Washington State POA Club, Winter Newsletter
Greetings Washington State POA Club Members! We hope that you’ve had a great holiday season, and that your new year is getting off to a new start.
The Washington POA Club elected new officers for the 2005 season at the club banquet in November; your new officers for this year are:
Officers List, WA POAC, 2005
Name / Role / Phone NumberKaren Streeter / President / 503-235-3620
Judy Cyrus / Vice President / 509-773-0474
Peggy Neikirk / Secretary/Treasurer / 360-892-3382
Missi Barrett / Show Secretary / 541-466-5011
Tirzah Cross / Director / 503-591-5310
Jessica Larsen / Director / 360-736-9150
Kellie Rockwell / Director / 253-841-9345
Sherry Gordon / Director / 253-864-3502
Upcoming Events
At the awards banquet, the show schedule for this year was established. Special thanks to the Griffinwood Stables in Olympia, Washington, and to Lee Nylen of Flying Dollar Ranch in Oregon City for graciously offering us the use of their facilities! Additionally, the club will be co-hosting a weekend in August with the Northwest POA Breeders Association. We are excited to be working with Breeders this year because we are giving away a saddle set for the overall high point winner.
Watch the Northwest Rider for show forms and advertisements! The April/May show bill is enclosed.
Show Schedule for 2005
Show Date / Show Type / LocationApril 30, 2005 / B&P / Griffinwood Stables, Olympia WA
May 1, 2005 / IBC/H / Griffinwood Stables, Olympia, WA
July 9, 2005 / B&P / Lee Nylen’s Stable, Oregon City, Oregon
August 27, 2005 / IBC/H / Clark County Fairgrounds, Ridgefield, WA
September 17, 2005 * / B&P / Griffinwod Stables, Olympia, WA
September 18, 2005* / IBC/H / Griffinwod Stables, Olympia, WA
*This is a change from the year end meeting to accommodate both judge and facilities availability.
In The Show Ring…..
During 2004, club members had a great year! Below are the final national standings for ponies and riders in the Washington Club, as well as our Year-End Award Winners! Congratulations to everyone, and we look forward to seeing you again this year!
Year End National Standings:
2 Year Old Stallions: Holliday Royal Sample/Lindsey Williamson, OR 6th
3 Year Old Stallions: MOR Golden Opportunity/MOR POAs, WA 5th
4 Year Old Medium Stallions: Hollidays Tuf Drifter/Dave & Missi Barrett OR 5th
CHR Iced Tee/Waterman, OR 6th
4 Year Old Medium Geldings: Rocky Top Notch/Peggy & Sarah Neikirk 3rd
Youth Driving: JWW Shadows of Gold/MOR POAs, WA 5th
WSPOAC 2004 Year End Standings
High Point Halter Stallion
MOR Golden Opportunity – John & Bernice Lax
MND Sharp Dressed Man – Dave & Missi Barrett
High Point Halter Mare
Miss Holliday – Lee Nylen
Ms Luci Ann – Lee Nylen
High Point Halter Gelding
Star Warrior – Sarah Neikirk
Rocky Top Notch – Peggy Neikirk
High Point Broodmare
RNR Something Sassy – Kelllie Rockwell
Valles Dazzlin Gold Dust – Linda Larsen
High Point Weanling
MND Sharp Dressed Man – Dave & Missi Barrett
MOR Midas Touch – John & Bernice Lax
Pony Rider Combinations:
High Point Adult
Peggy Boyer with Holliday Gold Rush
Peggy Boyer with Ms. Luci Ann
High Point 13-18
Sarah Neikirk with Rocky Top Notch
Sarah Neikirk with Star Warrior
High Point 9 through 12
Shelby Dewar with Suncrest Tomcat
Breanna Cyrus with Spectacular
High Point 8 and Under
Justin Barrett with Kenos Simply Debonair
Madelen Dewar with Honeys Easter Buni
High Point Leadline
Tyler Neikirk with KGB Tess
Alexa Wacker with Mighty Tough Cookie
High Point Novice Rider
Rachel Gordon with KGB Tess
Daniel Nylen with Ashley
Sportsmanship Award
Mike Madtson
High Point Performance Pony
Sarah Neikirk and Rocky Top Notch (832 points)
