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| July, 31st, 2010 | Update from the ASAV-BOD: The ASAV BOD had a meeting end of June to discuss the latest information Denis Atam brought back from the ISG-Delegates Meeting in Stadl-Paura. The Board of Directors were all in favor and made an unanimous decision to submit a membership application to ISG. Based on the recent changes to the ISG by-laws it is possible now that more than one association per country can become ISG member. The Board of Directors will keep the ASAV membership informed about any updates in that matter. More information about the ISG delegates meeting can be found in the Summer Edition of the 2010 ASAV Newsletter. ASAV Awards & Performance Program: The ASAV Registrar records any performance related information of ASAV registered horses. This practice has been in place for many years and is kept up-to-date in the ASAV registry. Performance related accomplishments will count towards ISG performance requirements for Shagya breeding stock according to the RZBO (ISG-General Rules and Studbook Regulations). In addition ASAV gives away each year Awards to horse participating in the ASAV Award Program. |
| May, 8th, 2010 | ASAV Annual Membership Meeting Update: Congratulations to the following re-elected and new ASAV BOD members: Region 1 North: Donna Coss Region 2 South: Valerie Bullock Region 3 Pacific: Kilian Dill Region 4 West: Carolyn Tucker The meeting protocol of the 2010 annual ASAV membership meeting be posted once the meeting minutes are finalized. |
| April, 21st, 2010 | Message from the ASAV President Kilian Dill:
Learner Judge Denis Atam That Denis Atam (ASAV BOD member) has been invited and accepted an invitation to act as learner judge at the ISG Delegates/Shagya Championship event to be held in Austria on June 12th & 13th. Congratulations Denis, as he will soon be a full-fledged ISG judge. |
| April, 19th, 2010 | Message from the ASAV President Kilian Dill:
ASAV Judging Clinic WEG2010 Most of you should have received your membership letter by now. If not, it should arrive shortly. Within that letter are given details concerning our upcoming elections, the next National Shagya Distance Challenge endurance race and our two-part National meeting. The next newsletter will give more details. The second part of our National meeting will be held concomitant with the WEG Games in Kentucky. Our meeting is September 26, 26, 27 at the farm of Darlene Stevens. Dr. Walter Huber, a long time highly respected Shagya breeder and an ISG certified judge will be giving a Shagya Judging Clinic during the days of our meeting. It will be a formal clinic on the correct judging of the Shagya horse. The clinic is sponsored by ASAV. Auditors may attend and the non-member public is welcome. Full certification fee for the clinic is $50.00. |
| April, 17th, 2010 | Message from the ASAV President Kilian Dill:
Jump-Start-Program & Spring Newsletter The ASAV-BOD would like to thank all who have participated, so far, in the 2010 Jump Start Breeding Program. Once again, the program is a success as it has managed to recover funds spent on a multi-prong international advertisement initiative. The additional funds will be spent on programs to advance the Shagya breed and aid ASAV in the development of new organizational endeavors. The Jump Start Program is still ongoing, so it there is still time to participate. Please check out are website and PARTICIPATE! We anticipate the release of the Spring newsletter late next week. Within that newsletter, we have decided to place a detailed agenda for the social portion (clinics, etc.) of our National Meeting in September. You will be please by the program that has been assembled. Special thanks go to Denis Atam for setting it up and to Darlene Stevens for hosting the international affair. |
| March, 30th, 2010 |
ASAV Award Program Update: The ASAV gives two breed awards at the AERC convention to a Shagya bred horse competing at AERC distance rides. A high mileage award counting both LD and Endurance miles and a high point award. One horse won both this year, MJL Olivia owned and ridden by Monique Vincent. Other Shagya bred and ASAV registered horses competing in AERC distance riding in 2009 were: KS Rubin, SA Te Jat, SA Belshazzar, SA Edashick, SA Ireesh Tenor, SA Keid, SA Ferr Rona's Vega, WineGlass Debonair, WineGlass Dominus, Rennaissance, Lily Creek Stetson, Lily Creek Dancin, and Lily Creek Nobelest. ASAV recognizes any Shagya bred horse that completes a 100 mile ride in one day. They join the HMSS Elite (Hundred Mile Shagya Society, . Previous inductees are: Janos, SW Omega, SMR Fayette De Cameo, SMR Garcon, SMR Zoltan, and Piatti +/. For 2009 MJL Olivia is inducted The 2009 Just Do It competing horses are: Adara, Thea and Isis. Awards for ASAV 2009 nominated horses will be awarded at the ASAV dinner at the WEG in Lexington, dinner date to be announced on the ASAV website. |
