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July 2015 SARC
PRESIDENT: Paul Miller
VICE PRESIDENT: Ian Milne
SECRETARY Kim Holmes [email protected]
TREASURE Michelle Oliver
EVENT ORGANISER: Neil
RALLY CO-ORDINATOR
Jacquie Smith
NEWSLETER EDITOR:
Lisa & Lisa
COMMITTEE MENBERS:
Lisa Keddie
Vickie Mclean
Jacquie Smith
Sue Bradley
Tracy Finlayson
Our July Rally started out without a breath of wind ,
although the temperature was a bracing 3 degrees. We
had a very social 20 riders for the day. I was so sure
that not so many would turn up , that we quickly ran
out of the one container of milk I had bought for the
tea and coffee . Oops .
Special thanks to Deidre Matthews for judging our
dressage minicomp on the day. Won by Suzie Cranage
on her spirited steed Justawilbur, that soon calmed
down .Special mention to Lisa Keddie with her first
competition on Major. Lisa's cheer squad could be
heard from Ballarat . Next and final Minicomp round
for the year is the September rally.
Looks like we will get a SARC team together for the TTT
showjumping on 5th and 6th Sept, down in Bulla,
Greenvale. If interested , email either myself or Kim.
Entries close 12th of August.
There is a West Victorian Dressage Club Presentation
night and AGM on Wed night July 29th , down at the
Sebas bowling club . It has become a bit of a yearly
tradition for some of the more rowdy members of our
club to put together a table and have a few laughs.
Contact Janelle if interested .
Our SARC AGM will be held at the end of the August
9th Rally Day . I will be emailing out nomination forms
shortly and proxy vote forms soon after that . The SARC
year still runs from Nov 2014 through until Oct 2015,
we are just getting the AGM out of the way early.
Best regards, from Pres Paul
REMINDER
The AGM will be held at the
August Rally (9th).
Lisa Keddie has also organised a Level
assessor to come to Aug rally if you
want to be assessed please contact Lisa
July 2015 SARC
As long as I can remember I have loved horses, there soft coat their beautiful eyes & the
amazing stuff they can teach us about patience, love, respect and their amazing ability to
make us feel like we have the best friend ever! Snakevalley was where I was born & lived
with my 6 sisters & mum & dad, we had a couple of horses which we all shared, Tessy was
a black shetland with an attitude 5 times her size. Once we could catch her she was a
great pony to do anything with. Dad would have to catch her for us usually, as she would
charge at us & totally had us bluffed as we would head for the nearest fence & do the stop
drop & roll under the fence to get away from her! We moved out to Trawalla & had quite
a few more horses which we would ride from morning till late afternoon always bareback
as we never had a saddle, let alone a helmet & sometimes not even a bridle on our welsh
mountain pony called paleface. We trained her to turn when we would put up our right
hand for her to turn left & left hand to turn right & stop well just pulled a bit of mane,
simple really. We broke all our horses in that we bred which was always fun & they were
sold as good kids ponies. When I was about 10 dad had sent my black mare off to be
broken in as he bought her from the sales & he thought she was a bit to much for us to do.
The guy was going to keep her colt foal as payment for breaking her.Unfortunately my
beautiful mare died from colic while at the breakers. Approx 12 months later he sent the
colt back for me to have. Unfortunately he hadn't been handled so I had a terrified young
horse to deal with, but didn't take long to quieten him down & get him ready for me to
ride. The most satisfying thing you can ever do is to take an unhandled horse & turn them
into your best mate! Sadly we moved into Ballarat 2 yrs after & we had to sell all our
horses. I was the saddest girl in the world &was always looking for somewhere to be able
to keep a horse. Mum & dad new how much I wanted a horse so they found a paddock &
without me knowing went to the market & bought me a horse. I was so happy even
though she was a bit thin & had cuts & scratches on her legs from the truck. We fixed her
up & my friend Jacquie James & I would ride our horses everywhere, up Albert street,
even up Sturt street & around the lake . Such an amazing fun time! Until someone cut the
lock on her gate one night & let her out & she got hit by a car! I had a couple more horses
after her & then was busy with boys & work so no more horses for a quite a few years. My
next horse was when I was married & had my daughter & I went to the market one day &
came home with an appy mare another great horse she turned out to be. Then we moved
out to Smythes about 20 yrs ago & have not been without a horse since! I have had
quarter horses, thoroughbreds, Arabs & x breds they are all wonderful in there own way &
you can learn so much from each of them. I had never been to pony club so when the
riding club was being discussed I was one of heaps of people to be at the first meeting to
get it off the ground. I'm still a very happy member of the club & have learnt new ideas of
training from some great instructors. I have met some amazing people who share the
same interests. (riding horses, drinking wine & lots of laughs)!! Everything from ground
work to training under saddle, & bush riding, jumping competing is all great fun & I even
really enjoy massaging to make them happy horses so we can be a happy partnership.
