ABCCMM Brazilian Inspector and Dressage Instructor Dr, Kate Barcelos. Demonstrations, clinic and private lessons on topics including riding and setting the Marchador’s gaits.
ABCCMM Brazilian Judge ‚Director of the National School of Judges, Dr, Tiago de Resende Garcia will preside over and judge 2013 Sela de Ouro, an event of 3 parts: Complete horse competition, distance ride and gait competition.
Trainer Training Special!!! A Special Feature of this Clinic, will be the opportunity for USMMA Members’ Trainers to Learn from Kate Barcelos; Trainers can come ½ Price.
REGISTEREARLY to help us plan and for your pick of lesson times!!!!
* Welcoming cocktail party on the Veranda at Rae Ranch
Friday
* Demonstrations and Lessons conducted by Dr. Kate Barcelos – All day
* Afternoon –Sela De Ouro: part 1 — Complete horse — Dr. Tiago Garcia
* Lunch at Rea Ranch
* Dinner Pool Side Barbeque at Lazy T Ranch
* Live Music: Singer songwriter John Lowell — Hosted by Lori and Peter Silcher
Saturday
* Demonstrations and Lessons conducted by Dr. Kate Barcelos – All day
* Morning – Sela De Ouro: part 2 – Distance ride — Dr. Tiago Garcia
* Lunch at Rea Ranch
* Afternoon – Sela De Ouro: part 3 –Gait competition
* Dinner Barbeque at Serra de Vista Marchadors
Sunday
* Morning – Sela De Ouro or other as needed — Dr. Tiago Garcia
* Lessons with Dr Kate Barcelos
* Lunch Veranda Rae Ranch
CLINICFEES:
$300 for USMMA Members
$350 Non Members
$150 USMMA Member’s Trainers
Audit: $25 per day includes Lunch only unless other arrangements are made.
For those guests who do not bring their own Marchadors, Montana Hosts Committee members will provide Marchadors for riding for a nominal fee. If you need a Marchador, we need to know your riding level.
LOCATION:
RAE Quarter Horse Ranch, 5464 Dana’s Point Rd Helena, Montana 59602 (approximately 15 minutes from Helena, airport)
ACCOMMODATIONS:HORSES
Stalls at Rae Ranch $15/day with bedding for one day. Hay $8/Bale
(Rae Ranch will be accepting horses for stabling Thursday, September 5
PEOPLE
Rae Ranch has parking and electrical hook-up for trailers: $10/day
or
There are 20 some hotels in the Helena area. We recommend three that are near the airport and a 15 minute drive from the Rea Ranch: Wingate by Wyndham, Residence Inn Marriott and Holiday Inn Express Hotel/Suites.
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to Coördinating Chair:
All of the North American Mangalarga Marchadors AND their ancestors have been added to our new pedigree system. It was a big effort to transfer our data manually.
938 Mangalarga Marchador horses are in our database. (206 are registered with the USMMA, but that number includes some horses that are now deceased). All of the North American horses have photos and overall, 37% have photos. Like Ancestry.com, you can go explore your horse’s lineage. You can find them in the Registry section of this website on the page labeled View Pedigree.
Information about the horses was added if it was available, like date of birth, color, registration number etc. However, if you look at the record, there is lots more room to add information about your horse — shows, awards, disciplines, height, weight, any kind of write-up. If you find errors, want to change the photo or want to add more information or video to your horse’s record, please send that request to the USMMA registrar.
You are able to download and print your horse’s pedigree whenever you want. On the pedigree form, you will notice a scannable code (using any smart phone) that will take you directly to the website and that pedigree on the website.
The USMMA registrar, now Megan McClarney Fallwell, will continue to issue the official registration document and the foal registration procedures remain the same.
Future Plans:
Classified ads will facilitate MM sales or stallion stud services. Photo shows Flying Oaks 2 year old colts.
Around April 2012, I will be adding and testing the WikiHorseWorld Classified Ads system if they have it completed on time.
WikiHorseWorld currently offers four ad “categories” for Horses, Products, Services, and Events. They will be developing four additional ad categories for Equine Real Estate, Trailers, Saddles, and Horse Hay (a total of 8 Classified Ad categories).
There will be options for simple ads and premium ads. Premium ads would include photos and videos.
During this timeframe is when WikiHorseWorld anticipates that members will be able to add photos, videos from your computer, and videos from YouTube to your Marchador’s pedigree. The classified ads and the horse’s pedigree, pictures and videos will be displayed on the USMMA website and also WikiHorseWorld’s website.