| January, 27th, 2010 | ASAV-Newsletter: ASAV has achieved a level of excellence in a relatively short time. As we move into 2010, we are looking for ways to be more effective and efficient with projects that need to be completed by our volunteers. Our quarterly newsletter, which in the past primarily has been compiled and published by Daunna Sellers. In the last few years, Donna Coss took over the work load. The newsletter will now be administered by a committee, who I have recently appointed to do the job. The newsletter will have deadlines and publications dates that will be posted on the website well in advance so material can be gathered, edited, and prepared in a consistent manner. Our newsletter is being read and distributed Internationally, and ASAV is very excited about this. ASAV are striving to be the best in all areas of the Shagya world and the newsletter is representative of our efforts. It can be downloaded and printed to use as a handout for those who are interested in what we do and who we are. All newsletter submissions and ad copy need to be sent to: newsletter@shagyaregistry.com All pictures need to be send in jpg form. We will keep the newsletter around 16 pages. If you wish to submit an article for consideration please keep it around 1,200 words. We would also like to keep the font consistent and ask that you use aerial. All submissions need to be Word.doc friendly, in order to make our job easier. The deadline for the April issue is March 31, 2010. We already have a interesting and almost full line-up for the upcoming April news, so get your information in soon. Thank you, Kilian Dill, President ASAV |
| January, 11th, 2010 | ASAV Breed Award: ASAV will sponsor the Breed Award for Shagya-Arabians at the North American Trail Ride Conference (NATRC). This is in addition to the AERC Shagya-Arabian high mileage award that ASAV has given over the past few years. Both will be given at the AERC convention, which will be held in Reno, Nevada this year (end of February 2010). NATRC has nominated a winner for 2009 (Eric Nelson and his stallion Max). Because the convention will be held very shortly, we accept the nominee provided by NATRC (Congrats to Eric). For 2010, we will compile points and take ride reports within ASAV. Look for details on the ASAV web site---coming shortly. |
| January, 11th, 2010 | Video-Clip about ASAV 2009 Annual Membership
Meeting: American Shagya Arabian Verband (ASAV) annual meeting. Every year ASAV has an annual meeting in the eastern or the western United States. In 2009, the meeting was held in the high desert of Oregon, east of the Cascade mountains. Doug and Karen Bish were kind enough to host the meeting at the Hawkview ranch in Bend, Oregon. The meeting contains clinics, exhibits, demonstrations and invited speakers; some of these speakers are from outside of North America. This year Dr. Maren Engelhardt of east Prussia (Trakehners International) was kind enough to accept our invitation and provide the plenary lecture. A video of the annual meeting is posted on the ASAV web site and can be viewed at: http://www.shagyaregistry.com/Shagya%20Videos/2009_Annual_Mtg_Videos.html Also see a demonstration by the First California Hussar Regiment charge---re-enacted by Frank Bakonyi. |
| January, 9th, 2010 | ASAV Newsletter Spring 2010 Edition: Submission deadline for articles and advertisements is March 31st, 2010. The publication date is targeted for April 15th. Please send your content from now on to: newsletter@shagyaregistry.com |
| January, 9th, 2010 | Update from the ASAV President Kilian Dill
(--> Shagya-Forum Posting): For those of you who speak Norwegian, the ASAV newsletter is even posted on the Norwegian web-site: www.shagya.no ASAV is getting more and more attention and recognition internationally and is on its way to become the primary English speaking Global Shagya platform. Our August Newsletter was viewed/downloaded over 2500 times and the Jump-Start program 2009 even over 4300 times – those numbers just speak for themselves. The next release of our newsletter (April 2010) is already in progress and will again contain lots of interesting information for the domestic and international Shagya community. |
| January, 7th, 2010 | ASAV Newsletter Winter 2009/2010 is
linked and also available on the following web-sites: www.Endurance.NET ---> see bitmap01 & bitmap02 www.shagya.no ---> see bitmap |
| January, 5th, 2010 | ASAV Shagya Jump-Start Program 2010 launched - check the Jump-Start Program page for details. |
| January, 4th, 2010 | ASAV Newsletter Winter 2009/2010 Edition available now here ... |
| November, 23rd, 2009 | ASAV-BOD & Officers Update: Karen Bish is the new ASAV secretary. The BOD wants to thank Elisha Morehead for being the ASAV secretary for many years. Elisha always did a fantastic job and carried out her responsibilities with accuracy and diligence. Thanks again to Elisha and Welcome on board Karen!! |
| November, 23rd, 2009 | ASAV-BOD Meeting was held on
