MAY 2007 President: Lynn Evans 52821060 or 0411 090441 DC: Lisa Billingham 0409 953 759 Event Time Secretary : Judi Tainsh 52823939 Hoofprints editor: cayers71@bigpond.com CMPC Web Site : www.coriomoorabool.ponyclubvic.org.au

PRESIDENTS REPORT Hi Pony Clubbers, Well, we made it over the ODE. I’m writing this report on Sunday evening 22/4/07 and dozing off in the chair, my thoughts are what a fantastic effort was shown today by so many parents and junior members of our Club. Many inexperienced ODE people we thrown in on this one and you are to be congratulated on the professionalism and the way you all handled it. To the core of people that organized so many things (you know who you are but rather than offend anyone if I forget a name) from the very beginning, you’re the best, without your expertise we wouldn’t have been as organized, thanks for the many hours of running around you have given. Jeff who worked hard all day on our BBQ had so many people compliment us not only on his super Egg & Bacons but on the great day and how well the event had been run. As I doze off I’m trying to find a bigger and better word than Thankyou to say to all you helpers but even the computer’s not helping me. To Christine & Alison and your crew in the Canteen, once again you presented us and all our visitors with fantastic, speedy food – “Thanks to you all” your all such gems. A special thanks also needs to be expressed to Dave (Lisa’s our DC’s Husband) from all the riders from Grade 1-4 for being able to jump into some water at the Water Jump – Dave carted and donated the water to us, it was so much appreciated. To the few that were unavailable to help and see our great event go off so well, don’t worry we will catch up with you next time, which I will mention is the Show and Bed’s events which before we know it will be upon us. Preparations are now being looked at for these events. On another note of “Thanks” I would like to express the clubs gratitude to Kerri-Anne for the many years she has compiled our Hoof prints and did such a great job, well done from all our club members and families. The new editors from this month will now Carolyn & Rebekka Ayers and thanks to them for offering their time and effort, we look forward to your publications. The new contact number and email address for results and articles is listed at the top of this newsletter. Look forward to seeing you and your ponies/horses with lots of big smiles next rally. Cheers, Lynn Next Meeting will be on Thursday 17th May, 2007 at Kerri Kaspi’s house.

OUR PONY CLUB MEMBERS RESULTS CMPC – ONE DAY EVENT—22ND APRIL, 2007 Grade 2 Megan Tainsh – 6th Overall Grade 3A – Dressage Melinda Spiller – 2nd Tayla O’Dea – 3rd Amy Kort – 6th Overall Grade 3B – Dressage Sarah Hilder – 1st – 1st Overall Grade 4A Gemma O’Reilly – 6th Overall Grade 4B – Dressage Charlotte Gibbons – 1st Darcie Roe – 2nd Eden Splat – 5th Overall Grade 5A – Dressage Emily McMahon – 1st Samantha Beltekey – 3rd Emily McMahon – 6th Overall

IMPORTANT Membership is due for renewal before

1st June, 2007. Fees are shown further on in this News-letter.

Renewal or New, All members need to complete the Membership form

Membership Forms will be sent to you soon or you can download from our CMPC Website

DC Report for May I would like to start by saying a big Thank You to all Family and Friends that helped out not only on the Sunday of our ODE but also on the Saturday for the set up. I hope everyone appreciates how much work goes into an event of this size, and without these people it wouldn’t happen. The day went off without many hassles, due to the tireless efforts of the Committee and so many people offering help, including Members that were competing. We had many comments on a great Cross Country course, and for this the credit needs to go to Judi & Simon Tainsh. Their experience and expertise in this area is to be highly com-mended. Well done to the Members who competed on the day. Hope everybody had an enjoyable and successful day. By the time this goes to print our Games team will have competed at the Games Qualifier, so good luck to all there. Have a great Rally, and remember to walk or trot between classes, don’t want to catch any-one. DC Lisa Billingham

EVENT NEWS & RESULTS Ballan ODE—Sun 14/4 Congratulations to

Grade 2 Megan Tainsh - 6th Overall Grade 3 Sarah Hilder - 2nd Dressage - 3rd Overall Grade 4 Ana Kaspi - 3rd Dressage Simon Tainsh - 3rd Dressage

