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EFA WA - Email Blast - 23rd Sep 2005

Equestrian Federation of Australia Western Australia – Email Blast News and Information Friday 23rd September 2005 Hi all, Things are starting to get EXTREMELY busy here at the centre with the Sporthorse WA Expo starting next week on Friday September 30th. The World Cup evening is on Saturday 1st October, promising to be just as entertaining as last year, when the party was one not to miss! GHet your tickets through BOCS for both the Expo and the World Cup. This weekend is the State Dressage Championships, with the Horseland Young Dressage Horse Final taking place on Saturday evening, as well as several of the entertaining freestyle classes, so come down to the SEC over the weekend for a squiz! Cheers Tegan Mills Discipline Coordinator GENERAL NEWS The Guy Wallace Foundation Appeal A launch dinner for the Guy Wallace Foundation Appeal was held last Saturday night at the Fairbridge Alcoa ODE. The event was designed to get everyone together to hear about the plans to raise enough money to allow Guy to move back to the farm and live a better quality of life and most importantly to be back with the horses. The night was a wonderful success with over 180 people attending. Whilst the intention was not to raise money large amounts of money "on the night" but rather raise awareness, there were people who chose to write out some generous cheques in support of Guy. Guy himself made a great speech and explained how much difference to his quality of life and rehabilitation the previous fundraising efforts have made. (The wheelchair access van to travel around in, 4*4 Wheelchair, Walking Machine etc) There was more than one of our strong equestrian men fighting back the tears when they heard him offer his sincere thanks to anyone who could help. Then of course there were a few wise cracks from Guy to lighten us all up. The night was going well until the Narrogin contingent got control of the Karaoke microphone. From then on the night was full of fun laughter and exuberant singing. On behalf of the Appeal committee I would like to thank all those who joined us to make the night a success. Regards, Mike Bennett Guy Wallace on ABC tonight The ABC are doing a story on the lack of full care facilities to service young disabled people and Guy is one of the main case studies. The situation is that once a person's condition has stabilised, they are moved out of the rehabilitation facilities to longer term care. This longer term care is the "old people's homes". The issue with this is that someone like Guy, at his age and with his active mind, is surrounded by people seeing out their last days for the rest of their life. The young people see the older people come and go. They are faced with mortality daily. There are no longer term care facilities available to house the younger more active disabled people. Given that The Guy Wallace Foundation are starting their major fundraising effort to seek donations to help bring Guy home permanently to his parent's farm, it will be nice for people to see this story. Tune in tonight to Stateline at 7:30pm and see Guy and his mother speak about the situation, there will be some footage of him riding also Volunteers Needed We need volunteers for the Expo/World Cup and the Aust. Showjumping Champs. We are looking for Arena Crew, Door Attendants and Car Park/Float Park Attendants. Also people to man the EFA stand Volunteers can contact Joanna at j.dale@ecu.edu.au or volunteercoordinator@efawa.com.au Demo Horses Needed The organisers of the Sporthorse WA Expo need 9 demonstration horses for the 3 days of the expo. 3 x horses for bare foot trimming 3 x horses for farrier demo If your horse is due for a foot trim then why not get a freebie and volunteer your horse for one of the days?! 1 horse is needed for each demo on each day if you can supply a horse for one of these demos then please contact. Please contact Olivia on 9389 4476 NCAS UPDATE Compulsory clinic. Level 1 update clinic. Saturday 3rd December @ SEC. Forms in post or from EFA office. Coach Educators and Assessors Please remember to send in forms to go to National CE & Ass Workshop 8th/9th November to National Office by 14th October. DRESSAGE NEWS Apology Apologies to Sara Thean, who's name was omitted from Collections, as representing WA at the Dressage National Championships. Good Luck Sara! Dressage State Championships A.O.V. Productions will be filming at The STATE DRESSAGE CHAMPIONSHIPS if there are sufficient bookings. Each test will be on a DVD with highlights from the Weekend put together with music at the beginning of Each DVD. THE COST IS $30.00 FOR THE FIRST TEST AND $20.00 PER ADDITIONAL TEST. To book please email or phone Michelle Johnson (08) 95740043. Aussies in Action are the official photographers for this event. A photographer will be available to take photos on Saturday only. You will need to contact Aussies in Action to book your request. www.aussiesinaction.com.au Bates Newcomer Award. Bates Dressage Cards to be returned to the EFA office NO LATER than the 1st of October. Late cards will NOT BE ACCEPTED. Horseland Young Dressage Horse Final @ the SEC 7pm Saturday September 24th. Spectators most welcome! WADYRA (WA Dressage Young Riders Association) An exciting new Young Rider Dressage Club is being formed in the Swan Valley area. Training days will be held monthly and will include ridden lessons, lectures, demonstrations and many other fun ways to improve riders' understanding of dressage. Riders of all levels, up to 25 years old, riding horses or ponies, official or associate are welcome to apply. Coach -Victoria Hamilton (current State YR Dressage Coach and coach of the PCAWA dressage team at the Nationals). A meeting is to be held upstairs at the State Equestrian Centre on Thursday 13th October at 7.00pm For more information please contact Victoria Hamilton on 9295 2340 or email vjh@iinet.net.au EVENTING NEWS Martin Plewa Eventing Clinic 4th, 5th & 6th October @ SEC. $95 per lesson (incl. GSF). $65 squad riders only. Martin Plewa is judging and on the Ground Jury at Sydney CCI 2005 and the World Equestrian Games in Aachen 2006. Martin has judged has Badminton and is the past coach of the German Eventing team. A Fantastic opportunity is available to WA Eventing riders to ride in front of someone with this experience. On Wednesday 6th October, video critiquing will be available for riders to ride a test under Martin, have it videoed and later critiqued. Please contact Tegan ASAP to book 9296 1200 or a/h 0409 363 938. Go for 2&5 BRIGADOON 2 ODE Please note new date for this event. 