Gaia made history at 11:00 p.m.October 27, 2012, becoming the first MM foal born in the US using imported frozen semen from Brasil. A labor of love, our dream was realized when Agro Maripá collected and exported the first frozen MM semen from 3 of his stallions in Brasil. Our continued thanks to Agro Maripa!
Gaia is the product of Oma de Maripa and Brasilia do Summerwind. She was reserved by Dr. Adrienne C. Scheck of Scottsdale AZ and with SW Future Foal retaining breeding rights to her to ensure her genetics are carried forward in the U.S.
All of us are thrilled with her!!!!!
Her name Gaia was selected by Adrienne for a number of reasons. Gaia (“guy-a”) is the goddess or personification of Earth or Mother Earth (the Greek common noun for “land” is ge or ga) in pre-Olympian Greek mythology. The Gaia hypothesis proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a self-regulating, complex system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet.
Dr. Ann Staiger of Cornell University is researching gaited horse breeds to find the “gait gene”. Her studies also include lots of measurements of the angles and body parts of the horse to determine the role of conformation and gait.
Ann recently traveled to Brasil during the 2012 MM National Show at the invitation of the ABCCMM and collected several hundred 100 samples there from champion Marchadors. To date, this is the best and largest coöperation from a gaited breed association that she has received.
For a copy of the article that was published in Mangalarga Marchador magazine (which I cannot attach here it doesn’t appear), visit my website http://futurefoal.net/?p=1635
We are all looking forward to her final paper and maybe a video presentation!!!
Lynn Kelley is a regular contributor to the new Saddle and Stirrups ipad magazine. You can subscribe today through itunes or by following this link: http://saddleandstirrups.com/magazine.
Downloaded in over 65 countries, this new digital format allows for better pictures, videos and more! The first article appeared in the October 2012 issue and featured the MM Breed Description and History. The second article appeared in the November 2012 issue and featured the 2012 National Show in Brazil. December and January are in the works.
These are three reference documents prepared and presented by Kate Barcelos at the 2011 MM clinic in Texas. Gaits, Bits and Dressage for the Mangalarga Marchador.
(At the 2012 MM clinic, we videotaped the lecture, so the clinic videos will be posted with the slides.)
Thank you Kate!
Please click on the highlighted underlined text on this screen and the next screen to open the pdf file.
Please click on the underlined “firstspringjournal” on this screen and on the next to load the pdf. It may take a while to load the file, but it’s worth it!!
1st place Gayle Hamilton and MM Destiny do Summerwind, TX
Destiny do Summerwind and Gayle Hamilton, TX
I grew up with horses, but then when I turned 30, I joined the Foreign Service and started living overseas, so I could no longer own horses. Luckily, in most of the countries where I lived, I could find horses to find, but it just wasn’t he same.
When I knew that I would be retiring from the State Dept, I started doing research. I had grown up with Quarter Horses and Arabs, but due to back problems, I wanted a gaited horse and I wanted one that was unique. I stumbled onto the Marchador and found Lynn and John Kelley. They were awesome! They answered my questions, provided photos and invited me to come visit anytime. They were so proud of the breed and so welcoming to someone exploring the breed that I thought that if they were representational of owners, then count me in! I have found over time that everyone I have encountered with the Marchador has been very friendly and proud of their breed.
Chanel de Miami with days old Destiny
I was still overseas, so decided to do the Future Foal. Lynn provided me photos and info and I chose a mare. Well, I got a colt, but really wanted a filly. Another buyer got a filly, but wanted a colt, so we swapped! I retired, bought some land and got ready and when Destiny was 8 months old, had her brought to Texas. Unfortunately, because she is so pretty and was the baby here, everyone has spoiled her. She is a “brat”, but I love her and as she gets older she is getting much better.
Destiny having fun as a youngster in TX
She is 3 years old now and I have been doing ground work with her. She lunges with or without a saddle, has jumped a small obstacle and walked over a tarp. She is smart, pretty (I love her elfin ears), and is a joy. I can’t wait until I am able to ride her, which I hope will be later this year. I am heading back to Africa to work for six months so will wait until I return.
She is my Destiny.
She is stretching to make 14.3H so hopefully the extra few months will allow her to get a little more growth. I can’t thank Lynn and John enough for Destiny. Sadly, her dam (Chanel de Miami) and baby sister were lost in 2011, so that makes her even more special to me.
