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Welcome to Irish Draught Horse Society (GB)
Wednesday, November 19 2008 @ 11:18 AM GMT

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.

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JUDGES ASSESSMENT DAY - TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2008
SOLIHULL RIDING CLUB - From 9.00 am

This is a reminder to all potential applicants who wish to be assessed for inclusion on the Conformation, Ride or Perfomance Judges Panels that applications for the Judges Assessment Day MUST be in the Office by 3rd October 2008.
Click here for full details and to download application forms.

HORSES WANTED
We need several horses to use on the assessment day, so if anyone could bring their horse(s) along it would be very much appreciated. Participants would have an interesting day out with the opportunity to learn a thing or two. If you are interested, please ring Sue Tutcher on 07985 210133.

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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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PRESS RELEASE dated 11 JULY 2008 from Irish Draught Horse Society (GB)

*** JOY AT HOYS FOR ENID AND ABBI ***

There was much celebration yesterday, Thursday 9th October, when our own Enid Lord and her home bred mare, Ballineen Glen Abbess, made history in the Cuddy Final at the 60th Diamond Jubilee Horse of the Year Show at the NEC, Birmingham ...... full story click here

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Ebony Hill

Obituaries-Horses

EBONY HILL -  RID STALLION
By Touch of the Blues RID ex: Embla Bow by Colman

It is with a great deal of sadness that Ogilvy and Allan Webster report the sudden and tragic death of their stallion Ebony Hill. Hogan was euthanased at the Royal Dick Veterinary College in Edinburgh on Monday 27th October. 

After displaying classic grass sickness clinical signs, he was referred to the Dick Vet by our own vet.  A laparotomy was performed which revealed a small length of ileum had slipped into the inguinal canal, this obstruction had caused compromise of the intestine and our boy was euthanased under general anaesthetic.  This has only been seen once before at the Veterinary College in sixty years.

Although Hogan had only been with us for just under a year he had already settled in and had become a much admired and valued friend.  Hogan knew when we were near by and always welcomed us with a friendly whinny.  We have never dealt with such a gentleman, a true gentle giant. 

We have eight of our own mares in foal to Hogan, due next year and when he was alive we were eagerly awaiting our new family members. Now that Hogan is not with us anymore we are now even more eager to see his foals safely on the ground.

I’ve never seen a horse fill a stable as he did, and his empty box at the top of our yard is a very sad sight for us all.

Sleep tight Hogan
Julie

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The British Breeder Magazine

Members News

PROMOTE YOUR STUD, STUD BOOK and BREEDING INDUSTRY SERVICES TO THE ONLY SPECIALIST MAGAZINE IN THE SECTOR IN THE UK

The first issue of The British Breeder proved highly popular with both readers and advertisers alike and production of the second issue is now well underway. Launched as part of the initial development of the Lead Body for British Performance Sport Horses and Ponies (PSHP) the magazine is free to all PSHP individual members and bulk copies will be provided to member stud books and other organizations for distribution as they wish, and readership is therefore directly targeted to the sport horse breeding industry in the UK.

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Change of Royal Show dates 2009

Latest NewsThe 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”.