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!

Results Updated for 2017 Summer Solstice 34km/21m SSG.

Due to a cut and paste error, results originally posted on June 29 were in error. Thanks go out to the riders who noted the discrepencies between their ride cards and the posted results. Ride management reviewed the results, found the error and submitted corrected results this past weekend.

These new results become official on November 29.

NOTE: Ride Results become official and are not subject to change – Thirty days after they appear in an official OCTRA publication…unless the OCTRA Secretary is notified in writing of an error, or intentional fraud is proven.

2017 Lopin’ Larose Results.

UPDATE 2 Nov 1: The SSP ride has been updated to reflect the 42k/26m amended distance and the corrected results are now posted.

UPDATE Oct 31: The 40k/25m SSP result has been pulled pending correction of a transcription error in two riders’ times. Stay tuned!

The 2017 Lopin’ Larose results, the final event of the season, are now posted:

NOTE: Ride Results become official and are not subject to change – Thirty days after they appear in an official OCTRA publication…unless the OCTRA Secretary is notified in writing of an error, or intentional fraud is proven.

2017 Oktoberfest Results.

The 2017 Oktoberfest results are now posted:

NOTE: Ride Results become official and are not subject to change – Thirty days after they appear in an official OCTRA publication…unless the OCTRA Secretary is notified in writing of an error, or intentional fraud is proven.

All Breed Awards are opt-in! It’s up to you!.

Members are reminded that it is the owner’s or rider’s responsibility to request that a horse be included in the pertinent Breed Award category. This includes “Best of the Rest”!

OCTRA Rule Book 10.2.1
b) To be eligible for breed awards, a copy of the horses’ registration papers, or Standardbred Canada, TrackIT or USTA Pathway printout, must be submitted by the owner OR the rider, to the Distance Reward Program Chair.

Elaine Steele (lostcreekfarm@sympatico.ca 613-267-2590) is the Distance Reward Program Chair. ALL breed awards are opt-in. If you do not register your horse with Elaine, your horse will not be in the running for this award.

NOTE: The requirement to opt-in your horse includes High Point “Best of the Rest“. Even though many of these horses do not have breed registration documents you must still request they be included for this award. You can check if your horse is on the Best of the Rest list by going to this page…

2017 Breed awards are:

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