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2019 ATAA Conference Raffle Items-- Buy Tickets now!

10/2/2019

You do not need to be there to win- but you do need to pay for shipping! Katrina will send you a PayPal invoice for payment and then email them a picture of their numbers. Several items are pictured below, but not all. Watch the ATAA Facebook page for more items. Contact Katrina Ardiel at: info@akhalvalleyfarms.com

Raffle Information

Tickets are
10 tickets for $20.00
or
40 tickets for $50.00

They need to choose which items they would like their ticket to be put towards

The drawing will be Sunday, October 6th

Winner ships item at their expense.

DEADLINE FOR VNIIK REGISTRATION SOON!

9/26/2019

Attention everyone!!
VNIIK wants to stop accepting purebred AT registration for older non-VNIIK registered horses soon (older horses that not have been VNIIK registered yet). This means that the day is coming that if your horses are NOT in the closed VNIIK studbook, they will NOT be considered Purebred Akhal-Tekes.
They want current year foals registered by October 1st (or the process started):
Please:

Fill out the VNIIK Foal form (for horses of ALL ages if not already VNIIK registered)- sire and dams need VNIIK numbers, not the ATAA numbers. (Questions, see below)

Fill out ATAA registration form

Take photos, fill in markings in application in RED INK.

Send forms, photos and fees to the Registration Secretary to start the process. PayPal and email is ok.

Don’t panic if your horse’s older relatives aren’t VNIIK registered We have a grant to help with that:
‘Previously unregistered purebred ancestors will be “noted” in VNIIK with a foal registration number for a fee of approximately $41 per unregistered ancestor or parent, paid by our grant.
This is instead of a full blown VNIIK passport of each unregistered parent/ancestor of $186 each. Contact the registrar or Registration Secretary to see if your horse’s ancestors qualify for this program. YOU STILL NEED TO PAY FOR YOUR HORSE’S VNIIK REGISTRATION!!!!’
Questions: Ask Amrita at ibolds@rockisland.com or Cathy at c.leddy@frontier.com

Amrita Ibold
Cathy Leddy

2019 AHA/ATAA National Championship Endurance Ride!

9/11/2019

The 2019 Akhal-Teke National Championship Endurance Ride will be held in conjunction with the Arabian Horse Association Distance Nationals in Vinita, OK on Friday October 25, 2019 at the “Owl Hoot Spook” ride. The ride is located at the Franks Ranch and is an AERC-sanctioned 50-mile ride.

Please let us know ASAP if you are planning on attending with your AT or AT cross so we can plan awards! :)

We are also looking for an Akhal-Teke enthusiast that would be interested in volunteering at the ride as our "Akhal-Teke ambassador"! Contact Betsy Wandler for details @ betsysee@gmail.com, we could even arrange housing if needed!

More information about the ride is on the following link:

https://www.arabianhorses.org/competition/national-events/distance-nationals/

2019 ATAA Conference, Akhal Valley Farms, Clarksburg, ON Canada

8/11/2019

This year's ATAA Conference looks like it will be educational and FUN! Click on the link for details, payment info is below link.

https://www.akhalvalleyfarms.ca/ataa-2019-conference

Payment:

Click on which registration you are interested in.

ATAA Members Early registration (by August 31st)

ATAA Members Conference registration (September 1st and beyond)

Non ATAA Member Day Pass Saturday

Non ATAA Member Day Pass Sunday

Incentive Fund Update!

8/5/2019

New email for Incentive Fund entries: incentiveawards.ataa@gmail.com

Remember, the Incentive Fund is $5000 to share this year!!!
Get your piece of the pot!

For details and rules, click HERE

2019 ATAA Annual General Membership Meeting

8/4/2019

Our 2019 ATAA Conference will be hosted by Giles and Katrina Ardiel of Akhal Valley Farms, in Clarksburg, Ontario, Canada!

Working Itinerary

Friday Oct 4. -

3:00-4:00 ATAA board meeting

4:30- 6:00 ATAA AGM

7:30 8:30- Kick off Conference with Meet and greet cocktails in the barn.

