AUSTRALIAN ENDURANCE RIDERS ASSOCIATION INC. POSITION VACANT - BOOKKEEPER The AERA is seeking Expressions of Interest from persons wishing to be appointed to the position of Bookkeeper.

Term of Appointment:
The appointment shall be from the 5th March 2012 and expire at the conclusion of the AERA AGM in 2014.

Remuneration:
The position is paid an honorarium, to be negotiated between the successful applicant and the AERA Committee of Management. The hours required to complete the duties fluctuate during the year, however it is anticipated an average of 8 hours per week is required.

Duties:
The position involves the processing of all the financial transactions of the Association into MYOB software. More specifically including but not limited to;

• the invoicing, receipting and banking of monies.
• the processing and paying of invoices.
• utilizing on-line bank software to facilitate payments.
• Prepare and lodge the quarterly BAS.
• prepare and personally present the Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statement for the Association at each of 3 meetings currently held during the year, or as requested from time to time by the Committee of Management.
• prepare and submit to the Associations’ external Auditors, the Financial Accounts of the Association as at the 31st December each year.
• prepare and lodge annual statutory returns.
• liaison with suppliers to maintain sufficient stocks as well as be the custodian of specific assets of the Association including but not limited to;
• Logbooks and other stationery items
• Tom Quilty buckles & related trophies

The ideal candidate;

• has been involved in Endurance in some manner for a number of years.
• is currently or has previously been employed or engaged in a position requiring bookkeeping skills.
• has reasonable internet access at their residence.
• has previous experience with MYOB or similar accounting software.

Additional Information:
A more detailed job description will be provided upon application for an Expression of Interest template.

How do I apply for an Expression of Interest template?
Form to use:  AERA Expression of Interest - Bookkeeper
Form available from: AERA website (see below) or by request from the AERA Secretary at annej@cooroy.net.au
EOI close: Midnight Sunday 12th February 2012
Selection announced:    Tuesday 29th February 2012

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Castlebar Doolittle

As many members would be aware, there was an unfortunate incident at last years’ Tom Quilty Gold Cup event when equine Castlebar Doolittle (Doolittle) collapsed approximately 25kms into Leg 3 of the event. Despite intensive treatment Doolittle was euthanized on course and subsequently sent for a necropsy to the University of Adelaide, Roseworthy School of Veterinary Science.

At the last AERA meeting a full report of the incident was tabled.

The report included statements from the rider, the treating veterinarians and a copy of their treatment records, a statement from the Tom Quilty Head Veterinarian and a comprehensive necropsy report as provided by the Roseworthy School of Veterinary Science. In addition a statement was received from an independent rider who was travelling behind Doolittle at the time of the unfortunate incident.

Doolittle’s logbook details for the event were tabled, along with a summary of the logbook for 2010 and 2011 including events entered, distance travelled, average speed travelled, weight carried and rider details.

Unfortunately, the necropsy was inconclusive as to the exact cause of the catastrophe, however there is a suggestion that the demise of Doolittle may have been “cardiac in origin”.

The AERA found that Doolittle was ridden within his capacity and preparation for the event and was in fact travelling slightly over novice time during the ride until his demise.

On behalf of the AERA and all members of the Australian endurance community, we share the sadness of Doolittle’s loss with the rider, Annabelle Jacka and the owners of Doolittle, Meg Wade and Chris Gates.

Tom McCormack
AERA President  

Information for riders wanting to obtain a Letter of No Objection to compete at FEI events overseas.

LNO Requirements.pdf

Ieva Peters
Ph:  040 3333 692 (overseas callers: +61 40 3333 692)
Email:  ieva.peters@bigpond.com

ACHIEVE BETTER PERFORMANCE AND REDUCE
COMPETITION NERVES

Great performance begins with a good outlook. Your thoughts affect your concentration
decisions and performance. We all spend time and money on preparing our horse, why not
spend a little time on preparing the rider.
Give yourself a break and come along to our Sports Psychology session. Develop some
strategies to improve your performance in endurance.