11/21/2009 - meeting minutes will be published in ASAV Newsletter Outlook 2010: *Because of the great success of the Jump Start Program in 2009 - ASAV will offer the program again in 2010, but with a revised fee schedule. 2009 Fall/Winter Newsletter: Please send your input, farm news, etc. to the ASAV newsletter editor (Donna Coss). |
| October 1st, 2009 | ISG-Judge-Certification: Denis Atam has participated from ASAV side as one of the learner judges during the National Shagya Championate in Radautz (Romania). This Championship brings him closer to become an ISG recognized & certified ISG judge to be available to ASAV in the future. |
| September, 2nd, 2009 | Shagya Stallion Analysis based on
the International Stallionbook Ingrid Zeunert ... read more about this interesting analysis here ... (file size is 2 MB - download time could vary based on your connection) |
| August, 27th, 2009 | WEG2010 Outlook: There is a possible participation of Shagya-Arabians from Kentucky in the 2010 WEG (World Equestrian Games) - ridden by the First California Hussar Regiment ... read more ... |
| August, 16th, 2009 | News from around the World - Article about
Shagyas in South-America: Shagyas arriving in Colombia - by Gertrud von Fedak |
| August, 12th, 2009 | AERC - Endurance News on Air (RFD-TV): I am proud to announce that the television program about endurance riding which AERC has sponsored with All Around Performance Horse will be aired for the first time on RFD-TV this Thursday, the 13th. Please go to the AERC website, and refer the upper left hand corner to find out all about it and airing times. AERC Director Michael Campbell and I are primarily responsible for the show, and I think it is offers an excellent and very positive introduction to our sport and its founding principles. We hope you like it as well. It will be aired six times over the next few months, and will be exposed to over six million homes. I look forward to everyone's feedback. Bruce Weary |
| August, 10th, 2009 | Update from the ASAV-BOD - AERC Sponsorship: ASAV is a new AERC silver sponsor. Our sponsorship is $500 annually. The BOD made the decision to feature ASAV on this site because of the support they give ASAV and the Shagya breed. In return for the sponsorship, we will be on their web site (with a link to our site). In addition, we get a banner at the AERC National meeting and we will be in the newsletter every month. If you would like to help ASAV sponsor this advertising, you will be noted as a sponsor on the ASAV website including a link directed to your website if you have one for your farm. Any donation will be appreciated. Mail donations directly to Daunna Sellers, 15918 Porter Rd, Verona, KY 41092 |
| July, 5th, 2009 | ASAV NEWSLETTER: Please send your Ads, announcements, articles and photographs of your new foals for the Summer issue of the ASAV Newsletter to Donna Coss at cossdj@gmail.com. If you have a nice photo of one of your horses, new baby or anything you feel would make a good cover photo, please send it, too. If your photos ends up on the cover, you will receive a FREE full page Ad in the Summer Newsletter. TOPICS OF INTEREST: FARM NEWS! HORSES FOR SALE: HALF PAGES...............ONLY $10 FULL PAGE.................$25.00 EXAMPLES OF THIS "SHAGYA MIND THING"! IT IS REAL! SEND US SOME EXAMPLES, STORIES, ANYTHING THAT PROVES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT "YES, OUR HORSES ARE SPECIAL"! (THIS COULD BECOME AN ARTICLE ALSO FOR GENERAL PUBLICATION) We would like to add your comment to the discussion of: INSPECTIONS, ARE YOU PRO OR CON? Should they be a requirement or is PERFORMANCE a better criteria for the Shagya breed? ASAV IS IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING a guideline for PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS. Please send in your comments of WHAT YOU BELIEVE SHOULD BE INCLUDED? ASAV WILL BE BACK IN KENTUCKY for it's 2010 ANNUAL Meeting and probably during the WEG EQUESTRIAN GAMES. Would you like to participate in this meeting and do you have any ideas for it's success? AN OPEN FORUM of what you believe are some of the successes and some of the problems that Shagya breeders are facing today? SHOW RESULTS OR RIDE RESULTS. Send us your news and we always welcome stories about your experiences on the trail or in the show ring. How many of you are competing in DRESSAGE? If anyone chooses to remain anonymous, your name may be withheld at your request. |
| June, 29th, 2009 | As many of our ASAV members can attest to the Shagya breed blends well with many of the other breeds. The
Shagya is indeed seen as the “Great Improver” by many. At the ASAV convention this year Dr. Maren
Engelhardt gave us a wonderful overview of how influential the Shagya blood has been for years in the TK breeding program. And she listed a great many of the top performance TK’s who have benefited and excelled in their sports from our blood lines. More and more our breed is being appreciated by breeders on the warm blood side.
