San Martin Horsemen's Association

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday April 27th at 7pm at San Martin Lions Club. 

San Martin Lions Club 12415 Murphy Ave, San Martin, CA 95046 

Our next big thing is a Trailer Maintenance Clinic on April 10th where you can learn to take care some things on your trailer with a little help. Checkout the flier in the newsletter and contact Karen for more details

The March and April club rides were both cancelled due to the restrictions caused by the outbreak of EHV in the county. Those restrictions are now lifted and we hope to see you at the May 14th ride in Henry Coe State Park. 

This month’s newsletter also has fliers for the May Play Day and the June camping trip at Jack Brook.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday March 23^rd  at 7pm at San Martin Lions Club. It will feature a Tack Swap/Sale for all the excess stuff you may have acquired over the last couple of years.

San Martin Lions Club  12415 Murphy Ave, San Martin, CA 95046

Our next big thing is a Trailer Maintenance Clinic on April 10^th where you can learn to take care some things on your trailer with a little help, see page 2.

And before all that there will be another Club Ride this time at Grant Ranch on March 13^th RSVP to Toni Whedon for details.

Keep a look out for this year’s #HoofPicsInParks challenge which should be up on the web site by next weekend.

Check out the March Newsletter.

Here is the newsletter.

Our next meeting will be via Zoom at 7pm on Wednesday Feb. 23rd

As suggested at the last meeting we are giving it a try on Wednesday instead of Friday. Check your in box for an invite a couple of days ahead of the meeting.

Don’t forget our membership runs on a calendar year so now is a great time to send in your forms.

We should have our calendar of events for the year ready to go by the end of the month.

Happy New Year! 

Our next meeting will be on Friday Jan 21^st at 7pm at San Martin Lions Club. It will feature our popular Soup & Chili Cook Off. Dust off your favorite recipe between now and then.  

We will also be announcing the winner of the Hoof Pics in Parks challenge and handing out prizes to all the willing participants. 

And one more thing  we will be asking the club members for their input in preparing our 2022 event calendar. This will be your chance to give us ideas for new clinics, ride locations, possible campouts, meeting topics, and other events.  

Check out the 2021 year in review in this newsletter to remind your of what we got up to last year. 

Note the meeting is the 3^rd Friday of the month, not the 2^nd as it was in previous years. 

San Martin Lions Club  12415 Murphy Ave, San Martin, CA 95046 

www.smhorse.org 

SMHA December Eventer

Happy December,

As mentioned in an earlier email our apologies but we will NOT be having our Holiday Party planned for Friday December 10th. Sorry for any inconvenience to you that this may have caused.

But we will be starting 2022 off right with a general meeting at 7pm on Jan.20th with our popular Soup & Chilli Cook Off.

In the meantime please enjoy this newsletter  and…

Noreen Nemec who is organizing a Christmas Ride in Harvey Bear Ranch.

Saturday Dec. 18^th, ride out at 11am. San Martin Ave entrance.

Bring your Santa hat, decorate your horse. See you there.

We had a couple of great events in October with the bike clinic and the trailer back up clinic. Thanks to everyone who came out for those.

On the calendar this month we have our General Meeting (via Zoom) on Friday the 12^th at 7pm. It is elections month see details on positions in this month’s newsletter.

That’s it for club sponsored events, but there is an Endurance Riding clinic jointly held by Santa Cruz Horsemens and Quicksilver Endurance Riders. Also Dreampower are having an open house in early November. See the newsletter for more details.

But on December 10th after a one year hiatus due to Covid-19 we are going to hold our end of year Holiday Party. Mark the date and think of a pot luck dish to share. Dust off your party game skills and your dancing shoes (cowboy boots work best)

We have a few events this month.

General Meeting on Zoom Friday 8^th at 7pm, watch for an email invite.

Then on Sunday 10^th we have a new thing, a Horses & Bikes Clinic.

On Saturday 23^rd we will be having our 2^nd annual Trailer Backup Clinic.

But our usual keynote event the Halloween Poker Ride is up in the air. Stay tuned for details.

All this can be found in the newsletter.

See you in October!

I know, what you’re thinking, summer is ending already!

We have a Play Day this month. Check out the details here. Pass the link on to your friends.

Past participants have really enjoyed the two hours of practice on the obstacles in the morning. You can bring your young horse and work in hand or ride or do one then the other. It’s a collaborative event as everyone’s horse seems to have that one obstacle they don’t particularly like. You can ask advice or follow someone else through the obstacle.

The competition then puts you and your mount on the spot with time ticking away. Same obstacles but things never go as smoothly as they did in practice.

This month’s general meeting will be via Zoom again, look at for an email invite later this month.

This month’s newsletter is right here.

Happy trails.

It’s time for a get together at in-person general meeting. We will be holding our meeting on the picnic benches at the Lions Club in San Martin, and it will be an ice cream social! The theme for this month’s meeting is ice cream. Please RSVP to news@smhorse.org so we can make sure we have enough ice-cream and fabulous fixings for you all to build your own sundae or banana split .

We will bring the ice-cream and you bring the social!

Friday August 13th 7pm to 8pm at San Martin Lions Club, 12415 Murphy Ave, San Martin, CA 95046

Please RSVP by Wednesday August 11th so that we can provide the right amount of ice cream and fixings.

In this month’s newsletter we have reports and pictures on a successful July 4^th parade and Jack Brook camping trip. There are some County Parks volunteer opportunities this month listed in the Chitty Blog at the back.

Did I mention there is ice cream at this month’s meeting?

We have a few things planned for this month.

Our general meeting will be held via Zoom on Friday June 11th

This Month’s park ride: Harvey Bear County park on June 26^th 11am ride out.

We are also looking for entrants and volunteers for the Morgan Hill July 4^th Parade.

The first of our desensitization events is 9:30am at Blomquist arena. Please contact Chere Bargar (details in the newsletter)  if you are bringing your horse or you can volunteer as a rowdy crowd member.

Here is the June Eventer newsletter. Lots of pictures from the May Play Day and riders in parks. Even some humor this month.

Oh and Jack Brook Camping trip in July has been reinstated, expect more details later this month.