WHEN: Saturday 18th February 8:30 am (Pyengana ride changed date to later in the year)
WHERE: Burnie High School, Fidler Street, Cooee
HOW MUCH: $60 per person morning tea included.
RSVP 31 January: email Debbie Grull (debra.grull@dpipwe.tas.gov.au) or phone 0417 130 774 for more info!
Post cheque or money order payment to TEERA 1030 Staverton Road Staverton Tas 7310 by 31 January.

http://www.aera.asn.au/teera/2012/docs/120218_sports_psychology_seminar.pdf

Australia takes Individual Silver and Team Bronze at the FEI World Endurance Championships for Juniors and Young Riders held on the 10th December at Abu Dhabi (UAE).

Congratulation to Allix Jones who won the silver medal at the YRWC’s. Photo below is Allix and Castlebar Moonlight chasing the winner, just 12 seconds behind! A fabulous result for Australia.

Congratulations to our Young Riders for winning the Bronze team medal at the FEI World Endurance Championships for Juniors and Young Riders.
(Pictured L-R Photo below) 
Ian Williams (Director, FEI Non Olympic Disciplines), Meg Wade (recipient of the FEI Against All Odds Award), Alexandra Toft (Qld), Georgia Toft (Qld), Brooke Warner (NSW) and Allix Jones (individual Silver medallist).
Picture credit:  Morhaf Alassaf

Results:
Team: GOLD - URUGUAY 21.7078, Vendeval (Martin Stirling), Hunter Toro (Oriana Ricca), Mi Jade (Maria Pereira), Larkeena Del (Juan Pablo Viana); SILVER - FRANCE 20.5383, Al Jaime De (Nina Lissarrague), Al Abjar (Lea Vogler), Petra Cabirat (Julien Lafaure), Favela (Lisa Riou); BRONZE - AUSTRALIA 19.9644, Castlebar Moonlight (Allix Jones), Kunama Safira (Brooke Warner), High Society Te (Alexandra Toft).

Individual: GOLD – Vendeval (Martin Stirling) URU 22.581; SILVER - Castlebar Moonlight (Allix Jones) AUS 22.567; BRONZE - Hunter Toro (Oriana Ricca) URU 21.466.

Australian Rider results

2nd   place Allix Jones and Castlebar Moonlight  (11yo AA mare)  time  5:19:03     winning time   5:18:51     (12 seconds in front)
16th  place Brooke Warner and Kunama Safira  (9yo Arab mare)      time  5:55:52
37th  place Alexandra Toft   and High Society te   (8yo P/A gelding)    time 6:55:44
Georgia Toft and Bremervale Arrogance,( 12yo Arabian Gelding)   Elim. End of Leg 3

You can see all the results at : http://www.atrm-systems.fr/index0eng.htm

Dear Riders,
It is now the time to start renewing your FEI registration for 2012, should you be planning to compete in International events next year.
Please note that registration is required prior to attending an FEI event, and should you compete unregistered the FEI will disqualify you from that event

CLICK HERE TO VIEW/DOWNLOAD FEI REGISTRATION FORM FOR 2012

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Important notice for EVENTING riders:
The FEI have introduced the following as a mandatory part of registering for Eventing:
In an attempt to improve risk management in Eventing, the FEI has added a mandatory release of medical/veterinary information to the registration procedure for Eventing.
This release allows the FEI to collect and evaluate medical/veterinary data regarding injury and treatment information of you as an athlete and/or of your horse. This is being done to support the analysis of the exact types of injuries sustained in Eventing, the value of protective equipment, and the quality and nature of medical & veterinary services.
All such information will be treated as strictly confidential, and used primarily for production of cumulative statistics which will assist us in continuously improving the risk management of the sport. Thank you for helping us in this effort.
Please note that by re-registering for 2012 FEI registration, you will be automatically agreeing to the above waiver. Any data obtained regarding falls at events will be communicated to the FEI via Australia's National Eventing Safety Officer.
The FEI has recently brought in new rules regarding the late registrations for athletes and horses – please see below the extract from the FEI rules

The following applies:

• After each month, the individual FEI sports departments will advise all National Federations of the identity of all non-registered athletes and horses that have competed during that month.
• For all disciplines except for Jumping, NFs will be given two (2) weeks to register the athletes/horses.
• For Jumping, NFs will only be given three (3) working days to register athletes/horses.

