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Topic: Coming for Inspection or Approval in '09 (Read 5090 times)
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Deb
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Thinking about it. It's my currently 4 yo. Sure wish you guys lived around here so someone could offer an opinion! I did have a non Trak person ask me why I hadn't shown her in hand a few weeks ago so that's positive at least. Money is also an issue so I need to carefully weight this decision. I now have a trailer I consider safe and TN is the closest the inspections generally come.
Pictures are here:
http://web.centre.edu/dajones/
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Altamont Sport Horses
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We will definitely be bringing at least one mare and foal and perhaps a 2 year old. Wish I had a larger trailer, I'd bring more.
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Right below the schedule there is an explanation of why there are few sites this year. I have copied and pasted here.
"ATA 2009 Inspections Focuses on Annual Convention
The central location of Murfreesboro, Tennessee appears to be the epicenter of the majority of ATA Trakehner horses nominated for inspection in 2009. The vast majority of nominated horses are within a 6 hour drive of the annual convention site at Tennessee’s Miller Coliseum near Nashville.
A few other sites have been set up allowing members to have mares inspected that are outside this range. Most areas did not have a volunteer host site nor were there an adequate number of nominated horses to justify an inspection.
The inspection schedule is subject to additions if an adequate number of mares can be assembled and a host site is volunteered from the membership."
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acottongim
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I think the shortest distance that I"ve hauled horses to be inspected was to the inspection that I hosted - and even that was 3 hours. Every other inspection that I"ve taken a horse to was 10 or more hours and if I think about it, they might all be over 12 hours. I just chalk it up to if they need to be inspected we go. Doesn't mean I like it, just means that I suck it up. But I also have to haul over 4 hours most of the time to go to rated shows (am lucky this year for once). It is difficult when no one wants to host and inspection - I can vouch it is a lot of work, but it is also a lot of fun (in the end LOL) and is a great way to really meet everyone etc. With prices going up for gas and airline tickets etc I can understand why the ATA can't/doesn't want to pay for tickets to mulitple sites esp when the attendence is low. Wasn't there an inspection last year for one mare? Now really - is that justified?? Unless the inspector lives close by that seems a waste of time/money.
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acottongim
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There should be a list of the inspectors on the ATA website - I'd go and look but I'm going out to feed before we get round 3 (or is it 4, 5 or 6) of torrential rain (since Sat we have had about 14 inches of rain!  and are expected to get another 7 inches in the next 24 hours).
Not sure if it lists where they live though. Some of the inspectors you just "know" where they live - Sam Eidt lives in AL for example - he has said in newsletters etc that he lives there and when he is at the inspections/conventions it says on his name tag where he is from...
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Karen P.
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I received an email today that if all the mare owners had their paperwork together there would be an inspection here in Washington. Not that it helps you Suzette but we are west of the Mississippi! 
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acottongim
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Suzette - I didn't post what I did as a slam against you, and frankly I DON'T like to haul that far - heck I don't like to sit in a car myself that far! But I get a little frustrated that it always seems that everyone always complains about things (not enough inspections, inspections too far, oh there was an inspection but not enough horses, etc) but no one ever seems willing to acutally do anything about it. There can't be an inspection if there is not a host. In today's economy, it can't be justified to have an inspection somewhere for a handful of horses. There is no happy medium here and it is frustrating for everyone concerned. And the schedule could still change - if there were enough horses to warrent an inspection and if there was a host for the site the website states that another inspection site would be considered.
When I presented Tate last year my options were to 1) travel to Maine with him, 2) travel to CA with him, or 3) try and get a site in FL (and that meant for my mom and I to host it). 3 frankly sounded a lot better than hauling to either Maine or CA with a mare and a stallion! Not to mention cheaper in the long run! There was already other interest in a mare/stallion inspection for the SE and once I found out that it might happen I lobbied and contacted everyone down here about presenting mares/stallions. We stared out with only around 10 or so horses and ended up with over 20.
My point is - if you want/need to have a horse inspected, look beyond your own herd and encourage friends, neighbors, the surrounding areas etc to get their horses inspected (don't forget about the PSB elig horses!). Send out an email to eveeryone on the list within a few hours drive and see if they are willing to bring horses. Have an idea of where you will host it. Get the office involved and see if you have enough horses if they will help you "get it done".
And yes, if I had not hosted an inspection I would have hauled to Maine. For various reasons I wanted to get Tate inspected - I knew he was ready and I wanted to get it over with. I could have waited, but I didn't want to and I had other reasons to getting him inspected at a younger age. I wouldn't have liked it, but I would have done it. I also break up long trips like that by staying with friends along the way.
And no, this isn't a "dig" at anyone - I'm just saying that sometimes we have to look beyond ourselves and outside the box to make things happen.
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acottongim
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I know you have hosted in the past - and trust me I know what it entails LOL (which is a lot more $, blood, sweat and tears than some would think I imagine). I don't think the ATA asks though for hosts - or at least not anymore. I know that they did send out a request via the website that they were in need of an inspection site last year but no one came to me personally - they were lookign for volunteers...
As for a closer stallion inspection... it is frustrating I know. Can you contact David to see if he has anything he wants inspected and perhaps they can change that venue to a mare/stallion inspection site? I would still see if there were others in the area of the US that might have colts to be inspected and see if you can't raise the numbers. Not saying it would work, but trying to brainstorm for ideas. 
For what it is worth, I did mention to a few people recently that I thought the 2010 Convention should be up in your neck of the woods because it seems that we haven't been there for a while.... Of course that would mean people from up there (you, David, Christina, who else is up there?) wanting to host one which is a major undertaking. David's insepctions always have a large turn out I believe and I think it would be a good place since there are several TK breeders in the area...
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Shawnda
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Unfortunately, geldings are not elgible for inspection into the stud book, even if he had previously been intact and sired babies.
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Karen P.
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Elfe, if all goes well it would be hosted by Anna Miles at her Blessed Fields Farm in Marysville (home of Ichi Ban and Arlington II) Last I heard it was potentially August 19th.
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Karen P.
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I don't this time, I have a TB mare that was inspected when we hosted the annual meeting here and the rest of my band are part-breds. I did offer to come and help so I will be there to lend a hand should you need one. I have a 3yo gelding by Ichi that lives at Anna's out of an unregistered TB mare that is just getting going, he is looking pretty special!
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