It makes sense then that Shagya breeders partner up or support breed organizations such as the American Warmblood Society who understand the value of high quality cross bred horses. In that light ASAV wants to make our members aware of an AWS Warmblood Inspection being held Sept 12 at Karen Bish’s, Hawkview Ranch in Bend, Oregon. As stated on their web site “The AWS is an international non-profit performance/Breed registry whose only goal and purpose is to represent, promote, award and aid in the development of talented sport horses of all bloodlines from the grass roots through the Olympic levels”. Details about the inspection criteria appear on the AWS web site. The AWS focuses on an educational format at their inspections so this will also be a learning experience. The horses are not judged to a breed specific criteria but rather to desirable conformation and desirable movement criteria. Several Shagya’s will be presented. If you’d like more information see the AWS web site or contact Karen Bish at (541) 388-1410 for details or inspection entries. |
| June, 25th, 2009 | The
ASAV 2009 Challenge Cup Endurance Race
(50 miles) will be held on September 19th in Brothers, Oregon.
We will piggyback onto the Oregon-100/PAC North Fundraiser
(AERC)---12/25/50/75 Elevator. ASAV will provide food at the morning of
the awards. The ride manager is Carol Giles/Charleen Farrell of Prineville, Oregon. Charleen can be reached at 541-419-5722. All AERC ride fees apply. Note that to compete for the cup, Shagya owner(s) must be a member (s) of ASAV and the horse must be registered with ASAV. Details concerning the ride (flyer) will be published in the next newsletter and placed on our web site |
| June, 19th, 2009 | Karen Bish has offered Hawkview ranch (Bend, Oregon) as an
Inspection Site for
the American Warmblood Society. The inspection is scheduled for Sept. 12th. If
you wish to have your Shagya inspected for inclusion into AWS (breeding), please
call Karen. http://www.americanwarmblood.org/calendars/inspections.htm |
| June, 5th, 2009 | 2 new educational articles submitted by Nancy Skakel
available also on our web-site now: Randy Bickel - Barefoot Farrier Frank Bakoni - The Legend of a Hussar |
| May, 6th, 2009 | Influence of the Shagyas in the Trakehners - a report about Herakles TSF from Dr. Maren Engelhardt. |
| May, 5th, 2009 | The 2009 ASAV Annual Membership Meeting was a great
success - find out more from the
Meeting Report and have a look at the Meeting
Picture Gallery! ASAV 2009 Annual Meeting See what you missed at the 2009 ASAV Annual Meeting!  Sarvar PFF (*Shandor x Sjonja) |
| April, 27th, 2009 |
ASAV Newsletter
Spring 2009 & Special Annual Meeting Edition - is online
available now. Read an interesting article about the need for Inspections here in North America. |
| April, 26th, 2009 | Update from the Youth-Program Director - Kesleigh
Lehman: I need your help in creating a buzz about Shagyas. I need all the information I can get. I need to be able to show the youth and cyber world that Shagyas are active. Here is what I need: Photos of you and your Shagya(s), or just your Shagyas. Please include name, sire and dam, and if you were at an event, what the event was and what you placed. Personal stories- let the world know why your Shagya shines! I want to include a "spotlight" feature every two weeks on myspace to help draw in readers. Tell a personal story of when your Shagya came through for you, in and out of the show ring; or how special it was when that little foal was born, or how your Shagya has touched someone's else's life besides yours. Let me know when you have competed and how you did. A couple of paragraphs will do. Include Photos! Ads of Shagyas for sale if you have any. Or stallion services. I have over 700 active members on myspace, and that number grows every day! - its a great and free way to advertise. Let your friends' kids know about the Shagya in anyway you can. I will be sending a flyer about the ASAV Youth Program soon so that you can go around and post the flyer around your local area. |
| April, 24th, 2009 | ASAV-Annual Meeting: BIO & Speaker Profile Dr. Maren
Engelhardt ASAV is indeed honored that we can attract breeders and people of such historical significance to our meetings. Dr. Maren Engelhardt The fifth generation of an East Prussian family dedicated to the Trakehner horse, Dr. Maren Engelhardt combines a unique background of competitive riding at the international level with the perspective of a successful breeder and judge of Trakehner performance horses. Maren has been involved in breeding and showing Trakehner sport horses for her entire live, primarily in eventing and dressage. A PhD in Neurogenetics, she is a post doctoral scholar at UCLA Medical School today and an active member of both the German Trakehner Verband and the American Trakehner Association, where she holds the position of Chair of the Education Committee. She regularly contributes to international equestrian publications such as Der Trakehner (Germany), The American Trakehner (USA), Horse International (Holland, Official FEI publication), the online news service of the World Breeding Federation of Sport horses (WBFSH) and others. Sought after as a clinician as well, she has been invited as a teacher and speaker at various equestrian events, seminars and clinics. |
