Two new board members were appointed in July. Congratulations to Alessandra Deerinck, CA and Bill Dory, Alberta Canada! They replace Rox (Rogers) Hicks, who left the Board in 2015 and Laurie Klassen, our Secretary whose term will be expiring December 31, 2015.
We asked them to introduce themselves to you, the members. This month please welcome and meet Bill Dory with his own written introduction.
“How does searching for a saddle become costly. My wife Sandy had been considering purchasing one of Dana’s Sensation saddles. Dana suggested we could view one of her saddles in AZ. We scheduled a time, with some lady named Lynn, to look at her saddle. As we met with Lynn, saddle talk quickly became horse talk. Horse talk led to a ride.
On our way home it became obvious, Sandy was determined to own a MM. Well one led to three, three led to six. Six led to a larger horse trailer, bigger truck to haul larger horse trailer, now more land is required. Obviously I wouldn’t have agreed to all this,if I didn’t believe in the breed.
Horses that we own
Tory (Hilario) do Lucero, Flying Oaks Athena, Joao Ricardo do Lucero, Igor do Lucero, Jardiniera da boa fe, Yansa inMotion (photos are Igor, Tory with Sandy Dory and Athena with Sandy Dory. Bottom 2 photos by Shannon Ford.
At this time we don’t have a farm name. We’re considering the following names:
Merth
Northern lights
Sublime
Your suggestions are welcome.
I’m pleased to be part of the MM community. Everyone I’ve met in the MM community have been quality people. I’m excited on meeting other owners and introducing new people to the breed.”
The last $250 award for the year (Sept 1 – Aug 31) went to Dana Johnsen in BC, Canada! Congratulations, Dana!
Dana received the award for planning and hosting Kate Barcelos, ABCCMM inspector and trainer for the first Canadian inspection. On August 15, 2015, Dana will host an event using the inspection and Kate to bring potential MM lovers to an arena where they can meet and learn about the breed. The grant will be applied for expenses in renting the facility to host the demonstrations.
This is the second promotional event for Dana this year. Here’s her write-up of her first competition with her mare. “Valentim Beijo and I attended the annual Interior Gaited horse show in Armstrong BC in June. Her presence was curiously anticipated by many of the attendees and organizers. We entered 10 classes and walked away with 8 ribbons including 1 first place, a few seconds and thirds and a couple fourth placings. This was uncharted territory for Valentime, as she had never been in a group of horses under saddle and never been inside an enclosed arena. After the her initial inclination to exit stage left, she listened to my calming cues well and carried on. She was the first Marchador to enter a show in B.C. There was lots of interest in her conformation and way of going, with many spectators questioning if she was indeed gaiting. This was accentuated by the fact she was sharing most classes with Peruvian pasos and Tennessee walking horses, who were obvious in their gaiting ways. (no photos available) After the show, Valentim received praise from many on her behaviour and cute looks! With the intense hot weather we have been having her in the South Okanagan, one of my favourite things to do is take the horses to the lake for some reed grazing and cooling off. I have found that Marchadors really enjoy the water quite a bit. (photos attached)”
My name is Alessandra Deerinck, I own and operate HH Sensing, a horse training and horsemanship instruction operation out of San Marcos, California.
Riding Rio de los Cielos
In 2010 I experienced what it is to ride a Mangalarga Marchador, and it has added to my professional life. Since then I have worked on bringing this breed of horses to attention anywhere I work and compete. Being accepted on the 2016 BOD of the USMMA is an honor, and I will do my best to cover the role of Secretary and to bring to life the MGM Ambassador Program.
I was not “born with horses”, in Milano, Italy. I “pulled” them in my life because I always felt drawn to them like a magnet is drawn to metal. I wanted to ride, since I was two, but my Dad asked me to wait until I was eleven. A few years later he also asked me to stop because he was concerned about the dangers of riding, but I could not obey him. Riding is my passion, and has become my job. At the age of sixteen, in order to keep riding I went to work at the racetrack, exercising horses before I went to school every morning. I also earned my license and rode and won in flat races. I value the time I spent at the racetrack as well as I am thankful to my parents for insisting I graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Milano. During that time I followed the work of Dr. Bassignana, a racetrack Veterinarian and Professor at the school of Veterinary Medicine in Pisa, worked at different farms to assist in the foaling season and did student internships in small and large animal surgery. For the same doctor I illustrated with drawings and edited his book about lameness in horses.
