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| Emma Minteer and Chinks, one of her Extreme Mustang Makeover horses. Minteer will be at Empire Farm Days on August 5. |
The complete 2014 Empire Farm Days
Equine Center Round Pen Demonstrations schedule is:
Tuesday, August 5, 11am and 2pm: Just
100 Days for America’s Mustangs: From Wild to Mild with Emma and Jack Minteer
Wednesday, August 6, 11am and 2pm:
Retraining Thoroughbreds for New Life as Polo Ponies and Western Trail Horses
with WNY Girls Interscholastic Polo Team Manager Rob Donnan
Thursday, August 7: Developing
Trust Mounted Police-Style with Joann K. Long at 11am and Ultimate Control Mounted
Police-Style with Joann K. Long at 2pm.
Layden Fence and Livestock Systems and
Empire Farm Days sponsor the Equine Center where visitors can register to win a
new saddle.
Just
100 Days For America’s Mustangs
Emma and Jack Minteer have
successfully taken just 100 days to transform a wild American Mustang into an
Extreme Mustang Makeover competition horse.
In 11am and 2pm Round Pen
presentations on Tuesday, August 5, Emma and Jack will demonstrate techniques
for gentling the wild horses associated with the American West.
The Minteers will be working with
Amazing Grace, a Mustang Emma entered in the 2014 Mustang Magic competition in
January in Fort Worth, Texas and My Girl Annie with whom Jack competed in the
2013 Extreme Mustang Makeover, plus a newer horse still in training for the
2014 Extreme Mustang Makeover that starts 17 days after the Empire Farm Days
presentation.
“We start with a horse that has
essentially never been touched by people. We have 100 days to gain his trust
and halter break and saddle train him for a competition meant to show the
beauty and trainability of the Mustangs,” Emma says.
Emma and Jack own and operate Rose
Hill Ranch in Naples, NY. Jack is a trainer for the Mustang Million competition
in Fort Worth. After a 30-year bullriding career, Jack now competes in Reined
Cow Horse events and starts colts for all equine disciplines. Together, they
offer lessons, boarding, problem solving and clinics.
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Kasandra Wohlschlegel and Molly Hickey are members of the
Western NY Girls Interscholastic Polo Club who will be
visiting the 2014 Empire Farm Days.
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Retrained Thoroughbreds
Two of the 14 NY-bred Thoroughbreds that helped the Western New York Girls Interscholastic Polo Club become Northeast Regional champions will be at the 2014 Empire Farm Days at Rodman Lott and Son Farms in Seneca Falls, NY on Wednesday, August 6.
Horse trainer and Team Manager Rob
Donnan, a Cornell University Polo Team alumnus, will demonstrate the story of
how he retrained the ex-racehorses to find new life as polo ponies with four of
the Western New York Girls Interscholastic Polo Club riders.
The 11am and 2pm Round Pen
presentations will focus on reschooling the retired Thoroughbreds for a second
career in a stop-and-go sport that features short bursts of speed and quick
turns, or as Western trail horses.
The Western New York Girls
Interscholastic Polo Club won the Northeast title with their NY-bred mounts;
they rode horses provided at the US Polo Association National Interscholastic
Championship tournament to 3rd place honors in March of 2014.
The New York State Thoroughbred
Breeding Fund sponsors the club that draw girls from Rochester, Buffalo, and
WNY communities. Executive Director Tracy Egan says, “We are pleased to sponsor
the Western New York Girls Interscholastic Polo Club which promotes the
philosophy that Thoroughbreds should be respected at every stage of life and that
after their competitive career on the track they can be readily reschooled and
make perfect riding companions.”
Information on Thoroughbred rescue
and adoption will be available at Empire Farm Days throughout the three-day
show.
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| Joann K. Long will demonstrate mounted-police style horse training on Thursday, August 7 at Empire Farm Days. |
Joann K. Long of Gentle Dove Farm,
Bloomfield, NY, is the only mounted police volunteer to earn the North American
Police Equestrian Championship Brigadier Memorial Award and multiple
international grand championships.
On Thursday, August 7th at 11am,
Joann will demonstrate ‘Developing Trust Mounted Police-Style’ techniques to
develop horse-rider trust using basic obstacles and will perform a bridle-less
demonstration.
In her 2pm ‘Ultimate Control
Mounted Police-Style’ seminar, she and her mount will demonstrate a series of
precision and control type obstacles as well as perform bridle-less
maneuvers.
Building block training methods
will be introduced in both sessions to develop a partnership with the horse.
Joann is National Mounted Police and Toronto Police Services
Certified. Now retired from 12
years of successful competition, she has focused her efforts on providing
educational horsemanship applicable to any equine discipline through mounted
police-style Obstacle Clinics, workshops, lectures, demonstrations,
international TV programs, and lessons presented by Gentle Dove Farm. She
travels the Northeastern U.S. working with riders and their mounts in creative
sensory and obstacle situations using proven police horse techniques.
More than 600 agricultural
institutions and organizations offer exhibits, information seminars and
educational workshops, live animal demonstrations, and farm safety and family
life displays at Empire Farm Days. For more information, visit the website at www.empirefarmdays.com or call
877-697-7837.
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