Board
A volunteer board of directors governs the club. See the board page for
the current board of directors.Committee
Chairmen:
Newsletter Editor: Janene Harper; Membership: Jeanie Tolliver; Awards:
Tiffany Whited; Pleasure Rides: Mary Ben Marshall; Hospitality Vickie
Mitchell.
Purpose:
The purpose of the club is to promote all phases of trail riding as a
family activity and to educate the public as to the care and conditioning
of the horse for trail activities.
Membership:
Membership is open to all people interested in trail riding. The cost is
$20 individual or $25 family membership. Membership Chairperson is Jeanie
Tolliver, Box 460, Roff, OK 74865, email cjtollie@yahoo.com
for more information. OETRA meets at various locations
throughout the state. Many of the board meetings are held during weekend
trail rides.
Communications:
The OETRA communicates to its members through a wonderful monthly
newsletter full of trail riding reports, a large calendar of Oklahoma
rides and neighboring states, as well as trail riding and horse tips. The
club also has a website and a Yahoo message
board for members only. |
Awards
Program:
Riders and their horses are recognized through the OETRA awards program
for pleasure, competitive and endurance riding mileage. To accumulate
mileage, riders must participate in an OETRA-recognized mileage event.
Competitive
Trail Riding:
The OETRA works with the North American Trail Ride Conference to host the
Annual Robbers Route Competitive Ride held at Robbers Cave State Park in
Wilburton, OK. Volunteers support these rides as coordinators and crews.
Competitive Trail Riding uses time,
distance and stress not speed as judging criteria. Judging is based upon
each horse starting the ride with a score of 100 points, evaluated by
soundness: 45%; condition: 40%; and Trail ability/manners 15%.
The
horsemanship judges will judge the rider as follows:
20% Grooming/ presentation of horse and tack fit
50% Trail equitation
30% Trail care and safety
Placing are given to both riders and horses. NATRC accumulates points for
NATRC members who are eligible for regional and national awards. For more
information, visit the NATRC Region 4 web site at
http://www.natrc4.org/
Pleasure
Rides:
The OETRA is the host of many pleasure rides held throughout the year.
Those rides are listed on the calendar of events page. The club also helps
maintain many of the Oklahoma equestrian trails and was instrumental in
the addition of equestrian camps and facilities added with the trails.
Club members host workdays to keep our horse trails nice for everyone and
to trail blaze new areas. |
