EHOA AGM - papers available

The EHOA AGM will be held on Wednesday 8 September 2010 at the Hyde Park Barracks, Knightsbridge, London at 5pm. The agenda for the meeting and the accounts for 2009 are now available - please click on the following links to download the papers. EHOA Accounts 2009 or EHOA AGM Agenda 2010

TOUR OF OLYMPIC SITE - EHOA AGM DAY

The tours on 8th September - Olympic site at Greenwich & Blues & Royals stables + buffet supper are now fully booked.

Click here to see the final list of bookings. If your name is not on the list and you have booked please contact Monika - email monika@monikahunt.co.uk immediately

Members who have NOT booked are still VERY WELCOME to come to the AGM & Seminar and hear Tim Hadaway speak. This session starts at 5pm and is held at the Hyde Park Barracks, Knightsbridge. Please contact Monika if you plan to come so she has some idea of numbers - monika@monikahunt.co.uk

EHOA Training Award Winners

The eleven 2010 EHOA Training Award winners are Lindsay Charles, Dominic Robinson, Emily Bradshaw, Fern Hordern, Joanne Rome, Ruth Swainson, Sarah Waters, Kirsty McCreesh, Rachel Humphreys. Abigail Cubitt-Smith and Jenna Jewitt. Ranging in age from 18-48 and with horses from youngsters to 1*, each winner will receive £200 EHOA training vouchers, award winners' jacket and rug and a place on a special 2 day pre-season training course to be held at Kenneth Clawson's yard in February 2011. Applications for the 2011 awards will open in January.

Tattersalls Elite Event Horse Sale - 12 September

Owners might be interested in this sale which will cater for both a pre-selected elite section and an open section of proven and potential event horses and will provide a unique and much needed opportunity for vendors to showcase and for purchasers to source top quality event horses at the unrivalled Tattersalls Ireland venue. CLICK HERE for full information.

Catalogues are available from 23 August

Contact: Tattersalls Ireland, Ratoath, Co Meath

tel: 01-8864300

email: nflynn@tattersalls.ie

www.tattersalls.ie

OPEN DAY AT NORTH BROOK END STUD

North Brook End Stud are having an Open Day on Saturday 11th September where you can see the 30 or so horses they have bred and produced. If you are interested in this day please click here to view the details.

Book now for our new look AGM & Seminar

This will be held on 8 September in London. We start with a tour of the Olympic Equestrian site in Greenwich with Tim Hadaway in the morning. This will be followed at 4.30pm at the Hyde Park Barracks, Knightsbridge by a talk by Tim on Preparing for 2012, the AGM, a tour of the Blues & Royals stables and a buffet supper. You can book for the whole day (with a break for lunch and shopping) or just for the afternoon in Knightsbridge. Click here for full details and booking form

EHOA sponsor, Zamar – an expert in equine hot and cold therapy for injury – is launching a new machine that makes international performance-level treatment available to all.

Click here for full details

HAYGAIN joins discount providers list

Haysteamers which transform hay into hygienically clean, palatable forage that is spore and bacteria free with no nutritional loss are now available to EHOA members at 5% discount.

Haygain generously supported this year's special training award winners' course. Click here for full details

Training has started well with members jumping cows under Nick Turner’s careful eye and Kenneth Clawson doing a snow dance...

Click here for reports and photos

EHOA INCENTEVENTS TRIP TO WEG IN KENTUCKY - UPDATE

Ian Dennis and his team from Inventevents are putting the finishing touches to the tour to the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky.

Kathy Hook joins Ian and Richard Waygood in Kentucky to ensure members have a successful trip. She says:

"I look forward to joining the Incentevents team and will be working hard to ensure that everything runs smoothly and that you enjoy Kentucky to the full.

I have been lucky to be able to combine my passion for horses with a love of travel. As a keen amateur rider, I have hunted, evented, and now enjoy competing in affiliated dressage. My work as a freelance Tour Manager has meant extensive foreign travel, and I have escorted many equestrian groups to national and international events in the past. It is a great privilege to see the best horses and riders in the world competing, and great fun to share the experience with like-minded people.

I have always enjoyed learning foreign languages and speak French, German and some Spanish, although this skill will probably not be needed in the U.S.A.!"

As usual, Rosemary Barlow has organised the International Supporters Pavilion which is always very successful and popular. If you want to book tickets for the USP then please Click here for a booking form. Put that you are an EHOA member on the form.

There is still the possibility of booking a place on this tour if you contact Incentevents as soon as possible - Click here for details

New service from watchmyhorse.co.uk

Horse owners who can't be around their horses all day can now check they're safe and well thanks to the services offered by WATCHMYHORSE.CO.UK

Special cameras in and around the stable yard can send live images to mobile phones, lap tops or desktop computers directly or via a tailored website. The idea is the brainchild of Andrew Cadman whose wife wanted to be able to check up on her horses while she was at work or away travelling.

"It's different from conventional security systems as it doesn't rely on the use of large monitor screens or TV's to see the pictures" says Andrew. " Nobody is going to want to carry one of those around with them, whereas looking at an image on a mobile phone is instant and convenient".

The camera system can be flexible to suit different needs and budgets, whether it's one camera fitted in a single stable or infrared external cameras that can be used to monitor the whole yard, fields, tack rooms or valuable equipment..

For more information call Andrew for a quote on 0845 680 6082 or visit the website at www.watchmyhorse.co.uk

Syndicate Guidance Notes

Where you join together with several others to own a horse "to form a syndicate" there is no single set of rules you should adopt. But there are a number of points that you should think about before drawing up the syndicate rules. The EHOA has produced a leaflet that will help you to consider some of those points, click here to download a copy.

EHOA Membership Vouchers available

Quite a few of you have purchased EHOA membership as presents for your friends and relations. We now have available an EHOA membership voucher which you can buy as a present for someone. They can then send the voucher in with a completed EHOA membership form.

It is also possible to buy EHOA training vouchers as well so that you can give a training session to someone as a present.

The value of the EHOA membership voucher is £20 (you will of course need two of them for FULL membership) and the training vouchers are £10 each.

To find out more contact Marian Green, Membership Secretary
email: springmg@btinternet.com