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SMYTHESDALE & DISTRICTSMYTHESDALE & DISTRICTSMYTHESDALE & DISTRICTSMYTHESDALE & DISTRICT
PONY CLUB INC.PONY CLUB INC.PONY CLUB INC.PONY CLUB INC. A0001527G
ABN 57 961 998 978
PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER DISTRICT COMMISSIONER
Sandra Morgan Debbie Callister Roz Lonie Mary Drendel Shane Simpson 5342 0965
[email protected] 5342 8185
[email protected] 5342 0024
[email protected] 5341 2504
[email protected] 5342 4411
September 2010 NEWSLETTER
FOR YOUR DIARY September 2010 6
th – Newsletter items deadline
17th - Committee Agenda Items Deadline
19th
– Smythesdale Pony Club rally October 2010 6
4h – Newsletter items deadline
15th - Committee Agenda Items Deadline
17th
– Smythesdale Pony Club rally
23rd
– SPC Gymkhana and Novelty Day
Smythesdale & District Pony Club official postal address This address is for all correspondence to the pony club other than membership fees that will be sent direct to Mary Drendel, our Treasurer.
Smythesdale & District Pony Club Inc. C/O Smythesdale PO Smythesdale Vic, 3351
**** This months rally, the first lesson starts at 10.00am*** C certificate starts at 9.00am
THIS MONTHS BIRTHDAYS AND ROSTER INFORMATION
September BIRTHDAYS
Happy Birthday to the following Smythesdale Pony
Club members who’s birthdays are in September: Jemima Christie, Christie Harrison, Willow Luc-Dreger, Declan Phillips, Bronte Simpson and Stephanie Woodgate Apologies to anyone I’ve missed; let me know so we can add you in next time.
NEWSLETTER ITEMS If anyone has any news or items they would like to go in our newsletter please forward them on to Cathy. These items can include get well greetings, achievements, family news, for sale items or events. Also please notify Cathy of any changes in contact details, i.e., phone, e-mail or postal address.
• phone ~ 5344 8354 • e-mail ~ [email protected]
SET-UP ROSTER FOR AUGUST RALLY Set up Saturday at 4pm
Simpson, Almond, Deeker-Fradd, Ladiges, Pryse-Smith, Warrener, Luc-Dreger, Butler, Howlett, Woodgate, Menzel, Doust.
‘CANTEEN’: Could the following families please see Lisa (Sam Wilson this month) in the canteen when you arrive to check out what help is needed and at what times. Thanks (if everyone turns up people will only need to do 2 hours max) Grigsby, Crebbin, Wilson, Chapman, De Spirt, Mellington, Blyth, Gibson, Hicks, Lawrence, Stabeusz,
FIRST AID Angela Taranto, Julie Lodge, Jackie Ladiges
GEAR CHECK Sandra Morgan, Debby Stewart, Lieanne Brehaut, Teresa Holmes, Jenny Crawley Please contact Sandra on 5342 0965 if you are unable to help with gear check this rally.
CLEANING ROSTER
Jude Edmunds and Dianne Lotherington
CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE!
Have a look at how it is coming along and please forward any ideas and suggestions for things you would like to see on the website. This is going to look quite exciting over the next few weeks.
www.smythesdale.ponyclubvic.org.au
Out and AboutOut and AboutOut and AboutOut and About
A quieter month for those out and about, thanks to the weather, but a dedicated (or crazy!!) few still managed to squeeze in an event or two. A big well done to Emma Lonie for her fantastic efforts again in the BEDS Series. Emma placed 5th and 6th in Round 4, and 1st in Round 5 of the BEDS Series in Grade 3. Emma competed at Little River Horse Trials as well and finished with a very impressive 2nd place in Grade 3. Congratulations Emma. A huge congratulations to Briony Deeker-Fradd placing 1st in PC Grade 5 at the Maldon Horse Trials. Briony rode a beautiful dressage test, a sensational show jumping round and had a great time over an interesting and challenging cross country course. Really well ridden Briony - you and Maisy were awesome! Also, well done to Georgie and Bronte Simpson who also competed at Maldon Horse Trials - Georgie in PC Grade 4 and Bronte in Open Grade 5. Both girls rode great dressage tests and super showjumping rounds, and came away from a very challenging cross country course still smiling! If you are out and about at any event please let us know so we can make mention of it in the newsletter
Events Coming Up Hi everyone – here are the upcoming events for the next couple of months. If you have any questions regarding any of these events give me a call on 5342 4411, or email me – [email protected]
SEPTEMBER 11TH Corio / Moorabool PC BEDS Round 5 12th Ballan PC Horse Trials – postponed to 17th October 18th Maldon PC Showjumping Series Round 1 25th/26th Werribee PC 2 day Horse Trials 25th Barrel Racing Victoria Event – to be held at WYEC OCTOBER 2nd Ballan PC BEDS Round 6 10th Ballarat PC Horse Trials 16th Maldon PC Showjumping Series Round 2 17th Ballan PC Horse Trials 23rd Smythesdale Pony Club Gymkhana and Novelties 24th Kingston PC Combined Training Day 24th Drysdale / Leopold PC BEDS Round 7 NOVEMBER 13th Leighdale PC Short Course 14th Gisborne PC Horse Trials 21st Smythesdale Pony Club Horse Trials (One Day Event) 28th Riddells Creek Dressage & Showjumping Day Remember the PCAV Website, it’s a very handy reference point – www.ponyclubvic.org.au Wishing you all happy and safe riding.
