WHSA Members & Horses 2018 listed events:
EKKA: Forms for volunteer involvement (click for link).
NSW
28-Jan-18 NSW Bungendore Ag Show
10/02/2018 NSW Morisset Agricultural Show- Waler Show Classes
10/02/2018 NSW Attunga Sporting Horse Club Gymkana- Attunga Show & Rodeo Grounds
18/02/2018 NSW Gunning Ag Show
03/03/2018 NSW Attunga Sporting Horse Club Gymkana- Attunga Show & Rodeo Grounds
11/03/2018 NSW Hack Show, Cental Coast Appaloosa Club, Somersby
02/04/2018 NSW Jerrawa Show
07/04/2018 NSW Attunga Sporting Horse Club Gymkana- Attunga Show & Rodeo Grounds
05/05/2018 NSW Attunga Sporting Horse Club Gymkana- Attunga Show & Rodeo Grounds
25/05/2018 NSW Quirindi High School Interschools Horsesports- Quirindi Showground
02/06/2018 NSW Attunga Sporting Horse Club Gymkana- Attunga Show & Rodeo Grounds
15-18/03/2018 NSW Manilla Agriculture Show- Joust display, Waler display
03-04/03/2018 NSW Goulburn Ag Show
NT
25/01/2018 NT Australia Day Ceremony at Coomalie Community Government Council
20/04/2018 NT Palmerston Senior School, Palmerston
24/04/2018 NT Adelaide River township. Show grounds to the War Cemetery for rehersal
25/04/2018 NT ANZAC Day Parade-Adelaide River Show Grounds and War Cemetery
25/04/2018 NT Coomalie Government Cuncil/War Graves- ANZAC Day Dawn Service
25/04/2018 NT Adelaide River Show Society “Gunfire Breakfast”- Adelaide River Showground.
05/05/2018 NT Darwin Quarter Horse Assoc. Multi Breed Show
13/05/2018 NT Litchfield Horse & Pony Club; Bunyip Hunt Competitive Team Orienteering
QLD
03/02/2018 QLD Horse Archery Clinic, Jimboomba PC
18/02/2018 QLD Logan Village Riding Club Dressage Day
25/02/2018 QLD Members Dressage Day, Cedar Grove and District Riding Club
04/03/2018 QLD Logan Village Riding Club Show Jumping Day
18/03/2018 QLD Logan Village Riding Club Hunter Trials
18/03/2018 QLD Cedar Grove & Districts Riding Club Hack Show
25/03/2018 QLD Logan Village Riding Club Hack Show
14/04/2018 QLD Logan Village Riding Club Combined Training
21/04/2018 QLD Scenic Rim Equestrian Club Dressage & Showjumping
25/04/2018 QLD Jimboomba RSL ANZAC Parade, Jimboomba
28/04/2018 QLD Standardbred Assoc. QLD- Dressage
29/04/2018 QLD Logan Village Riding Club – Dressage
29/04/2018 QLD Park Ridge Adult Riding Club- Dressage
13/05/2018 QLD Winter Series Dressage, leg 1, Cedar Grove and District Riding Club
20/05/2018 QLD Park Ridge Adult Riding Club- Dressage
20/05/2018 QLD Winter Series Dressage, leg 2, Cedar Grove and District Riding Club
10/06/2018 QLD Winter Series Dressage, leg 3, Cedar Grove and District Riding Club
27-28/05/2018 QLD Logan Village Riding Club – Masters
TAS
11/03/2018 TAS Pinto Society Tas Inc.- Hot Wash Show. Westbury Showgrounds
24/03/2018 TAS TEXCA Race- Extreme Cowboy Racing, Illawarra Lodge, Carrick
VIC
21/01/2018 VIC Toongabbie Pony Club- Freshman Showjumping. PCAV Event
25/01/2018 VIC Toongabbie PC Combined Training & Dressage Jackpot PCAV Event
25/02/2018 VIC Toongabbie PC CombinedTraining & Dressage Jackpot PCAV Event
25/02/2018 VIC Geelong Horse Trials
03/03/2018 VIC Stratford PC Horse Trials
12/03/2018 VIC Orbost Agricultural Society Show
25/04/2018 VIC Morwell RSL Morning Street Parade, Morwell
25/04/2018 VIC Tyers Dawn Service & Guest Speaker- Jason Hunter
29/04/2018 VIC Denison-Nambrok School Fete
02-03/03/2018 VIC Warragul Show, Warragul Showground.
10-11/02/2018 VIC Pakenham PC Horse Trials PCAV Event
16-18/03/2018 VIC Wandin Horse Trials, Wandin
19-20/02/2018 VIC Tonimbuk Indoor Showjumping Classic, run by Gavin Chester. EA event.
21/22/04/2018 VIC Bunyip Horse Trials
27-28/04/2018 VIC East Gippsland Field Days Equine Expo, Bairnsdale. Waler static & mounted display.
