Following the implementation of the Irish Draught Horse Breeding Plan in 2010, Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) committed to a review of that policy in 2013.

The review will include the following elements:

·         The establishment of an Irish Draught Horse Breeding Policy Review Taskforce;

·         Consultations with Irish Draught Horse daughter studbooks;

·         Submissions will be sought through breeders and stakeholders through advertisements;

·         Open forum.

The Irish Draught Horse Society (GB) will be making a formal submission, but individual submissions are also welcome. Views are particularly sought on the following areas:  

• Studbook breeding objective;
• Inspection and classification systems;
• Initiatives to improve the quality and marketing of the breed.

The deadline for individual submissions and our group submission is 1 May. If you wish your views to be considered and incorporated into the IDHS (GB) Council collective submission, please write to Gaynor Mitchell at chairmanATidhsgb.com before 5 April, to give us time to collate everyone’s views. 

If you wish to send your views individually, the address to send them to is:

Horse Sport Ireland, Beech House, Millennium Park, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

The Taskforce will review all submissions and plan to report in October or November 2013.

Heather Chaplin 15/03/2013

Saturday 16 March and Sunday 17 March 2013

THE CLOSING DATE FOR BOOKING WAS 7 MARCH 2013.

Brian Gates, IDHS(GB), Moss-Side, Cummertrees, Annan, Dumfriesshire DG12 5PU
Email treasurer-idhsATbtconnect.com Telephone 01461 700434 (24 hour answering machine)
 

Since the newsletter went to print in mid-December, the editor has learned that RID stallions are treated exactly the same as Class 1 stallions in every respect. Horses applying for merit awards during the inspection process do have to be Class 1, as stated in the article. However, any RID stallion is eligible to apply for merit awards (irrespective of when he was inspected), through his own or his progeny's performance. This is excellent news.
The British equivalent performance criteria for the disciplines of dressage and eventing have almost been finalised. The criteria for show jumping should be finalised soon (we are liaising with British Showjumping regarding verification of results). Please watch the website for further details.

Heather Chaplin, newsletter editor
13/01/2013
 

Dear BYB supporter / member / friend

Great news for all young British breeders announced today in this press release :-). Please email me via celiaATcwath.demon.co.uk if you are aged between 16 and 25 at any time during 2013 and you would like a membership form for 2013, so that you can take part in activities that will help you qualify for the award.

If you are a parent, guardian or a British breeder who would like to support this initiative as a friend, supporter or trainer, the BYB also has membership sections for you too so please feel free to contact me about them as well. Although the international Young Breeders Championships (which will be held in Sweden in July 2013) are limited to WBFSH member studbooks (in the UK this means AES, BHHS, SHBGB, SSH and WBSUK) other UK studbooks are also welcome to join as associate members so please bear this in mind as well and encourage them to take part if you can.

Best wishes
Celia Clarke
(Chair, British Young Breeders)
 

To help members to understand and participate as fully as possible in our inspection system, a series of information days and workshops for members will be held around the country. The aim is to help to keep our members informed of the facts about the changes that have taken place since the 2010 Horse Sport Ireland Breeding Plan was introduced. These information days will be friendly, informal and in most venues, will be hands-on workshops, led by experienced inspectors who will be happy to answer questions.

Information days can be run wherever they are needed, subject to demand. Some dates have already been set. If you would like a workshop to run in your area, please contact one of the two inspectors whose details are below.

The dates already planned are:

Sunday, June 24 Saxstead Bottom, Framlingham, Suffolk IP13 9QS (Contact Heather)
Date TBC, June/July Black Dog Inn, Black Dog, Crediton, Devon EX17 4QS (Contact Heather)
Sunday, 12 August Ormskirk, Lancashire (Contact Ellen).

Further days are planned for other areas of the country; according to demand. Please enquire!

If you wish to come to one of these information days, please contact:

Ellen Walton, if you live north of a line between Aberystwyth and The Wash; Tel. 01430 810692
belahlady10ATgmail.com

Heather Chaplin, if you live south of that line: Tel. 01823 601625
HeatherMChaplinATaol.com

 

The Spring newsletter has been delayed until May. This means we are still able to take 'for sale' adverts until the new cut off date of 24th April. Please send your adverts to me before this deadline. Many thanks,
Jenny Noblett  jennyATidhsgb.com

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE
Hindle Top Farm, Melton Spinney Road, Thorpe Arnold, Melton Mowbray Leics. LE14 4SB

Very easy to find - Half a mile off the A607 Melton / Grantham Road. The A607 is the 3rd Grantham exit off the A1 Southbound.
Emergency contact number on the day : 07785 933 833

The day will commence at approximately 10.00 am

We really need 3 or 4 Purebred Irish Draughts on the day to help illustrate Draught conformation to our new probationer judges. The horses will not be subject to any public scrutiny and we would welcome any horses with the odd fault!

If you would be prepared to help us by giving up a couple of hours of your time we would be most grateful.

Please ring Sue Tutcher on 07985 210133 or 07785 933 833 or e-mail prATidhsgb.com
THANK YOU

JUDGES’ ASSESSMENT DAY Monday 2 APRIL 2012
BARLEYFIELDS EQUESTRIAN CENTRE, ASH LANE, ETWALL, DERBY DE65 6HT

Applications are invited from anyone who wishes to be assessed for inclusion onto the Conformation or Ride Judges’ Panels, or both.

Click here for Application form

As we have to allocate assessment times for each applicant, it would be helpful to know as soon as possible how many candidates we will have.
Please e-mail pr@idhsgb.com to register and then download an application form, and return it as soon as possible, but no later than 1 MARCH to:

Mrs S Tutcher, Judges’ Training and Liaison Officer, IDHS (GB), The Forge, Avenue ‘B’, 10th Street, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire CV8 2LG
or you can scan and e-mail your form to:prATidhsgb.com

This assessment is for new applicants who wish to be considered for any of the Panels and those currently on the Probationary Panels who need to be re-assessed
Current Probationers are required to attend.

All applicants must be members of the IDHS (GB)
Click here for Membership Application form

If you have any difficulty, e-mail prATidhsgb.com

In the past, we have been very fortunate in that several members have volunteered to bring their pure and/or part bred Draughts along to assist us in assessing candidates. Anyone who would be able to supply a horse or horses this year please contact as above or ring 07785 933 833