Welcome to the new Irish Draught Horse Society website
Office Telephone : 08452 300
399 (Mon - Fri 11am - 2pm)
Outside of these times all calls will be diverted to an answerphone. Please note
that due to the high volume of calls, it may be some time before you receive a
response.
If you are ringing the Office to request a form,
please note that these are all available online in
Downloads/Office Forms - here
The Irish Draught Horse
Society of Great Britain would like to apologise to all its members and
friends who have experienced difficulty in contacting the office over the past
few weeks.
Trustees have taken urgent steps to address the problems and as part of this
strategy, Annie Holbeche has been asked to help out with passports on a contract
basis, and Trustees are helping to answer telephone enquiries. Further measures
are being taken to redistribute tasks and members will be kept informed.
Please continue to send passports to the office, so that other tasks associated
with registration can be carried out.
If there are continuing problems in communication, please contact our Chairman,
Gaynor Mitchell, on 0790 951 7578.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
COUNCIL NOMINATION FORM
By now you should all have received the Winter Newsletter. However, it
would appear that some members did not receive a Nomination Form for the
election of new council members in the forthcoming Council Elections. If you
did NOT receive a form then you can download one by clicking the link below.
It is vitally important that
all Members are enabled to take part in this democratic nomination and
voting process and Members are encouraged to nominate any person who they
feel will both represent them, and work for the best interests of the Irish
Draught Horse.
The only restrictions are,
that those proposing and seconding the nominations must be fully paid up
members of the Society and, that the Nominee must have been a paid up Member
of the Society for a period of two consecutive years.
The closing date for
receipt of nominations is 12 noon on Friday 30 January 2009
Download the form in Downloads/Office Forms - here
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YEAR BOOK 2009
Photographs and articles of interest are already being collated for the 2009
Year Book.
This
year, Louise Morton will be joining the Year Book team, bringing her knowledge
and experience of the Sport Horse and the showing and competition world.
If anyone has successes in
the show ring or in the competition field this summer, we want to know. We
particularly need good, sharp, colour photographs to illustrate the Year Book
and of course we are always on the look out for that extra special photograph
for the front cover.
We
are considering featuring the background of some of the most influential
stallions over the years, with photographs, breeding details and a potted
history of their achievements.
If anyone has any archive
information or photographs of any of these grand old lines, particularly those
with a competition background or successful competition offspring, please
contact Norma Grubb, (01845 567005) or Louise Morton, (01283 716573), or e-mail:
yearbookATidhsgb.com
Any articles submitted that are not included in
the Year Book will be sent to the Newsletter Editor for consideration to be
included in future Newsletters.
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THE
IRISH DRAUGHT HORSE SOCIETY (GB)
ANNUAL BREED SHOW 2009
19 & 20 SEPTEMBER
AT WESTON LAWNS, BULKINGTON, WARWICKSHIRE.
Following many
requests from the Membership for a change of location of the Annual Breed Show,
various Members of Council have searched long and hard to find a suitable venue.
We are delighted to announce that we will be moving back to the Midlands, to
Weston Lawns Equitation Centre in Warwickshire. This exciting new venue is easily
accessed from Junction 2 of the M 6; please note that whatever your
computer/sat-nav tells you, even if you are coming from the north, Junction 2 is
the easiest and quickest way to the venue.
Read the full article here
Tuesday, December 09 2008 @ 03:07 PM GMT
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THE IRISH DRAUGHT HORSE SOCIETY
(GB)
ANNUAL BREED SHOW 2009
19 & 20 SEPTEMBER
AT WESTON LAWNS, BULKINGTON, WARWICKSHIRE.
Following many requests from the Membership for a
change of location of the Annual Breed Show, various Members of Council have
searched long and hard to find a suitable venue. We are delighted to announce
that we will be moving back to the Midlands, to Weston Lawns Equitation Centre in
Warwickshire. This exciting new venue is easily accessed from Junction 2 of the
M 6; please note that whatever your computer/sat-nav tells you, even if you are
coming from the north, Junction 2 is the easiest and quickest way to the venue.
Saturday, October 18 2008 @ 03:52 PM BST
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The Royal Show dates for 2009 will be Tuesday 7th – Friday 10th July.
The decision to change the dates was made by the Society’s Trustees following consultation with exhibitors and other Show Societies and will enable the Show to sit more comfortably next to other events in the calendar.
Hugh Oliver-Bellasis, Chairman of the Royal Agricultural Society of England commented on the change of dates; “The Society thought long and hard about the change of dates for its prestigious flagship event. However, it was felt that to move the Royal Show back by a couple of days would help to fit in to the Show schedule and would be more convenient for both livestock exhibitors and stand holders”.
