The organizers of the Arizona Horse Fair (formerly the MANE EVENT) announced today that the event will not take place.
The USMMA was scheduled to have a booth at this event in Scottsdale AZ as it has in the past 2 years. We are sorry that the show is not going on.
We will be looking, as always, to find other venues where we can promote the Mangalarga Marchador breed. Please contact us if you have an event or show in your area that you would like us to consider.
It’s time for our membership renewal drive! Please consider joining or renewing your membership in the USMMA again in 2019!
You are a member of a small, elite, passionate group that own, breed or just love Marchador horses. Our mission is to promote and protect the Mangalarga Marchador breed here in North America. The USMMA is the official Mangalarga Marchador organization recognized by the Brazilian Association, the ABCCMM.
We started the year with 94 members and ended with 123, our highest membership to date. We have $10,000 in our bank account. In 2018, we spent money on the following items:
Registration (incl UCDAVIS fees) 29% Website 23% Events 20% Show Subsidies 13% Advertising 9% Office, Postage, fees 6%
One of our events was the MANE EVENT in March 2018. Over 30 members came to the event (from 7 states and 3 countries) and 7 Marchador horses represented our association and breed there. Horse Illustrated ran an article on the breed and the USMMA and other breeders advertised in that issue. We coordinated and planned an ABCCMM inspection trip for our members that want dual registration. In addition, we published our own USMMA Marchador Quarterly Journal with the help of editor Tresa Smith and publisher Lynn Kelley. We gave out $500 in show subsidy awards administered by Laurie Klassen. Randy Conilogue, our Registrar, has served the association well with quality work and attention to detail. Randy also gave his time creating Marchador promotional videos that are now uploaded to YOUTUBE. The USMMA board is an all-volunteer board working on your behalf. (Jeff Bosley, President, Cathy Pierce, Vice President, Tia Nelson, Secretary, Lynn Kelley, Treasurer, Jake Martinez, Rick Schatz and Aline Greene)
In 2019, we are planning for more events including the Equine Affaire in Springfield MA and a Marchador riding weekend in Montana. We hope we will be able to reach more people and see more members with our planned functions! Tell us what you would like to see happening in 2019.
Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm! Your dues make it possible. JOIN TODAY by visiting this website page.
http://t3k.315.mywebsitetransfer.com/membership/member
Best regards, Jeff Bosley, USMMA President www.namarchador.org paboz24@gmail.com
Alessandra Deerinck who served on the Board as Secretary and then Vice President has resigned from her position. Our thanks to Alessandra who gave willingly her time and talents in so many areas for many years.
During the last Board of Directors meeting, one Board member at large, Cathy Pierce, volunteered her service and was unanimously approved. Cathy is very passionate about our horses and has the experience to serve the USMMA well in her new position. Cathy brings her business experience, people skills, and a desire to find solutions to problems.
We thank her for volunteering to fill this important officer position.
To send in submissions, email me, Tresa, Journal Editor – montanamarchador@gmail.com
The Mangalarga Marchador was the breed profile in the August edition of Horse Illustrated. There are some errors in their reporting but we are happy to have the publicity! The errors are in the breed standard and in the dates the first Marchadors were imported into the US. We are writing a letter to the editor with the correct information and hope they will be able to publish it in a future edition.
Here are the pages for the Marchador article and ad listings.
Best regards,
Jeff Bosley
USMMA President
Sending us photos for the USMMA website or videos:
Horses need to be registered with the USMMA or the ABCCMM to be included in the video.
Photos need to be high resolution and JPEG files. That is determined by the number of pixels and the size of the file. JPEG files should be at least 1M if they are truly high resolution.
Photos should be labeled with the following information: USMMA Registration Name of the Marchador, Owner Name, Farm Name (if applicable), State or Province and Photographer credit (if applicable.)
We would prefer photos to be a horizontal format. Showing vertical photos on a large screen TV is not as attractive. We would like to fill the screen.
We would like to get photos of EVERY single Marchador in North America to be showcased in our video. However, the video producer, Randy Conilogue will decide if your submission can be used. We will make every effort to work with you to help you create or find photos of your horse that we can use.
Please email photos to drrlc@aol.com. If you have a large number of files, you can use dropbox.com and just email the link to your photos to Randy.
OPTIONAL – you can also send us video, but most video is not high enough quality to air on a large screen.
Dear USMMA Members:
Dear USMMA members,
I have something I would like to share with all of you.
Because of my horse training business, I have spoken about the Mangalarga Marchador breed to a Professor from the University of Kentucky. This contact has developed into another one from a different institution. I have been contacted by Professor Guest and Mattfeld, from the University of British Columbia about a very interesting, and innovative project about humanity and horses.
The Mangalarga Marchador breed is being considered to be part of the opening launch of the database, and they asked me to be the primary contact for the USMMA.
The Project
Breed: The Making of Modern Identity
—structured in three sections :
Scholarly publications that stimulate scholarship of equine breed, and help consolidate an international network of scholars. The first part is a collection of essays about equine breed, that is currently being developed
A traveling museum exhibit that will serve the interests of both scholars and breed organizations, promoting public interest both in specific breeds, and in the historical interconnection, and development of horse and human identity.
They have partnered with a museum for this aspect of the project, to allow teachers to visit with classes, and then “teach” issues raised by the exhibit in the classroom.The database will be one of the resources for the historical material.
At the moment the project is in the very initial stage, which is building content for the database.
The initial phase is a collection of data, and the assembly of a database about the equine breeds.
The first type of documents they are seeking for are:
– History of the breed or of key moments (decisions about standards or designation of foundation lines; movement of the breed globally; debate about the direction the breed should take)
– Primary documents related to any of the above (correspondence, charters.etc)
– Articles from breed newsletters
– Oral history from breeders, registrars etc.
– Deliberations about new influences ( artificial insemination, bridging distance while maintaining standards, new areas of performance and competition)
– Any material addressing the cultural significance and participation of the breed in Brazilian society now or in the past.
If any of you is able to contribute to this project, you can respond to this email and I will put you in touch with the Professors so you can directly send them your contribution.
I really appreciate all you can do and look forward to hearing from who is interested in contributing to this project
Sincerely,
Alessandra Deerinck
USMMA Vice President
(760) 715 1554