2017 Dates
Woodlea Walk Of Honour~31st March VIC
Rural Lifestyle Expo~25th March VIC
ANZAC Day~ 25th April All States
Marburg Show~13th May QLD
Ipswich Show~20th May QLD
St. Ives Show~21st May QLD
Lowood Show~17th June QLD
Hawkesbury Youngstock Show-9th July NSW
Rosewood Show~1st July QLD
Laidley Show~8th July QLD
Gatton Show~22nd July QLD
EKKA Waler Classes~13th August QLD
Waler State Champs~8th October QLD
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Equitana- 17-20th November 2016, Melbourne
Outback to Arena horses presented.
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Queensland Royal Show
The WHSA was well represented at the recent Queensland Royal Show, with an impressive lineup of Walers and their handlers fronting for classes both ridden and in hand. The WHSA Static stall in the breed village was well-manned and took out 3rd place amongst the Breed Displays.
Many thanks to the Queensland State Co-ordinator, Tracey Allen for organisational & delegating skills!
More place details in News & Events over the next fortnight.
Well done, all.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
The 2016 AGM will soon be upon us. Click here to read the bios of those that have nominated for committee positions.
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF WHSA PATRON
The Committee is pleased to announce that Captain Barrie M Newman RFD, ED, (Retd) has accepted its invitation to the position of Patron of the WHSA.
Barrie Newman’s involvement with the WHSA commenced in 2003 when, as Deputy Chairman of the Reserve Forces Day Council (SA), he first met Grantley and Velda Chaplin at the Launch of the 2004 Reserve Forces Day activities held at the Police Horse Barracks in Sydney. The theme for 2004 was to recognize the role the Australian Light Horse Brigade in the Battle of Beersheba and the Chaplin’s were there representing the WHSA. At that meeting Barrie suggested to Grantley that one way of promoting the recognition of the Waler Horse was to strike and issue a commemorative coin featuring the Waler and highlighting its importance and service to Australia in three wars. This offer was enthusiastically accepted and Barrie subsequently undertook the design and production of the medallion and researched the wartime histories relating to the Waler, which he then incorporated into the story-card used to house the medallion. The medallions are a unique memento and have been widely recognized for their design and finish. Barrie has continued to actively promote the Waler Horse over the years since then and has regularly kept in touch with the Chaplin’s.
Barrie’s involvement with horses goes back to his teenage years when he used to go kangaroo shooting on horseback in Western Australia with neighbours at his parents’ property in the South-West of Western Australia and later, when, as a United Nations Military Observer in Kashmir, he was asked to help exercise and train Indian Army horses from the Animal Transport Unit attached to the HQs where he was stationed for a few months.
He did his National Service Training in Western Australia in 1954 and during his 2 years follow-up service in the Citizens Military Forces he qualified as an Army parachutist, Army pilot and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Artillery in 1956. He has served as a CMF officer in Western Australia, New South Wales and in South Australia.
In November 1964, when he was Overseas and Travel Manager of The Bank of Adelaide in Sydney, Barrie was posted as a Military Observer to the United Nations Military Observer Group – India and Pakistan (Kashmir). The Bank gave him 12 months leave of absence to undertake this assignment. In Kashmir, he served on both sides of the Cease Fire Line and, as Operations Officer during the Indo-Pak War in September 1965, he accompanied the Chief Military Observer, LT GEN Robert Nimmo, to Delhi in peace negotiations with the UN Secretary, U Thant and Prime Minister Shastri.
In 1968 Barrie went to Vietnam as a CMF Observer where he served with 12 Field Regiment in operations in Bien Hoa Province. He was appointed Secretary of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia (SA Branch) in 1988 and in 1994 was made a Life Member of the VVAA for his services to the Association and to Vietnam Veterans. Barrie compiled, contributed, edited and published, in 2001, his book, “Vietnam Remembered- Notes by South Australian CMF Observers”.
In civilian life Barrie has been a banker, financier and marketing consultant. He is currently the Executive Director and owner of The Adelaide Mint. He is also Past President and Secretary of the Numismatic Society of South Australia and is on the Board of Camp Gallipoli Foundation Inc.
Barrie’s wife, Judy, accompanied him when he went to Kashmir and she worked with the British High Commission in Pakistan until the Indo-Pak War, then as a stenographer on the United Nations Headquarters in Srinagar until they returned to Australia. She has travelled extensively with Barrie during their married life, including spending 15 months living in Germany when Barrie worked for a large German international firm. They have been married for 51 years and have two married sons, Simon, a lawyer in Adelaide and Adam, a commodities trader, who has only recently returned with his family to live in Adelaide after a 3 years stint working in Germany.
In very recent times, Barrie has been instrumental in securing a unique and exclusive role for our Walers and WHSA members in the Camp Gallipoli project that is to take place around the Centenary of Anzac events in 2015.
Barrie has received numerous awards and decorations during his ongoing active career and the WHSA is delighted to have him as Patron where he will continue to be a passionate and knowledgeable advocate of the Australian Waler horse.