May / June

Nominating Committee Seeks Recommendations
Reminder for Equitana Spectators
New Exceptional Mares
Trakehner Verband E-mail Address
Western Stallion Inspections
First 1999 Mare Inspection Results
Martini Heads List of USDF Dressage Sires
New Book Available
Futurity Reminder
Sales List Editor Sought

NOMINATING COMMITTEE SEEKS RECOMMENDATIONS

The ATA Nominating Committee for 1999, consisting of Edmund Mayer, 765-778-1512, Chairman; John Krenger, 815-338-4008; Shawnda Nadeau, 450-258-4800; Barbara Sackett, 909-687-0645; and Terry Williams, 716-772-2957, has begun deliberations for creating a slate of nominees to be voted upon at the next Annual Meeting to be held November 5 & 6, 1999, in Orlando, Florida. This year, the offices of Vice President (Allen MacMillan, Indiana) and Treasurer (Marcia Johnson, Illinois) will be open. Both incumbents are eligible for re-election.

In addition, three new Board of Trustees members will be elected for three-year terms to replace the following members who are leaving the Board this fall:

Shawnda Nadeau, Quebec
Ann Rogers, Pennsylvania
Barbara Sackett, California

Board Members remaining in office and their years of term expiration are:

Stan Cornelison (Past President), Illinois    '00
Helen Gibble, Virginia    '01
Robin Koenig, Virginia    '00
John Krenger, Illinois    '01
Michael Loew, Ontario    '00
Tom Nowaskey, Illinois    '00
Leo Whinery, Oklahoma    '01

The officers whose two-year terms do not expire this year are:

Sam Eidt (President), Alabama
Cindy Fortin (Secretary), Maryland

The Nominating Committee uses whatever method it chooses to determine the slate but eagerly seeks assistance in identifying good candidates from the membership. Please feel free to contact any member of the Committee with your suggestions prior to the end of July.

REMINDER FOR EQUITANA SPECTATORS

For those of you planning to come as spectators to the ATA stallion inspection at EQUITANA USA, here again is the schedule of events:

Wednesday, June 9 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Veterinary inspection and Measuring Free Jumping Practice (Stallions) Open Schooling
Thursday, June 10 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Stallion and Mare Inspection First Phases (likely to be At Liberty, Hard Surface, and the Triangle Phase)
Thursday, June 10 8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.	Welcome Reception at Executive West Hotel
Friday, June 11 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m	Stallion and Mare Inspection Final Phases (likely to be At Liberty, Free Jumping, and Walk with announcement "Approved" or "Not Approved")

To order tickets and obtain information, contact Equitana USA Corporate Registration at 888-HORSES1 (888-467-7371). You may also fax the ticket and hotel forms to 817-255-8070, use the on-line forms at www.equitanausa.com, or mail your forms to the address listed on them.

For tickets only, contact your local Ticketmaster outlet or call 800-487-1212. You can purchase tickets on-line at www.Ticketmaster.com. ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.

Deadline to order tickets through Equitana is May 7, 1999. After that date, you must order through Ticketmaster. Adult 4-day tickets are $30.00, seniors and children under twelve are $20.00. Tickets to the Mane Event are additional and range from $14.00 - $35.00. The Mane Event is held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening with the same show repeated each night. (Remember, the ATA reception is on Thursday night so be sure to arrange your schedule so that you can attend).

The ATA headquarters hotel will be the Executive West Hotel. You must make reservations through Destination Kentucky at 502-456-9411 or fax the reservation form to 502-473-1128. If you want to stay at the headquarters hotel located within walking distance of the Kentucky Fair and Expo Center (Equitana USA), you must tell Destination Kentucky that you would like a room in American Trakehner's room block at the Executive West Hotel. The rooms are $104.00 per night plus tax for up to four persons per room. We encourage you to find roommates to share the cost of the room since this hotel is very convenient to the fairgrounds and the airport with free shuttle service to both. The block of rooms will be released on May 1, 1999, so reserve your room early.

If the blocked rooms are sold out or you would prefer a lower room rate, here are a few additional choices that you should find acceptable and that are close to the main entrance of the Fairgrounds:

Executive Inn        $104 + tax per night
Hampton Inn Fair/Expo    112 + tax per night

Hotels with Lower Room Rates:

Holiday Inn Southwest   $59 + tax per night, 4 mi from KFEC
Holiday Inn Southeast    87 + tax per night, 4 mi from KFEC
Hampton Inn East      69 + tax per night, 10 mi from KFEC

Cancellation policy: Hotels will charge credit cards with one night's deposit when the reservation is confirmed. This deposit is refundable up to 72 hours prior to arrival. Cancellation less than 72 hours prior to arrival will result in loss of the deposit. All changes and cancellations should be made through Destination Kentucky until May 28. After May 28, changes and cancellations should be made directly through the hotel. Hotels will be responsible for refunds.