Saturday Oct 5. - open to general public for a fee.

Held in town: speakers

9:00-10:00 - speaker #1 -Thinking Like a horse

10-11:30 - speaker # 2- Sports Medicine

11:30-1:00-lunch

1:00- 2:00 - speaker #3-Sports nutrition

2:15-3:15 - speaker #4- When things go wrong in the show ring

4:00-5:00 - speaker #5-Chiropratic and horses

7:30 Dinner for ATAA members only to be held at our farm.

Sunday Oct. 6- held at a farm down the road from us. open as well to general public for a fee.

Clinic with 5 riders

I am really trying to get other Tekes to come for this! If no one else can bring horses we can offer 4-5 horses to have other people ride in the clinic. This clinician is an excellent teacher and is wonderful to watch or to ride with. I really hope everyone can take something away from this weather watching, or riding. I also really hope this is an opportunity for us as ambassadors of the breed to be able to show some of the public what these horses can do. If any of you know anyone with a Teke that would be interested in bringing a Teke or two or anyone who would be interested in riding please let me know. I will give first come to those brining horses, and if there is enough interest from riders I will do a raffle for the riders spots.

Talks on:

Equine Sports Medicine, Marketing your Equine, Equine Nutrition, Welcome to the Akhal-Teke breed (public invited), Saddle fitting, Awards Banquet, and a clinic with Megan Lang - Canadian Dressage Team, Olympic, WEG rider, pan American medalist. There will be 2 clinic spots raffled off to attending conference goers, with the use of Akhal-Valley horses.

We are also negotiating for special guests from Russia – information to be announced later!

This will be a jam-packed Conference at a lovely facility! Circle the dates on your calendar.
Watch this website for further details.

ATAA member regular price Conference ticket starting September 1stPay here:

ATAA Members Early registration (by August 31st)

ATAA Members Conference registration (September 1st and beyond)

Non ATAA Member Day Pass Saturday

Non ATAA Member Day Pass Sunday

Photos from the recent SANA West Rare Breeds Show, all taken by Mattie Tucker (who did an awesome job!)

5/28/2019

Alajoz. Akhal-Teke mare, owned by Deb Bowker, ridden by Brandi Estevez, during (I think) a Western Dressage test

Another Whisper, Irish Draught Horse Cross gelding with owner Tami Beach

Brough Hill Hadrian's Wall, Fell Pony Stallion, owned by Rene Bender.

Galadrielle, Akhal-Teke mare (foreground), ridden by Monica Bretherton and Arzuw, Akhal-Teke cross gelding, ridden by Cathy Leddy, in the Akhal-Teke Costume Class

Another Whisper, Irish Draught Cross gelding, with Tami Beach, with his Most Versatile Rare Breed Horse Cross cooler and sash, Sponsored by Steadfast Farm, Tuttle, OK, Boutique Breeder of Select Hackney Horses and Hackney Crosses for Sport, Please follow us on FB @ www.facebook.com/steadfastfarm

Galadrielle, Akhal-Teke mare, owned by Cascade Gold Akhal-Tekes, ridden by Monica Bretherton, during a dressage test.

Circle H Glen Livit, Highland Pony Stallion, owned by Michele Winans, during one of the jump classes.

unnamed colt, Kevlin x Asalari, owned by Tish Saare, Pleasant Grove Akhal-Tekes

Canadian Horses in the Open Costume Class. Fuego, with Ashleigh Shaw up farthest, Dream Boy Kurt with Naomi Driscoll with flag, and Storybook Prince -2 Diva with Ken Morris on foot.

Just a few photos to enjoy! We will put more up later, along with names of both horses and riders.

The SANA West Rare Breeds Show was a big success!

5/20/2019

We had 38 horses come to sunny Sacramento during the Western States Horse Expo, May 9-12th, 2019. I'm pretty sure it was a big hit from the comments, most which seemed to be to the tune of 'When we do this next year'. Everyone looked like they were having a good time, horses all behaved well (almost all of the time, lol), much food was eaten, questions answered, photos taken and lots of networking and making new friends!