Anni Anni Anni Anni
SMYTHESDALE & DISTRICT PONY CLUB INC
EIGHTH ANNUAL
‘FAIR GO FUN DAY’
GYMKHANA
Saturday October 23rd 2010
Our Gymkhana is coming up on Saturday 23rd October this year and we are in need
of volunteers to help make this day a success, We will need people to make food for judges, stewards for rings, people on the gates, people to man the desk, clean up poo, pack up, set up, canteen helpers and first aiders, just to name a few. We will have a list at the sign in desk for people to write their name next to a job. This is a fantastic day and lots of fun, so let’s work together to make a fun and successful day!
From the Junior Committee
SMYTHESDALE PONY CLUB JUNIOR COMMITTEE
President Jasmine Rodda
Treasurer & Mane magazine Editor-Imogen Grigsby-
Vice president-Christie Harrison
General Committee- Jordan Almond, Jemima Christie, Kate Morgan, Stephanie Woodgate
Secretary- Bianca Brehaut -
Adult co-ordinator Donna Crebbin [email protected]
The Junior Committee held their first rally meeting and follow up executive meeting, where they were able to introduce themselves to the riding members and gain some ideas for upcoming camp activities and Christmas fun. We are looking forward to hearing any other ideas from members who weren’t able to make it.
• All raffle books are due back at the September Rally.
• Any members who aren’t riding at the Gymkhana that would like to help sell tickets on the day, please contact us, they may need some ring stewards as well if you aren’t participating in the days events.
• Please Remember to send any articles, short stories, photos etc to Imogen for the next addition of Mane magazine- The Aug/Sept Edition will be on sale again at this rally-
Please support the Junior Committee
!!Important Notice!!
If anyone has a fall from a horse at any
of our rallies YOU MUST NOT mount your horse again until you have been
cleared by our first aid people.
Orange, Purple, Green, Red and Blue Groups
Allan Mitchell Show jumping lessons
at the September rally Alan Mitchell is with us for the September rally, we have allocated Alan to Orange, Purple, Green, Red and Blue groups. Could the riders (or parents) in those groups please pay the $10 extra fee for Alan's lesson as it helps in being able to afford an instructor of this kind. We get to have Alan around 3 or 4 times a year, so the groups that miss out this time will have him at his next visit.
SPC Horse Trials
Don’t forget your entries for our Smythesdale Pony Club on Sunday 21st
November and we hope our members will
support their club and ride on the day. Those not competing in our event, we can
find lots of jobs for you to do. There is a lot
of work to do to run a Horse Trial event and we need everyone to be doing something to assist.
We realise that with riders competing it is
hard to also work but we need everyone’s help to make the day run as smooth as possible. An hour here and there gives those
that are on all day a breather and saves
complete burn out of energy...and committee... The Horse Trials is one of our major
fundraisers for the club so whether you
can help with canteen, cook food for judges, set up the day before, be a jump judge, a runner, a gopher or are even non horsie we
need all the help we can get and have just
the job for you! It would be greatly appreciated if you could
please chat with committee and offer your
services.
Protect your
float from
thieves
Thanks to Bob Anderson for this article and photos
Above: Horse Float/Trailer tow ball locks to protect
your float
In light of the recent theft of a couple of floats locally
I was prompted me to mention “trailer locks”
available at Supercheap Auto in Wendouree for
about $30....they were in their latest catalogue.