Racing with Maglogarth 1991
I competed in flat races between 1980 and 1992, until an accident ended my racing career. In 1992 I also met Charles Deerinck, and we got married two years later. In 2005 I attempted to get a racehorse trainer license in the US, and started to exercise racehorses, but I had another major fall in which I broke my back for the third time. Too often jockeys risk their lives riding, because not much care is taken about the racehorse’s proper schooling. Since then, changing this very wrong conception became important to me, and I am very aware of how fortunate I am, being able to ride again and not having permanent consequences from my accidents. Of the many racehorses that left their influence in me, one is very special. His name was Maslogarth, an ordinary racehorse that, just for being a “good boy”, became the S Siro racetrack mascot, and earned himself lifetime room and board from this institution. Together we won and placed in several races, I was able to ride him bareback with a halter on the racetrack. On the ground, he walked at my side free of tack, even when we were between all the other horses. At that time I could not explain how I was able to work with him like that. It was spontaneous, and beautiful. Later in my life, when I met Carolyn Resnick, I understood a lot more of what I had experienced. Working with her inspired me to create HH Sensing, a new way relate to horses, based on liberty training, but rooted in the goals and nuances of classical dressage training, current horse behavioral sciences and my experience of forty years spent with horses. I have ridden in many different disciplines, trained many horses, and now, aside from being the mother of three children, I compete in any venue that is suitable for the horses I train. I believe in a comprehensive approach, and take care of any and every aspect of the horse, from managing their health and nurturing their mind, to trimming their hooves if barefoot, from training to competing if the owners would like to do so. The thrill of an endurance race is for me as exciting as teaching my horse to keep eyes and ears on me or to walk truly straight on a loose rein or to teach my skills to others.
Since the year 2009, first with Human to Horse, and now with HH Sensing, I have worked as a horsemanship clinician and horse trainer, between the US and Italy, my country of origin. I coded HH Sensing to be able to teach it online, and in traditional settings, like the clinics I have held annually for the last five years in Italy. I am a regular contributor in the training section for two different magazines, Il Mio Cavallo in Italy, and Elite Equestrian in Ocala Florida. In 2010 I translated, and got published in Italian, the book Naked Liberty, by Carolyn Resnick. Currently I am working on publishing it for her in an e-book form. During the same year I was invited to present at Cavalli a Milano, a worldwide equestrian trade show held in Italy. The same year, I presented my work at Equine Affaire in Pomona.
Clinic in Bergamo, Italy 2010Presenting at Cavalli a Milano 2010
2010 was also the year I first rode a Mangalarga Marchador. The reason this happened was because I was searching for a very smooth horse for a client, and in my quest I called Jacob and Theresa at Rancho de Los Cielos. My client bought a Mangalarga Marchador from another breeder, but they asked me to go back and work with their horses. Rio de los Cielos was the first horse I worked with at Rancho de Los Cielos. I will always remember the very first moment, the two of us in the arena, no restraints of any kind. We were both standing still. His big eyes were asking me to start moving. I was hesitating because I did not know him at all. As soon as I stepped out, he moved with me like my shadow, even following me when I leaped in the air. When I went from working on the ground to riding Rio, I realized the reason why we all fall in love with Mangalarga Marchadors. Rio was very light, attentive, relaxed; he moved effortlessly at each gait. He always seemed to be asking me what I wanted to do. More than anything else, he was easy. I felt like I was with a friend.
The same year I recommended another student of mine in Italy to buy a Mangalarga Marchador, and after exploring together the horses available in Europe, he bought a mare from Max de Vroet in France. I also connected with the AIAMM (the Italian association of MM breeders) and with Domingos Lollobrigida in Brazil, while I was studying about the breed to better my ability to train and portray it in my articles. I have published numerous articles about Mangalarga Marchadores, in Italian and English magazines, and still cannot feel I exhausted what I have to say about them, because my daily experience continuously adds subjects, and improves my knowledge.