| April, 23rd, 2009 | ASAV-Newsletter Update: !! 1 Full Page Free
Advertisement for ASAV Members!! Our newsletter editor still can take your FULL page advertisement for the ASAV Newsletter that will be published before the annual meeting. Submission deadline is Saturday, April 25th. The advertising is FREE, but you must be a member of ASAV. Contact the ASAV membership chairperson for info about joining ASAV. The dues are a very reasonable $25. Join and support a group that is holding exciting clinics and an OPEN annual meeting every year. An association that is advertising in numerous publications and on the internet. Members who are regularly contributing to countless magazines in order to really promote the SHAGYA horse. And best of all, a board of directors that are all active breeders and who are constantly working on new ideas and challenging the old methods. MAYBE IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE! |
| April, 11th, 2009 | ASAV-Annual Meeting: Dr. Maren Engelhardt
will be one of the ASAV 2009 Annual Membership Keynote Speakers. Come
and join the ASAV Annual Membership Meeting in Bend Oregon from May
1st-3rd to listen & learn from the experts! Trakehner-International Web-Site: The ASAV-Annual Meeting is listed/mentioned on the Trakehner-International Web-Site! Here the link to the Page at the time when it was published. Here the link to the announcement/listing. |
| April, 10th, 2009 | Jump Start-Program-Update: Not all stallions are available anymore - check the Jump-Start Page for details, which stallions are still available! |
| April, 8th, 2009 | Update from the ASAV-President Kilian Dill: The ASAV Jump Start Breeding Program and the ASAV National Meeting are now pages 1 & 2 of the Arabian E News www.arabianEnews.com. Check out the Arabian E-Newsletter - April 2009 issue. The ASAV board has elected to extend the Jump Start Breeding Program until July 31st. It is still time to select and purchase your Shagya breeding for this year. Because of the many programs the ASAV BOD has instituted and the aggressive membership recruiting efforts, it is anticipated that membership will increase by 50% compared to last year. We are already well above last years numbers. |
| April, 4th, 2009 | ASAV-Annual Meeting 2009: Agenda ASAV Annual Meeting Sign-Up Form |
| March, 13th, 2009 | Message from the ASAV-President Kilian Dill: We now have our Jump Start Breeding Program Advertisement and article up on Endurance Net. In addition look for our article, "New push for rare Shagya horse breed", which just appeared (March 13, 2009)on Horse Talk--New Zeeland: http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2009/03/066.shtml. ASAV currently has several additional articles coming out with various advertisements. Don't forget the annual meeting---we have a block of rooms set aside at a local motel, where we will also have the member's meeting at their conference room. A great time will be had by all. |
| February, 23rd, 2009 | Further Clarification about
the 7/16 Rule and the wrong/misleading categorization
of Part-Shagya-Arabians: 7/16 Rule & Part-Shagya-Arabian Clarification Sample Pedigree |
| February, 22th, 2009 | Message from the ASAV-President Kilian Dill: A report of the ASAV presentation at PNER is now on our web site. ASAV had a spectacular booth at the AERC meeting held in Louisville. The BOD was kind enough to donate several items to the AERC raffle, one of which was a FREE breeding. After much wrangling and trading, the winner of the breeding was an internationally renowned traveler and endurance rider Steph Teeter. ASAV president Kilian Dill presented the ASAV-Shagya high mileage award at the AERC banquet. The winner for 2008 is Monique Vincent. Our award is part of their published breeds program. Look for our articles in the AERC magazine and the Northwest Horse Source. Look for our full page advertisement in the PNER newsletter and our ad in the AERC magazine. |
| February, 5th, 2009 | PNER - Great Success for ASAV! The Pacific Northwest Endurance Riders conference was a tremendous success. There was interest in our Jump Start Breeding Program and in membership within ASAV; it is anticipated that the membership for 2009 will exceed that of 2008. Already we are on track to match the 2008 membership numbers in about one month. Photos of the meeting will appear on our website in a week or two. The BOD would like to thank Denis and Irmi Atam for providing the great wine from their fledgling winery. We will be repeating this Promotion and Recruiting effort at the American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) convention in Louisville in a two weeks. Please come visit us at booth #21 in the historic Galt House in Louisville (Feb. 20-21). |