They lock onto the tow hitch so that the trailer (boat
/ float / tandem / caravan) cannot be hitched to a
towing vehicle unless the thieves come VERY well
prepared. They can also be locked over the hitch
while it is attached to your vehicle so the trailer can’t
be removed. I bought decent “Lockwood” padlocks
(about 30mm) from Bunnings to replace the
padlocks that came with the original units. (The
originals were a bit dodgy)Next Rally Day I’ll send the
unit down with Deb (Callister) if anyone wants to
have a look at it. Since all one needs is a ute to back
up and steal your float / boat / caravan I thought it
was a pretty cheap investment.
Old chaff and horse feed bags are
required to hand out for ‘horse poo’ collection at our
upcoming events. Please bring along some bags if
you can to our rally.
All horse yards and tie up areas near floats in
particular have to have all manure, waste hay and
rubbish removed as part of a condition of using our
centre. This is one way that we all contribute to
cleaning up the manure and it is not left to the last
one leaving the grounds etc. Thank you in advance
for your assistance and guidance to other users.
This will help contribute to making our events less
work and more successful. Membership Fees
There are a number of families that have not paid any membership fees other than the PCAV insurance. To be fair on the club could these families please pay some or all of their fees at this rally. To the families who have paid their fees or are making the effort to pay off their fees we are extremely appreciative as it allows us to continue running the rallies as normal and as all our children would like. Without membership fees eventually we cannot run rallies once the money runs out. Thank-you Pony Club Committee
PHOTO’SPHOTO’SPHOTO’SPHOTO’S & Pictures & Pictures & Pictures & Pictures
Website contributions from SPC members are welcome! Send your results and photos to Shane after each event you attend. If you have any photos to update our clubrooms, of you being out and about competing, riding or just at home with your horse - please send the photos in and provide some detail for each graphic - place date people mounts event etc. We would like to keep our clubrooms memory alive and exciting and our entire website updated on what you our members have been doing. We will try to have the website updated each month. See Sandra for more details
BAKER’S DELIGHT
Dough Raiser –Fund Raiser
Our Club is now registered with this fund raiser at Bakers Delight In SEBASTOPOL. Just mention our club when you purchase something at Sebastopol Bakers Delight and 5% of all sales will go to our club at the end of the school term.
Working with Children Checks
The Working with Children (WWC) Check creates a mandatory minimum checking standard across Victoria. The WWC Check helps to keep children safe by preventing those who pose a risk to the safety of children from working with them, in either paid or volunteer work. If you work or volunteer with children you
may need to apply for a WWC Check.
The WWC Check is being phased in over five years. If you need a WWC Check, you must apply by the due date for your field of child-related work. The next due date was 30 June
2010.
Need to Apply - Clubs, associations or
movements of a recreational or sporting nature in connection with all remaining sport and recreation groups not previously phased-in that
• provide services or conduct activities for, or directed at, children, or • whose membership is mainly comprised of
children
I would appreciate to receive a good quality
scanned copy to my email [email protected]
Thank you to Committee and instructors that have supplied a copy of their WWC card. If you
have not already provided a copy please email me or phone me without delay.
More info at www.justice.vic.gov.au/workingwithchildren or
ph 1300 652 879
Kind regards Sandra Ph 5342 0965
0407 050 229
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CLASSIFIEDS
14 - 15hh horse, prefer gelding, for a 12 year old girl. Competent intermediate rider currently doing Pony Club. Prefer Pony Club experience. To buy or lease. Phone Michelle - 0420 298 443, 5336 3642.
Wanted – Saddle. 14” – 15” Pony Saddle. Prefer leather and changeable gullet. Not Wintec. See Anni, or phone: 5342 4411 For Sale: Western saddle – Childs lightweight Wintec type. $175 See Sandra or Ph 5342 0965
Training on the WYEC Grounds –
Did you know you can access the centre without paying casual users fees and with PCAV insurance cover? You need to be clear that you are training for a special purpose such as you need some extra help with your horse, or you need to work on a certain discipline or training for a ODE, a games event or event of some kind. The training needs to be with our permanent instructors Allison Hayes, Sue Bradley, Nick Benyon, or Sue Short. It can be at any time during the week or on weekends. Just make sure you check if any other core users are using the centre at the time. You can use sand, cross country and even our jumps if you are prepared to get them out and pack them up again. Allison on 0400 446 363 Nick on 0416 387 408 Sue on 0439 428 769 Sue Short on 5341 2332 Trudie Sims on 0417 343 581 Talk directly to the Instructors to book in.
