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West Gippsland Australian Stock Horse Branch
Winter 2018
JUNE 2012 Committee 2017/18
President
LARRY CUTLER
0448194599
Vice President
GRAEME COOK
56275616
0447756081
Secretary &
Public Officer
JENNIFER EMANUEL
0437271085
jenniferemanuel@bigpond
.com
Treasurer
DOUG MCLAREN
0408333041
Publicity Officer
SALLY FAY
0427285214
State Management
Council Delegates
TED WALKER
DAVID NASH
Reserve
EMMA NASH
JENNIFER EMANUEL
ASHLA Delegate
EMMA NASH
Cannibal Ck Reserve
Delegate
PETER RIDGEWAY
Page 1
Every year on the long weekend on June, the little country town of Casterton
holds its annual “Casterton Kelpie Muster” where thousands of people flock from
all over Australia to watch Kelpies compete in events. The famous Working
Dog Auction is also a major draw card and gives the serious working dog owner
the opportunity to mix business with novelty events – all celebrating Working
Dogs.
The Challenge event consists of two parts. The first section is the “Horse Work”
section, where the rider must do a working pattern, open/shut gates, back through
obstacles, side pass over a log, jump the log and carry a coat over a tarp, etc. It is
judged out of a total of 100 points for horse work.
The second section is “Dog Work” where horse, rider and dog must work
approximately 16 sheep around a set course. Each obstacle is worth 10 points.
Then the mob is worked through a sheep- race down into a holding yard where
the rider dismounts and continues to draft the sheep in the yard with your dog
until they are all put away.
I was lucky enough this year to be invited to compete. I was so excited but then
realised I didn’t have a Stock Horse to ride as mine are all currently in foal or
unbroken or just green broken.
I only had my “off the rack” Thoroughbred, Brego, who I have just started
eventing. With only a week out from the event, I gave him a crash course in
mustering sheep which he finally got the hang of and realised they weren’t so
scary after all. He actually drove them along quietly at a walk – something
racehorses find hard to do – relax and walk and not to mention, opening gates.
When Aaron and I arrived we were asked to lead the street parade in the morning.
I was a little nervous this could turn into the Melbourne Cup down the straight!
However besides prancing all the way down, chomping on the bit, my “imitation”
stock horse, with hogged mane (in an attempt to look the part), handled it quite
well considering he had a marching band playing at top note coming up his rear.
After the parade finished we headed over to walk the course. Aaron was 2nd ride
out on his 3yo ASH Condover Lynx and his 3yo Kelpie Finchams Pup. He did
a good job but when the sheep came to the race, they didn’t want to co-operate
and cost Aaron a lot of time penalties and obstacle points.
Then it was my turn. I had butterflies battering my stomach so I had a quiet word
with Brego to behave and pretend to be a Stock Horse! And it worked. He went
out and did a super job scoring a massive 92 points for his effort.
Page 2
Kath’s Success
at the
Casterton
Kelpie Muster
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Hello members,
Firstly let me thank the outgoing committee on doing an exceptional job in running the Branch for the past three
years. John & Fiona Glover have done a great job making sure our training days, Hack Challenge, team penning and
other enjoyable training days at Cannibal Creek were implemented. The use of their own property as well as John
supplying cattle for the training days was very much appreciated by all who attended.
Fiona’s newsletters and management of our website were instrumental in the Branch winning the National Branch of
the year last year. After just missing out the previous year. The directors were amazed at how busy our branch was
with all of our training days as well as our annual Show and Challenge and annual Campdraft and Challenge. Not to
mention the Hack Challenge and fund raising activities.
To Karen Turner, thank you for 14 years of service to the Branch in the role of secretary. You have been nominated
and awarded the National Volunteer of the Year award. We at the Branch are very proud of your efforts and the fact
that your efforts have been recognised at the highest level. We look forward to your award at the National AGM in
Melbourne.
Two other stalwarts of the Branch will also be honoured at the AGM in Melbourne. They are Aub Goodman and
Graeme Cook who were part of the original branch members. They will be honoured with State Service Awards after
contributing 40 years of promoting and being active members of our Branch. Both breed horses and both have won
some very big events in the show ring and campdraft arenas. Congratulations to both of you and we are very proud of
your ongoing commitment to our branch.
We will strive to continue our training days at Cannibal Creek as well as our show and campdraft and maybe a couple
of big new items. More on that in months to come. Our meetings will continue to be held on the 3rd Thursday night of
each month starting on 21st June at Newmasons in Warragul starting at 6.00pm for a meal and 7pm for the meeting.
We look forward to seeing lots of new faces getting involved in the Branch as the branch is only as active and as
strong as our members want it to be. We will be forming a show committee and a campdraft committee as well as
Hack Challenge committee and for the first time a Super Horse committee. Please come along and put your hand up
to help run the events you are interested in.
Congratulations to the new committee members who have taken up the reins to keep our branch active and
welcoming to any new and existing members who wish to contribute to the success of our branch activities. Let’s
create a very enjoyable and fun culture which always leads to a successful result.
