Congratulations to all of the 2008 year end award winners!
Click HERE to see the complete list of division, high point, medal and special award winners.
If you did not receive your ribbon at the banquet, please contact Liz Medlock (banquet@gohja.org) to make arrangements to pick it up.

Orange County has increased the usage fees for Clarcona Horse Park in 2009.  The new fee schedule effectively doubles the cost of holding a horse show at Clarcona.  These fee increases will be apperant to exhibitors in the form of increased class entry fees and stall fees.

As we approach the beginning of another show year, owners are reminded that they are responsible for ensuring that their horse is properly recorded.  Horses which are not recorded do not accumulate points.  It is very important that a horse is recorded only once, under the correct owner's name and under the correct horse's name.  Duplicate recordings, recordings of the same horse under more than one name or more than one owner cause errors when applying points.  The Recording Committee has no way of knowing that "High'n'Mighty" recorded by Trainer A is the same horse as "Pookie" recorded by Owner B.  Please help eliminate this confusion and make sure you get all the points that you've earned by properly recording your horse for 2009.  The 2009 membership and recording forms have been mailed to all current GOHJA members and are posted below.

Stewards will be available at each GOHJA show to measure ponies on Friday from 4:30-5:00 and on Saturday from 10:00-11:00 in front of the Show Office.

Traditionally, GOHJA posts or publishes points two times a year; usually once just before mid year and once just before year end.  This gives competitors a chance to check for any errors in their points.  Before the introduction of the web site, we published these postings in our newsletter "The Dotted Line".

The reason we only post point totals thru April for the first posting is because we have several divisions that only run for half the year...in other words their "season" is December thru May and another "season" starts in June and runs thru November.  So in effect, May is "Year End" for these divisions.  If we posted points thru May, everyone would know the placings in these divisions before our Year End Awards Banquet in November.  For this reason, we will also not post "year end" points all the way thru November...we'll post thru Sept or Oct instead.  Rest assured that all of your points are counted, including the May show, even if the point totals that are posted on the web site do not include the May numbers.

Anyone that would like to discuss this policy with the Board is more than welcome to attend the Board meetings.

If you feel there is a error in your points, please send the specific discrepancy to rsecretary@gohja.org.  Blanket requests for all points for all shows will NOT be honored.  Please be respectful of Heather and her time.  She, as well as all of our volunteers, put in a tremendous amount of work to make sure that GOHJA is the best that it can be.