Don’t Forget our Rays Outdoor & Camping Discounts
Remember the discount with Rays available for SPC members. Just quote D77228 to get 22.5% discount on all Industrial work wear & footwear & 10% discount on all other items*. This offer applies to all Rays stores Australia wide. *Some exclusions apply.
Please pick up all horse manure!
All members are reminded that it is everyone’s responsibility to clean up after their horses.
WYEC CASUAL USER FEES
At a recent WYEC meeting a motion was put forward to reduce the casual user’s fee for the core user groups of the centre. The WYEC committee, which includes members from Rokewood PC, Adult Riders and Smythesdale PC along with the WYEC management group voted unanimously to reduce the casual user fees for the core groups of the centre. The new User fees for the core user groups (which includes SPC) is as follows which now revolves around families. 12 month casual user – Family $70 6 month casual user – Family $50 1 month casual user – Family $30 Day casual user – same as one month. Guest pass - $10 per rider per day Included in the restructuring is that you may bring a friend to ride (if you have the casual user membership) for $10 per rider per day For further information call Liz Sayers (the booking Officer) on 0408 585 919
President’s bits and pieces
Spring is in the air (so the calendar says but that wet stuff
keeps falling..!). Warmer weather is around the corner and lots of fun riding times ahead! The club committee has been actively and attentively engaged in Pony Club work which carries quite a great deal of responsibility and a certain amount of physical pressure and exertion by one another to enable the club to keep functioning. We all need one another like cogs in a factory as one can’t do it alone but together a lot is being achieved. Worthy of mention is the outstanding work and a big pat on the back to Shane, Roz and Mary – we are so fortunate for all that they do – lots to do in getting in/out the emails, phone calls, paperwork required and keeping the paper trail happening etc. Shane has been putting in a considerable amount of work also including communicating with the Golden Plains Shire for the refurbishment of our clubrooms! So exciting but there is quite a bit that goes on behind the scenes for the benefit of the club and our children. THANKYOU to all our committee and members who are chipping in – well done! For the club to be a success a great deal of effort and commitment goes into the running of such a great club. With most of our committee also working fulltime we really appreciate all the tasks that people willingly take on at rallies etc as without all our volunteers a club just cannot run. Our recent flooded out Horse Trials has been postponed to Sunday 21st November. Note this date and we look forward to your assistance with the
smooth running of our up and coming events, in much better weather. Our next Pony Club major event is our Fair Go Fun Day Gymkhana and Novelties horse competition day on Saturday 23
rd October 2010.
Hope to see you there competing and helping out where you can.
Other news: I have recently put in application to The Courier & Haymes Paint for the club to see if we can win 75 litres of paint to celebrate 75 years of Haymes paint. We will have to wait till after Fri 10 September to find out if we are successful.
The club was however successful in obtaining a grant approval from the Golden Plains Shire for funding for poles to the value of $935. We will plan a working bee when the weather is much better to paint the poles – date to be advised. I have also sent in a submission to Department of Planning and Community Development as they had a grant available for Sporting uniform – came with certain criteria and ended up applying for micro fleece hats with SPC logo.
Over 900 applicants were received and generally 500 would be ‘winners’ but we won’t find out till end of October. There are often quite a few grants out there available for ‘free’ funding – have certain criteria and rules etc but if you don’t know or don’t put in an application you will never know!
Be on the ‘lookout’ for any grants that you feel the club would be eligible for and let us know.
Stay warm, dry and don’t forget to be looking after your four legged friends especially during the recent bout of ordinary weather.
Sunday 19th
September is our next rally day – hope to see you there.