Riding horses is very simple “Keep a leg on each side and your mind in the middle”.
Regards
Larry Cutler
From page 1
I unclipped my Kelpie Boss who did an incredible job controlling the sheep despite his “mother” giving him
the wrong commands every now and then because of her nerves.
We back to the float to celebrate with a beer or two and finally relax. I was a super proud mum of my two
boys. The next minute I heard my name called over the loud speaker – I had made the top 5 going into the
finals! Wow!
So, remounted, I went in again. Boss was a star and worked his amazing Kelpie intelligence controlling
very touchy sheep. In the end we moved up from 5th place to finish 4th overall.
Time for the Presentations. The biggest surprise came when they awarded Brego and me 1st place for the
overall Horse Work section. We received gorgeous embroidered Stock Horse reins, a cheque, trophy,
Horse Wormer and a bag of dog food. I was blown away.
My two beautiful children, Brego and Boss deserve all the credit. I’m a proud mum.
AGM at CRANBOURNE TURF CLUB
Members of the West Gippsland ASH Branch celebrated a very successful year at their recent AGM. This was
held at the Cranbourne Racecourse. A scrumptious meal was enjoyed whilst being entertained by rolling photo
images from our past year and also the evening race meeting. I don’t think too many of us were successful
punters, perhaps we should stick to our mighty Australian Stock Horses rather than our speedy thoroughbreds!
The branch has had a very successful year. Although our annual campdraft was cancelled due to inclement
weather, it was rescheduled and included on our Branch Show and Challenge weekend! Many of our members
volunteered time to help the smooth running of the show. A huge weekend but a very successful one. The annual
Hack Challenge was also held and drew in a number of keen entries considering the cold, wet weather. Activity
days held at Cannibal Creek Reserve have included a cattle working, obstacle course day and polocrosse fun.
We farewelled a fantastic, hard working committee led by John Glover and Secretary Karen Wilson. Karen has
been a tireless worker for our branch for many years as secretary, show secretary and activity day coordinator.
She has been rewarded with receiving the National Volunteer Award. Clancy Batty also received an award for his
services to our branch.
The new committee for 2018/2019 season is
President - Larry Cutler Vice President - Graeme Cook
Secretary - Jennifer Emanuel Treasurer - Doug McLaren
Publicity - Sally Fay VMC Delegates - Ted Walker, David Nash
Ashla Rep - Emma Nash Res. Delegates - Emma South, Jennifer Emanuel
Junior Rep - Monique Taylor Draft Secretary- Heather Walker
Show Secretary - Robinson Family Hi Point Coordinator - Fiona Glover
Committee - Peter Ridgeway, Lisa Strong, Ted Walker, Julie Charlton, Jayde Charlton, Sally Fay,
David White
Page 3
2018 WGASH Branch Hi Point Awards Overall Hi Point & Runner Up SHOW Horse
Winner: OAKTON LODGE SUDDEN IMPACT- Travis Gorton
R/ Up: DEVILBEND PRINCESS- Ashley Gorton Overall Hi Point & Runner Up CAMPDRAFT Horse Our biggest section for points submission, congratulations to all horses that had a red hot go this drafting season.
Winner: DOUBLE YOU KIMS DESTINY- Dave White
R/Up: MISS LUCILLE- Marni Hamilton Overall Hi Point & Runner Up HRCAV/ EA Horse Another very popular section for our high point and where we see the most versatile horses through showing, Show jumping, dressage and eventing.
Winner: RIVERBEND WAHINE TE NUI- Dianne Wilkinson
R/Up: ARALUENDOWNS PIPER- Carol Cunningham
Overall Hi Point CHALLENGE Horse We had three horses on equal points and are acknowledging the following:
TREWARRIC SONNY- Aub Goodman
GRANDRIDGE JUST CLASS- Kathleen Reid
DEVILBEND PRINCESS- Ashley Gorton
Overall Hi Point & Runner Up SHOW YOUTH
Winner: MISS CASSIDY FRY
R/Up: MISS KEYARA GARRAWAY Overall Hi Point & Runner Up CAMPDRAFT YOUTH
Winner: MISS KEALEE HAMILTON
NATIONAL SHOW
NATIONAL SHOW A number of our West Gippsland members headed north to attend the ASH National Show in
Tamworth. Here are some of the results.
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NASH FAMILY
Bullseye Kidman
8th Hack sect National Futurity
State Prize winner Nat Futurity
3yo FOY
3you Hack Class
Hardal Uno Luna
2nd 2yo Pleasure
=5th 2yo Working Colt
GORTON FAMILY
Devilbend Princess
1st Led Mare under 15hh
Reserve Champion Mare
Oakton Lodge Sudden Impact
1st 2yo Pleasure
5th led 2yo Colt
5th 2yo Hack Colt
=5th 2yo Working Colt
FRY FAMILY
Tallarook Steely Dan
3rd Led Gelding
5th ridden Gelding
Boonara Epic
4th Hack 4yo Mare
WILLINGA PARK
World Championship Gold Buckle Campdraft Willinga Park is a leading horse breeding and training facility on the New South Wales south coast owned by Mr
Terry Snow, a campdrafter and breeder of Australian Stock Horses. In April this year the Willinga Park inaugural
World Championship Gold Buckle event was held, a weekend enjoyed by competitor and spectator alike.
