Midland Blast Draw is Posted

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Office will not open til 1:00 pm on Friday

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Attention Midland Blast Contestants!

Those of you who wish to use the airport parking/camping.

It has been brought to our attention that after the All District show, there were several deep holes in the airport parking/camping area. If your horse digs any holes please fill them in prior to leaving from the Midland Blast. If this issue continues we will no longer be able to offer airport parking and camping. It will be mandatory that all horses be stalled at any future shows held at the Midland Co. Fairground.

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How would you like a free entry, free stall or even free camping at the 2012 State Finals?

By gathering sponsorships for our State Finals. The more sponsorship money you gather the more you could get free at the finals. Here's how it works-

$400 in sponsorships gets you a free entry
$900 gets you a free entry and stall
$1200 gets you entry, stall and camping for the weekend

So download the sponsorship form and start today.

 

 

UP COMING EVENTS!

Barrel Racing Clinic
With
Kristin Weaver-Brown
AQHA World Champion
NFR Qualifier
4 AQHA Reserve World Championships
in Reining & Working Cow Horse!
www.kristinweaverbrown.com

Dates: June 2nd & 3rd, 2012
Location: Lightning Bar Equine Services, Howell, MI
Fees: $375 per riding student
$25 per night per stall (shavings included)
$15 per night for camping
$25 per day for auditing
Taking a non refundable deposit of $175 to hold your spot in the clinic.

Day 1: Saturday June 2nd 8am Introduction from Kristin and then starting it out with a timed run, then group work on fundamentals, body position, hands, tools, horsemanship, slow work, drills, etc, that will help you and your horse improve your runs. Saturday will conclude with a question & answer session with Kristin.

Day 2: Sunday June 3rd 8am One on One work all day! You will split into two groups. Kristin rides each horse first and then works one on one with each horse and rider. Someone will be taking notes for you during your one on one to take home with you to use. At the end of the one on one, each student makes a final timed run. Concluded with a final question and answer session with Kristin.

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to work with a professional horsewoman and trainer! Should be a fun packed couple of days.

Please call/text/email me for more information. Only 15 riding students will be accepted!
Crista 989-317-6585 or email: cqfarms@yahoo.com

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What a cruel Joke! I fly home from Florida for the directors meeting and Michigan gives me a real taste of winter! But I survived and am very thankful to be in Florida for 6 months!

We had a great directors meeting again with just a few changes in Michigan NBHA rules. NBHA Michigan has some awesome shows coming up so make sure you check the schedule. You don’t want to miss ANY of them!

This is one change that NBHA Michigan is implementing: We as directors are very grateful for your (NBHA members) support throughout the year, from competing at shows, helping set barrels at our shows, working in the office, announcing, getting sponsors, and just plain taking the time to load up and come to NBHA Michigan’s shows and having fun! It has come to our attention that a few members reap all NBHA Michigan rewards at a district level and state finals level without doing ANY of these things, not even being seen competing at any of their 5 shows to go to state! After much deliberation we have implemented a “No Compete Clause” in NBHA Michigan’s State finals qualification rules! It reads if you only send your $’s in and do not compete at a show you will be charged a $25 processing fee per class per show for that convenience. You will not be able to compete at State in multiple events (ie youth, open, senior) unless you compete in your respective class at 5 shows! (ie 5 shows in Open & 5 shows in either youth or Senior) We did this so that the members who really support NBHA Michigan get its true benefits like district awards, $15,000 added at state finals, and prizes at State. Someone who doesn’t even go to any shows and still gets to go to State at least supports us with a fee. NOW every rule and situation is not in stone and subject to NBHA Board of Director’s review for hardship cases. (ie Mariah Miller serving our country in the armed forces in Spain and making it back to ride in our 2011 NBHA State Championships! I still get chills down my back after that inspiring opening ceremony! WOW!)
This is not a new rule but has to be clarified: In the Rule book it says if you let your membership expire you have a 30 day grace period during which you receive no points! We need to clarify this a little. For example, if your membership expires on(let's just give this date as an example) Sept 30, you have a 30 day grace period until Oct 30. If you do not renew your membership before then, you will lose all your district awards, you will lose your World Show qualifications, and you will lose any count to your 5 show count for NBHA Michigan State Championships! You will have to start your 5 show count all over again to get your shows in for State! If you have any questions email me or your director for explanation.
Also, there will be NO vet outs at our NBHA Michigan pre entry shows & no refunds. (This item had to be clarified because we were getting questions in this regard) We as directors after lengthy discussion decided on this rule.

NBHA Michigan is again hosting the Can-Am Show June 24-26 at the Midland Fairgrounds. Your director will be looking for volunteers to set barrels, deliver sawdust and be greeters at the gate. If you are entering (or not entering) and can help, let your director know so they can schedule you to work just an hour or so. Remember ALL the profits from sawdust sales & barrel setting go to NBHA Michigan Districts and the State Championships!

We voted that due to the huge success of the dog races, we are again having them at the NBHA Michigan State Championships! I have a feeling the district shows may be having them to “practice”!!!

We also voted that anyone not an NBHA member entering Open Jackpot Barrels (non NBHA) and Poles at our district shows, will have to pay the non-member fee. These shows are for our NBHA Michigan members and non-members who are coming in to just run non-NBHA classes we decided should pay for that privilege.

Also ANY horse entering our shows MUST show proof of negative coggins and all NBHA members MUST show a current membership card.

Help! We are in need of a volunteer to put together our program for NBHA Michigan State Championships! We owe a HUGE Thank you to Jeany Stephens who has done it for the past 7-8 years! Jeany has done an awesome job and her shoes will be hard to fill! Jeany has been having some major problems with her back and probably going to need surgery and she has also taken on an extra person in her home besides working full time so she had to give something up! We will really miss her expertise! I don’t know if anyone is doing a college course in graphics etc and would like some “practice” or if someone just does this sort of stuff! If you can help, Please call me at 616-450-9189!
There are a few corrections to the 1st posted show schedule so make sure you check them out!

REMEMBER APRIL 1st IS THE DAY ENTRIES ARE DUE FOR THE 9TH ANNUAL ALL DISTRICT SHOW. ENTRIES POSTMARKED AFTER APRIL 1ST WILL BE LATE AND HAVE TO PAY A LATE FEE TO ENTER!

ALSO a huge congratulations to MI04 director on having a beautiful new baby girl, Josey! Another barrel racer for NBHA!!! Congratulations Kelly & Thomas!

Well, that’s all for now BUT Will & I will try to keep you updated on this website so be sure to look up michigannbha.com for all the latest! I have been hearing that Michigan had a great winter so those horses should be running hard come the 9th Annual NBHA All District Show!

DIANE LOOSENORT

2011 State Finals Sponsors

The following NBHA members have been suspended
Heidi Anderson, Giget Sersaw, Tabitha Rawson, Nikita Booth, Lorna Revord, Tammy Chamberlain.
If you have any questions please contact your District Director or the State Director.

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