Amateur News
Hi Everyone,
The banquet is over and everyone seemed to have to have a great time. We missed a lot of folks because of the weather. January has not been a friendly month so far. Congratulations go to Tina Freeland for winning the Amateur All-around and to Norma Jackson for winning the Select All-around. We had a good amateur meeting and you officers for 2010 are as follows:
Rose Mason - President
Suzanne Mayo - 1st Vice President
Dee Freeland - 2nd Vice President
Tina Freeland - Secretary
I want to remind everyone that if you have a competition card for amateur and amateur select, that you need to declare which of these you want your points to go towards if the classes are combined or if select isn't offered. Please be sure to let Kathy Fowler know ASAP.
A committee was formed to address the Queen contest if we have any canidates. Allison Lail will chair that committee along with Doug Adams and Sally Almond.
We again voted to spend $60 per award for the three Novice show awards and to budget $1000 for the dinner at the Country Music Circuit. We also voted to send $250 to the STAR program again this year. For the 4H awards, we voted to spend $30 each for the 6 awards we give and last, but not least, we approved $3000 for the Incentive fund along with any extra money from fund raisers.
We talked about putting on an Amateur trail ride and cook-out this year, so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Spring would probably be the best time to have it and since most of you haven't been to East Fork, I think that would be a great place to have it, but I am open to all suggestions.
Also, if any of you have accomplished something with your horse or horses, like Register of Merit, Superior Award, AQHA Champion, or Trail Riding awards, let me know, so I can get it out on the web and let everyone know what you have accomplished. I would also love to know how our amateurs do at World shows and the Congress, so please keep that in mind. Also, some of our amateurs show in TN Reining Horse Assoc shows, so let me know how you guys do. We need to share this information and communicate.
We will try to have another meeting at one of the spring shows or at our Trail ride, so everyone please be thinking about fund raisers. Those really helped us last year, so we want to try more this year. Send me any ideas you may have.
I want to wish you all a happy, safe, and prosperous new year and may God bless you all.
Thanks,
Rose