PET POLICY: DOGS ARE PROHIBITED AT EQUITANA

If you bring a dog, you must board it at the Kentucky Humane Society for $12.00 per day. This includes walking twice daily, bowls, food, and water. Administration of medications will cost extra. Call 502-356-3355 to make reservations for your pet.

Executive West charges $100.00 extra if you bring a dog. We do not know what rules other hotels have regarding dogs. With all the restrictions on dogs, we recommend that you leave your dogs at home if at all possible.

NEW EXCEPTIONAL MARES

It pleases us to announce the awarding of the exclusive Elite status to the mare

Menuett *E*

foaled April 2, 1977, by Fasolt, out of Melodika by Preussengeist. She earned her *E* by having produced an approved son, MEISTERSINGER by Tannenberg, and two offspring meeting the performance requirements, namely Meistersinger (1989 ATA Reserve Champion in Dressage at Prix St. Georges) and MARIAH (reg. name MIMOSA MOZU) who earned her *Pb* designation by competing successfully in Modified Jumper classes.

Mariah *Pb*

was foaled in 1990 and is by Enrico Caruso. Congratulations!

TRAKEHNER VERBAND E-MAIL ADDRESS

trakehner.poetters@t-online.de

WESTERN STALLION INSPECTIONS

The 1999 Western Stallion Inspection will take place at DG Bar Ranch, Hanford, CA, on Monday, June 14, 1999. Rooms are available at the Holiday Inn Plaza Park, 209-651-5000, in Visalia, CA, for the nights of June 13 and 14. The room rate is $71 a night per room, single, double, triple or quad.

Stalls at DG Bar Ranch are $20 a night. Please contact Willy Arts, 209-732-7738, directly to make arrangements.

FIRST 1999 MARE INSPECTION RESULTS

San Antonio, TX, 3/13/99, Inspector Henry Schurink, Shaftsbury, VT:

ISLETA by Martini, out of Itza by Ibsen, foaled 4/12/96,
owner S. Hubbard: 8, 7/8, 6/7/7, 7 = 50 - approved for OSB

PARDI GRAS by Parsival, out of Patty Green xx by Armor xx, foaled 5/3/94,
owner Kensrow Farm: 7, 7/6, 7/7/7, 7 = 48 - approved for PSB

ALAINN by Hitchcock, out of Virgin Powder xx by Powder Horn xx, foaled 4/13/93,
owner Kensrow Farm: 7, 7/6, 7/6/6, 7 = 46 - approved for PSB

ITZA by Ibsen, out of India by Grimsel, foaled 6/15/88,
owner S. Hubbard: 8, 8/7, 6/7/7, 7 = 50 - voluntary marks

Houston, TX, 3/14/99, Inspector Henry Schurink, Shaftsbury, VT:

GARNELLE by Onassis, out of Great Help xx by Great Cohoes xx, foaled 2/27/95,
owner A. Backo: 7, 6/6, 6/7/7, 6 = 45 - approved for PSB

TEEA by Adelssohn, out of Tanzania by Avignon II, foaled 5/25/96,
owner Pam Norton: 8, 8/7, 7/8/7, 7 = 52 - approved for OSB

HANSA by San Remo, out of Harmony by Mahagoni, foaled 5/10/93,
owner B. Taylor: 7, 6/6, 6/7/7, 6 = 45 - approved for OSB

MARTINI HEADS LIST OF USDF DRESSAGE SIRES

At the end of ten years of keeping track of its Horse-of-the-Year qualifiers, the United States Dressage Federation (USDF) has published a list of all dressage horse sires who have produced at least two Horse-of-the-Year qualifiers during that period. The top ten of these qualifiers were given special emphasis and include three Trakehners! This is quite an accomplishment when one considers the number of breeds represented in USDF records.

