Ontario Competitive Trail Riding Association – Page 19 – Endurance, Competitive Trail, Ride n Tie, Limited Distance and Set Speed events throughout Ontario

October 28, 2017December 2, 2018

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:

High Point Arabian
High Point Part Arabian
High Point Al Khamsa Arabian – retired following 2016 season. “On behalf of the membership of OCTRA, I wish to thank Bob and Michelle for their contribution to the year end awards.” (Julie Phair, Awards Committee Chair)
High Point Morgan
High Point Part Morgan
High Point Morab
High Point Standardbred
High Point Quarter Horse
High Point Best of the Rest

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017

2017 Tay Valley Ride Results.

The 2017 Tay Valley Ride results are now posted:

2017-09-16	Tay Valley	Set Speed Graded B	21 Km (13 Miles)
2017-09-16	Tay Valley	Open Competitive Trail Ride	40 Km (25 Miles)
2017-09-17	Tay Valley	Set Speed Graded B	21 Km (13 Miles)
2017-09-17	Tay Valley	Limited Distance Ride	40 Km (25 Miles)
2017-09-17	Tay Valley	Set Speed Placed B	40 Km (25 Miles)
2017-09-17	Tay Valley	Endurance	80 Km (50 Miles)

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.

October 7, 2017

OCTRA (Members Only) Facebook Group Created.

It has come to the attention of the BOD and many OCTRA members that the website Forum is not being fully utilized due to its complexity. Moreover, Facebook has become prevalent and is easy to visit and easy to post.

The BOD at it’s last meeting unanimously decided to follow the wishes of many members and create a new MEMBERS-ONLY Facebook Group to replace the Website Forum. Any outstanding discussions will be moved to the new members-only group Facebook page. Members of this new Facebook Group will indeed need to be active OCTRA members or they will be refused access.

The popular existing OCTRA PUBLIC group page (1,296 members) will remain in tact for all public members to allow encouragement to join OCTRA and see new ride events, etc. As well, the existing official OCTRA page (439 followers) will be deleted since it is essentially a duplication of the website and is redundant.

This new OCTRA (MEMBERS-ONLY) group page will facilitate our members and allow full private association discussions which can and will be monitored by the appropriate committee chairs.

Chrystal Woodhouse – Education Chair
Rose Danko – Set Speed Chair
Judy Durst – Sanction Chair
Nancy Beacon – Endurance Chair

The monitors of the new OCTRA (MEMBERS-ONLY) group page will monitor posts for accuracy and courtesy. Any bad behavior, rudeness or uncomplimentary comments will be deleted and the poster could be blocked from further use of this private OCTRA forum group page.

We thank you for your patience and consideration during this OCTRA journey of change.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Board of Directors

October 3, 2017

Concussion Policy Guidelines.

Members, Ride Managers, and volunteers are advised to read the Ontario Equestrian Federation Concussion Guidelines for Equestrian Sport at the following url: http://horse.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Concussion-policy.pdf

September 20, 2017September 20, 2017

Coates Creek II Rider Cards – available Oktoberfest.

Attention ALL COATES CREEK 2 (July 1,2,2017) RIDERS:

If you did not receive your Vet Cards, they will be available at OKTOBERFEST- Dufferin Forest Mansfield, this September 30th, October 1st, please see RM Sue Downing end of day.

It was very cost prohibitive and not in the RM’s budget to try and mail them all out, my apologies. 🙂 Thanks for your patience and kindness in waiting, RS – Tia Kerst.