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Last update: 27/06/2010 04:04 PM
Welcome to the website for the Northern Tablelands
Western Horse Club Inc., an organisation formed in
2006 to
foster and promote activities for enthusiasts of the western breeds of horses, such as the
Quarter Horse, Paint Horse and Appaloosa, as well as enthusiasts of the
exciting and fast growing sport of Team Penning!
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Cattle Working Clinic
with John Pokarier confirmed for July 31st
We can now confirm that we
will be holding a Cattle Working Clinic on July 31st at the Armidale
Exhibition Centre, with John Pokarier from Tamworth instructing.
John has been training
cutting horses for many years and can offer a wealth of experienced.
The clinic will cover all aspects of working cattle, from getting your
horse started, to positional work, fence work etc.
Numbers will be limited to
around 15 - 20 riders, with the cost for the clinic to be $75 per
person (covers arena hire and cattle costs).
On the Sunday, August 1st,
we will then hold a Team Penning Day, with practice runs
in the morning followed by competition runs in the afternoon.
Next Club day set for
July 3rd.
The next club day will be
held on July 3rd at the Exhibition Centre, where we will spend time
working on pattern events, such as Horsemanship, Equitation, Trail and
possibly the Decathlon (as used at the Paint Horse Nationals).
Getting patterns correct
and precise is often much harder than it looks, so this self-help day
will be the ideal way to get out and practise without show ring
pressure, so why not come along and have a bit of fun?
If we get enough people
there we would also like to have an informal meeting (perhaps over
lunch?) to discuss our future direction, plan some events and discuss
a number of issues relating to the club and the Exhibition Centre.
Some of the future events
we would like to hold are further clinics with the likes of Bert
Purcell, Ann-Maree Mianowany and Ric and Tracey Hutchinson, possibly a
cattle working clinic with John Pokarier, plus our team penning days,
some combined training days/ribbon days and other shows and events. If
there is anything you would like to see us stage then please just drop
us a line and let us know. Check out the Coming Events tab at the top
of the page to view the dates we have booked at the Exhibition Centre
so that you know when events will be held!
Action aplenty at the
Armidale Stockman's Challenge
Thirty competitors fronted
the judge, Don Tanner of Bendemeer, for the inaugural Armidale
Stockman's Challenge on Saturday June 12th, with Tamworth local Mat
Oakley taking home the major prizes.
Competing over three
rounds, with Two Handed Cutting, Working Cowhorse and an Indoor
Campdraft, the event attracted competitors from Manilla, Tamworth and
as far away as Gloucester, as well as a number of locals willing to
try their hand at this unique event.
Local club member Stephen
Kelly was right in amongst the action, taking first and third in the
Indoor Campdraft leg of the event and finishing in equal second place
overall, while Wollomombi rider John Wright placed second in the
Campdraft leg and equal fourth overall.
Erica Coulthard from
Manilla took out the award, donated by Burtons Saddlery of Armidale,
for the Highest Placing Lady rider, while Armidale girl Anna Bragg
took out the award, donated by Horseland Armidale, for the Highest
Placing Youth rider. Highest placing Registered Quarter Horse was Mat
Oakleys 'Kewpe Doc', while John Pokarier and 'Destination' was the
Highest Placing Australian Stock Horse. With two horses in the event
John also placed equal second overall with 'Bunnikikns', as well as
third place overall with 'Destination'.
For some photos of the
event please check out our Facebook page. And if any members have some
more photos that they would like to share with us then please email
them through, as we would love to see them!
On the Sunday we also held
a Team Penning event, with around eighteen teams lining up for the day
and everyone having a great time.
The weekend was held as a
fundraiser for the building of a canteen and office facility at the
Exhibition Centre, and while a final result isn't known just yet as to
how much was raised, it appears that it will be over $2500, which is a
great result for our first such event! In conjunction with the other
organisations who helped with the event, the Armidals Show Society and
Armidale Campdraft Club, it is hoped that we can continue to stage
this event on the June Longweekend each year as a fundraiser for the
Exhibition Centre, which will assist in us being able to get many
necessary jobs done on the grounds to make it better for everyone to
use.
All is set for the
Armidale Stockman's Challenge...
