To all members of Area 2
A rider coming home from the Royal Windsor Horse Show was stopped by Trading Standards Officers for a horse passport check, only to be told that hers was illegal – she fortunately received an official caution rather than being prosecuted. Her offence, she had not got a completed Section 9 certificate, Medicinal Treatment concerning "slaughter for human consumption or not" in her passport. Her passport was issued by the Welsh Pony Society pre mandatory passports so the certificate was not included. How many of our members would fall foul of this part of the law? Numerous I suspect.
Here is a simple checklist of the sections that Trading Standards Officers check:
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Name of horse is shown together with colour and sex
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name, address and signature of current owner
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completed certificate in Medicinal Treatment concerning "slaughter for human consumption or not",
plus if any treatments have been given that the vet has completed the section fully
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drawing and description of horse signed by a competent authority or vet plus vets stamp
Of course this must also include the flu certificate giving all the vacinnations.
If you look in Interesting News, you will see an update of AM Trust Championships.
I at the moment busy updating the photos that are on the web site, if you think you have any good ones, please contact me. The majority of the photos within this web site come from Chris Lax, especially the good ones, the no so good ones are probably mine. If you would like any photos from Chris, go to Chris Lax Photography and his web site should appear.
I have updated the diary of events for the coming year and hope this will help you to plan your coming year. It seems that more and more events are taking place.
To those riders who would prefer a old style hunter trial, this is also being talked about, although there will not be a national championships held on one day.
There will be three regional finals, but not in the first year, for those people who are lucky enough to live in the North East and Scotland, we are to be the official guinea pigs for this event, qualifiers to be held in 2010 October onwards, and a regional final to be held approximately May 2011, we are currently looking for venue which may be able to hold this regional final, if you have the facilities, please contact Hilary by email.
If anyone would like to contact me, please email hilary.mckenna@yahoo.co.uk
Hilary McKenna