Riding Allegria de Los Cielos in the Swallow Day Parade in San Juan Capistrano, with the attire we will use for the Rose Parade 2016
I have worked with most of Rancho de Los Cielos horses using my HH Sensing approach, and have ridden almost all of them, but Allegria de los Cielos is my favorite. I introduced her to endurance in 2012 and now I have her in training; together we are bound to go to the Tournament of Roses Parade for 2016, because we competed in endurance and we are part of the AERC Parade Riders.
In the past ten months, with Allegria, I won the title of Champion mare 2014 in Las Vegas, participated in rail shows, trail competitions, cowboy challenges, endurance LD rides and I am training for another endurance ride in October.
I own two mares, a TB 14 y/o named Downtown Rosalie, that has been with me since 2006, and Aria de Los Cielos, my own Mangalarga Marchador out of Rio de Los Cielos and 1681 Marengo de Tosana. Aria was born in 2012 and is ready to start her training in the fall. I put a lot of care in the upbringing of this horse, to set up the conditions for having a great relationship and look forward to the near future.
With Aria de Los Cielos at birth.With Aria de Los Cielos as a foal.Aria de los Cielos
Well, spring has finally arrived and for us the rainfall has been a blessing. The first time in years we have seen our ponds running over (tanks for you Texans). Seeing the national weather map it seems that most of the country are having good rains also. So I hope where ever you are, enjoy the spring.
Noticing on Facebook, I am seeing quite a few new Marchador foals and every one of them are beauties. We also have four new foals this year so far. Three fillies and one colt, a different combination than the last two years which has been more colts than fillies. Last year I was reading an article in one equine editorial. Mares whom are overweight would always have more colts than fillies. So I was thinking I would continue having an overabundance of colts since our mares never seem to miss a meal such as myself. Well maybe the article is not entirely correct for this year. We’ll see what happens next year.
Last month I made another visit to Brazil to see how the collection of embryos was progressing at CrioHorse clinic. Several Brazilian major breeders had their selected mares and stallions at CrioHorse usually a ratio of one stallion for fifteen mares from the breeder’s farms. This is just a generic ratio since they also use a lot of frozen semen and the physical presence for a stallion is not needed. The breeding season was starting to taper down and during my visit. They only had about seventy five donor mares at the clinic as opposed to a normal number of one hundred or more mares. Naturally it is always good to see a large selection of mares and there were several that really stood out from others from my view point of course the product from these mares and stallions is what really counts. There was a good assortment of colors and not as many greys as years pass.
The future for imported embryos from Brazil to North America is becoming more realistic now that USDA has given approval for the first shipment of embryos. There are still more formalities/protocols in Brazil to satisfy the regulatory authorities there before the first ever shipment of equine embryos to North America takes place. I and others in Brazil who are working very hard to make this happen are confident it will happen soon.
It was great to visit the ABCCMM office in Belo Horizonte seeing Fabio Vilela, Ricardo Xavier and many other good friends. Fabio and Ricardo were very helpful in sorting out ABCCMM registration issues with horses in North America that had been submitted by other members. He was able to finalize the permanent ABCCMM registration for one of my mares. As per Magdi Shaat, President ABCCMM, and Fabio Vilela, General Manager ABCCMM, they are still willing to work with Mangalarga Marchador owner’s in North America that have ABCCMM registration issues and each case will be handled
separately. An owner needs to collect all relevant information for a particular horse, pedigree history, DNA analysis, recent photos showing all sides and markings. I am available for any assistance needed since I am traveling to Brazil quite often and attending this year’s 34th National Expo in July. Lynn Kelley has also given a lot of help for others in the past and I am sure she will also be glad to help any Mangalarga Marchador owner to resolve registration issues.
In respect to the 34th National Exposition this year from July 15-25 in Belo Horizonte, I will be attending and look forward to seeing other USMMA members there. Last year the ABCCMM was very gracious in comping hotel rooms and a two day Mangalarga Marchador historic trip to myself and several other USMMA members during the 33 National Expo. This year ABCCMM are hosting the European Mangalarga Marchador members so at this time I have not had any confirmation for available complimentary hotel accommodations for USMMA members. I would not let hotel room cost to deter you from making the trip to the Expo and visiting Brazil. The exchange rate for Brazil Reals vs USD is 2.994 so now is an excellent time for Brazil travel.
