LETTER FROM THE
PRESIDENT - The Holidays are over and it is now
time to prepare for the 2009 show season. Thanks to the
generosity of our great membership and the hard work of Sue Flynn and
her group of fund raisers, the OVRHA ended the 2008 season with about
$21,000 in the regular account and $4500 in The Tradition account.
This is a wonderful example of all of our members pitching in,
sponsoring trophies, plaques and making cash donations to help keep our
shows running. Thank you everyone! Our club is also
fortunate to have several larger sponsors and I would like to take this
time to thank them, Leonard's Truck and Trailer, Sundowner Trailers,
Rick Clark and Kim Rose, Mark Schols, Bob Rosenfeld, Clark-Wolfe
Performance Horses, LLC, Bill and Gloria Bradley and some anonymous
donors as well. Congratulations to our members who finished as
NRHA World and Reserve World Champions and finished the year on the Top
Ten list!! And congratulations to all the OVRHA 2008 year end
Champions and Reserve Champions. Plans are underway for the OVRHA
2008 awards banquet and the details can be found in this newsletter.
Please come prepared to make nominations for the election of 2009
officers. Congratulations as well to the Green Reiner saddle
winner, Pam Haas, and the Rookie Saddle winner, Shannon Horn! I
would also like to thank Rick Clark for donating the saddles. And,
again, I would like to thank everyone for their support in 2008.
Without YOU our club could not be the awesome club that it is!!!
Joe
Wolfe, President
OVRHA
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Banquet -
The 2008 OVRHA awards banquet will be held
on February 21, 2009 at the
Bellefonte
Country Club, Ashland, KY. The Bellefonte is only a few miles
away from the Ashland Plaza Hotel, where we have held the banquet in the
past. We would like to have an idea of how many people will be
attending so please email or call Kim Switzer (switzers@setel.com
(859) 588-4797) with the number that will be in your party. As
usual, we plan on having a silent auction so please bring some items to
donate for the auction. As you know, this is one of our biggest
fundraisers for the year. We would also like to have a few items
to live auction so if anyone has anything they would like to donate for
that, please contact Joe Wolfe
ljoewolfe@aol.com to let him know. More details will be
available soon. OVRHA
Year End Winners - Congratulations to our 2008 year
end winners!! Open Champion Nick Nelson and Ready Make Cowboy
owned by Lagle & Savage, Reserve Champion Kathy Taylor and Scampernic
owned by Kelly Pinkston; Intermediate Open Champions Hollywoody and
Patrick Swartz owned by Janet Wingate, Reserve Champion Nick Nelson and
Ready Make Cowboy; Limited Open Champion Hollywoody and Pat Swartz and
Reserve Champion Nick Nelson and Ready Make Cowboy; Rookie Pro Champion
Nick Nelson and Ready Make Cowboy and Reserve Champion More Than Pleased
and Nick Nelson owned by Jaime Nelson; Non Pro Champion Silver Benz and
Roy Flynn, and Reserve Champion Dave Wilkins and Calypso Whiz;
Intermediate Non Pro Champion Mika Fellows and Carmen Santiago and
Reserve Champion Dave Wilkins and Calypso Whiz; Limited Non Pro Champion
Bingo 45 and Kim Breeding and Reserve Champion Roger Bias and Nimble
Tivio; Primetime Non Pro Champion Silver Benz and Roy Flynn and Reserve
Champion Dave Wilkins and Calypso Whiz; Novice Open Champion Cuttin Mary
and Mal McGuire owned by Gerald Howell and Reserve Champion Gundelion
and Nadine Galbraith; Novice Non Pro Champion Carmen Santiago and Mika
Fellows and Reserve Champion Gundelion and Nadine Galbraith; Youth 14-18
Champion A Genuine Coffee and Jesse Gentile and Reserve Champion Smart
Snap and Melanie Galbraith; Youth 13 & Under Champion Uno Chulo Jugo and
Trent Gamble and Reserve Champion Sweet Starbuck and Carly Galbraith;
Rookie Youth Champion Uno Chulo Jugo and Trent Gamble and Reserve
Champion Doc Star Tru and Tru and Cassidy Galbraith; Rookie Champion
Royal BH and Jessica Maw owned by Jay Clutter and Reserve Champion Rick
Robbins and Ive Gottem Talkin; Primetime Rookie Champion The Devils
Dunnit and Gina Mosley, and Reserve Champion King Betsy Chex and Randy
Shepherd; Green Reiner Champion Pam Haas and Sure Slides Quick and
Reserve Champion Stamped Smart and Jeff Stoltz. Good job!!!
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Saddle Series Winners -
Congratulations to our Green Reiner Saddle Series Winner
Pam Haas and our Rookie Saddle Series Winner Shannon Horn!! Thank
you to Rick Clark for his generous donation of the saddles! Plans
are underway to do this again in 2009 and possibly add a Youth
Division!!
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NRHA TOP TEN -
Congrartulations to our members who finished the year as
NRHA World or Reserve World Champions!! Patrick Swartz and
Hollywoody owned by Janet Wingate are World Champions in the Limited
Open Division and Reserve World Champions in the Intermediate Open
Division. Roy Flynn and Silver Benz are NRHA Reserve World
Champion Primetime Non Pro, Nick Nelson and Ready Make Cowboy owned by
Lagle and Savage LLC are Reserve World Champions Rookie Professional,
Nick finished 7th in the Limited Open Division as well. Nadine
Galbraith and Gundelion are Reserve World Champions in the Novice Non
Pro Division; Carly Galbraith and Sweet Starbuck are World Champions in
the Youth 13 & Under Division and Reserve World Champions on Talk About
Poco; Melanie Galbraith and Smart Snap are World Champions in the Youth
14-18 Division. Mal McGuire and Cuttin Mary owned by Gerard Howell
finished 7th in the Novice Open Division. Elissa Bening and JD
Fritz Jazzman finished 6th in the Youth 13 & Under. Jesse Gentile
and A Genuine Coffee finished 3rd in the Youth 14-18. Ashley Fox
and Outlaw Juicy Wales finished 10th in the Youth 14-18.
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| Show Schedule -
The 2009 show schedule is posted on the
website. We plan to have the same added money and class
schedule as last year. We are having our Derby show in
May. The Tradition and Northeast Affiliate Championship
show will be held in September at the new facility at the
Kentucky Horsepark. We hope to make this a great show at
this new arena which will be where the 2010 World Equestrian
Games will be held! If anyone has any ideas for this show
or any prospective major sponsors, please contact Rick Clark
rick.clark@clarkspns.com
or Rick Ramsey
rickramseytitle@hotmail.com
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| Fund Raising -
Our shows are not possible without
the hard work of our members helping to raise money to fund our
weekends. We had a super successfull 2008 thanks to the
efforts of our hard working fund raising crew and all our
members who pitched in. Times are hard and it will become
increasingly difficult to raise the money necessary to run the
shows. Remember....Every little bit helps! If you
would like to help with fundraising or have any ideas, please
contact Joe Wolfe
ljoewolfe@aol.com, Sue Flynn
nhreiner@yahoo.com or
Rick Clark rick.clark@clarkspns.com
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SPONSORS
NEEDED-
Prices are Lawson's $430,
Morrison's $270, Pewter's $90 and Plaques $50. Rick Clark at rick.clark@clarkspns.com.
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Ideas - We would like
to have your input!! If anyone has any ideas, suggestions
or thoughts on how to improve our shows, please speak up!!
We want to make our shows FUN for everybody and OVRHA a club for
everybody!! If you have any suggestions, please email
Kathy
kathy@taylorperformancehorses.com
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