All is in readiness for the Armidale
Stockman's Challenge at the Armidale
Exhibition Centre on the June Long Weekend!
We have received more
than thirty entries for the Challenge itself and have quite a few
teams nominated for the Team Penning so the weekend is shaping up to
be a good one.
Draws for the three
rounds of the Stockman's Challenge have now been completed and are
available for download HERE.
Please CLICK
HERE for the full program along with the entry forms!
Team Penning Rules are
available HERE.
AQHA Rules for Working Cowhorse are available HERE.
Originally we
anticipated being able to offer around $1000 in prizemoney for the
Stockman's Challenge, however thanks to the generosity of our sponsors
we will be able to offer more than this, in addition to being able to
offer some additional prizes as well! It will also mean we will be
able to pay prizemoney down to a few extra places.
We hope to see as many
people as possible there for this unique event!
Recent Events...
On Saturday June 5th we are
held a clinic with Ann-Maree Mianowany at the
Armidale Exhibition Centre, and while there were only a few
participants it proved to be a very informative day!
We will be sure to have
Ann-Maree back again in the near future, hopefully for a combined
training/competition day similar to those we have run in the past!
After a slow start to
getting numbers for our Bert Purcell Clinic at the Armidale Exhibition
Centre on May 15 & 16, we ended up with a great response from
members, with those in attendance having a great time while receiving
expert tuition! We are already looking forward to staging another
clinic with Bert in the coming months and I'm sure this one will be
even better received! Stay tuned for details.
2010 NTWHC Challenge Winners
L-R: Winner and Runner-Up in the Youth Division, Natalie Camilleri and
Anthony Camilleri. In both the
All Aged and Amateur Divisions Jenny Blair was named the winner, with
Jill Wagner being Runner-Up.
One of our generous sponsors of the Challenge, Ken Baker from Bakers
Barn Saddlery in Inverell.
There were also prizes for the High Point Beginner/Improver over the
series of shows, with Teegan
Armitage just beating out her sister Hayley for the High Point award!
Congratulations to all those
who took home awards in the Challenge Series!
What a great start to the year we
have had, with five shows in 5 weeks to kick start our year! Congratulations to all those
competitors who have participated at the shows held at Uralla,
Armidale, Glen Innes and Inverell.
Our prizes for the three divisions of
the Northern Tablelands Western
Horse Challenge have now arrived from the U.S.A., where they were
made by Montana Silversmiths. Our sincere thanks to our sponsors for
these lovely buckles - Bakers Barn at Inverell, Jill Wagner and
Ozziewebs Digital.
The last round of events for the
Challenge Series were held at the Armidale Show on March 6th, but we
kept the points tally behind closed doors until we could hold a
presentation night, which we held on Saturday 20th of March at the
Exhibition Centre, following a practice day being held.
Thank you to everyone who came along
and made it a most enjoyable evening!
As can be seen with the photograph on
this page, Jenny Blair and Jill Wagner finished as Champion and
Runner-Up for both the All Aged and Amateur divisions, while Natalie
Camilleri beat out her brother Anthony for the major prize in the
Youth division.
There was also a High Point award for
the Beginner / Improver events held over the entire series, with
Teegan Armitage just pipping her sister Hayley for the main prize.
Congratulations to all those who
competed in the Challenge series and to those who took out the awards,
and a special thank you to our sponsors for the events, Ken Baker of
Bakers Barn Saddlery at Inverell, Jill Wagner and Peter Simpson of
Ozziewebs Digital in Armidale.
As mentioned earlier we also held a
practice day on the Saturday at the Exhibition Centre, with a small
number of riders taking advantage of the opportunity to use the
facility.
From June 2010 onward we have
booked the FIRST weekend of each month, so that it will be easier to
organise events and avoid clashing with other events that we know our
members participate in. What we now need to do is organise what type
of events we will run on the weekends we have booked, so if any
members out there would like to see some particular event staged then
please let us know so that we may be able to organise it. Please keep
in mind though that we want to mix the events up by staging different
types of training days, clinics and shows.
For further details regarding events
and activities, or to download forms or newsletters, please click on
the tabs at the top of this page.
Thank you for taking the time to check out our
club.
We look forward to seeing you at our events in the near future!
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