After the two (2) week window for the other disciplines and the three (3) working days window for Jumping, the FEI will again write to all NFs confirming which athletes and horses remain unregistered. If NFs still want to register these unregistered horses and athletes, a late registration fee of $250 AUD  per athlete/horse will be applied. However, ranking points and qualifications will only be awarded in the next cycle of publication.

At the end of the month, if the NF fails to register an athlete/horse in the above cases, the athlete and/or horse will be disqualified and incur all the consequences resulting from such disqualification, including, but not limited to, the loss of ranking points, points on standings for FEI series and qualifications as well as a fine that will be incur the next time they register.
Please return the form to info@equestrian.org.au or fax to 02 9763 2466
Regards,

Felicity Dubois

Vet fees for 2012 have been set as follows:

80klm - $575
$120klm - $645
$160klm - $800
Marathons $415 per day + GST for endurance accredited vets
Non accredited vets will be 75% of the accredited vet fee.

From 2013 vet fees will increase by 2.5% or CPI whichever is the greatest.

TOM QUILTY GOLD CUP 2011

2011 WINNER OF THE TOM QUILTY GOLD CUP:
KRISTIE TAPRELL RIDING KURRAJONG CONCORDE IN A TIME OF 10:10:42

TOP 3 RESULTS EACH DIVISION:

Complete results available at the SA Quilty website: http://www.satomquilty.com.au/

Congratulations to Kristie Tapprell and the beautiful Kurrajong Concorde for a well deserved win in the 2011 Barossa Ranges Quilty. Well done to the Castlebar team.
On behalf of the SATQC,  thankyou to everyone who attended our event and congratulations to all who successfully completed the challenging course in trying conditions. The weather prior to the ride made last minute preparations difficult but everyone kept their sense of humour and it was a great 24hours. It is a credit to the riders management and a measure of the calibre of horses attending that our success rate was quite high (62.18%)

A huge thankyou to the 70+ volunteers, many who were not really horsey people. They worked hard and long and were always polite and helpful, even when cold, hungry and tired. We are so grateful to you all for helping at this wonderful event.

Thankyou to all the Chief Stewards, especially that terrific duo, Tom and Sandy, Their calm supportive manner and wealth of experience was sought many times and they were always there for us if a difficulty arose Thankyou to all the other Chief Stewards for their willing help, and to the Admin team for keeping track of all the results during the event.

Thankyou to our tireless Veterinary team ably led by James Vowles. He was fantastic as Head vet and earned everyones respect with his organisation and leadership. Thankyou to Bill Harbison and Daniel Sims who worked very hard long into the next day in the Hospital, expertly caring for horses and reassuring anxious owners.

Thankyou to ACRM and their volunteers who manned all the checkpoints throughout the night . We couldn’t do it without your expert assistance. Riders all commented on the friendly greetings as they gave their numbers.

Thankyou to the community of Mt Pleasant for welcoming everyone for the week.

Finally, a huge thankyou to my wonderful committee. I am very proud to have been a part of such an amazing group. They worked tirelessly for months, preparing for a huge weekend and doing any job that was asked. Any differences were put aside and the teamwork was great Their support and encouragement over the weekend was fantastic and I think we have forged strong friendships because of this. I was especially proud when someone commented to me on the welcoming friendliness  of all the committee to our visitors.  You are all my champions!

Yes, we had a few hitches here and there,  and we didn’t get the results up on the net, but what really mattered was the event itself. The vetting, the course, the organising, and that went off well. Congratulations to everyone and thankyou all for coming.

Kind regards
Jean Sims
President SA Tom Quilty Committee

Matthew Sample and Brookleigh Ricardo 3rd MWT and Winners of the Pat Slater Cup. (above) Sasha Laws-King and Manana Gaylord 1st LWT (Left).

Brooke Warner and Cedar Ridge Fire 'n' Gold 2nd LWT (left).
Rohan Stanes and Flying Circus Ring Master 3rd LWT & BC (above).

