Sponsorship 2008:

We continue to receive requests for information about sponsorship of RMSJ tournaments. If you are interested in joining our valued family of sponsors, please visit our sponsorship page to view our 2008 information.

Click here for sponsorship info

Red Scarf Equestrian:

The mission of Red Scarf Equestrian is to represent the most sought-after qualities of style and craftsmanship. Our products blend tradition and innovation and encourage personal style and charisma. Red Scarf Equestrian is a uniquely Canadian company with a collection of equestrian luggage, designed by riders for riders. Fashionable and functional for all disciplines.

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Heartland:

As many of our readers know, the Canadian produced Family TV Series, Heartland, had a couple of episodes filmed at some local Alberta Farms. Both Blue Valley Farms and Anderson Ranch played host to the crew and cast for this Alberta based family drama. Look for Calgary based riders in the show, Rodney Tulloch from Blue Valley Farms, and RMSJ's own Tani Anderson who played stunt double to Ashley. Tani did all of the jumping as Ashley's double.

The Season Finale aired on CBC last week, and both of these local stables were featured in the episode.

The episodes can be viewed online by going to the CBC website.

View the Series Finale
(Click on episode 113)

Riders Websites:

FYI: Just for information purposes, we thought we would highlight a few riders websites from time to time.

In our last newsletter, we featured some Canadian Riders websites. Here are some websites of some notable US riders.

Click on their name to visit their site!

Richard Spooner
Chris Kappler
Beezie Madden

Developing Riders Tour:

Rocky Mountain Show Jumping would like to welcome to its group of valued sponsors Alpine Auto Werks, and Fox Creek Construction. These two Calgary based companies have come on board to generously support the 2008 Developing Riders Tour.

For the details about the tour, click here!

To see the guidelines, click here!

RMSJ Winter Training Series Hunter II Completed:

The second of the 2008 RMSJ Winter Training Series Hunter Tournaments concluded last night in a record breaking fashion. 163 horses joined us for the second of three ASJA Three Star Series indoor hunter versions of the 2008 Winter Training Series. We are very pleased that with the new format of the winter tournaments, and that with the increased entries that we are still able to have reasonable days as far clock goes.

Friday played host to the Baby Green Hunter division, and it was great to see about 25 entries for this division, which is much larger than the division has been for many years here in Alberta. Who knows, we might be seeing a comeback of the hunters! In total, 263 hunter rounds were logged in on Friday, along with 5 flat classes. 216 rounds were logged on Saturday with 4 flat classes, and Sunday saw a record 318 rounds along with 9 flat classes. With the exception of yesterday's 7:30pm finish, the days were very pleasant, and finished earlier than scheduled, and we owe this to all to our great competitors. Who could have guessed that we would begin to use the pre-load hunter ring?

To thank everyone for the great weekend, RMSJ handed out 250 bags of free popcorn fresh from Tani's New York street corner style popcorn maker. We also had a draw for four club seats to Tuesday's Flames game versus the Columbus Blue Jackets. Congratulations to our medic Kathy Prather who was the lucky winner.

To see the results from this weekend's Hunter Series II, click here
To see the Popcorn Day Photos, click here

Winter Circuit News:

Will Simpson wins $100,000 World Cup Qualifier, Jeffrey Welles leads US Selection Trials - WELLINGTON, Fla. Mar. 2 - A tough day of show jumping saw Will Simpson of Thousand Oaks, Calif., emerge the winner of the $100,000 Zada Enterprises Masters Cup, which acted as a World Cup Qualifying event. It was also the second United States Show Jumping Team Selection Trial for the 2008 Olympic Games, which Jeffrey Welles of Brewster, N.Y., now leads with the only perfect score followed closely by Laura Kraut and Cedric who have one fault: COMPLETE STORY

FTI Rider Challenge - $200,000 Ranking - as of February 29, 2008: Canada has 7 riders in the top 25 of the FTI Rider Challenge in Wellington: COMPLETE STORY

Thermal Week Five Video CLICK HERE

The winner is Bond, Ashlee Bond! Ashlee Bond and her mount Southern Girl win the $25,000 Ariat Grand Prix at HITS Thermal: Ashlee Bond and her mount Southern Girl got the best of a field of 48 riders to win the $25,000 Ariat Grand Prix at HITS Thermal: COMPLETE STORY

Bow Valley Classics Travel Bursaries:

Last year for the Bow Valley Classics, the management of RMSJ offered a travel bursary to competitors who travelled from the province of BC and attended both of the Bow Valley Classics. It was appreciated by all of the competitors who attended from our neighboring province. In 2008, we thought we would extent the bursary to more of our competitors, so we came up with the RMSJ travel circle. Should you live outside the circle, and attend both of the Bow Valley Classics, RMSJ will be pleased to offer you a $100.00 bursary. Also, your name will go into a draw, and at the end of the tournaments, RMSJ will draw two names from the bunch. Should your name be one of the lucky ones, your hotel tab will be paid for, courtesy of RMSJ. For more details, click here

Provincial Associations:

In our last newsletter we asked you to vote on the topic below! Numerous votes have been logged so far, but we would like to see if the poll results change with more voters!

The province of Alberta is the only province in the country that has two separate provincial associations in existence to serve the needs of their provincial riders. The Alberta Show Jumping Association (ASJA) and the Alberta Hunter Horse Society were incorporated just four years apart back in the 1980's.

There has been some discussion over the last few years by various parties that the two associations should merge into one greater entity as there seems to be a good amount of overlap because the two are basically serving the same population in the province.

What is your opinion? Visit our poll pages and answer our first 2008 poll.

ASJA 2008 Membership & Calendar:

We thought we would send a note to remind all Alberta competitors to renew their ASJA membership for 2008. As most of you know, the ASJA introduced the Five & Three Star Series in 2007. The series does require a declaration by ASJA members, and there is a box to check on the 2008 membership form. There is also a spot on the membership form for riders to declare for the Alberta Select Riders Program. Please take a few minutes to fill out your 2008 ASJA membership, and send it into the address located on the form.

Remember, all RMSJ tournaments are a part of the ASJA Star Series, and points will not be counted towards the year end championships, unless you are an ASJA member and have declared yourself as a Three or Five Star rider.

To see the results to date in the ASJA Three Star Series, click here
To get the 2008 ASJA Membership, click here.
To see the 2008 ASJA Calendar, click here

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