This is AHDRA’s 30th Year!

In addition to holding our annual meeting, 2007 awards were presented the evening of January 11th in Rockford, Illinois. If you were not able to be present to receive your award, please contact Chris Power and we will try to make arrangements to get your award to you. Congratulations to all AHDRA riders for their 2007 season, and thanks!

Minutes of the 30th Annual AHDRA Meeting, January 13, 2008 (Draft--not approved):

Fall AHDRA Membership Meeting:

In the January 13th annual meeting a Fall meeting of the membership was proposed, perhaps in conjunction with an AHDRA sponsored ride. Although organizations, like individuals with New Year’s resolutions, sometimes have trouble executing an intention, please stay alert for notices of this possible meeting through this web site.

Membership application and renewals:

There have been some changes in the AHA membership process, but AHDRA will continue with the same membership renewal process that we have always had (current members MUST renew by December 15th to avoid late charges, and your membership will be from November 1st thru October 31st). 

The AHA has also changed to include a 'competition card' which will require an additional charge. Your AHDRA affiliate membership dues include this AHA competition card for you. 

For more information about the changes in the AHA membership process and the competition card, please visit their AHA website at www.arabianhorses.org 

Also remember that the AHDRA ride season ended October 31st ,2008. Any rides done after that date wwere NOT be credited to the 2007 ride season, but will be for the 2008 ride season. You must also have your 2008 membership received and paid for before you will get credit for any rides done after Oct 31, 2007. For a membership form please contact the AHDRA Secretary, or to print membership form by clicking here.

Riding outside of UMECRA?

It is the rider’s responsibility to report any ride they have finished outside of UMECRA within 30 days of the ride date. Please fill out a Ride Information Form when you have completed a non-UMECRA ride. 

GET YOUR HORSES NOMINATED!

Please fill out a Horse Information Form!!!
Thank you to those of you who have already taken care of this, it is a HUGE help to me as the Points Keeper. Those of you who have NOT taken care of this I would once again like to remind you to send me a list of the horse(s) that you are going to be riding this year! I am finding members who are listed in ride reports but I cannot give them credit for the rides because they have not sent me a list of their horse(s) and registration number(s). When I see an AHDRA member listed in the ride reports there is no way for me to know if the horse you are riding is an arab or 1/2 arab and/or if it is even registered. PLEASE BE SURE TO GET ME A LIST OF YOUR HORSES AND REGISTRATION NUMBERS! We want to be sure that you get credit for all of the rides and miles that you do! 

I have included a webpage with a list of the nominated horses that I have in my database. This way you can easily check to see if your horse is already nominated or not. Once a horse is nominated, you do not have to 're-nominate', this is a ONE-TIME thing. So do yourself (and me) a favor and get this taken care of. Click into the Member Info page, there will be a link there that you click on to get the Nominated Horse List. Please check this list, and if your horse is NOT there let me know ASAP so that you can begin getting credit for your rides!

AHDRA in the news:

An article on the 2007 AHDRA II Ride, “Endure for the Cure”, appeared in the December/January 2008 issue of AHA’s Modern Arabian Horse, on page 113.

History of AHDRA:

In the organization’s 30th year of gathering for our annual meeting, AHDRA President Helen Nelson and some members had an opportunity to chat with Dr. Beecher about the organization’s beginnings and history. This was a fascinating conversation, leading to interest in capturing and documenting our organization’s beginnings and history. Anyone interested?

Point System:

There has been some controversy in the past concerning our current points system. We are opening this issue for discussion and are welcoming ideas for what you (the members) would like in the coming year. 

A motion was made at our annual meeting in 2007 to require that AHDRA members ride at least 3 rides in a certain region to qualify for year-end awards. This really goes against our “multi-regional” membership status. 

We are hoping to look at an overall point system (similar to AERC) where you will be given points according to your overall placing at a ride. AHDRA would still have the same divisions (Purebred, Partbred, Junior). 

Please check back for more information.