This message is from: "Werner, Kristine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Josie - you mention that you live in the Southwest. Where ? You
mention Phoenix - are you in
Arizona ? I am interested in knowing because we are also familiar with
that area of the States -
we lived in Mesa, Tempe, Chandler (where didn`t we roam ?) and my
grandmother is now out in
Apache Junction. We will be visiting here in December. Please let me
know - perhaps we would
drive out and see you and your desert ponies.
Regards,
Kristine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Montag, 12. Oktober 1998 12:42
> To: fjordhorse
> Subject: RE: Becky
>
> This message is from: Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Becky, I think you may have misunderstood the Farm Host idea for
> SouthwesEvaluations. No one was or is
> interested in hosting an evaluation at an inadequate facility.
> However, there are breeding ranches down here
> with exceptional indoor facilities which could easily host an
> Evaluation in excess of 30 mounts. We're not all
> little backyard operations just because we aren't up in the Northwest
> vacinity.
>
> However, I agree to the "home field advantage" theory. Still, if an
> Evaluation is held on your home turf, even
> at a public facility, chances are you have the edge anyway. But I
> don't really believe an evaluator is fooled by
> much.
>
> The idea for those of us in the Stepchild Southwest {Brian, can I
> include you in the Stepchild group even
> though you are out East? : ) }, is that we have no group nor formal
> club to act as host. That means a
> breeder/owner/trainer will have to act as host at their facility OR
> their local public facility in order to pull off
> an evaluation. My question to Nancy was not so much concerned with a
> owner hosted farm, but an owner
> hosted evaluation. If I or someone like me in the Southwest does all
> the footwork to host an Evaluation at,
> say, Westworld in Phoenix, can I still enter my or their horses in the
> Evaluation? Even though I may have
> worked closely with the Judge in order to work out the kinks?
>
> I hope this helps you feel better about this issue. You must
> understand that Oregon is a bit far for us to haul
> horses, even for an evaluation. But as members of the NFHR, we would
> like to establish a few goings on
> down here that fall under the auspices of the NFHR.
>
> Josie