Horses are an addiction of the best kind!!!
Member of the
Month
The Editors decided to investigate into SARCS
members about how they started with Equines!This
month was
Vickie Mclean!
July 2015 SARC
ROKEWOOD HT RESULTS
OPEN 3Janelle Miller Monte Carlo Grand 17th
OPEN 4 LisaSteeterSumertime LSR 2nd
OPEN 4 Vicki Mclean Birchwood Park CA 17th
OPEN 5 Jenni Allen ShirwillZantino 4th
Some of our members have been out and about competing
and not sharing their results so we had to go looking!
MINI COMP RESULTS
Rider Horse Place
Janelle Miller Eskimo Joe 3
Janelle Miller Eskimo Joe 3
Megan Evans Huey 5
Janelle Miller Monte Carlo 2
Melissa Smith Seni 7
Paul Miller Mr Franklin 8
Suzie Cranage Justawilbur 1
Ian Milne Offsider 9
Lisa Keddie Major 6
Megan Evans Rastas 10
July 2015 SARC
How to set up yourself to be successful at competitions –
Marianne Crawford
I was an expert at self-sabotage at competitions. They were so important to me and such a big deal I would make
myself ill with nerves. It was only a few years ago that I took on a better approach and now can compete with
happiness and joy.
1. Unless you are at ease at competitions, don’t compete until you and the horse are ready. If you need to
go to competitions to socialise, do just that! Go to the competition, socialise, ride around, pretend you are
going to compete, but don’t compete. Fortunately the HRCAV has not banned non competing riders at
their competitions as the EA has done. Just don’t get in the road of warming up and competing riders. If
your horse misbehaves, then move away immediately.
2. Ensure your horse will load at least a week before. Do all of you loading practice weeks or months before
you need to load on the day.
3. Prepack and pre plan all details possible the night before. If you need to check off things on a list then do
that. Don’t have a big to-do list on the day of the competition. Ensure you have precise directions if it is a
venue new to you.
4. Have a competition routine that suits your needs. If you plan to help others, ie plait, call tests ensure that
if they run late, that helping them will not make you late for what you need to do.
5. If possible walk your horse in hand around their arena and warm up area before tests start or during big
breaks. Take the newness out of the situation before you get in the saddle.
6. Timing the warm-up to perfection never happens, there are too many variables for which you can’t
manage! But be aware of all that you can fix. Is the ring running early or late? Plan for only slightly more
time than what you think you will need.
7. Ensure you are in charge of yourself before you mount. Take all of the doubts out of your mind. You are
there to ride, this is something that you do several times a week, it is just at a different venue. Ride to
show off what you do at home, forget about what others could think, it is your ride!
8. Take charge of your horse before,during mounting and all riding. Horses are herd animals and need a
strong leader. You must be that strong leader, if you can’t be their strong leader you aren’t ready to
compete.
9. Give your horse confidence by asking him to do things he can do. Constantly ask him to move forward,
stop, go, sideways, turn, circle. Don’t just ride laps hoping to lull him into complacency, make him
respectful and responsive to all of your aids. You don’t want a dull, relaxed horse, you want a respectful,
obedient horse… or do you?
10. So, how do you train your horse at home? Do you train him to be a dull, relaxed horse, or do you want a
respectful, obedient horse? This topic will be the next instalment.
