The Pony Express


October 2003
Editor: Sandy Zelmer

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Sandy Zelmer
5818 – 4th Line, RR # 2
Tottenham, Ontario, L0G 1W0
905-936-2658

Regional News:
Events, dates and the information on them can now be found at the following locations to avoid repetition. Check for dates you don't want to miss.
  • For all Pony Club dates and results – Be sure to check the WOR and the CPC websites and calendar there to be up to date!
  • For all eventing and eventing clinic dates – http://www.eventingincanada.com
  • LAST MINUTE!! A reminder to any Pony Club member who is interested in applying to be the Eastern Canada Youth Rep that your application/resume is due into Cathy Miller Oct 24. See http://canadianponyclub.org/ for details and have it to her this weekend!!
  • LAST MINUTE!! Pony Club members and their parents are invited to come and ride with the Wellington-Waterloo Hunt at Sheffield (about 10 km southeast of Cambridge) on Sunday October 26th. Hunt leaves at 11am sharp, so be there in time to be mounted by 10:45. It usually lasts about 2-2.5 hours. There will be a potluck Hunt Breakfast following to which you are cordially invited. Dress as you would for Show Jumping, but if its cold, dress warmly. Bit up your pony. Special Pony Club rate of $10 for PC members, $20 for their parent/chaperone. Directions from Cambridge to the home of Dr. Paul and Mrs. Judith Cary: Southeast on Hwy 8. Go into Sheffield and turn south (right) on Sheffield Rd. Go 2 kms to Norman Road and turn right (west). The Cary's farm is at the first jog in the road. Its a lot of fun and a non-competitive way to enjoy the beautiful autumn countryside. For further info call Anne at (519)836-0354 or Virginia at (519)822-1859. Acceptance of Risk forms must be signed in advance by parent or guardian.
  • Congratulations to Virginia Buchanan-Smith. Her daughter and former active Pony Club member, Rachel and hubby Keith are now proud parents of a baby girl, Claire Jane Virginia McClelland. She was born at Guelph General Hospital on Thursday, September 18, and weighed in at 8 pounds 7 ounces. Needless to say, Jock and Virginia are absolutely thrilled, as are her parents, Rachel and Keith. Both mother and daughter are doing well. They haven't found a pony yet for her, but it probably won't be long!
  • From Val Crowe at National CPC - Requirements for Jr. Instructors. A valuable reminder to all Regions, please pass it onto your Branches, especially those with new DC's. Based on the recent insurance review and in compliance with the requirements in our National Education Handbook, we feel the following information should be distributed to all branches.
  • Junior Instructors: (for mounted lessons) The junior instructor must be at least C2 level and 14 years of age with a current emergency first aid certification or higher. If the junior instructor is under 18 years of age, a knowledgeable and experienced instructor/parent with first aid certification must also be present. Further requirements are outlined within the Education Handbook, which can be downloaded from the national Pony Club web site or purchased from Supplies. pvcrowe@mts.net
  • I am pleased to announce that the International Prince Philip Games Selection Camp has been completed in Vancouver, British Columbia and our own candidates were successful. Cailin Radcliffe of Grand River P.C. and Dylan McPhail of Guelph P.C. will be traveling to the USA next summer and competing in Lexington, Kentucky at the American Nationals. Congratulations!
  • Information from your National Director. The CPC is accepting nominations for various openings at the National Level. We are looking for nominations for Education Chair and Active Member from the East. These are the only openings I can confirm at this time. If more come up, I will let you know. I would be please to talk to anyone with interest in working at the National level of the Pony Club. Contact Ralph at rrainford@sympatico.ca
  • Please be sure to use your Royal tickets if you have them. Other wise please send them to a Branch that can. They are for general admission and the evening show on Tuesday, Nov. 11. We get them free and it looks really rude if there are empty seats. We don't want to lose this fantastic privilege so please be sure if you have tickets that the seats are filled.
  • The AGM scheduled for the Cutten Club, Guelph, on Sat. Nov. 15, speak with your DC if you would like to go so we can book you a place with the caterers,
  • The Raffle will be held at the AGM. Therefore D.C.'s should be gathering up the sold tickets and making sure all the stubs get to the meeting for the draw.
  • Please DCs, extend an invitation to parents to consider taking an active role either on their Branch executive or at the Regional level - the more interest the better.
  • Horse sale fraud – beware - A large-scale fraud is taking place in the horse industry. People selling horses are receiving buyer inquiries from a person with a potential buyer in Nigeria or Africa. This buyer usually trys to arrange the purchase of the horse with a cashier's check for the price of the horse and shipping. After they have the horse, they ask you to refund the shipping as part of a “finders' fee”. Sometimes they send you a check for more than the purchase price and ask for a refund of the difference. The fraud part is that the cashier's check is COUNTERFEIT. This is not discovered until the horse and money has been sent to the crooks. Protect yourself, try and get as much information about the buyer as possible. If you suspect anything amiss, notify the RCMP. Here are guidelines taken from the various Internet Classified sites to watch for:
    • Offering more money than the asking price without an initial conversation and viewing of the horse is almost always a
    • sure sign of a scam. Never accept a payment of more money than you are asking for the horse.
    • Never fall to high pressure, or someone asking you to speed up the sale. If you feel pushed or stressed, take time to think it through. Don't be pressured.
    • Never give financial information to a buyer, especially if you don't know them.
    • Get things in writing, even a simple bill of sale signed by both parties lets everyone know what is agreed to. If you are selling over seas, you may be wise to have a lawyer or work through a bonded broker. (Most breed associations will know of one.)
    • Be sure if your buyer is not fluent in English to get a certified translator or again, a lawyer or broker to deal with it.
    • A buyer or seller that won't sign a mutually agreed on paper or bill of sale is usually a sure sign of a problem.
    • Remember - "If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is."

