Ontario Competitive Trail Riding Association – Page 2 – Endurance, Competitive Trail, Ride n Tie, Limited Distance and Set Speed events throughout Ontario

February 4, 2023

Enrolling Your Horse for Awards.

When enrolling your horse for awards, distance rewards and year end awards, please remember to complete the enrollment form as well as to remit the one-time enrollment fee. Find complete instructions with the online form on the page OCTRA Online Equine Enrollment.

July 21, 2022May 14, 2024

OCTRA Endurance Committee Chair.

The OCTRA Board of Directors is currently seeking to fill the vacant position of Endurance Committee Chair.

PRIMARY responsibility: To promote the discipline of Endurance within OCTRA.

Additional responsibilities:

The expectation of discipline chairs is to be the Subject Matter Expert for the discipline and to co-ordinate with the other discipline chairs and the Board of Directors to ensure that everyone is working toward and supporting the goals of the organization
Discipline chairs should be available to assist/advise Event Managers if they have questions regarding the specific discipline
To report to the BOD quarterly (but bring any immediate areas of concern to the Board between quarterly reports)

March 22, 2022May 14, 2024

EHV Vaccines Approved in Canada.

Further to the EHV Vaccination requirement, as announced at the OCTRA Annual General Meeting on February 26, 2022; Dr Arthur King, DVM has provided us with a list of all vaccines licensed for use in Canada for the prevention of Equine Rhinopnemonitis (Equine Herpes Virus – EHV) as of November 22, 2021.

Unless your horse had a health exemption signed by your vet, one of these vaccines needs to be listed on the receipt from your veterinarian as proof your horse is in compliance with the OCTRA EHV Vaccination rule. List of approved vaccines (PDF 51 KB)…

March 6, 2022

New EHV Rule and Clarified Control Point Check Rule.

Mandatory EHV vaccination is now written into the rule book. Here is the text (PDF 89KB) for the rule which will be in effect this season and until further notice.

The number and spacing of control point checks is specified more clearly in this revised rule 1.5.6 (PDF 102KB).

January 22, 2022January 22, 2022

OCTRA Committee Chair Vacancies.

OCTRA currently has vacancies in two of it’s committee chair positions. We are seeking volunteers for the positions of Education Committee Chair and Publicity & Promotion Committee Chair. These are important roles in the growth and development of our club and we hope that you’ll consider volunteering. Committee chairs receive OCTRA volunteer credits on an annual basis.

Here is a link to the expectations for these two committees (PDF 276 KB).

Please contact the OCTRA Secretary (secretary@octra.on.ca) to express interest.