This message is from: M Korose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi
Just a note to follow Steve's about his expo
experience and Catherine's volunteer statement. We
have promoted Fjords for a couple years at home and
away (Equitana and Tenn). I agree with Steve that
there is no better way to promote the Fjord than by
actually touching one. Since the expo scene has
quickly become much more local (from only Equitana 6
years ago to a proliferation of expos in almost every
state) it allows us to support them from a more
"regional base", which should provide breeders and
sellers of Fjords with local options, and I feel
breeders/sellers should support their local options
(sorry it didn't happen Steve). BUT these expos
ALWAYS have a charge involved and without support of
the NFHR, we have too small an organization base to
afford all these expos. So I am sad to say that I bet
we will see less folks supporting and promoting Fjords
at these expos and there fore less of the general
public will be exposed to our great Fjords. We have
absorbed the costs of stabling, hotels, travel because
we also enjoy the excitement and prospect of promoting
our horse breed but the expo charge for booth
space/breed space/exposure space is too much for our
little operation too, even for our regional club also.
Hopefully this will be discussed and evaluated by the
appropriate NFHR committees and in the future, there
might be an equitable way to support expos. We willl
be glad to support events where only the usual costs
above are ours for as long as we can, but the expos
are out of our reach for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for the time.
Marsha in VA
(Where we now have the neatest display set up,
pictures and no where to go)