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    Horses and Ponies

    • Mr. Fancy Pants (RJ's Little Lad) 8 yr old fancy registered Welsh pony. Brave, strong, 100% sound, great feet, professionally trained, jumps small course, lots of show experience, used for lessons, roads, ditches, trailers, easy loader, ponies, solid and very fit. 12.2 HH. Currently used as Pony club Mount for my D level green junior, also has been used for short stirrup and lunge lessons. Sadly outgrown. To great home only. $3500.00 Call Ann-Marie 519-753-8038 or e-mail at amc2sitel@aol.com
    • Lucy – 9 yr old, 16 hand, bay thoroughbred mare, has shown Pre-Training and 3'3” jumper. Schooled dressage and Training level cross-country. Friendly and sweet, $3900. Contact Clay or Carolyn at 905-936-5136
    • Splashworks – Well colored registered Appaloosa gelding, 15.3 and growing, 3 ½ years old, very quiet to ride, has evented pre-entry, (2'3”) and shown 2'3” ft hunter, and is ready do more. Solid build, big enough for Dad, quiet enough for the kids. Sire is Rather Well (eventing Thoroughbred), Dam is ½ Quarterhorse, ¼ Draft and ¼ Appy. Sound and sane, all shots, worming, $2500. 905-936-2658, szelmer@sympatico.ca or view at www.parklaneranch.ca
    • Rebos Queen – registered AQHA mare, 14.2, old style quarter horse, 18 years old, dark liver chestnut, has been used in camps, lessons, trail rides, parades, for sale to the right home only, $1800. She is totally sound, lives outside, goes barefoot, shots and worming up to date. She no longer can carry weights (so for kids and small adults only please), jumps cavelletti's and cross poles. She has had 2 gorgeous foals for us, (Sawyer Creek is on the website). She has not been bred this year. 905-936-2658, szelmer@sympatico.ca or view at www.parklaneranch.ca
    • Still have broodmares and weanlings for sale – check www.parklaneranch.ca
    • 9 y/o tb mare, jumper or eventer, and has hunting experience as well. Solid flatwork, very bold, and careful over fences. A pleasure to handle with no vices, and no marish attitude. Potential for training, possibly prelim eventing. Also has had 2 foals, and has excellent lineage (Seattle Slew granddaughter). 2nd in the mimosa cup. She went pretraining at Equus. Contact eventingaddict@hotmail.com
    • Free lease to good retirement home. Misty is an aged gray Quarter Horse mare, 14.3, stocky, very kind and sweet, has done her time in camp and lessons, and trails and now wants to lay back and be special to some beginner who will love her. Lives outside, healthy and fat, shots and worming up to date, very quiet and safe, not much spunk any more, she needs to wear front shoes as she was slightly foundered years ago. Contact Robin Reynolds at 705-739-9473 or Sandy Zelmer at 905-936-2658
