David Morgan – Page 17 – Ontario Competitive Trail Riding Association

December 5, 2017

Ride Statistics Revamped

OCTRA statistics have been revamped. There are two new pages:

Historical Ride Summary, a comparison of number of rides, starters and completions year by year.
Discipline Summary, a comparison of number of rides, entries etc. for each discipline.

The window onto all OCTRA statistics is a page under the Rides tab in the main menu connecting to http://octra.on.ca/statistics/.

As time permits I will try to add more detail. In particular, I will work to add a drill down from the Discipline Summary to show all the rides for a specific discipline in a specific year. Stay tuned!

November 29, 2017

Distance Awards – KMs or Miles?

Rule Book 11.2.3 c) “Grandfather” Clause” – Riders with over 800km (500 miles) as of January 2016 may opt for awards being presented in miles instead of kilometers. (Rev. 02/16)

NOTE: Awards are presented in kilometers by default. You must notify us within the next few days if you wish to have you or your horse grandfathered in for miles instead of kilometers. Interum calculations indicate this option is available for 2017 awards for seven riders and seven horses.

Horses

Riders

November 20, 2017November 20, 2017

2018 Membership Stickers

I have 2018 stickers now for the membership cards. “So what?” you may ask. I answer that it means I can now process 2018 membership renewals! 🙂

A few have already send info and money in and I have not forgotten you 😉 I will process them in the next couple weeks. If I feel ambitious it may be this weekend. So if you want a jump start in renewing your membership – bring it on LOL I will be renewing memberships at the AGM between the meeting and the banquet and whenever else I feel thusly inclined 🙄

To make it a painless as possible (and possibly alcohol proof) please be kind and bring a filled out membership form (some will be on hand) and some form of payment and trade it for a receipt and 2018 sticker.

See you soon!

Veronica

P.S. More membership information stuff is here ➡ Membership

November 15, 2017

2018 OCTRA TENTATIVE Ride Dates

The following dates have not been sanctioned. They are provided below to help you plan your ride season and vacation requests.

April 28 and 29 – Aprilfest at Dufferin (Sue Downing)
May 19 and 20 – Anniversary Ride date under review (BoD)
June 16 and 17 – Summer Solstice at Dufferin ( Sue Downing)
June 30, July 1 and 2 – Coates Creek Challenge (Nancy Beacon)
August 4,5 and 6 – Madawaska Ride (Rob Wright)
August 18 and 19 – Summer’s End Ride Baillieborough (Phyllis Pecile)
September 1 and 2 – Cala-Boogie Calabogie (Pauline Fleming)
September 29 and 30 – Oktoberfest Dufferin Forest (Sue Downing)

Judy Durst
Sanctioning Chair

November 7, 2017

Attention all 2018 Ride Managers

Please plan now to attend the important Ride Managers’ Meeting on Saturday, February 17, 2018 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, Coburg, Ontario at our AGM. Please invite members of your ride management team as well (secretary, timer, trail master). Agenda:

Sharing of best practices,
Mentoring opportunities,
Response to members, concerns/complaints,
Rule application, review of any new rules & their affect for management
Year end points, data format for ease of collections – all the interconnections of data, importance of ride flyer format,
Emergency situations,
Consistent, equal opportunities for competition.

If you are unable to attend send a management team member as a representative of your event, to share info with manager.

Reminder: Complete sanctioning forms and event payment must be received by the Sanctioning Chair, Judy Durst, the first week of January 2018. Your notice of intent to host an event, with specific dates, should already have been submitted to the Sanctioning Chair. Judy Durst.

Ride like the Wind!