Sandra Morgan
Hope you have all found a bit of high ground for your 4 legged friends after the weather we have had over the past few weeks, hopefully the weather has now turned a little towards what we expect in Spring. I would very much like to thank all our riding members, parents and instructors who attended the August rally for everyone’s flexibility throughout the day which really did enable us to have a great rally. Even though we were restricted to basically the large sand arena I think we all got a great deal out of the
day and plenty of fun and laughs were had along the way. After the rain we have had we may again be forced to use only the top part of the grounds, hopefully with a decent week before the rally we might be able to venture further out. We are not going too bad, as some local pony clubs have cancelled both their August and September rallies and we managed to still sneak an August rally in. September’s rally is “Riders choice rally” and where we can we will be giving all the groups what they have asked for on the day. Most groups have asked for cross country in their day, unfortunately at this point the cross country is still closed for everyone’s protection. If we can get out there at any time next Sunday we will, but it would only be on the far side and up high where it hasn’t been flooded. Only if it is dry and safe will it be contemplated. Over the past few weekends there have been a few members who have still got out and about to event with more great results for our club. Briony Deeker-Fradd came 1
st at the Maldon Horse Trials in grade 5
with a lot of older grade 5 kids in her group and quite a difficult x-country course, so a great job. We are coming up to our two major events in the next couple of months, both of which give our club the money to continue providing great instructors and facilities. Please get behind these two events and give your time to help out to ensure it all flows well on the day. The Gymkhana and Novelties on Saturday 23
rd October and our Horse Trials on
Sunday 21st
November are both brilliant days put on for our kids and many local and not so local riders. Please get involved for the well being of your child’s club. With all the recent rain and then the sunshine starting to come through there will be plenty of sugar coming through in the grass this next couple of months, so you need to be aware your ponies and horses will be a bit livelier than normal so please take this into account when riding and heading to pony club. Top this off with the fact there has not been much opportunity to ride over the past month all ponies and horses will be fresh and more than likely not as fit as normal either. Please look after them over the coming weeks as they all start coming back into heavier work and plan out building their fitness back up so as to protect your best friends. A very big thank-you to Sue Short and Cathy Deeker who have taken on the role of coordinating the Gymkhana and for Julie Lodge who is coordinating the Novelties event on the same day, both on Saturday 23
rd of September. Teresa Holmes and
Lynda McDonald are also helping guide these ladies run the events. Please, please help these guy’s out wherever you can. If we all help, these people generally come back for another go which is what we all want I’m sure. Sandra Morgan has done an amazing job gathering photos and placing them on the walls at pony club,
please get behind this effort and bring your photos along and have them put up on the wall. The clubrooms look fantastic with all the photos of our kids with their horses, well done Sandra. To everyone who has been in hospital or had injuries over the last month, and there have been a few, we all hope you are now feeling better and hope to see you at the rally next weekend. To the Phillips and Drendel families, we are all thinking of you at pony club after the recent passing of your dad and grandfather. Again, thank-you to everyone who is helping out around the club at the moment. It is greatly appreciated and we couldn’t do it without you. Thank-you all and see you next weekend at the rally. Cheers from Shane
Where do you take a sick horse???
To the Horspital!
Get well soon to any one of you that is
not feeling 100%.
Many of our members and parents have
not been well over the past month,
some in hospital and others not at
school or work. We hope you are
feeling better and hope to see you all
back at pony club asap.
Where did the newlywed horses stay?
In the bridle suite!☺
A Big Thankyou to Tuppen Chaff for
Sponsoring our Novelty Series on October 23rd.
PROUD SPONSORS OF SMYTHESDALE PONY CLUB
2010 GAMES TEAM
SMYTHESDALE PONY CLUB WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THEIR SPONSORS FOR THEIR VERY GENEROUS SUPPORT WHICH MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO ASSIST
AND ENCOURAGE YOUNG HORSE RIDERS IN THE REGION.
PLEASE SUPPORT THESE BUSINESSES IN RETURN.
Mention that you are from SPC and appreciate their support.
Butler Chartered Accountants Hay Market Horseland
Nova Pharmacy Saddle world
Barbeques Galore James and Sons
Tanning Solutions Australia The Good Guys
Angus and Robertson Books RACV Ballarat
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Tickets $2.00 Each Drawn at SPC Gymkhana Saturday 23rd October 2010
-The Winner will attend a Melbourne Eventing Team Clinic, and take part in an hour long lesson, with one of MET’s Instructors. (There is a maximum of 4 people in a lesson)
Valued at $200.00 - The Winner will have a Dressage Lesson with Grand Prix Rider and twice past winner of the
Aachen Challenge- RENEE PEDRETTI at Yeramba Equestrian Blampied.
- Family General Admission ticket that allows 1 day entry to EQUITANA Melbourne -
includes Exhibition, Competition & Education Program. This family ticket is inclusive of 2
adults and 3 children (under 14 years old) and
the winning family can choose the date that they would like to attend.
(Valued $99)
A copy of “An Eventful Life” Book –Life Stories of Eventing Champions, personally signed by all the riders-Megan Jones, Stuart Tinney, Shane Rose, Emma Scott,
Wendy Shaeffer and Sonja Johnson. A fantastic book for readers of all ages.
Horsewyse Magazine packs- Not just for Kids a magazine with something for everybody, and loads of information, competitions and articles.
Merchandise Packs from Australias newest Equine Website .Visit them today