    • Cameo - 2 yr old bay filly by TB/CSH by “Yellow Creek” out of registered Clydesdale mare. She will be a big girl, well over 16 hands, closer to 17 hands, Eventer? Field hunter? Pony Club?, can be registered half Sport Horse. $4,000, contact Clay or Carolyn at 905-936-5136
    • Madison, 16hh, solid horse, Thoroughbred/Percheron Cross, 9 yr. old mare, dark bay very attractive, excellent temperament and disposition, an excellent all-rounder. Maddy would be perfect for most any discipline, I was doing basic dressage with her and now she is being jumped and loves it! She would be great for eventing, hunter/jumper, horse trails, pony club, fox hunting and dressage. She is great on hacks also. Currently ridden by a 12 yr. old Intermediate, Jr., rider now. $7500, open to reasonable offers, I would love to see her go to someone who would really use her to her full potential. Contact SpringwaterMead@aol.com
    • 14.1 hh, 4 yr old paint pony. Very pretty, willing, athletic. Professionally trained. Hacks. Great pony club, hunter, jumper, dressage, whatever. He is ready to focus. Has been shown dressage and hunter, schooled x-country. Never stops. Easy to handle on the ground, loves attention. Heather Forbes forbesvue@hotmail.com
    • Off to Law School and must sell: 'Luger' - 13 yr old trakehner/Thoroughbred, light bay. Sound, safe, hacks, clips, etc. Luger has evented as well as done endurance riding. The last 2 years Luger has been trained intensively in Dressage with Cindy Ishoy. Luger willingly does all lateral movements in trot and canter, has started flying changes and is ready to move up to a double bridle. He has a beautiful extended canter and trot, currently training at a Medium 2/3 level. A sweetheart, very personable, but I can't afford to maintain a horse while in university. $15 000 Serious inquiries only please. Pam Elgie 519 -666-0758 or pbelgie@hotmail.com
    • CANADIAN SPORT HORSE gelding, 2 years, 16.2h, chestnut with full blaze, and lots of chrome. Big mover, Dutch Warmblood X Anglo Trak. Great brain, quietly started under tack. Showing inherent talent for dressage and loves to jump $10,000.00 CDN Call (519) 843-4293 Judy Johnson, Travis Hall Equestrian Centre
    • Summer Gold a.k.a. Nova, 7 years old Palomino 15.2 hh Mare, Sane, Sound and sensible, No Vices, Good for the farrier and vet, Trailers, clips, bathes, etc. Competed pre-training in 2003, Placed 6th overall at D Rally at D2 (3rd in Dressage), suitable for a competent beginner, would excel in the jumper ring - has schooled over 3' 9" at home. Her dressage is correct and she always places well. $6500.00 Cdn., flexible to the right situation. Dorothea Hill hilltdpj@brktel.on.ca
    • Orion- 2003 brown CSHA colt out of Tahiti Beach (by TB Tejabo out of daughter of Hanoverian Puissance jumper Buntschpect) and by Yellow Creek. Will be at least 16.2 beautiful conformation & movement. $2,000 obo Sandy Zelmer 905-936-2658

