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June 22, 2002

GORDON KINSON

Sorry to have to open on a sad note; one of our most active hunting families, recently

experienced the sudden loss of father and husband. Dr. Gordon Kinson, a retired University of Ottawa Professor, has been a steady and frequent helping hand at the club. He was the sort of person you didn’t really notice a lot until he’s not there anymore. He leaves his wife Joyce, a long time hunting member and current Board member, his daughter and one of our regular whips, Gillian, and up and coming Geoffrey. We miss you Gordon and give our condolences to your family.

CHANGE IN GOLF TOURNEY DATE

Note that the Golf Day and Steak Night date is incorrect in the fixture card, it should be

Saturday, August 10^th. For Golf details call Gary Hobin; Steak night reservations with

Randy. This is a real fun day. Please book early to make life easier for the organizers.

MASTER’S MEETING AND HOUND SHOW

I attended the Master’s Meeting and the Canadian Foxhound Show, the latter at the

Eglinton and Caledon Kennels, June 6/7. We missed the Bethany Hills/Frontenac Hunt

which has recently closed operations. Antony took a small number of hounds but did the OVH proud. The details are in his report below, with placings including two wins, two seconds, and a third. Thanks and Congratulations to Tony and special Thanks to

Pam for her help. We are indebted to the Huntsman Steve Clifton and Eglinton and

Caledon for their hospitality.

HUNTSMAN’S CORNER

What a fun time we are having, not any hunting to speak of because of the enormous amount of rain, hounds and horses are as fit as they can be but nothing to do. We have

been exercising hounds and horses since the first of April, it has now got very boring but we cannot do anything about the weather.

On a better note we went to the Canadian Hound Show and did very well; we were 2^nd

In the Stallion Hound class with Sounder ’97 (Blueridge Stormforce – TNY Worthy ’94)

1^st in the Crossbred Novice division with Dempsey (Buchanan’s Tom – Eglinton and Caledon Debra 96). The Bitch classes took place in the afternoon where we had more

success in the Novice Entered Bitch with 1^st Briar (West Percy Briton ’96 – TNY Fortune ’98). 2^nd Brilliant (West Percy Briton ’96 – TNY Fortune ’98) 3^rd Biro (Cotswold Bisley ’94 – OVH Wayward ’93).; It was a very good show, I was very pleased with our hounds; out of ten packs at the end of the day on points we were 5^th. For me it was a pleasure to see two of Briton’s pups placed; as you may remember I brought him with me from England. Thanks to Steve and Kim at the Eglinton and Caledon for putting the hounds and myself up and a special thanks to Pam for helping on the day.

See you all soon,

Antony

OVH EVENTERS

OVH Board member, Mark Nelson with his young mare Billie (“Good-to-Go”) continues to excite. They ran in their first Intermediate at Grandview in May; Mark and Billie were an impressive 5^th in a strong field of 38. They went again in an Open Intermediate at Checkmate two weeks later and were a bang up.. Mark is also getting great ribbons on his young Training and Prelim horses. If you want to see some really exciting eventing, come out and watch Mark compete Billie and friends.

Hiliary Popiel continues to be one of our strongest young riders. She was second at Grandview and won the Capital Equestrian Event at Training level.

We look forward to more results from our Hunt eventers.

OVH HORSE SHOW

Tim, Grits and Lindsay are once again hosting a horse show at their beautiful Sunset

Farms Saturday, July 6^th. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – CALL Grits ASAP at 836-1289 or

836-3456.

WELCOME “ THE HORSE PEOPLE”

The OVH has created a new kind of membership, which we’re calling a Corporate

Membership. This is a result of a proposal by Bev and Wolf Schinke (“The Horse People”) and will require a by-law change. The process is for the Board to develop the new By-Law. This then needs to be ratified by the membership at the next General Meeting. The Immediate result is that several of the Horse People clients, many of who you’ve met capping, will be out hunting with us this season.

HUNTER PACE

Please be sure to bring lots of guests to our Summer Hunter Pace on Sunday, July 7^th.

This is always a big event for the club; everyone’s participation is important.

NEW ROOF ON CLUBHOUSE

A few weeks back, a big wind storm removed a large portion of our roof – which was overdue to reshingle anyway. The Club owes a major big THANK YOU to

FRANK MCPHAIL and helper ART MELBOURNE; they gave us a real deal on a new roof – a big help to the club and much appreciated.

SEPTEMBER OPENING HUNT

Mark this on your calendar – always a big event. If any of you haven’t given Joan Gauer the date for your Greenbox this fall, please do so ASAP. We hope to have some better weather for hunting; as you are all too aware, we’ve lost a lot of our spring hunting due to continuous rain.

MCMULLLEN POOL PARTY

Just a reminder to anyone whose been on another planet for the past ten decades

July 1^st is the annual G.B. and major pool party at the McMullen’s. (1:00 o’clock start).

Here’s hoping we can get a couple hunts in before the end of the spring card.

Until next time

Ted Thomas MFH