Shelby Dewar and Suncrest Tomcat (713 points)
High Point Timed Events Pony
Sarah Neikirk and Star Warrior (633 points)
Sarah Neikirk and Rocky Top Notch (624 points)
High Point – Pony (any number of riders)
Rocky Top Notch (1661 points)
Kenos Simply Debonair (1333 points)
High Point Rider (any number of ponies)
Sarah Neikirk (2973 points)
Justin Barrett (1726 points)
Overall State Highpoint one pony-one rider
Sarah Neikirk and Rocky Top Notch (1677 points)
Justin Barrett and Kenos Simply Debonair (1653 points)
NORTHWEST REGION’S 2004 HIGHPOINT AWARDS
HALTER:
Stallion
Holliday Tuff Drifter owned by Dave and Missi Barrett,
Reserve: Holidays Royal Sample, owned by Lindsay Williamson
Gelding
Star Warrior owned by Sarah Neikirk,
Reserve: Rocky Top Notch, owned by Peggy Neikirk
Mare
Mighty Tough Cookie, owned by Angie Wacker,
Reserve: Miss Holliday owned by Lee Nylen
ONE PONY/ONE RIDER
Adult
Peggy Boyer
Reserve: Lisa Watterman
13-18
Mackenzie Nelson
Reserve: Natasha Pusch
9-12
Shelby Dewar
Reserve: Jessica Strawn
8 and under
Madelen Dewar
Reserve: Justin Barrett
Leadline
Tayah Mariani
Reserve: Tyler Neikirk
Got Anything to Buy or Sell?
Let us know and we’ll do our best to help you!
For Sale: 1999 POA Gelding *overheight* - Keno’s Main Event – see him at dreamhorse.com, or call Karen Streeter for more info. Bay with a blanket and spots; great attitude and personality.
For Lease: “Tramp” - Registered 21 year old 53 ¼” POA, available for a walk/trot home and/or trail riding, looking for a quiet but useful second half of life set of new experiences. If you are interested in leasing this pony, contact Sue Walla at 425-481-9193 or .
2005 Memberships due!
Membership Forms are Due Now! The following members are paid up for 2005 and have their membership forms in.
Barrett Family, Peggy Boyer, Gordon Family, Neikirk Family, Lee Nylen, Daniel Nylen, Kellie Rockwell, Thurston Family.
Remember… in order to have your points count for year end awards, you must be a paid up state member at the time the points are earned, so let’s get those membership forms back in before the first show in April. You will find the 2005 Membership application form in this packet. Please be as complete as possible in filling out the form with your pony information particularly. We have been known to help our members who forget to fill in their show forms completely with pony names/registration numbers/age by going back to our membership applications for the missing information. If it’s nowhere in our records we can’t help you if you occasionally miss a blank somewhere else.
We hope you are enjoying a wonderful and quiet winter and dreaming of glories to come in the spring! Please contact either Karen or Peggy with any news you would like to share so we can make these newsletters more informative and get the word out. Remember, the magazine deadline for news is the 15th of each AND EVERY month, we’d love to share more information about our Washington State members if only they would tell us something to print! So get that news coming in … be it about ponies or kids or grandkids accomplishments, or cute stories…. Let’s let the rest of the nation know what we in the Evergreen State are doing!
News can be phoned to either of us or emailed to: or . Remember we can print one picture a month in the magazine as well so if you have a digital picture of the kids and/or ponies you want to share with the nation – please send that along as well…. Our supply of “pictures on file” is limited – we’d love some fresh pictures to print in the magazine of our club members (especially between now and our first show when we hope to snap some fresh ones – these kids grow so fast!).