
Virginia
Important
Dates
·
December 31, 2006 – ECAHS
2007 Membership Renewals due
·
January 18-21, 2007 – Maryland’s
Horse World Expo, Maryland State Fairgrounds, Timonium, Maryland. The ECAHS
Booth will be there, volunteers are needed.
·
March 31, 2007 OR PRIOR TO
THE BIRTH OF THE FOAL, whichever occurs first – 2007 Futurity Nominations are
due
·
February 10 – ECAHS Board of
Directors Meeting at the home of Lynn & Rob Blake – Winchester, VA (all
members welcome)
·
March 10 – Celebration XIV
Committee Meeting at the home of Mike & Gaye Whitaker – Pulaski, VA
·
April – Board of Directors
Meeting at the home of Merrie Boone – Quarryville, PA – Date TBA
·
June – Board of Directors
Meeting at the home of Terry &
David Kerr – Locust Grove, VA – Date TBA
·
August 31 – September 3 –
Crabbet Celebration XIV – Cookville, TN
ECAHS Certification Process
In
order to show your horses at ECAHS sponsored events, they must be certified to
be at least 25% Crabbet/Blunt Breeding. This is accomplished by pedigree
research by an expert and the percent will be provided to two decimal points
rounded up (for example 79.54%). The percentage requirement of Crabbet/Blunt
blood to be eligible to be certified is 25%. Many horses that you would not
think of as being "Crabbet" have the qualifying amount so check
carefully.
To
have your horses certified by the Eastern Crabbet Arabian Horse Society, you
should send a copy of the front and back of your AHRA or IAHA registration
certificate and/or a pedigree if it is not contained on the back of the
registration certificate. If you are sending a pedigree, please include foaling
date, color, sex AND REGISTRATION NUMBER.
The
cost of certification is $5.00 per horse ($10.00 per horse for non-ECAHS
members) which supports the printing of the ECAHS certificate, which is
suitable for framing. You will receive an ECAHS certificate indicating the
percentage of Crabbet blood in your horse(s) and this will entitle you to
participate in ECAHS events providing your horse(s) is at least 25%
Crabbet/Blunt breeding.
Send information and a check
made out to ECAHS in the appropriate amount, to Pat Bobb, Certification
Committee, 86 White Road, Columbia, VA 23038
CHECK OUT THE
ECAHS WEBSITE
