The University of Guelph Equestrian Club



Upcoming Events

Trip to the Royal Winter Fair

On Thursday, November 11th, the University of Guelph Equestrian Club is organizing a bus trip to The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. The trip will include the bus ride there and back, admission cost, and tickets to the Ricoh Coliseum to watch the Horse Show. The Horse Show will include International Jumpers, CDI3 Dressage, and more. The cost for the trip is $50. The bus will leave at 3:00 pm, and return to the University for around 12:00 am. This gives you lots of time to look around, do some shopping, and watch some of the Horse Show! :) If you would like to attend, please email Christine at cgraystd@uoguelph.ca

Elections

The club currently has an opening for two executive positions, VP Dressage and VP Western, for this school year 2010-2011. If you would like to run for one of these positions, please attend the executive meeting this Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 in MACK 342 at 5:30pm. Please prepare a short speech about yourself and why you would like to be a part of the Equestrian Club's executive. Also, before attending the meeting please email the club at equest@uoguelph.ca with your name and which position you would like to run for. For more details about these positions, please check out our constitution under ABOUT THE UGEC. All club members are encouraged and welcome to come and cast their vote for these positions. Hope to see you all there!

Club days are Thursday and Friday September 16th and 17th. Come out to our poster to get more information on the club!


OUEA Tryouts

We have been getting a wonderfully huge amount of interest in OUEA this year, so we are holding tryouts. There will be a panel of judges to determine the best riders for the team while remaining as fair as possible. Tryouts will be held Monday September 20th the time is TBA. If you are interested in trying out you are STRONGLY advised to come to club days for more information on the commitments required and to see if you are suited to the OUEA circuit. If you ABSOLUTELY will not be passing through the UC either Thursday or Friday then contact bkrause@uoguelph.ca. We will do our best to keep updating the website with more current information, so please be patient while we do so!


IDA Team

Hope you all had a great summer and are looking forward to the following school year. This is just a quick note for those of you who are interested in IDA (Intercollegiate Dressage Association). IDA is the show circuit that UofG Equestrian Club competes in for dressage. There are four riders on our team. The four riders are of different levels: first level, upper training level, lower training level, and introductory level. In the past, the team has been made by Phil Parkes (our dressage coach) evaluating interested riders through lessons, however, our first show is quite early this year (October 16,17). Therefore, we will be holding "tryouts" to determine the riders of the team before lessons start for this school year. If you are interested in trying out for the team, we will be having an informal meeting this Thursday September 16th, at the Brass Taps at 8:30 pm to figure out times for tryouts. If you can't make it to the meeting, or simply have more questions about IDA, please feel free to email me, Elaine, at ewatts@uoguelph.ca


*NEW* Online Store
***Functional, but Continuing Construction***

Use the UGEC online store to make your payments easier using our secure online paypal account. If you don't already have a paypal account, go to www.paypal.com to get one now! It is easy, secure, and you don't even need a credit card!
In the store you can pay for:
UGEC $20 yearly membership
OUEA yearly membership
IHSA yearly membership
IDA yearly membership
OUEA shows
IHSA shows
IDA shows

We are also developing an online clothing store

The Mailbox!
Go into the "SFOAC" door on the front of Johnston Hall (towards the south)
Go upstairs until you can't go up anymore
Go in the door on your right
Turn left right away and you are at the mailboxes
Search diligently and you will find ours around the middle!