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Education, Events

Working equitation classes

Amy Star will be our instructor here in Scottsdale on selected Sundays to teach us the basics of dressage and ease of handling parts of working equitation.

Here are the dates:

Feb 9, Mar 8, Mar 29, Apr 12 and May 3.

Working Equitation is a fast-growing sport competition which accepts any breed, any style of tack and all levels of horses and riders.

The sport teaches a variety of skills and the horse and rider team are judged on the quality of movement and execution of the tasks. We are learning and growing with the horses.

Contact Lynn to join in.

Some photos below of the Agro Maripa horses in competition in Brazil, and us in class here in Scottsdale.

  • Farrapo de Maripa
Education, Events

Scottsdale Show!

Fun, Fun and more fun! Summerwind Marchadors and Summerwind Future Foal breeders were there at the USMMA show at The 17 Ranch for Mangalarga Marchador sport competitions. Pole-Bending, Barrel Racing and the Marchador Ideal Functional test combining a lot of obstacles in one test.

Dr. George Vilar, ABCCMM was the show coach and judge for the weekend.

Friday was a trail ride in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve enjoyed by 19 people and Saturday was the competition with 16. Here are the photos and results! Enjoy our gallery!

  • Bacara do Summerwind, 2nd place poles, with Jeff, 1st place barrels with Jeff, 2nd place Marchador Ideal with Jeff, Reserve Champion, Men.
  • Brasilia do Summerwind – 3rd place barrels with Elizabeth, 1st place Marchador Ideal with Elizabeth, Reserve Champion Pro (tie)
  • Caboclo da Piedade – 2nd place poles with Lindsey, 3rd place poles with Lindsey, 2nd place Marchador Ideal with Cathy. Reserve champion, Women’ group.
  • Caesar do Summerwind – 2nd place poles with D.j., 2nd place barrels with D.j. Reserve Champion Pro (tie)
  • Koyote Libertas – 3rd place poles with Ashley, Pro.
  • Tigre Feliz do Summerwind – 2nd place, Marchador Ideal with DJ (Pro) and Best Novice showing with Ingrid

Special thanks to all those who rode for us – an awesome job! and to all those who volunteered for the event! And for all those who helped sponsor the event!

Events

EQUINE AFFAIRE – we were there!

We had a tremendous event experience at the Equine Affaire in Springfield MA on November 7 through November 10.    


The USMMA had our first presence at this event this year.     This was a huge show with large crowds every day!   New England is great horse country and we took the opportunity to try to boost our numbers there in the region.   There are 2 Mangalarga Marchadors in New England: one in Maine, a gelding named Chama Lustre do Lucero with Cyndy Falvey an one in Massachusetts, a 3 year old mare named Rio Dulce de los Cielos with Tom Marcos of Tom’s Horsemanship.   Tom and Dulce came to the show!   “Dulce” as she is called had just shipped late this summer from Rancho de los Cielos, Riverside, CA all across the country.    Tom brought her to the expo and she did everything she was asked, even though it was all new to her.    Not yet started under saddle, her demo times were all done in hand, and she attracted many admirers.   We encouraged people to visit Dulce in the barn and of course, when she stayed with us at the USMMA booth.  She was a big hit there – very sweet, very pretty and loved the people who visited!


Lynn Kelley, our Treasurer. was the lead for the event.   Lynn will be writing more about the event in the USMMA Quarterly journal with even more photos.   The USMMA created and manned a 10 x 20 booth in the BREED BUILDING. The booth consisted of tables with flyers, business cards and information to hand out, a 10 x 10 movie screen and a 10 x 10 horse stall.   We estimate that about 1,000 people came through the breed building and stopped at the booth.    Only a handful of people had ever heard about the Mangalarga Marchador breed so we talked to a lot of people!    We created Marchador bags with information that we gave to people who were interested in learning more.   Breeders and members had submitted business cards and flyers and we had printed our USMMA brochure of FAQs about the Marchador breed and our 2019 USMMA Breeder’s List.    We handed out over 150 of these bags!    


Of the 150 people who took the Marchador bags, some of them gave us their contact information for the raffle and a follow-up call or email.    Lynn Kelley will be heading that effort as well.   We promised only one contact unless they wanted more information.  

We have 2 new Marchador videos that we played at the event booth along with the 2018 videos created by Randy Conilogue, using member photos.   We will add these new videos on youtube under the USMMA account, so you can use them or show them off to your friends!   

Thanks to Lynn for a successful event and to all the people who contributed to the raffle, sending in materials or providing the actual Marchador horse!   Their names are listed below:

Booth Help – Preparing or Manning the Booth   

  • Lynn Kelley
  • Katie Baily
  • Megan Baily
  • Jane Newpeck
  • Jo Kennedy
  • Kim Hexter
  • Adrienne Scheck

With the Raffle Prizes      

  • Rancho de los Cielos, CA
  • Saint Horse Marchadores, SC
  • Summerwind Marchadors, AZ
  • Canadian Marchadores, BC Canada                                        

Getting a Marchador THERE

  • Rancho de los Cielos, CA
  • Tom’s Horsemanship, MA

Tom Marcos of Tom’s Horsemanship, Hudson, MA did all the work to prepare, train and present the mare Rio Dulce de los Cielos! Great job and much appreciated!!

This event may have been our best event in 2019 for promoting and spreading the word about the Mangalarga Marchador horse!     Because New England is a small area, we spoke to people from several states (CT, RI, NY, MA, NH, VT, ME) and Canada.


Together with the January Horse Illustrated issue, we seem poised for a great year in 2020!   Marchador ON!