ECAHS Business & Information
Editor’s Notes:
Dear ECAHS Members & Friends:
This issue of the ECAHS New Letter represents the end of my first year as your NewsLetter Editor. I have tried to provide you with information that would keep you up to date on ECAHS activities as well as let you know what’s been going on with your fellow members. In addition I have tried to find articles that would be both educational and entertaining. I hope I have been successful in making this newsletter one to which you look forward and you enjoy. My thanks go to all of you who have provided me with the material to be included, and I hope you will continue to send me farm news, stories and remembrances, as well as suggestions for the Learning Center or other potential features.
Don’t
forget that your 2006 Membership dues, if they have not already been paid, are
due by
Until next year…….
We wish you all a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for the newsletter, please contact me at:
Pat Bobb
Whispering Hope Farm
804-375-3153
Fax: 804-375-9127
pbobb@aol.com
President’s Corner:
Hello Everyone –
The Honoree Committee of ECAHS had announced the honorees
for the 2006 Crabbet Celebration to be awarded at
The Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Dub Miller, a
long time breeder from
The Hall of Fame Awards go
to 1. Lloyd and Evelyn Burton for their long lasting and important breeding
program, which has had a tremendous long term impact within the breed. They
produced numerous to tens and National Champions, many from their Indraff
daughter Vadraff and sired by their famous Gazon (Ferzon X an Indraff
daughter). 2. C. A. West is the second Hall of Fame breeder for 2006. He had a
long lasting breeding program in
The Benefactor Awards go to 1. Mary Jane Parkinson of the Arabian Horse World for her excellent contributions to the breed in the field of Journalism. She also wrote important books, including The Kellogg Arabians and Bazy Tankersley’s history of the Al-Marah stud and its horses – And Ride Away Singing. 2. Stanley White, Sr. is the second honoree as an outstanding trainer of the Arabian horse over a lifetime of service. He began as the owner of a chestnut Indraff son and working long and hard at Al-Marah as a young man, learning from the great Harold Brite. He was soon a trainer at Al-Marah for Bazy Tankersley and grew into a top caliber man with a horse. He later trained for many other establishments as well as having a training center on his own.
The 2006 Horse of the Year Award goes to the great
stallion *Magic Domino++//, a 100% Crabbet lineage sire owned by Mark and Kim
Thomason. This horse has an extensive show record over the years. He was foaled
in
In fact I just arrived back from the
Have a happy holiday season!
Dick
Stoneback, ECAHS President
Phone
814-379-9966
Important
Dates
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Membership Renewals for 2006
are due by December 31, 2005.
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Futurity Mare Nominations
must be postmarked by
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Next ECAHS Board of
Directors Meeting –
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Crabbet Celebration XIII –
ECAHS Annual
Meeting & Board of Directors Meeting Highlights
Courtesy of Sherry Morse
By-laws
changes - Minutes from past meetings will be gone through to see that all
proposed amendments to the by-laws have been or are included in any future
publications of the by-laws.
Treasury
has a current balance of $5637.94, LTA account has a balance of $1725.82 and
the Celebration account has a balance of $2186.48 with 2 banners still to be
paid for.
Membership
- renewals are starting to come in and are due before the end of January. A reminder will be included with futurity
mailings and also should be put on the website as well as mentioned in the
Arabian News. The membership form will
be up on the website also.
Certification
- 2671 horses have been certified and there are about 10 in the pipeline to be
certified. If anyone is interested in
helping with certifications please contact Buzz Moore at (804)862-3579 or
fairfieldfarm@juno.com
Futurity
- mare nominations are due by January 1 for mares due in January or
February. If you have any questions
please contact
Honorees
- 2006 Horse of the Year will be Magic Domino.
Dub Miller is planning on attending the Celebration as are Stanley and
Kitty White. Anybody with nominees for
the Moore Award should contact Bill or Sharon Noonan (wjnoonan@aol.com),
Friendship
Ride - the next ride will be December 17th at Fair Hill in conjunction with SE
PAHA. If anybody has suggestions for
other ride sites please contact Jan Williams at M199max@aol.com
Celebration
XIII - Sue Miller has volunteered to chair the Celebration committee. The full show committee including a group to
work on schedule and budget should be set before the February meeting. If anybody is interested in being on the
Celebration committee please contact Sue.
Celebration
XIV - anybody with suggestions on locations for the 2007 Celebration should
send this information to Sherry Morse (sherry_morse@yahoo.com) and Mike
Whitaker (wmwhit@swva.net).
100%
Crabbet Committee has been established which will be headed by Joanne Garofalo.
Committee
budgets should be submitted to
2005 ECAHS
Election Results
Directors for 2006 – 2007:
Buzz
Mike Whitaker
Alternates – 2006:
Virginia Kelsall
Debra Prior
ECAHS
2006
Horse of the
Year
*Magic
Domino++// #571568
(Ludomino X Hamsfah)
Bred by Anne
Brown
Owned by Mark
& Kim Thomason
*Magic
Domino++// has been successfully shown both at the National level and open
dressage competition against all breeds of horses. Mark and Kim Thomason
proudly advertise that *Magic Domino++ is a pure Crabbet stallion not only in
their magazine advertisements, but also have this proudly displayed on their
banner outside *Magic Domino’s stall. Recently *Magic Domino ++// has been
awarded his Legion of Merit. The board granting this award remarked that less
than 1% of all purebred Arabian horses have ever achieved this accomplishment.
In addition to this outstanding award, *Magic Domino ++//received a Living
Legend award in 2004.
