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Spotlight on New York Morgan Youth If you've news, notes or photos that you'd like to share regarding our young club members - please send them along to vlow@rochester.rr.com. We're happy to share what's going on! |
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The Berkshire Morgan Youth Club In April, members studied and were tested on the hoof. Not only were we able to learn about the hoof, but we also had fun doing it! The Berkshire Morgan Youth Group also worked on one of our major fundraisers for this year, chocolate bars! We labeled and distributed some to everybody and set some aside to sell at upcoming horse shows. We donated the rest of last year's club fundraiser T-shirts to the Columbia County Fire Fighters Association. The May meeting was mostly focused on selling chocolate bars. During the UPHA Spring Premier some of our club member sold chocolate bars and donated half of the proceeds to breast cancer research. WE sold chocolate bars at Vermont Spring Classic too. During the Vermont Spring Classic show four of our group members participated on the Youth of the Year contest. Kelsey, Amber, and Hannah Bornt, and Emma Kate Flanagan were the participants. The Youth of the Year contest consist of four activities: a written exam, oral presentation, judging, and a pattern. Kelsey was in the senior division, Amber and Emma Kate were in the junior division, and Hannah was in the Walk-Trot division. Everyone did very well. Some of our group showed at Vermont. Kelsey Bornt and Ashley Sweet rode in the Classic Saddleseat 14-17, Emma Kate Flanagan rode in Classic Saddleseat 13 and under, Ciara Sweet rode in Hunt-Seat 13 and under, Amber Bornt rode in Western Seat 13 and under, Miller Young Fina and Hannah Bornt rode in Classic Saddleseat Walk-Trot 11 and under, Miller also did walk-jog western equitation and pleasure and Mrs. Fina (Miller's mom) rode in Road Hack. Everyone had a very successful show. At the Western New York Show, our leader, Barbara Irvine, gave a youth clinic. It was a pattern clinic where the kids signed up to ride a pattern that she made up and then they got feedback from her on how they might improve their patterns. While getting their feedback the instructor stood along with Barbara and listened to the feedback. Nancy Vidler from Sunny Acres Farm organized the clinic. During the June meeting our club members worked on donations, horse mastership badges, and NEHMS Dog Treat Fundraiser. We narrowed the donation candidates down to Saddlebred Rescue and Dream Morgan Farm, a Washington farm destroyed by flooding. We still are going to wait to see how much money we will be able to contribute to these organizations. The club members also worked on hors mastership badges. As a group, we studied the basic fifty anatomy parts of a horse, and were tested on them. Also other members went off to complete the Bulrush level. The Berkshire Morgan Youth Group also decided that we were going to sell dog treats at New England Morgan Horse Show. We narrowed the treats down to three kinds, but we were going to leave it to Miller (our president) to finish up the job before selling them.
The last three months of April, May, and June, were very busy and The
Berkshire Morgan Youth Group expects to still be busy later on. |