Hi Tracie
I will look out tapes, but each tape has to be designed for the horse.
ie his way of going,his striding etc, so that what he does fits the
music. For example Wolfie is compact and you would have to 'design a
tape that fits his personality and way of going. How we do it we watch
the horse ride a test and then work out the timing of his strides. Next
you search for ctcy music. For example the first clip of music must fit
the 'walk'.You then fade into another tune that fits the trot.yet
another music clip to fit the canter andso on.
It can also for the nenefit of the audeince have some humour too! For
example our Hannoverian stallion Waldlord was 18hh a big impressive
horse as part of one of his tapes we included 'bay face' It always got a
chuckle.
Doing a slick tape is hard and I always co erce the help of a musician,
usually of the rock era. They seem to get the plot easier. A lot of our
tapes contain Rock music (including in one Meatloafs 'Bat out of Hell'
Takes a bit of riding too!
You have got me going on this now. It is a wonderful marketing tool for
the CB's You can offer to put on displays even at small shows and it
gets people interested in the horses as well.
We have even been known in the UK in yeras gone by to put on a Quadrille
at major shows.

regards

Kate

Hi Carolina
I think a committee forum is invaluable, I just did not know of its
existence until yesterday!
Its interesting that you mentioned about IT.  As you know its a subject
dear to my heart.
My history n computing goes back to University and since the early
1970's and the advent of the PC I have kept vaguely up to date. I have
gone into college so many times on updates I can paper the wall with certs.
Until recently I did it so that I could keep 'ahead of my students'. The
problem now is that technology is moving so fast we are all constantly
'out of date'!
I have found the time to do an analysis of which parts of technology we
use mostly for the CB's
Primarily its communication ie e-mail Closely followed by Web sites and
searching the net.for info.
Despite the advances intechnology these are actually three very basic
elements. I then realised that what the average CB owner needs is just
what in the trade we call a taster course.
How to set up for e-mail and send and receive and how to search the net.
The next level is how to design a basic web site and upload it etc.

Overcoming communication is quite a big issue in the UK. Its not such an
isssue in the USA OZ and NZ.
Because of the greater distances e-mail is much more widely used. The UK
as far as CB people are concerned is a challenge. Quite a number of
council members are not e-mail users and don't wish to be. I don't do
snail mail these days unless I am desperate as the response times are
too slow.We have become very'instant' in the format of communication and
where key people won't come on board there is a tendancy to leave them
out of the loop.Its pointles writing to them as by the time they do
respond ,then their reply would be hopeleslly out of date as the rest of
us will have long moved on.
In an ideal world all Society officers would be on e-mail and all
stallion owners and breeders would have  a web page.
I agree with you about raising IT at the next AGM. Perhaps we can liase
on format.

regards

kate

Hi Tracie Avery belated reply to our post to the committee group in
October!I will be seeing you soon, but while this is fresh i my head,
as far as displays are concerned the CB's are most effective at
dressage to music. They in the main are naturals. We have tapes that
we have made for all the stallions for display work . Itis an ecellent
way of showing off their power and movement. It always catches the
publics imagination and they remember.
I agree that driving displays are impresssive, but when they are in
isolation it gives out the wrong message in that people don't realise
how versatile they are.
We should beputting on ridden displays at all major events whether
with pure or parbred CB's

regards

kate

--- In CBHSNAcommittees@yahoogroups.com, tratraver@... wrote:
>
>
>  Had a message from a new CB enthusiast.  She said they went to the
Equine Affaire and all she remembers are the Friesians and the
Icelandics.  I talked to someone about it and she said she thinks part
of their success is that they are eye catching and do performances.
The first time I saw a Friesian was at the Jumper World Cup between
classes in 1992.  He was doing  a performance to music and it was
impressive.  I don't think I had ever seen freestyle dressage before
and don't think I knew that I was seeing that.  I just saw a horse
dancing to music.  Perhaps a driving performance would be a good thing
to cultivate if we can find someone interested in doing that.  I guess
we would need to contact the Friesian people and see what they have
done and are doing.
>
> Tracie
>

>
> Here is the list of email addresses I sent an
> invitation to join the yahoo committees group:
>
> acohen@...
> donnamac56@...
> baymorwolf <tratraver@...>
> scott@...
> gaby@...
> milinda@...
> tratraver@...
> divineequinestables@...
>
> Here are those who have already joined:
> carolbrazilrs <carolbrazilrs@...>
> tratraver@...
> acohen@...
>
> Remember that unless you join the group by
> responding
> to the invitation you CANNOT send email to the
> group.
> This is why messages are bouncing back.
>
> Cheers
> Carolina
>
>
>
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Just got back for a tournament weekend. Have yet to
catch up on all email (I'm about half way through).

I must say I agree with Scott that this email format
is very ineficient, and many things discussed will be
lost in mailbox vaccum.

I am not sure if the yahoo group is the right solution
either. I thought it would be good as the would be a
record of the discussions that is searchable, so that
I would not have to keep so many messages, or copy and
paste their content into word for future reference. If
there is no consensus on the yahoo group, I will
delete it by Friday and we will figure out a different
solution.

What I try to do is read as many messages as I can
while taking notes, and subsequently organize all
issues into one. I did so last week with what I though
could be developed into a report. I am happy to do a
lot of report writing for the group, at least put
together preliminary drafts. I do scientific writing
for a living, so it come easily to me. I am used to
writing, and editing other peoples ideas, and not my
own. Just let me know how to proceed so we can meet
our deadline and not take too much time doing it.

I will send out a summary message by the end of today
with an update on the precious report I put together.
Please let me know whether it is useful, and if you
want help we the writing/rewriting/formating or if it
is taken care of.

Cheers
Carolina





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Here is a pseudo colored map I produced to get some
input for you on the regions. I am happy to rearrange
the regions however others see fit. You can pick
different colors too. I think we need to consult with
canadian members how best to divide Canada for this
purpose. It is possible this needs to be discussed in
conjuction with the new members committee.

I would like to be part of the new members committee
and I volunteer for regional representative of the
central zone at least during the trial phase until
them can be selected/elected/appointed.

I would like to have this map in the presentation
after the divisions are agreed to, and appropriate
labels are placed.

Cheers
Carolina






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Carolina,
I received your invitation and I am in.  I had responded to a
committee email earlier that included this yahoo address and it
bounced. I believe it bounced because I was not yet part of this group.

Anna Cohen

I am not sure why messages would be bouncing. Currently there are only
2 members, myself and Tracie, so messages would not be able to be sent
from anyone else until they respond to the invite. I will send one to
Anna Cohen if he did not get one yet.

Also, I recommend to those who have email problems to open a yahoo
account to take care of society business. There is a lot of
competition in the internet advertisement market at the moment, and
companies are using whatever tools they have to maintain customer use
within their sites. Thus, correspondence between different email
providers might be troublesome.

Cheers
Carolina

This is NOT an open group. It is the CBHSNAcommittees
group. It is by invitation only and is for committee
members to exchange email having an archive for later
retrieval. It is a great place to upload files for
review, and fill out databases with information. The
polls can also be used as a tool to take votes that
are open, not anonimous.

So it would not change what we are doing now at all,
it just means that messages addressed to all committee
members are sent through:
CBHSNAcommittees@yahoogroups.com

I also offered to create a group for each committee
instead of one for all. Of course some emails would be
to fewer individuals, and that is fine sent th old
fashioned way. But information packed emails with
websites to look and and statistics can be arquived at
the group site. That way I don't have to keep lots of
message as references.

Cheers
Carolina

Hi Carolina,

I am in.  Should I send messages to you to this address instead of
yours?