| January, 30th, 2009 | PNER:
Pacific North Endurance Riders Fair from 01/30/09 until 02/01/09 in
Portland, Oregon. Come and visit us at the fair where ASAV has a booth! Check out the Event Report & Picture Gallery! |
| January, 23rd, 2009 |
LEXINGTON, KY—The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games has a new look on the Web! Today the World Games 2010 Foundation officially launched a new Web site for the 2010 Games, at www.feigames2010.org. |
| January, 14th, 2009 | Launch of the
ASAV 2009 Jump-Start Program! The program is open until May 1st, 2009. Information about participating Stallions and detailed program information - please go to the ASAV 2009 Jump-Start Program page! |
| January, 2nd, 2009 |
ASAV Studbook is Online now! Several different views/selections for each of the different horse categories are available: • Shagyas • Appendix-Shagyas • Shagya-Sportlos • Anglo Shagyas Within each categories also the sub-sections for: • Stallions • Mares • Geldings A complete view (entire database/studbook) is also available. You also can sort each list by the list header (click on the header and the list will either sort alphabetically or by value/date). Please contact the ASAV Registrar in case you see any errors with any of the pedigrees or information recorded. For ASAV members all pedigrees are available as separate file. A CD with all pedigrees will be made available for ASAV members for a small fee as well as a printed version of the ASAV studbook. Each online pedigree is approx. 250-300 kb in size. We have currently 152 registered horses. |
| December, 23rd, 2008 | Happy Holidays! A Happy Holidays to all from the ASAV BOD. ASAV had hoped to provide the Shagya community with our winter newsletter before Christmas. However, it has been delayed a bit due to an overwhelming response to our 2009 Jump Start Breeding program. To date we have added 15 stallions to our list, some with multiple breedings. Thus the program will provide about 25 breedings for mare owners who desire a Shagya foal. ASAV will be offering these horses for a fee of $200 per breeding. Details will be provided in our newsletter and the ASAV web site. ASAV has procured a promotional booth at the Pacific Northwest Endurance Riders conference (PNER), to be held in Portland, January 30 – February 1st. Look for our article and advertisement in the February issue of the AERC newsletter. We will also be hosting a promotional booth at the AERC national convention. |
| December, 16th, 2008 | ASAV 2009 Jump Start Program: details available now |
| December, 3rd, 2008 | The "NW Horse Source Magazine" will be publishing a breed profile of the Shagya in their April, 2009 issue. This magazine has a circulation of 23,000 across the northwest. They will list the announcement of our annual meeting for free. Their ad rates are very reasonable and include web posting on their site. ASAV would like to encourage their members who have foals or horses for sale, or stallions at stud, to support this magazine by placing an ad to run with our breed profile. They will group our ads with the profile for maximum impact. Advertisement deadline is the 5th of the month before, so March 5th. |
| November, 30th, 2008 | The article "Shagyas Are Finding Their Way to the Southeast" by Nancy Skakel will appear in the December issue of SouthEastern Distance Riders Association. Several other articles will be out shortly. ASAV has also committed to advertisements in various horse magazines and promotional booths at several meetings in the near future. We strive to promote the Shagya and provide the most value for your membership dollar. We hope to see everyone in Kentucky at the national AERC meeting. Stop by our booth. |
| November, 22nd, 2008 | ASAV 2008 Christmas Gift - Special Offer:
"Haven't found the right present for your loved one or riding buddy yet? How about a membership with ASAV for one year?" ASAV offers a special Christmas gift to renew your own membership and include another membership as a gift for someone else (for new members only, who haven't had a membership with ASAV before) for a reduced price. Get your own membership for $25 and another "sponsored one" for $15. The perfect opportunity/gift to get more people engaged with the Shagyas & ASAV – a membership friendly & open breeders association for the promotion & registration of horses with Shagya-Arabian bloodlines." |
