Laurie Klassen of SK, Canada, riding Joia-Norte was awarded the USMMA Show Subsidy for her preparation and participation in Cowboy Dressage Clinic and Show. It was their first venture into this discipline.
Take a look. Congratulations to Laurie and Joia!
From Laurie Klassen, USMMA Secretary
“Every August, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, .Canada hosts a fairly large parade through downtown. I have participated for many years.
Last year I assembled a variety of horse breeds from around the world and entered a mounted group. It was very well received by the audience. Authentic costumes to represent the breed and very professional grooming and presentation by all involved.
What a great way to showcase the Mangalarga Marchador in Portuguese show costume. Our entry won second place this year against many other horse-related entries.”
Photos are from the Horses of the World Parade with Laurie on Marchador Beethoven do Summerwind, August 2015
All photos at the BC event by Shannon Ford, published on FACEBOOK.
Dr. Kate Barcelos was in Canada presenting her paper at an Equine Conference and stayed on to complete another ABCCMM inspection, the second one in Canada!
Dana Johnsen, USMMA Board Member at Large, organized an Open House around the event and Marchadors from Alberta and British Columbia joined in! Additional invitations and participation from people who wanted to see, meet and ride a Marchador. It looked like a great event.
Kate also visited other breeders in Colorado, Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan before heading home to Brazil.
ABCCMM inspection is a prerequisite for dual ABCCMM (Brazilian) registration. It is not required for USMMA registration.
LTR.President.Jan14 2 Click here to download pdf file
January 16 2014
Dear USMMA Members and Marchador Friends
Last year, in accordance with the USMMA by-laws we elected a new Board of Directors for the association. I am impressed with the depth, passion, and geographic spread of our new board. We live from coast to coast and from Saskatoon to Scottsdale. It is a tribute to how far we have come. The new board a short bio and how to contact them follows this letter.
In our first meeting held January 12 2014, the board elected officers.
President. Rick Schatz
Vice President Jeff Bosley
Secretary Laurie Klassen
Treasurer Lynn Kelley (Eliza Frazer stays on as acting Treasurer for some part of 2014)
I will, with the new board, be working hard to connect with every Marchador owner to create a shared sense of excitement about our opportunities and goals. In 2014 we will be focused on:
If you have renewed your USMMA membership, thank you. We appreciate your support. If you haven’t, Rox Rogers and I may be calling on you to consider signing up again.
Hold on to your hats! It will be a great year – the year of the Marchador!
Best regards
Rick Schatz
USMMA President
Meet the new Board and President
Dana Johnsen, Penticton, BC, Canada hilltophoofers@gmail.com (250)-492-8225
Dana is a business owner and lifetime horse person. She currently has 3 Marchadors and her business is international Nickers Saddlery, makers of the Sensation Ride Treeless saddle. Her goal with Marchadors is to expand the exposure and knowledge of the Marchador within Canada.
Dana brings to the table for the board artistic ability, international shipping and communication experience and thoughtful decision making. She is ambitious and passionate about the Marchador breed. Other passions of hers: sustainable building and energy practices, endurance riding, dog sledding & designing new products.
Jacob Martinez, Riverside CA tlongojm@aol.com (951)-808-2183
Jacob is a Marchador breeder operating Rancho de los Cielos. He has been involved and supportive of the USMMA since its formative years – about 10 years.
Jacob has been around horses and training horses all of his life, since my uncle was the head trainer of the famous White Horses of California, the Camarillo breed. Rancho de los Cielos follows the ABCCMM tradition of inspection for breeding animals. Currently, they have 12 Marchadors and have produced over 15 “de los Cielos” foals. We have sold our foals and also many other Marchadors over the years. Before Marchadors, they owned and bred Peruvians.
His area of interest area is in advertising and merchandising for the Mangalarga Marchador breed.
Jeffrey S. Bosley Lumber Bridge, NC paboz@earthlink.net (910)-818-4856
Jeff is a retired USAF Major. who spent the last 20 years serving my country while learning leadership skills and obtaining his degree. Jeff has always loved horses and has been around them his whole life growing up on a farm, but the frequent moves necessary for a career in the USAF made his dream of owning horses a challenge. While researching different breeds 8 years ago, Jeff came across an article about the Mangalarga Marchador in the Guinness book of world records. He researched this rare breed as well as breeders in the US. After an opportunity to see the horses first hand, Jeff instantly fell in love with their athleticism and energy wrapped up in a surprising gentle disposition.
Jeff and Michelle currently own 4 Marchadors and are beginning a new adventure in becoming a breeder – SW Future Foal @ LumberBridge. Jeff brings a love for this breed as well as commitment to its success and his desire to help build the breed here.
Laurie Klassen Saskatoon, SK, Canada lauriefklassen@me.com (306) 382-8219
Laurie owns 1 Marchador gelding (Beethoven) acquired through Summerwind Marchadors and has been very active in her community promoting the MM breed for the last 3 years. She is quite knowledgeable about gaited horses because for the last 10 years, she also bred, raised and trained Tennessee Walking horses. She still owns 3 TWH, but is no longer breeding.
Laurie is very involved and active in the equine community. She was President of a women’s horse club for the last 5 years. 2-3 times a year, she hosts clinics and brings in some Master horseman to promote responsible leadership and training for horses.
Laurie and her husband have owned and operated Crestview Auto Service for 30 years. Hoping to retire soon, but is still actively involved. From her business and from her equine activities, Laurie’s organizational skills and follow-through are readily apparent to all who work with her.
Lynn Kelley Scottsdale, AZ futurefoal@gmail.com (602) 999-3915
Lynn bought her first Marchador in 2001 and so has over 10 years of history and experience with the Mangalarga Marchador horses, both here and in Brazil. With her husband, John, they own and operate SW Future Foal @ Summerwind Marchadors. SW Marchadors has imported Marchadors in the past and now import frozen semen from Brazil. 17 foals carry the name “do Summerwind”.