*Magic
Domino++// is also a successful stallion in the breeding shed. His offspring
are winning at the National level as well. Two of his offspring recently won
top 10 awards at the recent Sporthorse Nationals, as
did *Magic Domino ++// himself in a very tough class of 33 Sporthorse
Stallions. *Magic Domino ++// is a highly sought after stallion, especially to
people breeding warm blood sport horses. *Magic Domino is Canadian Sport Horse
Bronze Premium Approved, Canadian Trakhener Approved,
and ARABS First Premium Stallion.
One
of the most impressive qualities of *Magic Domino ++// is his incredibly kind
disposition. Kim and Mark have had groups of children come from various
organizations like Girl Scouting to their farm to learn about horses. Bridget
Lamb was so excited about seeing Magic Domino at the 2004 Crabbet Celebration
that she waited all day for the Thomason’s trailer to arrive with *Magic Domino
++//. She was so very thrilled to have gotten a chance to ride him and the picture
of her riding him that day shows a little girl having the time of her life.
(See Crabbet Kids) The children LOVE riding *Magic Domino ++//. *Magic Domino
++// is a wonderful blend of all the qualities we love so much about our
Crabbet Arabian.
Contributed by
Merry Boone
Ramegwa
Ramegwa Bahrain #394623 (Ramegwa Drubin X Ramegwa Ka Raffe), who won the
Old Dominion 75 Ride in Virginia recently, also won the ECAHS Award for highest
scoring horse in the ride of predominantly Crabbet bloodlines. Ramegwa Bahrain, who is owned by Ellen Tully and bred by
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Price, Jr., is just under 50% Crabbet. The remainder of
his pedigree is primarily Polish and
Our congratulations go to Ramegwa
A Feather in the Old Boy's Cap -
Old Dominion 75 Mile Ride 2005
By Ellen Tully
The most commonly asked question riders ask of each
other when meeting at the Old Dominion is which ride [distance] are you doing?
I found it amusing when I replied to one rider that "I've never done a
75" and she proceeded to give me words of encouragement. Grinning, like
the cat with a canary, I told her "I've done hundreds; I've just never
done a 75!"
Our spring in the Northeast had been cold and rainy
and even with clipping his late- to shed winter coat I had concerns it wouldn't
be enough to trigger his cooling thermostat for the hundred. In selecting the
75, as stated - because I've never done that distance - I felt great pleasure
in knowing that come the 75 mile mark (yes, I was being wimpy), I wouldn't have
25 left to go. Yet having 25 miles more than the 50, offered a little extra
strategizing for me and therein would be the enjoyment.
I made plans to "buddy-up" since
Early on my "buddy" and friend, Kim
Firestone, felt the pull of the lead horse, Pam Kamer's
Piper, a grey Arab gelding. Trying to avoid running at a pace faster than we
discussed we kept pulling back attempting to let Piper
run out of sight, but it wasn't happening. Pam finally sucked back stating
Piper really wanted to stay with us and if we didn't mind could we all ride
together. Cooperative teamwork would prove beneficial as the day wore on.
We rode to Vet Gate One, Fitchett's,
and pulsed within minutes of each other but Kim's chestnut Arab, Fire, needed a
little extra time to recover from an elevated internal body temperature.
Originally my plan was to tack on ten extra minutes at each of the three
shorter Vet Gates allowing the horses extra time to recover for the next leg.
This would mean sacrificing a total of thirty minutes' ride time, but overall I
felt it would pay off. With the extra time needed for Fire, we agreed we'd all
stay behind forfeiting our extended time allotment for the other Vet Gates (if
possible).
The 14-mile loop from Fitchett's
to Picket's Spring was so endless in the scorching sun
that we were sure we were off trail. It took three hours to cover what would
normally be easy going. A good forty minutes was spent allowing the horses to
hangout in the three shaded creeks along the way. When we got into Picket's it
was a baking slab of blacktop without an inch of shade. Standing at the entrance
was Bob Walsh, winner of last year's 75, reassuring me it was just the heat
that made the trail seem mis-marked as we declared it
to be the "longest frigging fourteen miles we've ever done!"
Leaving Picket's we were faced with the climb up and
over
We mounted and allowed them to choose their own rate
of descend knowing they were extremely sensible horses. We agreed we would ask
nothing of them until we got them to water at the bottom. Finding that water
was quite a challenge and desperate as we were we entered, one at a time, a
rocky crevice of a creek that bordered private property. As the owner came out
we apologized profusely (we were not damaging the property, merely permitting
the horses to drink). He was so very understanding and pleasant in asking
questions about the ride and how far we had to go. It is through the kindness
of properly owners like this that we are able to have these rides particularly
as public land and trails vanish.
Once refreshed - relatively speaking, we trotted on
toward McCoy's for a thirty-minute Gate. We had opted to pull saddles off at
every Gate all day but as long as our crews were able to replenish the ice
supplies I felt at this point we should keep them on. We were at the river
[Shenandoah] and didn't have far too go. We were doubling back, the horses knew
it and the challenge was to keep those spirits high.
Off toward Liberty Hall, the final Gate; three hours
off my estimated time to finish, even given the extreme heat. I hadn't figured
on the dark and we shared what glow sticks we had taping them to the breast
collars as we departed for the finish. The good news was we were over an hour
ahead of everyone else.
I apologize if some readers would prefer to hear of
a "race off' to the finish; but endurance isn't always about a singularly
fast run. Often times it is a test of many horses' great performances with
bonds forming between riders and horses that enable them to meet and conquer a
challenge. Pam offered to ride for a tied finish even knowing Henry Mulbauer, the official timer, video tapes the finish making
a tie virtually impossible. We trotted in a little after 10 PM; hand- in- hand
and upon viewing the tape Henry asked "So who was on the brown
horse?" By a nose it was!
I thank all the folks at Old Dominion. I thank my
horse for a great performance, and I thank Pam for that feather!