MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO EVERYONE, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR HORSES
NOTE: This newsletter and future ones are ONLY being sent to members and other interested people. If you know of someone who should or would like to receive a newsletter please contact us
A large THANK YOU goes to Bob Coleman and Michelle Bignell of Cayuse Creek Ranch, Guelph, Ontario area for providing the association with an informative clinic and a great get-together at their home. Bob gave an excellent talk on the various types of competitive and distance riding and the levels associated with this sport. Bob used his Egyptian gelding MB Sehnari and rider Marius Demian to demonstrate the variety of tack and clothing used for distance riding. We also were shown their tall elegant lama and their family of woolly alpacas. At this meeting, Naomi Murphy of Falgarbrook Farm, Milton, Ontario, was elected as vice-president of the association. Congratulations and thank you Naomi. A video of this clinic is now available for members to view.
Your executive for 2004 is as follows:
President Glenn N. Pearson 244 Zanders Rd. R.R. #7, Pembroke, ON.,
K8A 6W8 613-735-1831 FAX 613-735-1831
egyptian@egyptiancanada.com
Vice-president Naomi Murphy
905-510-0891 e-mail info@falgarbrook.com
Treasurer Bryan Drown 46 Mountain Brow Blvd. Hamilton, ON.,
L8L 3E4 905-545-0205 X224 FAX 905-545-7515
vphamltn@cgocable.net
Secretary Ed Yaghdjian 29 Waddington Cres, Willowdale, On, M2J 2Z9
416-493-2330 e-mail: yyaghdjian@sympatico.ca
Publicity Heather G. Pearson 244 Zanders Rd. R.R. #7, Pembroke, ON.,
K8A 6W8 613-735-1831 FAX 613-735-1831
egyptian@egyptiancanada.com
Membership Fees - 2004
An invoice has been included in this newsletter. Membership fees are now due. Please send a cheque for $50.00 to the president Glenn Pearson. If you have any questions please call Glenn Pearson. If you know of any others interested in joining, please have them contact us so that they can be included in this year's directory. The invoice does not have to be sent back, only if corrections are needed to be done. Just send a cheque for your membership and make the cheque out to EAHAC.
Videos Available
Egyptian Breeders of Egypt - for rental only $10 to cover cost of postage. To be returned after viewing.
The following tapes are available for purchase at $10 each.
Tape #1 - Paul Reiner- First meeting 1999 and tour of farm - Seah Farms, Caledon East, ON
Tape #2 - Les Wagschal - 1999-Jumping, working cow horse & Imprinting -Shalom Farm Arabians, Gormley,ON
Tape #3 - Eric Lehmann - 2000 -Egyptian Bloodlines, strains and farm tour Cherry Hill Arabians, Stouffville,ON
Tape #4 - Ed & Gary Yaghdjian -2000 -Round-pen training and basic to advanced reining - Pickering Horse Centre, Pickering, ON.
Tape #5 - Les Wagschal - 2001 -Sport Horse Demonstration - Shalom Farm Arabians, Gormley,ON
Tape #6 - Peter Cameron -2002 - English, Western, Halter Judging - Shalom Farm Arabians, Gormley,ON
Thanks again to Jim Rennie for his video work at each clinic.
EGYPTIAN ARABIAN HORSE SHOW IN CANADA
After a lot of discussion and after reviewing the survey sheets that many members returned, there is strong support for an Egyptian horse show in Canada. While marketing and selling our Egyptians was a high priority, a show was right up there in interest.
We are NOW in the planning process for a show. An Egyptian show is being considered for Eastern Canada and then using this same format proceed with one in Western Canada. We are now looking at various facilities for our first show. There are also a number of other items to be discussed.
Such as:
1. This show will be run by our association and will not be tied in with International, CEF, or any other ruling body. There is just too much red tape and expenses for the exhibitor.
2. There will be a charge per class for members and a higher charge for non-members. ie. IF fee was $25 per class, for non-members, then members fee could be $15 per class. Should exhibitors be allowed to join the day of the show??? Is this a reasonable fee?
3. We need a suggestion as to CLASSES, keeping in mind that this is our first show and what classes would be the best to show to the public the variety of attributes of the Egyptian Arabian horse. What classes would get the largest number of Egyptian owners out to participate?
4. SPONSORS - we will need a number of large sponsors as well as some individual class sponsors. Any suggestions as to who to contact?
5. VOLUNTEERS - We will need a lot of help in the organization and planning and working at this Egyptian Event. Will you be willing to help??? Would you sit on one or more committees?
Please call Glenn Pearson at 613-735-1831 with your suggestions and comments NOW!!! Let's get behind this project with your support and energy. Call NOW and volunteer for a committee!!!