| November, 18th, 2008 | "Shagya-Arabers in Endurance" was published in the breed spotlight section of the November issue of the Pacific Northwest Endurance Riders Magazine. We thank Nancy Skakel for writing this great article. Look for many additional articles to appear in regional and national magazines in the forthcoming months. ASAV will also sponsor Promotion Booths at various meetings held in the USA in the future. |
| November, 9th, 2008 |
ASAV National Meeting 2009: ASAV would like your input. One focal area at our national meeting next year will be endurance riding. We wish to bring in some top-notch speakers within this field as well as recognize Shagya horses(s) that have done exceptionally well at national/international events. Please feel free to contact your regional director and give him/her any input on speakers and horses. |
| October, 28th, 2008 |
ASAV October
Newsletter is Online available. Try also http://issuu.com/asav/docs/asavnewsletter-final (Especially recommended for members with slow Internet-Connections) ASAV now has 5 articles in press or submitted for publication to various magazines (thanks to Nancy Skakel). These articles describe the use of Shagyas in endurance riding and also the 7/16 rule for the breeding of Shagyas. The manuscripts will be published in - American Endurance Ride Conference - Pacific Northwest Endurance Rides - Southeastern Distance Riders Association Look for ASAV to place a plethora of articles and advertisements in magazines before the end of the year. The winter issue of the ASAV newsletter will contain the details of the ASAV 2009 Jump Start breeding program. The stallions that will be offered for breeding are listed. The breeding fee for each stallion is a nominal $200; this is for all ASAV members. However, not included are collection, shipping, and AI costs. If you wish participate, one needs to simply become a member of ASAV. |
| October, 15th, 2008 | The joint AERC/AHA National Endurance ride is this weekend (10/17) in Henryville, Indiana. ASAV is providing a cookout, free of charge. Shagya literature will be available at the table next to our cookout facility. In addition, ASAV has also placed an advertisement in the program brochure. |
| October, 13th, 2008 |
ASAV News
ASAV Fees: The BOD of ASAV understands that these are trying economic times. The association does not wish to burden our members with an increase of fees of any kind. As a result we have voted to FREEZE all fees at the 2008 levels. We wish to remain the affordable and membership-friendly Shagya organization. We will still maintain our aggressive promotional effort for next year and members of the BOD (as well as others) will make a greater effort to bring in donations and grant funding. ASAV National Meeting: The BOD has now set the place, date and time for our 2009 National Meeting. It will take place on May 1-3 at the Hawkview Ranch www.hawkviewranch.com in Bend, Oregon. Bend is located in the Burns depression (high desert) east of the cascade Mts. In May the climate ought to be just beautiful, with views of the snow capped Three Sisters. There will be three days of clinics, events and national and international speakers and dignitaries. ASAV would like to thank Doug & Karen Bish for hosting the event. |
| October 8th, 2008 |
“The 7/16th rule for
Shagya-Arabians”
ASAV offers owners/breeders of Shagya-Arabian horses which currently only hold Part-Shagya-Arabian registration papers, to issue those horses correct registration papers as Shagya-Arabians. ... read more ... |
| September 30th, 2008 |
ASAV launches KySAHA Program
(Kentucky Shagya Arabian Horse Association) ASAV Youth Program Welcome Letter |
| September 22nd, 2008 |
ASAV Jump Start Program: ASAV wishes to announce their new fund raising partnership, ASAV 2009 Project Jump Start. This is a new and innovative idea that is three fold. Firstly to support the ASAV studbook fundraising project, secondly to offer a promotional plan for stallion owners, and thirdly to increase the members benefits to further increased membership. The old stallion auction idea has not worked for many years for horse organizations due to difficult economic times. ASAV has partnered with many of their stallion owners, who have agreed to donate a limited amount of breedings to each of their stallions to ASAV members at a significantly reduced rate of $200. The program will be available soon with a starting date to be announced in December and be open until March 1st, 2009. Please contact Killian Dill or Darlene Steven for details to also enroll your stallion or see the next ASAV newsletter. 