    Tack and Equipment

    • New all purpose 16 inch, fits a bit larger, saddle never been used, price tag sill on it $1100, wrong size will sacrifice for $800. Sandy at 905-936-2658, szelmer@sympatico.ca
    • Nelson Pessoa Saddle FOR SALE! This saddle is a fifteen and three quarter inch in the best condition due to being well taken care of. All of the fittings are not Pessoa but are included. Very very sadly out grown. $1500.00 o.b.o. Contact London Pony Club member at (519) 475-4314 Anuttree@aol.com
    • 2000 Trailet gooseneck 2-horse trailer with dressing room – hardly used. $16,000. Or best offer Irene 905-936-4761. e-mail irenea@sympatico.ca
    • 1989 F-250 ¾ ton diesel truck – 220 km. 7.3 litre 4 gear od trans. Excellent condition. $9,000. Irene 905-936-4761. e-mail irenea@sympatico.ca
    • Jamco 2 horse Trailer - custom built extra high for large horses. Has tack room in the front. Immaculate condition only used 7 times. Asking $14,500. Please call Cathie 519-432-4882
    • 4-horse gooseneck trailer for sale. Custom built to be flexible. All the interior partitions come in and out easily. You can have one large space (great for hauling jumps and things), or 2 huge box stalls well separated (great for mares and colts, we used one for the stallion) or both box stalls make into 2 large trailer stalls for a total of 4 large individual stalls. Suitable for big horses, we hauled 16.3 and 17 hand horses with lots of room, has 2 ramps, one at the back and one at the side, escape door, mats, and is black with a red stripe. Sells certified $8900 obo. Sandy Zelmer at 905-936-2658 or szelmer@sympatico.ca
    • Tack box - great for eventing. Wooden box with lift off lid, on wheels, holds 2 saddles, also hooks for helmet, body vest, jacket, and whip holder, etc. Approx. 4 feet long. Custom made. Asking $150. Also Tons of horse stuff. Need anything? Call me. I've got large horse blankets, fly sheet, coolers, polos, bandages, cottons, fully stocked equine first aid kit (C rally stable management worthy), and many other things too numerous to mention. Pam or Betty Elgie at 519-666-0758
    • Two room tent. Perfect for c-Rally, used 3 times. New was 350.00 Asking $150.00 Three insulate sleeping bags, hardly used, excellent condition Pam or Betty Elgie at 519-666-0758
    • Safety vest. Tipperary. Brand new. Still has tag. Size 34YL. Was $265.00. Asking $225.00. Phone 519-658-2998.
    • Women's size 26 Pikeur navy blue breeches- $60, Miriam at 905-508-9419
    • Quality jumps for sale. Brand new. Painted or unpainted. Great prices. Variety of jumps available as well as custom design. idealjumps@sympatico.ca
    • Tipperary Vests, Tall-Medium, white, cover comes off for easy washing, brand new, $100. equus3d@ican.net

    Services:

    • Yellow Creek at stud. 16.3 hand, homozygous black thoroughbred, approved AQHA, Bronze Premium Sport Horse in Eventing, tremendous jump, athletic movement, kind disposition, see him at www.parklaneranch.ca
    • RICO, 17.3 hand Registered Oldenburg stallion (son of Rio Grande) 519-787-8725, j_r_a@operamail.com

    Wanted

    • 15.2 to 16.2 hand, 4 to 16 yr old mare or gelding, sound, for D2 going to C rider, also going to event Entry level (2'9”), maximum $2000 to spend. Please call my coach, Sue Boyle at 905-936-2658. And tell her it is for Molly
    • Wanted to buy or lease a beginner type pony for a new pony clubber age 7, Call Anne or Dave at (519)846-0107

    Cowboy's Guide To Life Posted By equine-trader on Tuesday 9th September, 2003

    Don't name a pig you plan to eat.

    Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.

    Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

    Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

    Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

    A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.

    Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

    Meanness don't happen overnight.

    To know how country folks are doing, look at their barns, not their houses

    Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

    Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.

    Don't corner something meaner than you.

    It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

    You can't unsay a cruel thing.

    Every path has some puddles.

    When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

    The best sermons are lived, not preached.

    Most of the stuff people worry about never happens.

    Lazy and Quarrelsome are ugly sisters.

    Don't squat with your spurs on.

    Don't judge people by their relatives.

    When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

    Talk slowly, think quickly.

    Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

    Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

    Don't interfere with something that ain't botherin' you none.

    Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

    It's better to be a has-been that a never-was.

    The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm. The colder it gets, the harder it is to swaller.

    If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

    If it don't seem like it's worth the effort, it probably ain't.

    It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

    Sometimes you get and sometimes you get got.

    The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with watches you wash his/her face in the mirror every morning.

    Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

    If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

    Don't worry about bitin' off more'n you can chew; your mouth is a whole lot bigger'n you think.

    Only cows know why they stampede.

    Always drink upstream from the herd.

    Generally, you ain't learnin' nothing when your mouth's a-jawin'.

    Tellin' a man to git lost and makin' him do it are two entirely different propositions.

    If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there with ya.

    Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

    When you give a personal lesson in meanness to a critter or to a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

    When you're throwin' your weight around, be ready to have it thrown around by somebody else.

    Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back.

    Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what it is, but it's sure crucial to know what it was.

    The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back into your pocket.

    You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.

    Never miss a good chance to shut up.

    If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen are defrocked, shouldn't it follow that cowboys would be deranged?