Junior Committee Hi Everyone, Last month we had our O.D.E and I hope that everyone rode well and had lots of fun. It is great to see so many of our riders out there and having ago. Last rally we did not get time to have a meeting but I would encour-age everyone to come along and have their say as well as enjoy spending time with all the junior members of our club. This year we hope to do some fundraising so that we are able to make our club even more successful and a great place to be. It would be great to get some ideas off our members as to how and what you would like to do for this. Our next meeting will be during lunchtime this rally, so everyone come along with your lunch so we can have a quick and enjoyable meeting. Lauren Hill (President)

GAMES REPORT Corio Moorabool Pony Club Games Team The CMPC games team are competing the Barwon Flat, Musical Ride and Games Qualifier, in , on the 29th of April. It would be great if we could get some people to come along and cheer us on. The team members and there horses are, Rebekka Ayers with Homevale Winlight, Eryn Butcher with Chester, Naomi Faulkner with Breeze, Zoe Hore with Boss, Skye Isam with Bobby Boy, Marni McPherson with Snowy, Demi Splatt with Chatwood Miss M. Special thanks to Cathryn Bentley for being our games team instructor. None of it would have been possible without her! Rebekka Ayers

THE CMPC HORSE & PONY SHOW

SUNDAY 19TH AUGUST, 2007

THIS SHOW TAKES A LOT OF WORK, SO PLEASE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING THE SHOW COMMITTEE, PLEASE CONTACT LISA BAKER OR LEAVE YOUR NAME IN THE OFFICE.

TREASURERS REPORT—RENEWAL—NEW MEMBERS FEES Single membership $190.00 ( + 20 HOURS VOLUNTEER WORK OVER THE YEAR OR $100 ADDITIONAL PAYMENT) Two children $320.00 ( + 20 HOURS VOLUNTEER WORK OVER THE YEAR OR $100 ADDITIONAL PAYMENT) Three children $400.00 ( + 20 HOURS VOLUNTEER WORK OVER THE YEAR OR $100 ADDITIONAL PAYMENT) PLEASE READ MEMBERSHIP FORM FOR DETAILS

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PEPPERMINT GROVE

Michelle Wilson

PHARLAP Christine Dumble

STARLIGHT Olivia Cakebread

SPIRIT Katrina Hore

Amy Kort Eden Splatt Charlotte Gibbons Kerri-Anne Evans Tayla O’Dea Sarah Hilder Melinda Spiller Simon Tainsh Megan Tainsh Lauren Hill

Jade Glascott Skye Isam Tanya Silaev Emily Latta Darcey Rowe Jessica Hill Jess Kavelham Gemma O’Reilly

Gessica Bellia Arna Kaspi Riley Baker Britany Keating Rebekka Ayers Naraya Mechini

Marni McPherson Mikaela McGann Eryn Butcher Zoe Hore Sam Belteky Demi Splatt Sarah Hore Taylor Arnott Emily McMahon Jessica Hore

BELLE Joanne Gilfillan

PATCH Tess Van Gesel

SEABISCUIT Cathryn Bentley

MR ED Felicity Ellis

Ebony Elgers Caitlin Wilson Naomi Faulkner Michelle Bailey Mathew Hore Natasha Sammit

Ruby Mansfield Cody Read Genevive Davis Geoffery Davis Tayla Read Shelly Holroyd Madi McNaughton Melissa Kranjc

Kimberly Martin Mathew Craven Chelsea Meadows Gemma Pentsinis Carly Ayers Racheal Veltman Elza Trounce

Georgina Lang Lilly Kevelham Heath Thorpe Tim Faulkner Riley Hill Brooke Reid Isabella Farley

