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!
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.
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.
2nd place Roni Keithcart and Marchwind Cobre
Marchwind Cobre on the trail in OregonWhy we love our marchador. Because he is………
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!
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.
The award went to Sue Paris Current in Virginia! Congratulations Sue!