As I'm still writing up results and playing catch-up, here are the Most Versatile Awards.

Most Versatile Awards - These awards were given to the horse in each category that competed in at least two disciplines, such as dressage and jumping, dressage and obstacles, jumping and obstacles, or all three. Tekes or Teke crosses also needed to be in an In-Hand breed class.

Our sponsors sponsored the classes and also bought lovely coolers for all awards (except the Rare Breed Pony - we awarded a lovely engraved plate as the ponies ranged from 12 hands to 15+ and we couldn't quite figure out how to do a cooler for that)

Most Versatile Awards:
Most Versatile Rare Breed Pony or Cross - sponsored by Penny Thom, JPT Gingerbread Li'l Gypsy Cobs, LLC, Carson City NV
Qualified Horses: #150 Fell Legend Holy Toledo
   #104 Brough Hill Hadrian's Wall
   #111- Circle H Glen Livit

And the winner is: #150 Fell Legend Holy Toledo!

Most Versatile Rare Breed Horse- sponsored by The Irish Draught Horse Society of North America
Qualified Horses: #123 Dream Boy Kurt
      #108 MCD's Joshua's Bobbi

And the winner is: #123 Dream Boy Kurt

Most Versatile Rare Breed Cross horse- sponsored by Steadfast Farms, Tuttle, OK, Boutique Breeder of Select Hackney Horses and Hackney Crosses for Sport. Please follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/steadfastfarm
Qualified Horses: #131 Another Whisper
   #106 Lucky Punch
And the winner is: #131 Another Whisper

Most Versatile Purebred Akhal-Teke- sponsored by Silver Hill Akhal-Tekes, Billings, MT
Qualified Horses: #125, Alajoz
      #143 Kismet
   #112 Kevlin
   #113, Kooski
#102, Galadrielle

There was a tie for 1st place, between Alajoz and Kismet. Judge ruled in Kismet's favor, so winner is: Kismet.

Most Versatile Akhal-Teke Cross, sponsored by Susan Greer and Ricardo Viteri, Lafayette, CA
      #120 Diesel
   #103 Arzuw

And the winner is: #120 Diesel

Latest SANA West Rare Breeds Show News!

4/25/2019

We're now counting down to the start of the SANA West Rare Breeds Show, May 9-12th during the Western States Horse Expo near Sacramento, CA.

We have our RBS T-shirts ordered (Thank you to The Painting Pony, as always!) Each Exhibitor and volunteer will get one! Two colors, blue and gray.

Our postcards (which will be added into the WSHE spectator packets, given out with admission, have arrived.

Ribbons and Awards are ordered, including those sponsor paid for awards for the Most Versatile Awards- these are test patches that will go on the nice FinnTack coolers.

Our Saturday night BBQ Meet and Greet is set up - get your orders in now!
Regular BBQ - Tri-tip, Chicken and sides
Vegan/Vegetarian - Portobello mushrooms and sides

Approximately 7 pm, place TBD, catered by BlackJack Grill - $20 per person

And, last but not least, our Show Program is at the printers now! A huge shout out to Yorke McGillivray for her design and hard work! Thank you!

SANA WEST SATURDAY NIGHT MAY 11TH, BBQ MEET AND GREET!

4/16/2019

Come and visit with other exhibitors, volunteers, judges, etc!

Catered by Black Jack Grill, Texas style BBQ with vegan and vegetarian options!

BBQ Tri-Tip, Chicken, Portabello Mushrooms, Green salad with dressing on the side, Baked Beans, no meat.

Get your tickets by May 5th, so we can give numbers to the caterer. $20 per person, beverages included.

Make sure you click on the correct button, so we get the right numbers!

See you there!

Saturday Night Get Together BBQ, Tri-Tip and Chicken per person

Saturday Night Get Together BBQ, VEGAN/VEGETARIAN per person