So I am opening an invitation to all USMMA members and friends to attend the Expo with me and if there are members that would also like to make the Mangalarga Marchador historic tour. I am sure we can arrange that along with other trips to nearby Fazenda’s and historic areas. The trip last was great with members from Canada and USA and maybe a few of them will return. Next year travel to Brazil will be complicated by the 2016 Olympics and the exchange rate will probably not be as good. It would be excellent to have another great showing from the USMMA members attending the Expo this year and giving our support to the ABCCMM association and the Brazil Saddle Horse project, if you are interested in attending send me your information. The earlier we start planning for attending group. The trip will be a lasting memory.
I do not want to take away from other Mangalarga Marchador activities happening this year. Our annual clinic is scheduled for Labor Day weekend in Aiken, S.C., Jeff Bosley, Vice President USMMA, and other members assisting Jeff will be managing this great annual event. Looking forward to seeing a large USMMA member turn out for this clinic, more information will be forth coming soon. Another Mangalarga Marchador clinic is proposed to happen in Okanagan, BC, Canada August 9-12, 2015 organized by Dana Johnsen with Kate Barcelos, ABCCMM inspector, instructor and trainer of gaited horses. Dana already has several Marchador owners committed to the clinic. So we are also looking forward to seeing a good attendance for this clinic. There have already been smaller equine events with Mangalarga Marchadors such as Susan Current holding one in Virginia last month. In California, Jake Martinez attending “Fiesta of Spanish Horses” along with Deerinck Alessandra and many other events
there demonstrating their handsome Marchadors. Kendall Melline another Marchador owner has also been very active in presenting her Mangalarga Marchadors at events. Aline Greene is always out there in endurance competition with her Marchadors with very good results. I know there are many more of our members out there not only demonstrating the Mangalarga Marchador talents in flesh and then they have their smart phones out showing their photos to other equine interested persons. So thanks to all of you that are continuing to spread the word about our great horses the Mangalarga Marchador.
Our USMMA Board of Directors of eight has one opening now and another one will be available after first of year, if you would like to help us to keep the “Standard of Excellence” in this organization that was set from the founding members and has continued to this day. By working together we can continue to develop and take it to the next higher level. Please submit your name to me if interested and during our next board meeting we will have a vote for the next Board Member.
Enjoy your next Marchador ride and have a better tomorrow. Best Regards,
Rick Schatz
rick.schatz@yahoo.com
FOSH is the Friends of Sound Horses, an international gaited horse association. They love all gaited breeds and their magazine featured the Mangalarga Marchador this month.
Please consider joining this fine association or looking to attend some of their clinics and shows!
To read or download the article, click here below to follow the link to the on-line magazine.
The award went to Sue Paris Current in Virginia! Congratulations Sue!
The award is a MEMBER BENEFIT. A subsidy is available for members who apply to offset the costs of the show, event or expo where the member will promote the Marchador breed on behalf of themselves and the USMMA. $250 per show entry is available. The show subsidy is managed by Board Member Laurie Klassen. Please download and submit this form to apply. USMMA Sponsorship Grant 2015
Sue presented her Marchador gelding Folego do Lucero at the 5th Annual Spring Equine Extravaganza on April 12, 2015 held in Front Royal, VA.
Sue writes “Folego was a superstar! Not one person I met up there had heard of a Mangalarga Marchador, so I feel that my mission was accomplished in introducing our breed to many folks who now know what a MM is!
I put together a script for the announcer and rode a pattern (of sorts!) to music by Enrique Inglesias, had a good latin beat and suited Folego. I rode in the morning, then rode in the Parade of Breeds then did another musical ride after lunch. We received lots of positive comments 🙂 Folego loved the attention from everyone!
I had gone by myself, so the difficult part was setting up the table and having to tack up and un-tack and be at the booth, so I was pretty exhausted later in the day especially after a 5 hour drive home – but it was worth it….it was all good 🙂
In general, I think it was a successful outing. I heard that the attendance was down from the previous year, so that was a little disappointing. However, there are a lot of people in Northern Virginia who now know what a Marchador is that didn’t last week!!”
For her efforts, Sue received a check to cover all the show expenses and shipping of some Marchador show materials. Well done!