The $225,000 worth of prize money is a figure not seen before in horse sports outside racing, great lure for
campdrafters far and wide. A number of West Gippsland members went along to compete and to spectate. This
included Mat and Tristan Holz, David White, Charlie and Ian Hengstberger, Colin Stockdale and Carol Tonkin.
Unfortunately that prize money didn’t venture south! In Ian’s words, it was a fantastic weekend, a tough course,
amazing set up, terrific venue and wonderful to see a man with Terry Snow’s wealth and vision complete such a
brilliant concept.
The venue incorporates a Grand Prix dressage arena, botanic gardens, covered arenas, competitor stables and the
state of the art campdraft facility.
Congratulations go to Peter Comisky on his horse Paris. Peter travelled over twenty hours to the event, from central
Queensland.
Let’s hope more West Gippslanders head north for the challenge next year!
CONGRATULATIONS
Victorian Management Council
2017/2018 HIGH POINT AWARDS
HIGH POINT HORSE OF THE YEAR 1ST JAYLYN DOWNS TEX Jarrod Healy
2ND BRAEVIEW OAKS LEDGER Sally Beer
3rd BULLSEYE MOONLIGHT Emma Nash
4th TYRANOOK STEELY DAN Karen Fry
5th BULLSEYE KIDMAN David Nash
6th DEVILBEND PRINCESS Michelle Gorton
7th ASAR DIRECTION Sam Amey
8th GEE BEE PIPER Imogen Mills
9th BOONARA EPIC Jason Fry
10th BUSHDRIFT COOLPLAY Olivia Henzen
HIGH POINT YOUTH 13-18 HIGH POINT YOUTH u 13 1st Jarrod Healy 1st Cassidy Fry
2nd Imogen Mills 2nd Sophie Clifford
3rd Cassie Lea 3rd Emerson Kurtzen
4th Olivia Henzen 4th Jack Schliebs
5th Jackson Clifford 5th Darcy Schliebs
HIGH POINT STALLION
ASAR DIRECTION Sam Amey
HIGH POINT MARE
BULLSEYE MOONLIGHT Emma Nash
HIGH POINT GELDING
JAYLYN DOWNS TEX Jarrod Healy
REMINDER The ASHS Annual General Meeting is in Melbourne
this year.
Saturday 28th July at Oaks on Collins
9.30 am registration, meeting begins at 10.00 See page 7 of latest journal for details and Buffet dinner tickets.
COMMUNICATION!!!
It was moved at the last committee meeting, to obtain/ purchase a mobile phone and pre-paid sim card to send SMS messages to all members to help with communication, as not all members have Facebook and email access. This will allow the committee to give real-time reminders for upcoming committee meetings, events, call outs for volunteers/ helpers, quick surveys to see if people are interested for an event to be held and when weather conditions may look to be unfavourable on the day of an event, a text can be sent to all to inform if the event is going ahead or cancelled. This will help our committee to contact all members with a single message in a quick and efficient way, and also a number that members can contact - knowing that the phone is in possession of a current committee member. Once all numbers are imputed onto a phone, a test message will be sent, it would be appreciated if you would be able to reply with the name/ company name that the membership is under and the person whose phone we have the contact details for, this will allow us to confirm that we have details correct. It would be appreciated that once you receive this message that if you are speaking to another member to see if they have also received the test message. If they haven’t received the message ask them to contact Sally Fay/ Jennifer Emanuel to have their details updated. This will take a little time to organise and get working, but we believe this will help a great deal. Thanks Michelle Gillham for your input here.
ACTIVITY DAY
JULY 29th Cannibal Creek Reserve 10 am
Come along with your horse and have a play day! Try a ridden or working pattern, we could get
time trial obstacles out, learn from each other and have fun with our horses!
Graeme Cook will kindly be the facilitator for the day.
BYO lunch or something to share if so inclined!
Upcoming Events ASHS AGM 28th July
East Gipps Branch Campdraft 13/14th Oct
Central Vic Branch Show and Challenge 27/28th Oct
East Gipps Branch Show and Challenge 14/15th Dec
West Gippsland Show and Challenge 26/27 Jan ‘19
West Gippsland Campdraft TBA
Cannibal Creek activity days July 29th, Aug 11th, Sept 8th, Nov 10th, Dec 8th
WGASH General Meetings, 3rd Thursday of the month
Newmasons Hotel, Mason Street Warragul
Dinner 6pm, Meeting 7pm
West Gippsland Branch
c/o: 15 West Jindivick Road,
Jindivick, 3818
A.S.H.S.—Scone
Ph. (02) 6545 1122
Fax. (02) 6545 2165
www.ashs.com.au
email:
If you would like your ad or story to appear in the next newsletter, please ring Sally Fay
0407 285 214 or email: [email protected]