Marianne has just retired from teaching at the University and is now available to teach fulltime atyour venue or her arena.
July 2015 SARC
Riding Instructor: Marianne Crawford
Retiring from a lifetime of
Teacher Training to: Teach Riders and Train Horses
Helping the rider achieve full potential with the best seat, most effective aids and training possible is my specialty, correct biomechanics for the horse and rider. Offering rider fitness classes.
Currently competing Grand Prix Dressage
Can travel for clinics, private lessons or teach at Garibaldi on a lit rubber arena.
Horses taken for education
04 2828 2789
July 2015 SARC
Have you ever heard of a horse with HEAD SHAKING SYNDROME,
Well I never did until I bought Hercules - OCT 2013.
Hercules had a slow start at my place for a few reasons , I did not have a saddle to fit him , he would not float easily, he was
very sore and needed a chiro asap. All these things took time , so I let him settle in to the diet change as well as getting use to
the 2 other horses we had and just did ground work with him .I had Max to ride in the mean time, so I was not fussed ,Herc
was young and there was lots of time to ride . First was the chiro who came to my place , then some floating training. Now I
can go to the saddle fitter and find a saddle, now we are on the way, or so I thought . I noticed that when I rode Hercules that
he pulled the reins out of my hands all the time .So of to the trainers for a few weeks to see if it was just a manners issue.
The first 6 months went slow and we did not get any further than a walk as every time we trotted the head would start , some
days better than others , some days not. So back to a walk and try again , I started looking up head shaking syndrome on the
internet and yes this was what Hercules was doing. Not to the extent of some but yes it was head shaking. I was wondering
what I had got myself in for now , this was going to be my easy horse , a lovely big 17.1hh Clydie cross 6years old open canvas.
He was such a sweetie in all other ways I could not just give up on him. So we just kept working on him with training etc.
Things started to change when I went to a comp with max at Grampians GGG in May 2014 and saw a horse with a nose net on,
I approached the owner and asked about the nose net as I had seen this being used via the internet for H/S. Kerry was very
helpful she answered most of my questions and gave me a bit of encouragement to keep working with Hercules.
Kerry gave me the number for Lucy from Gotcha equine , I looked gotcha equine up [ www.gotchaequine.com.au ] and spoke
to Lucy about Hercules, she gave me a plan.
# take him off grass at night.
# put out hay nets on the fence to keep him walking around to eat at night.
# give him a detox [from grass toxins] from gotcha equine.
# give him minerals/vitamins supplements from gotcha equine.
# take him off all grains and bring his food back to basic [chaff only]
I did all these things as well as lucy giving me a dietary plan for him . I did notice a
change once I put these things into place – he was more settled and not as impatient .I
purchased a nose net for Hercules thinking this small bit of net could not make such a change ,but I was wrong, it did make a
difference and I was given a site to look up from a massage lady around winter last year 2014, www.hmta.com.au I looked it
up and called Kerry Marsh , I thought it would not hurt to see what was going on inside Hercules , it was not expensive [ as I
was paying a lot for the things from Gotcha equine, which are a on going expense. Kerry was very nice and gave me a 9 page
report on all levels of minerals for herc .I went off gotcha equine and followed up the diet program and supplements from
HTMA . I have found it so much easier to follow . Herc is still on minerals & vitamins but now he is only getting what his body
needs , not H/S any more and I have been so lucky to have found how to help Herc cope so much so that to you when you see
Hercules ridden or in a yard he is just a normal horse who wears a nose net .
Our H/S is different to others in many ways . Hercules only shows signs of H/S while ridden and when stressed. Seasons , wind
,sun do not play a part in H/S for Hercules it was all about him lacking all the correct minerals and vitamins when he was young
and growing up, so it was a lacking of theses which started his journey.Since getting Hercules we have had a lot of help from a
lot of people to make sure we are on the correct path –from massage [monthly], vet /chiro [monthly] ,trainers, and owners of
H/S horses , gotcha equine , and HMTA. We have come a long way but still are not 100% right .it is a long road but one I am
happy to do for Hercules and myself.
Thanks Jacquie smith
July 2015 SARC
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