What will 2012 hold for FoxTROT? The continued growth of FoxTROT's membership? Greater participation in the FoxTROT National Trail Rides? More FoxTROT members getting together more often for local/regional trail rides? FoxTROT members joining the ACTHA and competing in the CTCs? Maybe even an entourage of FoxTROT members traveling to Ava, Missouri for the MFTHBA International Show and Celebration? Whatever 2012 holds, we're hoping that you'll be a part of it!
If you haven't already done so, it's time to renew your FoxTROT Membership for 2012! E-mail notes have now been sent out twice with the 2012 Membership Application attached. Renewals have begun to arrive in my mail box from Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Arkansas! Be sure to contact me if you have lost track of your notice, so I can get one to you. As always, we ask you to spread the word about FoxTROT. Word of mouth is the best way we've found to grow our membership. If you know of others in or around Tennessee who trail ride MFTs, invite them to join FoxTROT. Give them my contact info or send me a note with theirs. Let's do our best to be more involved ourselves and get others involved!
Make plans to attend all three National Trail Rides! As a member of FoxTROT and the MFTHBA, when you complete 10 National Trail Rides on a registered MFT you'll be awarded one of the beautiful Montana Silversmith buckles as pictured above from the MFTHBA! Additional prizes are available for 20, 30, 40 NTRs! So, in addition to the great fellowship of FoxTROT members around camp and on the trail, you can be marking off your NTRs until you are eligible to be recognized and receive your buckle!
With winter being dead upon us, many are not able to ride as often as they'd like. However, if there's a sunny day in the 40s and the winds are not too high, you can expect to see us "die hards" (You know who you/we are) headed for a trail head! Anytime you see a nice day in the forecast, be sure to contact one of us in your region as listed above, it's sure that someone will be ready to ride with you!
Missouri Fox Trotters performed extremely well in last year's ACTHA America's Favorite Trail Horse Challenge with 2 of the 10 finalists being MFTs! Let's do our part to introduce our MFTS to the ACTHA CTCs in Tennessee this year! To date there are 3 ACTHA CTCs scheduled in Tennessee. Notice that there they are located in/near places many of us already ride. We've talked about becoming active in the ACTHA in years past. Let's take a close look at this year's ACTHA CTC schedule and make it happen! Go go http://www.actha.us for all things ACTHA!
Attending the 2011 MFTHBA International Show and Celebration was a real treat for Deb and I! We had never been before and we thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience. It was a very beneficial and educational time for us. The trail rides during the day were wonderful with 30 - 40 MFTs out on the trail! The daily Versatility events had real "cowboy" stuff showing all the talents of our breed! The nightly shows demonstrated the MFT's "flashy" side! Other FoxTROT members attending were Terry Messex and Jaime Whiteaker. We commented at the time that it would be great if we could get a group of FoxTROT members to attend the Show and Celebration in 2012. If you have never been, consider joining us as we hope to return!
There are those such as Nostradamus and the Mayan Calendar which predict all sorts of apocalyptic events for 2012! I think we'll simply continue to trail ride our favorite horses, the Missouri Fox Trotter! We're hoping that you'll come along for the ride!
Happy Trails,
President, FoxTROT
smfoxtrotters@hotmail.com
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