Shahzada 2011 – Many riders came from South Australia, Victoria and Queensland which reflects the fact that Shahzada has truly become a National ride.

There were 46 horses in the Shahzada 400 and 31 were successful on Friday 26th August….a huge completion rate. Melanie Scott from South Australia riding Zaar took out the Best Managed/Best Conditioned Horse Award with the rug donated by Lyn and Peter McKechnie and the Perpetual Trophy donated by Rex and Sharyn Cox.  There were six horses called up for Best Managed/Best Conditioned Horse including Mel and  Zaar and they were Maureen Feltham on Malali, Stuart Lymbery on Garonne Park Walker, Kim Hagon on Diamond R Boston, Melanie Anderson on Ausden Kon Tiki and Allix Jones on Shellal Cattle King Flyte.

Linda Jonkers and the lovely stallion Girilambone Orion recorded the fastest time of 35 hours and 6 minutes and he also won the Suncrest Arabians Trophy for First Stallion home. (above left - photo by Kieron Power)

The Halifax Hayes Fit and Well Award was shared by Emma Fletcher riding Diamond R Oscar (bottom left) and Jeremy Banwell riding Blakes Heaven Caruso (above left).  Jeremy also received the Steve Locke Memorial Award for the last junior rider and the youngest successful rider and the last rider home awards donated by the Knihinicki family.  The oldest successful rider was Maureen Feltham riding Malali (below left) and the rider who travelled the furthest was Melissa Longhurst (bottom centre) from far North Queensland – both awards donated by the Knihinicki family.

 The mini marathon was very popular with 91 horses taking up the challenge and we hope to see you all back next year, maybe to try the 400.  Shahzada will be held from Monday, 27th to Friday, 31st August in 2012 – so start making plans now.  Shahzada is an opportunity for you to do something truly special with your horse….come and give it a go!
Finally we would like to thank our mountain of volunteers who helped all aspects of the event and made Shahzada 2011 the success it was.
On behalf of the Shahzada Committee.

Thank you to the photographers:

Animal Focus, Jo Arblaster and Kieron Power

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

NATIONAL CALENDAR. The AERA webmaster (Elaine Williams) and the Insurance Officer (Sonia Ruprect) must be advised of any calendar changes to ensure that the National Calendar is up to date for insurance purposes.

HORSE TRANSFERS. Our Registrar, Jo Bailey has also advised that not all horse transfers are being completed.  If you sell or buy a horse that already has a logbook, please ensure the transfer form is completed.  Forms can be found on the websites or contact your State Registrar.

Neil Clarkson from NSW has been converting endurance videos to DVD.  Please contact Neil Clarkson on neil@kwikkopyliverpool.com.au if you have any old videos for conversion.

The AERA would like to remind members that any matters that may come under Occupational Health and Safety laws can override our own rules.  If a Chief Steward discusses an issue with you that is not in our rules, then it may come under OH&S laws and must be obeyed.

ATTENTION RIDE ORGANISERS:

All ride organisers should have received an official AON Ride Organisers Information Kit. AERA advises that it is essential and required that all ride organisers familiarise themselves with the content and ensure it is followed.

Proud supporters of Australian Endurance……. www.aon.com.au

Aon Risk Solutions are our Insurance Brokers and all members and affiliated clubs are protected under the insurance program arranged on our behalf. For more information regarding the cover provided OR procedures on how to make a claim under the policy refer to the AERA Web Page under the tab “Insurance” or contact the AERA Insurance Officer. AERA Insurance Officer Sonya Ruprecht PO Box 6627, Chatham NSW 2430 Phone (02) 6553 8640 Fax (02) 6553 8661 Email secretariat@nswera.asn.au Aon can also provide a range of additional insurance products to AERA Members such as Equine Insurance – Mortality and Loss of Use, Farm Cover, Horse Floats, Horse Trucks. For further information refer to the “Insurance” tab or contact the Aon Service Team on 1800 806 493 or email equestrian@aon.com.au and mention you are an AERA member.