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Membership & Communications
c/o Box 1122,
Carberry, MB R0K 0H0
Telephone: (204) 834-2479
Fax: (20) 834-3999
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CQHA seekng Team Canada Youth Members
for 2016 AQHA Youth World Cup
(Langley, BC - April 27, 2015) --- A major initiative of the Canadian Quarter Horse Association (CQHA) is to co-ordinate and field a team to represent Canada at biennial American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Youth World Cup competitions. Each participating country may select up to five youth team competing riders, two alternate riders and three non-competing youth to represent their country.
The host country provides a pool of horses of various ability levels and the teams draw to determine the horses to be ridden. Two to three members of each team compete in Western Horsemanship, Western Pleasure, Western Riding, Hunter Under Saddle, Hunt Seat Equitation, Showmanship, Trail, Reining and Cutting classes. Funding for travel expenses for Team Canada
is cost-shared by AQHA/CQHA, provincial/regional Quarter Horse Associations, corporate and/or individual sponsors, and team members' families.
Team Canada was one of 16 countries who participated at the 2014 American Quarter Horse Youth World Cup held in Bryant/College Station, Texas. We were very proud of Team Canada,
as they brought home an individual gold medal in Showmanship, and as a team finished fourth overall.
Our 2014 Team Canada youth members were: Shayley Beaton, High River, AB; Quinn Brandt, Steinbach, MB; Jenna Salmon, Lacombe, AB; Madison Steed, Cochrane,AB: Haley Stradling, Aldgergrove, BC; Hannah Buijs, Lisle, ON; Haley Franc, Prince Albert, SK; Laura Anne Berensci, Paris, ON; Paige McNally, Ft. Francis, ON; and Sharese Rivait, Orillia, ON. The 2014 Team Canada Coach and Team Manager were Della Cryderman, Murrillo, ON and Karen Westerback of Thunder Bay, ON, respectively.
The next AQHA Youth World Cup is scheduled to be held in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia from June 23 to July 3, 2016. The CQHA is actively seeking qualified youth from
all across Canada, who are Canadian citizens, Canadian residents, members-in-good-standing of the American Quarter Horse Youth Association (AQHYA), Canadian Quarter Horse Association (CQHA), and the provincial/regional Quarter Horse Association where they reside.
Youth who are interested in applying as potential candidates (as riders and/or non-competing members) for Team Canada must apply by July 31, 2015 (postmark). Click here for the 2016 Team Canada Qualifying Criteria attached as a PDF file to this email. The 2016 team application package will be posted by mid-May on the CQHA web site or email Kathy Patterson, CQHA Youth World Cup Committee Chairperson. Remember, if you are a current AQHA or AQHYA member-in-good-standing, you are eligible to be a CQHA member for NO extra membership fee in 2015. However, you must identify yourself to CQHA. You may do so by logging on to the CQHA web site and submit your membership information on-line.
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The mandate of the CQHA, a national affiliate of the AQHA, is to address issues of concern to Canadian owners of American Quarter Horses; to be a communications vehicle for and with Canadian owners of American Quarter Horses; and to promote and market, both globally and within Canada, Canadian-bred
and/or Canadian-owned American Quarter Horses.
The Canadian Quarter Horse Association is an Affiliate of the AQHA. Annual membership is FREE to current AQHA members. For more information, or to enroll as a member on-line, visit the CQHA website
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In return, AQHA members have the opportunity to support this generous corporate sponsor and apply for the AQHA MasterCard credit card. For more information on MBNA Canada or their services, call 1-877-428-6060
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