Competitive Trail Riding Trophy
In 2003 our association sponsored an Ontario Competitive Trail Ride trophy for the top Egyptian or Egyptian-related horse in this sport. There were two straight Egyptians this year in the top 20 of OCTRA end of year totals. They were MB Sehnari (Ibn Safinaz x Sehnab) at # 12 ( a bay gelding), owned by Bob Coleman and ridden by Marius Demian, and Thee Crusader (Thee Desparado x Daaliyah) at # 14 ( a bay gelding), owned and ridden by Michelle Bignell. The web site for OCTRA is www.octra.on.ca.
Clinics
Thank you for the suggestions for future clinics. Please keep phoning and sending your suggestions so that we can have more successful clinics in the future. Both clinic suggestions and hopefully someone to give the clinic are all greatly appreciated.
DIRECTORY 2004
Plan now to get your ad ready for the new 2004 Directory. We hope to get started on it in March and have it ready for our spring clinic near the end of April and then it will be ready for the Egyptian Event in Kentucky and for other shows that we can give it out. The fees and format will be similar to other years. So get your ideas, horse listing and ads ready.
The Egyptian Arabian Horse Association of Canada wishes you and yours a happy and merry Christmas and all the best in the coming year. We hope that you and all your horse and other pets have success and health and peace in the coming year.
"The Legend of the Bloody-Shouldered Mare"
… a Bedouin Legend
Long ago, on the sands of a great desert, lived a Bedouin chieftain, by the name of Ahmed, and his tribe. In the tents of Ahmed was his most prized possession, a beautiful grey mare who was renowned throughout the desert as the fleetest and most beautiful horse in the world. Many people coveted the mare, and kings and chieftains had tried to acquire her, but Ahmed could not be persuaded to part with his beloved mare. Ahmed decided to breed his mare, and searched the desert for a suitable mate for her. After a time the mare was bred to the premier stallion in the Sultan's stables.
Months went by and the time for the mare to foal grew near, riding across the desert one day, several miles from his tents, Ahmed was seen by a group of robber Bedouins. Fearing that he would lose his beloved mare, as well as his life, Ahmed turned and raced toward his tents, knowing in his heart that the mare, heavy in foal, could never out-distance the bandits. The mare seemed to realize that she was running for her master's life, and slowly, very slowly, she began to gain ground on her pursuers. Shots rang out and bullets peppered the sand around them as the distance gradually widened.
They were almost out of rifle range, when a late shot rang out. A bullet pierced Ahmed's heart and he fell forward over the neck of his beloved mare. The mare never slackened her stride, and carried her master back to his tents on their final ride together.
Ahmed's people gathered around the mare and removed his lifeless body from her back. Down one of her shoulders his blood had dried a rusty brown in the desert heat. There the mark remained for no one could remove it.
That night, in the tent of her dead master, the mare foaled. The foal was acclaimed by all a perfect specimen of the Arabian breed, and on his shoulder was the same rusty red mark that his dam bore. And so it came to pass that every great horse descended from that mare carried the mark of the bloody shoulder, and it was a thing greatly prized in the desert.
WANTED
Cathy Rochon of Prince George, B.C. is looking for old issues of any Arabian Horse Magazines and books on the Arabian Horse. Cathy's phone number is 250-963-7248 if you can help her.
CONGRATULATIONS
To the members who showed their horses at the 2003 Egyptian Event in Kentucky, the U.S. and Canadian Nationals, the Eastern & Western Regionals and Breeders Championships, and any A shows and local fairs. Keep showing what the Egyptian Arabian horse can do!
GREENER PASTURES
It is with deep sadness that the club learned of the passing of the chestnut Egyptian stallion El Matrabb on June 24, 2003, at 16 years of age. He died on the way to the Saskatoon Veterinary College in Saskatchewan for assessment of suspected colic. An Autopsy revealed a ruptured bowel. El Matrabb was owned by Jeanette Jardine of Aimbri Arabians of White City, SK. Jeanette purchased "Matt" as he was fondly called in 1995 from Dr. Elledge of Bar Sama Arabians in the U.S. El Matrabb (Al Metrabbi++ by *Morfic X Ana Gayah by * Morafic) was bred by Gleannlock Farms of Texas and was foaled April 15, 1987, and purchased by Dr. Elledge as a weanling.
El Matrabb captured several halter championships and two Egyptian Event Top Tens. He won awards in both halter and performance and had numerous CEF awards in performance. He also had a Region 17 Top Five in Halter. He was a sire of winners and has get in western Canada, U.S. A., Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Matt was Jeanette's foundation stallion and he truly will be missed by her, her family and friends. To Jeannette he was "The One".