PEPPERMINT GROVE PHARLAP STARLIGHT SPIRIT

1. Show Jumping – Nikki 2. Dressage – Arena 2 3. Theory – K 4. Cross Country 5. Dressage – Arena 2

1. Dressage – Arena 2 2. Show jumping –

Nikki 3. Theory – C 4. Dressage – Arena 3 5. Cross Country

1. Dressage – Arena 3 2. Cross Country 3. Theory 4. Show Jumping – Nikki 5. Games

1. Games 2. Dressage – New Arena 3. Show Jumping - Nikki 4. Theory – D* 5. Cross Country

BELLE PATCH SEA BISCUIT MR ED

1. Dressage – New Arenas 2. Cross Country 3. Games 4. Theory - D 5. Show Jumping - Nikki

1. Junior Jumping 2. Cross Country 3. Theory 4. Games with Sea biscuit 5. Dressage – Arena 4

1. Dressage – Arena 4 2. Junior Jumping 3. Theory 4. Games with Patch 5. Cross – Country

1. Ménage 2. Games 3. Theory 4. Cross Country 5. Junior Jumping

May Birthday Greetings

Tanya Silaev is 15 on 4th May Kerrie-Anne Evans is 18 on 15th May Charlotte Gibbons is 15 on 16th May Gemma O’Reilly is 15 on 23rd May

TO ALL THE

MOTHERS AND

GRANDMOTHERS THAT SUPPORT THEIR CHILDREN AND OTHER CHILDREN WITH THEIR

PONIES AND PONY CLUB HAVE A

FANTASTIC

UP & COMING EVENTS

MAY 2007

Sat & Sun 5&7th State Horse Trial Champs Sat & Sun 12&13th State Inter-Zone Horse Trials Sun 20th Barwon Heads Event – TBA Sun 20th Portarlington Jnr ODE Sun 27th Smythesdale Comb Training

Day

JUNE 2007

Sat 2nd CMPC Alan Mitchell Clinic Sat 2nd Geelong College Interschool

Champs Sun 3rd Colac ODE Mon 11th Little River BEDS Round 1 Sat & Sun 16&17th State Flat Musical Ride &

Games Team Champs Sun 17th Interschool – Christian College

Sat 23 Leighdale – BEDS Round 2 Sun 24 Barwon Valley Junior ODE Sat 30 CMPC Alan Mitchell Clinic

MEET OUR RIDERS at CMPC Name: Rebekka Ayers Age: 14 Likes: Dressage and Show Jumping Dislikes: School Favorite Pony: Jed

MEET OUR PONIES at CMPC

Name: Homevale Winlight—AKA Jed Age: 21 Height: 14hh Breed: Riding Pony Likes: Jumping, and going fast, and Bek. Dislikes: Going slow.

Maybe you can be in next months Meet our Riders & Ponies? If so email a pic of yourself and one of your pony and let us know

the answers to the above

Our CMPC One day Event has been and gone.

Congratulations to all the participants, win or loose you did a fantastic job and we hope you

had a great day. Thank you all very much to the

Volunteers, without your support our Club would be unable to run this event.

Once again thank you all and Hope to see you

again their next year.

AUNTIE DOROTHY IS 89 THIS MONTH, WHEN YOU GO TO THE CANTEEN WISH HER A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. THANKYOU

AUNTIE DOROTHY FOR ALL YOUR HELP

On Sunday the 29th of April seven pony club members will be heading to Smythesdale for the Barwon zone Games day nice and early for a 8.30 start. The girls have been training hard (and their horses) they have even knocked over the coach a few times not mentioning any name (Rebekka, Eryn), they even talk a lot (Rebekka, Skye, Eryn, Naomi, Marni, Demi and Zoe) just to mention a few (the whole team) they have enjoyed there fish and chips after practise. They will be heading down to Werribee Park on the Saturday before games day to watch the Victorian squad train, then on a rally day the Vic squad will come to the pony club and do a demonstration for the club. It would be great if the girls could get some of the members to come for the day and cheer them on. The games team will be continuing on for the rest of the year as there are lots of games competitions through out the year if there is any one else inter-ested in doing the games team come to the practise after lunch at the next pony club rally. I will also be organising a polo cross team if there is any one interested in that please let me know as the pony club polo cross tournament starts in June I think (I will double check) I will put on the notice board at rally a sheet with polo cross and game team if you want to for the day and cheer them on. The games team will be continu-ing on for the rest of the year as there are lots of games competitions through out the year if there is any one else interested in doing the games team come to the practise after lunch at the next pony club rally.

I will also be organising a polo cross team if there is any one interested in that please let me know as the pony club polo cross tournament starts in June I think (I will double check) I will put on the notice board at rally a sheet with polo cross and game team if you want to be on either team put you name on them at rally.

Hope to see some supporters out there on the 29th Kathryn Bentley