4 Seasons Marchadores, MT — Lori Silcher and her Marchador stallion Baluarte Piry, submitted a video to become “America’s Favorite Trail Horse”. The videos were submitted to the ACTHA where fans voted for their favorite. Lori came in 2nd place, showing off the versatility of the Mangalarga Marchador and gaining many new fans! Here’s her video:
Mounted Archery in TX. Casablanca do Premier
Cascade Marchadors, OR – 3 Marchadors, all from Oregon, participated in the Nemethy Brothers Mounted Archery Clinic and USA Championship in New Braunfels, TX held February 20–26, 2012. Susan and Holm Neumann participated with their 2 Marchadors, Pele do Premier and Casablanca do Premier. Ronnie Keithcart and Connor Keithcart participated with Marchwind Cobre. Susan and Holm hauled 5 horses from Oregon — a 5,000 mile round trip.
The results:
Eric Denzler, only 5 months in the sport won the Quabaq, a Turk aerial competition shooting at a target on top of a 25 foot pole, on Pele.
Alan Minton won the Senior Division on Casablanca.
Marchwind Cobre took Connor Keithcart and Marton of Hungary to wins in the Junior Division,
Casablanca also carried Massae from Brazil. Pele carried Holm Neumann and Lynn Woodward in clinics and competition.
Flying Oaks’ New Sign tells everyone more about the MM breed
Flying Oaks Ranch, OK — In February, Flying Oaks hired ranch manager Matt Brendal. Matt’s horse background is in Natural horsemanship and horseshoeing. He is also a competitive participant in American Competitive Trail Horse Association (ACTHA) events. Matt says this about the Marchadors: “I had never heard of Marchador horse before my contact with Rick. From my limited experience these horses seem very intelligent, sensitive and gentle. They are wonderful horses to work with and I look to forward to this opportunity to learn more about them.”
Rancho de los Cielos, CA — An article about the Marchador breed was written and published in Italy! by Alessandra Deerinck, a new USMMA member purchasing a “de los Cielos” foal (Rio de los Cielos x 1681 Marengo da Tosana). The article shows how Alessandra applied her methods to some of our horses. Video from those sessions will hopefully soon be available on You-Tube. Read more about Alessandra on her website, www.human2horse.com We hope to translate the article and publish it soon.
Alessandra wrote about how easy it is to train and work with Marchadors, how intelligent they are, and how easy it is to form a bond with them based on her experiences working with our Marchadors.
Alessandra Deerink is a veterinarian trained in Italy whose experiences with horses include 12 years as a jockey racing Thoroughbreds, and greater than a decade in the U.S. re-fitting Thoroughbreds for life outside the race course, endurance riding, and promulgating the training discipline that has become her life work: Liberty riding and training.
The essence of Alessandra’s, and her mentor, Carolyn Reznick’s, training is the bond between rider and horse, based on the language of gesture and behavior that horses use among themselves. Alessandra and Carolyn believe one must develop companionship to have a true two-way conversation. Both begin developing a relationship when a horse is unconfined, when the horse can say “no” and go away.
Alessandra ascribes to theory and methodology originally described by Carolyn Resnick, author of Naked Liberty, and of a series of training videos, beginning with “Introduction to the Waterhole Rituals” that established her methods of creating a bond with horses based on her studies of wild horse behavior. For over 25 years, Carolyn was a noted clinician, trainer, and Arabian horse breeder from her Sonoma California ranch, Stonehenge Arabians. She still provides clinics and individual teaching in her methods from her present ranch in Escondido, California, and she has played with a Marchador she calls Marchador, since 2007, a white gelding imported by Susann Gabriel. Read more about Carolyn Resnick at her website at http://dancewithhorses.com
Koyote Libertas — from the photo shoot
SW Future Foal @ Summerwind, AZ – Laurie and Don Klassen from SK, Canada came down for a visit. Laurie owns Beethoven do Summerwind. Laurie picked up her 2011 SW Awards prize money and had a great time with Koyote Libertas, before she and Don drove on to Sedona!
The following weekend was a MM photo shoot with fun photographers Tamara Gooch and Jess Lee and St. Patrick’s Day was our first ever ACTHA ride. It’s hard to believe that next month we’ll be heading off for Colorado!
Lori SilcherThe American Competitive Trail Horse Association (ACTHA)
Hi, this video is my horse Bali, (4 Seasons Marchador stallion) and I in the competition for America’s Favorite Trail Horse competition. I hope you will watch it from start to finish and enjoy it so we get your vote! We put our heart into it, had a GREAT time doing it. The rules said, less than 5 minutes, tough to show all he can do, but here is a sample of this, young, kind hearted stallion doing his best, as always for me.http://www.facebook.com/ACTHA Look in the left hand column and click on “Peoples Choice audition”, then scroll down, go to page two and find us. The only way your vote will be counted is if you click on the “vote” box, the like button will not count. Thanks!!!!! I think this is a GREAT way to get our Marchadores seen!
