2025 Treasure Pace

Combine your detective and equestrian skills for a morning of fun on a marked course across the lovely trails and variety of optional cross-country obstacles! Follow the poetic clues and collect the numbered bottle caps to show that you have found all the treasures. An exciting challenge for both young and young at heart riders!

  • Date: Sunday, May 25, 2025
  • Start time: Between 9 am and noon
  • Location: 219 Upper Dwyer Hill Road, Ashton, Ontario K0A 1B0.
    The entrance to parking for the event will be via the laneway before the address going northwest on Upper Dwyer Hill. Watch for the parking sign.
  • Cost: $75 / rider (HST included) before pre-registration deadline.  $85 / rider in cash on the day
Pre-registration closes at 6 pm on May 24, 2025. No refunds on registration fees.

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Registration and Additional Information
  • Waivers are included in the online registration process. Provincial association membership is not required. Proof of vaccinations/Coggins is not required although on the waiver you must attest that your horse does not have a contagious disease.
  • Secretary’s booth opens at 8 am. Please register when you arrive with the names of the people who will be on your team. If you don’t have a riding partner and wish to be paired with someone, we can arrange that too! Take note of the number to call in case there is an issue while on course.
  • Take a copy of the emergency number on the registration desk when you register. 
  • Portapotty on site.
  • Ribbons will be awarded to those who found all treasures and were the closest to the optimum time set by an OVH member.
  • English and Western riders are welcome. Dress code is casual. Safety helmets are mandatory.
Riding the Treasure Pace
  • Riders ride in teams of 2 or 3 riders. Teams can start their timed course between 9 am and noon. The order of go is on a first come, first served basis.  Even if it’s a beautiful day please ensure that you return no later than 2:30pm.
  • Loved it so much that you want another round?  We’d be delighted to accommodate this for a donation to the OVH.  You will only be judged on your first round.
  • Teams are given a sheet of clues and they navigate the course from one station to another, picking up a "treasure" (in the form of a numbered bottlecap) from each station. The team with all its "treasures" and closest to the optimum time wins.
  • Collecting some "treasures" may require dismounting. Mounting blocks or nearby logs are available.  A fun job for your young and young at heart riders!The course runs over adjoining properties, so there is no need to ride on public roads or to cross public roads.
  • The course is on grass and sand trails.
  • Stay on course and jump only jumps that are part of the course. You are free to jump some jumps a few times.
  • If you encounter a slower team, please make your presence known and request to pass in a safe manner.
  • Report all falls to that emergency number or to the registration desk. If there is an incident that requires medical attention while on course, call emergency services.