19th & 20th November (Entries now close 3rd November). Intro 2 (PCAWA D Grade) to Pre-Novice (PCAWA A Grade). Remaining details as per Handbook. ATTENTION ALL EVENT RIDERS – PRE NOVICE & ABOVE!!!!!!! Horseland Eventing Grand Prix @ Horseland Sporthorse WA Expo. Friday 30th September. Entries close 26/9/05. $40 + $15 GSF per horse. All Horse / rider combinations must be qualified to compete at CNC* level and hold a current eventing performance card. Competitors will be required to compete in the D Grade ( Max height 1.10m Am3 Article 238.1.2) from 8am Friday morning and the XC will be held on the Polo field from 11:30am No Entry Fee – No Start !! Download an entry form from www.efawa.com.au All Enquiries: Tegan Mills 9296 1200 Please post entries to : Eventing Grand Prix, EFAWA, 303 Cathedral Ave, Brigadoon WA 6069. Young Event Horse @ Wooroloo II 20th & 21st August. Overall placings 1st Future Options - Holly Elmis (rider), Sonja Johnson (owner) 2nd Knightwood Defender - Ron Fleming (owner / rider) 3rd Gesusa Park Federation - Deon Stoke (rider), Sara Price (owner) Gidgegannup CNC The Gidgegannup One Day Event was held in early September and this event cemented its reputation for being well organised and a pleasure to compete. There were large numbers of competitors in all classes however the competition ran very smoothly. The CNC 1 * course was significantly improved from the last year due to its use for the National Pony Club Championships and designer Tom Compagonini produced a tough technical track which caused a fair degree of trouble. The CNC 1 * Class was a large quality field due to there being no 2 * Class and a number of riders deciding to compete down a grade and there were also a number of the young successful prenogas horses coming through for their first run. Carly Brown on her exciting young 2 * horse, Just Corona, had an excellent dressage score of 43.6 and were one of only two clear showjumping rounds over a tough showjumping course which caused a lot of trouble. They narrowly defeated the experienced campaigner Sonya Johnson on Foreign Exchange who were just .3 behind Carly as a result of being the only other clear showjumping round. Third was Felicity Ives and Made to Order who capitalised on their good dressage score of 50 to just beat Michael Dagostino on Kendlestone Park Maxim into fourth position by one point. Fifth was Rob Vlasschaert on Mellene Park Skyshow and sixth was Kate Ingham on Springfield Caesar. In the Senior Prenovice Class, Belinda Collier continued her very consistent form on Mr Rompa Stompa to beat Joanna Booker on Lumberjack OK. These two riders finished with equal penalties after the showjumping and Belinda was successful due to her faster cross country time. Third went to Annika Boxall on Sambarley Helsinki. The Junior Prenovice was won by Aimee Williamson on Snappy Tom. This combination continued their consistent performances this season and were one of the few combinations over the weekend to remain on their dressage score. Second was Phoebe Tucker and Mindgames and Sarah Day on Ilbery Farm Altair was third. In the large Senior Preliminary Class Dinah Fleming on Knightwood Saracen had an excellent victory with a leading dressage score and no further faults. They won narrowly from Natalie Barr and Holland Park Ambition with Kirsten Twining and Aya Soquili in third place. In the Junior Preliminary Class, another consistent performer Rachael Ross and Bonnie Dunn also remained on their excellent dressage score of 42.6 to have a good win from Emma King and Jumanji with Jessamy Walsh on Koomba Ngort in third. In the Senior Introductory 1 Class, Tegan Cook had a victory on one of her number of rides for the weekend Devereaux Direct Approach. They beat Danielle Risbey and Cavalier and Rob Vlasschaert on Maheno Lodge Laureate were in third. In the Junior Introductory 1 Class, Phoebe Tucker on Gravitron was successful. The Senior Introductory 2 Class was won by Paul Clifton and Chocolate and the Senior Introductory 2 was won by Emma Stent and Electra. SHOWJUMPING NEWS Showjumping Riders Meeting October 1st To elect a State Riders Representative to the Jumping Riders Association of Australia from Western Australia. To do this there will be a riders meeting at the Sport Horse WA Expo on Saturday 1st October after the Mini Prix. Please send any nominations to nellandra@hotmail.com, we can then vote to elect our representative. The person must have competed in the last two years and be able to communicate via e-mail. WASJA 1st & 2nd October @ Horseland Sporthorse Expo Entries have closed. For further enquiries call Pam Page 9414 5097. FEI World Cup Showjumping Qualifier 2005 Saturday, 1 October, 6:30pm State Equestrian Centre, Brigadoon On 1 October 2005, World Cup showjumping returns to the State Equestrian Centre. Many of Australia's top riders will be competing for right to represent Australia at the World Cup in 2006. Remember, last year it was a complete sellout. Book your tickets NOW to avoid disappointment. Only 30 Bar & Balcony tickets left!! www.bocsticketing.com.au or Credit Card Bookings & Information (08) 9484 1133. 8:30am to 8:00pm Monday – Saturday STATE EQUESTRIAN CENTRE NEWS Indoor Dressage @ SEC Tuesday 11th October. 9am -5pm. Practice any test. $18 per 15 minutes. Ph. 9296 1200 FREE DIRT!!!!! The State Equestrian Centre has loads of quality Clay based soil available for collection free of charge. Please contact SEC Management if you are interested in taking it off our hands. bookings@efawa.com.au or call 9296 1200 Supplied By: Equestrian Federation of Australia (WA) Branch and the State Equestrian Centre

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