OVRHA NEWS

Letter from the President    Banquet   Saddle Series Winners   NRHA Year End  Year End Winners   Show Schedule   Fund Raising    Sponsors Needed    Advertising Info        

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

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       Back to Top
TROPHY SPONSORS NEEDED-   Prices are Lawson's $430, Morrison's $270, Pewter's $90 and Plaques $50.  Rick Clark at rick.clark@clarkspns.com.      (Back to Top)
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                                   Back to Top

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