You may do this 3 times during the competition season. Link to Day Membership Form. It can be amended or abolished by any time by either organization. To compete at recognized events in Ontario, Competitors must obtain the memberships outlined below. OEA Membership Types. Must be immediate family. Associate memberships are non-competitive memberships, which have AGM voting rights — great for parents Young Rider and Under 25 need to register for these programs separately through the OEA.
Non-competitive memberships Associate and Corporate do not require an OE membership unless you wish to purchase one , but you will have to follow the same process in order to validate your membership. If you have any problems getting your memberships online, please contact Kelly Griffiths at the OE Membership Department and she will help you.
Ontario Equestrian Membership Page. Add Your Heading Text Here. Day Memberships. Day Membership Form. Extended Memberships.
Pony Club. Lumber and brush need maintenance and replacement; you have to purchase sand and gravel to repair footing. If the summer is dry and your footing gets hard, you may have to aerate. Here at Wits End, we re-stain all our jumps every year to keep them looking fresh and to help prevent rotting. Putting them up and taking them down causes wear and tear and the need to replace some panels and letters.
Show jump courses cost many thousands of dollars, as they deteriorate and get broken during warm-up and competition, requiring continuous replacement, plus need repainting every couple of years. Organizers have to either pay somebody to flag and number cross-country courses and set up dressage rings, or do it themselves.
I am self-employed and have to take at least a week off work before each event to get all these tasks done. Mowing and weed-whacking is time-consuming and uses huge amounts of gas. Dressage rings require footing maintenance and upgrades.
Wear and tear on the tractors and mowers requires repairs and replacement costs. Officials do not come cheap — for good reason. The cost of attending mandatory educational seminars, with airfare, hotel, and car rental costs, plus accreditation fees, means that our officials are not getting rich. Technical Delegates do a pre-inspection of the course, plus attend the day before and the two days of competition. Additional officials include safety officers, volunteer coordinators, and timers.
If you are lucky they will volunteer, but some require a stipend. They must be on the grounds whenever anybody is jumping, but we find that we have as many accidents in the parking lot as on course, so you need them there for the entire time. It is strongly recommended that a veterinarian be on grounds not just on call. It is very hard to find one willing to come and the kind souls who donate their time are few and far between. Every army marches on its stomach and this one is no exception.
Next comes the hard-working volunteers: jump judges, score runners, scribes, ring crew, stewards, parking attendants, and tack check officials. All these people need feeding and looking after if you want them to come again. You may wish to throw a party for them or take them to dinner as a thank-you. Your competitors want nice ribbons.
If you run six divisions you will be ordering 18 sets of ribbons. Organizers also try very hard to get good prizes. Now you have to start taking down the flags, numbers and decorations, putting away the dressage rings and show jumps. We are lucky to have grants from the OHTA. They pick up the mileage costs for the TD.
They help with designer costs for show jumping and cross country. The Competition Improvement Program gives us help with major outlays. For 50 years, Horse Sport has been the voice of equestrian competition in Canada.
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