Olil Clinic...

We had a very successful Olil clinic this weekend.
There were 9 riders and everyone got individual attention from Olil which was very helpful.
Next event at Flying C Ranch is the CIA Open Spring show that will be another triple FEIF WorldRanking show held at Húnavellir.
Click here for more info

Board Election Results..

The final results of the 2011 Board Election are as follows:
Asta Covert (176)
Barbara Frische (175)
Kari Pietsch Wangard (166)
Sam Castleman (94)
Barbara will take Sam's seat effective January 1, 2012.

Remember to renew your USIHC Membership for 2012

CIA OPEN SPRING WORLDRANKING SHOW...

T1 finalists at the CIA OPEN FALL SHOW and the judges - photo by Danny Robertson

Mark your calendar for our spring show!
May 11-13, 2012

We hope to see you in Santa Ynez in May for another great event!

CIA OPEN FALL SHOW UPDATE...

The new 250m Track at Húnavellir in Santa Ynez, CA

We have added Intermediate classes to Friday's schedule for the CIA OPEN FALL show...

See more info here

We hope to see you in Santa Ynez in October for a great event!

CIA OPEN FALL SHOW...

The CIA will be hosting a Triple World Ranking Event October 21-23, 2011. This means that all open classes (T1, T2, T3, T4, V1, V2, F1, F2, PP1 and P2) are offered three days in a row, all preliminary rounds for a chance for US riders to rank among the riders in the World. High point riders in each event averaged from the 3 days will be awarded on Sunday instead of finals. The rest of the classes will be offered like normal, preliminary round on Saturday and Finals on Sunday.

See more info here

We hope to see you in Santa Ynez in October for a great event!

US Tryouts are coming up...

Flying C Ranch in Santa Ynez, CA is one of the sites for this years US World Championships tryouts. They will be held here on May 22nd. Þorgeir Guðlaugsson is coming from Holland and will travel from California to Georgia to judge at Creekside Farm and from there he will be in Vermont at Silver Maple Farm and at last at Mill Farm in New York. The deadline to sign up for the tryouts and to ride for scores is on May 14th so be sure to send in your applications by then.

For more info click here.

For more info on the World Championships in Austria check out their website at
www.islandpferde-wm.at

CIA OPEN Spring Show...

Fourgait finalists - Doug, Ayla, Madison, Rachel, Christina, Laura, Asta and Florian - photo by Willy Ma

We had a great show here this past weekend. We had a total of 30 horses signed up and many people from all over California came to watch. Florian Schneider came from Germany to be our FEIF International judge and Doug Smith helped with Icetest, scribing and announcing like always and we thank them both for making this such a successful event. Also thanks to Ryan, Ellen, Dominic, Gayle and Sara for guarding the gate. And big thank you to Dan for video taping some of us.

We are very thankful for everyone who came and supported our show and we hope to see you all back in October for the WorldRanking show!

Here are full results from the show.

Olil Clinic...

We had a very successful Olil clinic this weekend.
There were 10 riders and everyone got individual attention from Olil which was very helpful.
We hope she is coming back soon.
Next event at Flying C Ranch is the CIA Open Spring show.
Click here for more info

WC TRYOUT INFO...

Tryout info has been posted on the USIHC Website.
Click here to check it out

For more info on the World Championships in Austria check out their website at
www.islandpferde-wm.at

CIA OPEN SPRING INFO...

CIA OPEN FALL 2009 T1 & T3 Finalists - photo by Willy Ma

The info for our spring show has been posted.
Click here for more info on the show.

We look forward to see you here in April!

Tryout Dates...

The date for the US Tryouts has been set.
Þorgeir Guðlaugsson will come from Holland and be the judge in all 4 locations.
Contact Will Covert at sport@icelandics.org for more info.

California May 22nd
Georgia May 24th
Vermont May 28th
New York May 29th

For more info on the World Championships in Austria check out their website at
www.islandpferde-wm.at

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Remember to renew your USIHC Membership for 2011