Lynn is retired, but her skills are varied from her business careers: information technology, customer service, marketing and innovation and planning. Lynn was one of the founding members of the US Mangalarga Marchador Association and has served on the Board for many years in various positions.
Her interests are in improving the quality and genetic diversity of the Marchador breed here and in keeping close ties with Brazil and the other Marchador associations around the world.
Rox Rogers Whitefish, MT highcountrycowgirl@centurytel.net
Rox’s love for the breed began when I purchased a gelding from Tresa Smith, Lazy T. Shortly afterwards, she and her husband traveled to Brasil with the intention of Hugh becoming a certifying Vet for the breed here in the US. They met a number of Brasilian breeders and learned about the Breed Standards and breed requirements for registry. During the two weeks of visiting numerous breeding farms, Rox was able to spend a week of riding and studying at Desempenho dressage school with Bjarke Rink.
Since that time Rox has strengthened her interest in showing the Marchador breed to their full potential. She studies in Centered Riding which is helpful in every discipline. Rox currently owns 2 Marchadors and have been involved in showing the horses in the riding disciplines of Reining, Jumping, Backcountry trail riding, and recently in Western Dressage. Rox assisted setting up the Montana Sela de Ouro in September, 2013, providing a horse for another participant.
Rox is interested in assisting with Breed Standards, Performance Sports and showing the breed to the public through various venues, especially the APEX/ABCCMM/PBR promotions coming up in 2014.
Tia Nelson Helena MT drtiadvm@aol.com (406) 442-0188
Tia and her husband Derek have enjoyed the breed since our introduction to it in 2001. They breed Marchadors with the ranch suffix Vista de Serra. Tia has traveled to Brazil two times, once in 2001 to assist in picking out breeding stock for one of my clients who raises Marchadors and the second time in 2007 to spend 3 weeks with Getulio, Henrique, Jose Eduardo and others to learn to be an inspector for this breed. Tia has been active as an adviser for the USMMA on the Breeds’ Standards Committee and has also helped with the discussion about the inspection process. She feels that the integrity of this breed is more likely to be preserved in the United States and Canada if there is an inspection process similar or identical to the inspection process used in Brazil by the ABCCMM.
As an equine veterinarian who is interested in horses in general and this breed in particular, Tia brings solid knowledge and good information to the table.
Most recently, she and her my husband worked to help make the Sela de Ouro ride a great success here in Montana in Sept 2013. They provided horses, a fun supper (in spite of the storm!), and extended our hospitality to the Judge of the Show, Tiago, and a couple from Montana who are also breeders
Rick Schatz, Kaw City, Ok. rick.schatz@yahoo.com (580) 269-2967
Rick and his wife Liz were both raised on ranches in Northern Oklahoma. Rick, a USMC Vietnam Veteran, has now retired from a long career working and living overseas with the oil industry. He resided with his family in Scotland, Kuwait, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Thailand, and Brazil to just name a few countries, he experienced during his career.
He was introduced to the Mangalarga Marchador horses while living in Brazil. Liz started riding the horses with other expat women as a social past time. She was very impressed with the horse’s temperament and smooth ride and was able to convince Rick also to start riding them. This started an adventure in 2000 that evolved from buying registered horses for him and Liz to ride. They then acquired a 500 acre Fazenda (farm) in Brasil and increased their herd size, breeding mares, from championship Brazilian stock.
Later in 2005, back in the U.S., Rick was able to import a young stallion and some mares from his breeding on the Fazenda to his Flying Oak’s Ranch in Oklahoma. Now with his Stallion “Ator Fazenda Zouga” along with the original mares and other purchased mares from US Mangalarga Marchador breeders, Flying Oaks is home to over 20 registered Mangalarga Marchadors at any one time.
Reported to Aline Greene, newsletter editor
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:
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:
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
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!
Reported to Aline Greene for the newsletter.
Great job to all members for getting out there with their Marchadors! Who else wants to report in?
Mark Waugh and Lorrie Beevers & Echo do Lucero, B & W Ranch, TN
Laurie Klassen & Beethoven do Summerwind, Saskatchewan, Canada
Aline and Peyton Greene, Saint Horse, Lexington, SC with Erva-Doce de Tesouro, Esthique do Premier & Terra do Saint Horse
Plus miles of endurance training , got to the timing of 24 miles in less than 5 hrs, with Erva -Doce and Aline, trying again in 2012!
Bill and Sandy Kambic, Haras Lucero, Kingston, TN with Apple Pie de Miami (Andante) & Aliane Fazenda Zouga (Amora)
Sandy and I participated in the 2011 National Cavalry Competition and Bivouac in September. It was held at historic Fort Reno, just west of Oklahoma City, OK. Until its closure as an active Army post, it was one of three Remount Centers that provided many thousands of horses and mules to the Cavalry, Artillery, and Quartermaster branches. During WWII it was also a large Prisoner of War camp.
We enjoyed some success at this year’s Competition. Sandy placed 2nd of 18 in Level 3 (Novice) Military Horsemanship. Bill placed 3rd of 16 in Level 2 Military Horsemanship (Intermediate). We also participated in other events, including Mounted Pistol and Mounted Saber, with less success but lots of fun. On Saturday we held a formal parade and ceremony. We mustered 70+ mounted soldiers and also had two artillery pieces from Ft. Sill, OK (about 120 south of Ft. Reno). We were very pleased that Andante and Amora stood quietly even for the firing of the 75mm gun!
Next year’s event will be at Ft. Riley, KS (about 100 miles west of Kansas City, MO).
Kristy Everson with Amadeus do Summerwind, Phoenix, AZ