Full Championship Guidelines can be found here:
2023 OCTRA Rule Book, Appendix A (pg 113)
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.
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)
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)…
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).