    The USDF list of top 10 sires looks as follows:
    1.    Martini (Trakehner) 28 qualifiers
    2.    Chrysos (Westfalen) 23 qualifiers
    3.    Roemer (Dutch Warmblood) 22 qualifiers
    4.    Armin (Hanoverian) 21 qualifiers
    5     Zorn (Swedish Warmblood) 15 qualifiers
    6.    Condus (Trakehner) 14 qualifiers
    7.    Pregelstrand (Trakehner) 14 qualifiers
    8.    Gixibar (Hanoverian) 14 qualifiers
    9.    Patrick (Dutch Warmblood) 13 qualifiers
10.    Pontus (Swedish Warmblood) 13 qualifiers

Breeds represented among the close to 600 stallions on the list are: American Bashkir Curly, American Performance Horse, American Warmblood, Andalusian, Anglo-Arabian, Appaloosa, Arabian, Bavarian, Connemara, Danish Warmblood, Dutch Warmblood, East German Warmblood, Half-Arabian, Hanoverian, Hessen, Holsteiner, Hungarian, Lipizzan, Morgan, Norwegian Fjord, Oldenburg, Paint, Percheron, Quarter Horse, Rhinelander, Russian Warmblood, Selle Francais, Sporthorse, Swedish Warmblood, Thoroughbred, Trakehner, Westfalen, and Württemberg.

Trakehner stallions listed and their qualifier get are:

Martini	28	Elbiskus	3
Condus	14	Flaneur	3
Pregelstrand	14	Herbststurm	3
Ith	12	Ibikus	3
Avignon II	10	Insterfürst	3
Beauté	10	Kalluster	3
Graditz	10	Lolos	3
Erzsand	9	Luneur	3
Tannenberg	9	Maifeuer	3
Amiego	8	Marduc	3
Bütow	8	Patron	3
Laiken	7	Polarmond	3
Troubadour	7	Potentate	3
Wildfeuer	7	Tizian	3
Zauberklang	7	Tümmler	3
Abdullah	6	Unkenruf	3
Donauwind	6	Adolar	2
Leibjäger	6	Amadeus	2
Mahagoni	6	Egmont	2
Mandinka	6	Fabius	2
Prälat	6	Filou	2
Preussengeist	6	Flugwind	2
Saxon	6	Garibaldi	2
Justiz	5	Hailo	2
Kantor II	5	Hänsel	2
Schönfeld	5	Insterruf	2
Schwalbenzug	5	Karneval II	2
Solist	5	Lenzsturm	2
Tempelritter	5	Memelruf	2
Consul	4	Merkur	2
Eligius	4	Morgenglanz	2
Enrico Caruso	4	Mozart	2
Falke	4	Onassis	2
Mahon	4	Roland	2
Malachit	4	Schönfelder	2
Marcus	4	Schwalbenfreund	2
Meistersinger	4	Sigurd	2
Schubert	4	Solling	2
Adlatus	3	Traumdeuter	2
Antritt	3	Virgil	2

To be included in the list, a stallion has to have produced at least two Horse-of-the-Year qualifiers. Horses that qualified at more than one level in a year or throughout the years are counted as only one horse. For example, Hannabal, who qualified through all the levels from Training to Grand Prix, is counted as only one of Pregelstrand's 14 qualifiers.

NEW BOOK AVAILABLE

A new Field Guide to Plants Poisonous to Livestock - Western U.S. by Shirley A. Weathers is available from Rosebud Press.

This first field guide to poisonous plants in the western states is intended to help protect against plant poisoning of livestock. Horses, llamas, cattle, goats, alpacas, sheep, and swine are addressed. The price of the book is $14.95 per book plus $3 shipping for one book and $1 for each additional book. To order, please send a check or money order to Rosebud Press, PO Box 270090, Fruitland, UT 84027-0090.

FUTURITY REMINDER

Reminder to owners of Futurity horses of any age. Please send a color photo of your futurity colt or filly for the Mare and Foal Issue of the magazine. As always, printing will depend on space and the quality of the photos. Send photos to: Futurity, 2782 So. Oakland Cir. E., Aurora, CO 80014. Please send before July 1, 1999.

ATA STALLIONS BREEDING 10 OR MORE MARES IN 1998

STALLION	TRAK	OTHER	TOTAL
Schönfeld	7	41	48
Advocate	17	27	44
Enrico Caruso	22	16	38
Kaspareit	16	19	35
Hennessey	20	13	33
Martini	17	16	33
Pennant	10	23	33
Impressionist	14	18	32
Hailo	9	18	27
Leonidas	8	12	20
Bütow	13	6	19
Abdullah	2	16	18
Amethyst	10	7	17
Carino	5	12	17
Hänsel	4	11	15
Hadrian	7	7	14
Pajou	7	6	13
Veneziano	5	8	13
Harper	5	7	12
Morgenstern	0	11	11
Peron	2	9	11
Adrian	6	4	10
Insterfürst	4	6	10
Pregelstrand	3	7	10

SALES LIST EDITOR SOUGHT

The ATA is looking for a volunteer to type and edit the Sales List. Candidate must own a computer with printer and be attentive to detail. People skills are also very important. If you are interested, please contact Charee at the Central Office, 740-344-1111 or via e-mail at ATAHORSES@aol.com.