2009 Project Jump Start Details: The program is offered to ASAV members as a promotional plan to jump start the Shagya Arabian breeding program in North America. The ASAV Stallions enrolled in this promotional program will help to rejuvenate and invigorate a national Shagya horse breeding program and at the same time support the fund raising effort to publish a Shagya studbook in the USA. The ASAV BOD feels this is a great way to raise money and offer the top stallions in the country at a special promotional rate to our members. Truly a superb way to test breed a new bloodline combination. The ASAV stallions enrolled are being offered to ASAV mare owners in this promotion at a incredible discounted rate of $200 dollars for the 2009 season. $100 will go back to the stallion owner and $100 will go to the ASAV Studbook Publishing Fund. The fund is being established to collect money to help defray the overall costs of printing the ASAV Studbook for its members. All other expenses incurred with breeding a mare such as AI fees, boarding, veterinarian fees, collection fees, and collection transportation or shipping fees will be an extra cost to the mare owner. These additional expenses are not included in the $200 special priced stud fee. Please check with each stallion owner for anticipated fees in their area. |
| September 19th, 2008 |
At the ASAV-BOD meeting on 09/19/08 Valerie Bullock was voted by the
ASAV-BOD to become the ASAV-Vice-President. Brian Coss was appointed South Regional Director by the ASAV BOD to fill the term until the position is elected through ASAV membership vote. |
| September 18th, 2008 |
Update from the ASAV-President: * Kesleigh Lehman has agreed to become the ASAV Youth Program Director. It is a pleasure to have her on board. Look for her photo and biography on the ASAV website. * ASAV website has been linked by SEDRA [South East Distance Riders Association]. * The ASAV Endurance Challenge ride was won by SA Belshazarr ridden by Jeremy Olson. Breeder was Daunna Sellers. The winner's photo will appear in our advertisement placed in the October issue of AERC. * ASAV will also be present at the AHA Arabian and Half-Arabian Championships held in Henryville, Indiana on October 16-18th. We will provide a cookout for everyone and set up a table for brochures and information about the Shagya breed. ASAV has also placed an ad in the AHA program for this event. * Additionally, check out our new web site Directory ("Other Links"), which is a compilation of links to a variety of web-sites of common interest such as: horse for sales sites, tack & equipment sites, other Arabian or Anglo related associations, health and health product related sites and much more. * Many pressing news items will appear in the upcoming newsletter or directly on our website. |
| September, 9th, 2008 | ASAV welcomes Kesleigh Lehman as Youth Program Director |
| September, 5th, 2008 |
ASAV-Registered Stallions - Excerpt
from the Shagya-Araber Hengstbuch International ASAV Advertisement in the Shagya-Araber Hengstbuch International |
| September, 2nd, 2008 |
Summary Update from the ASAV-President: • ASAV had an advertisement published in The Shagya-Araber Hengstbuch International. • Don't forget the ASAV sponsored Distance Challenge ride in Illinois (AERC Lincoln Trails Ride on Sept. 6th). ASAV will provide the food for that ride. Furthermore, the Shagya winner receives an engraved cup. Photos of the winner with the cup will appear in an ad in the October issue of the AERC newsletter. • ASAV is now listed in MyHorseForSale.com as an affiliate and our web site is linked. The relationship is growing and we will announce the outcome of that at a later date. • Future items that will appear in our newsletter in more detail: • ASAV has initiated a "Shagya Youth Program". • ASAV has applied to become a member of an "Equine Incentive" program. Some of that money will go towards activities in ASAV. • We will shortly announce the initiation of "JUMP START 2009" breeding program. The concept is to involve more people in Shagyas and make them affordable. |
August 14th, 2008 |
Deadline for submissions for the next ASAV-Newsletter is Sept. 1st (Labor Day) - please send your farm news, classified ads and articles to the ASAV Newsletter Editor |
| August 8th, 2008 | Check out the link for the
Television Coverage Schedule
for the Olympic Games in Beijing from August 9 - 21, 2008. |
| August 7th, 2008 |
Summary Update from the ASAV-President: *Our advertisement in USDF connection will be out on September 1. (private donations) *Our full page Shagya/ASAV ad will be out in the Sept. issue of Pacific Northwest Endurance Riders magazine (private donations). *We will be involved in the Arabian Sporethorse Nationals. *Our article/Ad in AERC will appear in the October issue of that magazine. *We have identified two new sources of funding and are taking action to secure monetary incentives from these agencies. *Initial contacts are being made to obtain grant funds for the 2009 members meeting. *Several other ads are paid for and we are waiting to see when their publication dates will be announced. *It is anticipated that ASAV will participate in the annual AERC meeting, held in Louisville, KY. |
| July 31st, 2008 |
Letter from the ASAV-President: The future of ASAV and ASAV moving forward. |
