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Australian Exchange 2007
Dates: June 24 - July 7
Cost: Approx $3,000
10th TOUR AUSTRALIAN MOUNTED GAMES TOUR 2008 This is the 10th visit by the USA Mounted Games Invitational Team to Down Under. Following the once again, hugely successful two week tour where individual and team won every competition, Robert and Janey seek your interest in the 2008 team. The tour has been a prominent feature in the Australian Games calendar, offering the golden opportunity of seeing the highlights on New South Wales, both the Outback and Sydney environments. Phil Logue (Australina MGA Coach) and Leigh Hartog and their families have always been our generous hosts. The success of this tour has been wholely and solely due to their wonderful hospitality in opening their homes to us. Each year they greatly look forward to our visit and appriciate the level of competition and ambassadorial riders that we bring. Other tours are out there, but this one contains the goal of all serious games riders. The tour is tentatively two weeks in duration: * Dates = June 23 - July 7, 2008 * Itinerary = Week 1 - in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales with Phil Logue and family. Here we see true Outback Australian life with a 2 day competition: Day 1 = Individuals, Day 2 = Pairs, which have consisted of 1 USA and 1 Australian rider - a hugh success! Week 2 - Sydney with Leigh and Deidre Hartog. Exploring Sydney and it's environment - the Harbour, Sydney Opera House, Manly Beach, White Water Rafting (on the Olympic course), climbing Sydney Harbor Bridge, Wildlife Park to pet Australian wildlife and perhaps buying UGG Boots. Competition at the end of the 2nd week is the team competition at the beautiful Hartog property which, incidently, is an orange grove and often under lights. Costs = Airfares are currently approximately $1800. In addition, airfares and uniform costs of the coach and manager are the cost of the 5 member team uniform approxiamately $300 personal spending at least $500 internal travel (train and horse transportation) $200 Vast majority of costs are covered eg: Meals and lodging (meals 'on the go', zoo, and bridge climb are not included) Eligibility = preferably a minimum of 16 years old, outstanding ambassadorial skills, outstanding games skills (particularly vaulting and handling strange horses) and fininancial support (if under 21). Selection criteria: (1) Serious expression of interest by August 31. This to include (2) letter of parental support of your application, (3) Resume By August 31: Letter of intent due to Robert and Janey By Sept 9th: Long list (15 people) of riders eligible for team posted by Robert and Janey By Sept 30: Announcement of team members by Robert and Janey Note: 5 team members will travel Robert and Janey choose the team members from the list of those eligible. Resume, games refrences, personel contact will be taken into consideration. We both coach/manage extensively and the selection will have a great deal to do with what we have seen in rider development. Previous team members are encouraged to apply. Parents and sibgling are encouraged to see us play downunder, but understand that they are not a part of the tour and need to make individual arrangements. We look forward to expressions of interest by August 31, to Janey1224@aol.com. Any questions can be answered at that email address or by calling Robert @ 301-253-2691, or Janey @ 301-663-1494. Robert Taylor Janey MacFawn |
Fall Finale 2007November 3-4 2007, Lexington, Ky. There is no greater blessing in life than to be surrounded by kind and generous people. Last weekend was one of those lifetime memories that all of us who were involved in the BlueGrass Finale--North American Championship (Riders,trainers, set-up crew, assistant referees etc.) will always treasure. Thank you to everyone who helped make last weekend an incredible adventure.For full results click Here North American Cup 2008The second leg of the North American Cup will be held at the 2008 AQHA Youth World Cup. The AQHA Youth World Cup is a competition between Quarter horse riders from all over the world click here for more info on the venue. The first leg of the challenge (the BlueGrass Open) took place at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington Ky. The challenge is a competition between the US and Canada. The North American cup goes to the team with the highest cumulative points at the last competition at the end of the season. Teams qualify for the final competition by competing at events throughout the year. Past winners:
Worlds Team 2008USMGA WORLDS TEAM -Australia 2008
The US team has been selected to compete at the International Mounted Games Association World Team Championships to be held in Sydney Australia. The worlds will take place October 24-26. The team is (in alphabetical order): Laura Crowl, Cassie Greiling, Sara Greiling, LeeAnn Harmon and Morgan Muffley. The team will be coached by Alex Jones.
Games in AlaskaMen in trees and mounted games? At the end of July international coach Clive Jones will be giving a games clinic at the Alaskan Fairgrounds. Clive will teach riders who have never played games before the exciting sport of mounted games. At the end of the clinic riders with then give a demonstration of mounted games at the Alaskan state fair. Mark These Dates!
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