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Update October 5, 2021

As our 2021 competition season comes to a close, we would like you to take note of the following information.

1.Points will be FINAL Friday, October 8, 2021. Please review your points and contact the points secretary points@nihja.net with any questions, comments, or concerns.

2. The 2021 NIHJA Annual Meeting and Horse Show Draw will take place on October 18, 2021 at 6:00pm

3. If you have a trophy from the 2020 season, please return it to Palatine Stables by Monday, October 18, 2021. You may also drop of trophies at the NIHJA Annual Meeting.

4. NIHJA still needs sponsors for the 2021 NIHJA Prizes and Awards. If you are interested, contact Barb Mangler at bmangler@comcast.net. Sponsorship is $150 and helps provide quality prizes and ribbons to riders who have worked so hard this year to finish at the top of their division!

5. NIHJA will be hosting our annual Banquet and we are in need of raffle table prizes! Please help support NIHJA and consider donating an item to the raffle table.

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Year End Information

It’s hard to believe it is the end of the 2021 competition season! NIHJA needs the help of NIHJA members with a few items!

  • Thank you to all the 2021 NIHJA division sponsors so far. We need people to sign up to help sponsor a division for NIHJA year end awards. Remember, the NIHJA Year End Awards are reflective upon the number of sponsorships received.   NIHJA relies in large part on sponsorships to reward our riders and horses for the hard work they have put in throughout the season. Those lovely, large ribbons and cool prizes are provided by our division sponsors! Sponsors can be a business, an individual, a family or just a group of friends from your barn.  We still have many divisions available for sponsorship. The cost is $175 per division.  Please consider taking a division or two. You may contact Barb Mangler at bmangler@comcast.net . Sponsor’s names are printed in our Year End Awards Book along with the division they are sponsoring.
  • If you have a trophy from the 2020 season, it’s time to dust off those trophies! You can bring them to the office at NIHJA Finals, drop them off with a NIHJA Board member, or drop them off at Palatine Stables.
  • The 2021 NIHJA Annual Meeting and Horse Show Draw will be held on Monday, October 18, 2021 at 6:00 pm. We will update the post with the location ASAP.

Updates

January 22 Update

2021 NIHJA RULE CHANGES

All of the suggested rule changes have been approved by the membership. The following rules will be in place for the 2021 Show Season.

  1. The Open Jumper division will be called the Schooling Jumpers with fence height not to exceed 2’6″. 
  1. The institution of a Puddle Jumper division with fence height not to exceed 2’3″. Horse/rider combination may cross enter into the 2’6″ Schooling Jumper and the 2’9″ Low Jumper divisions. 
  1. If a division does not fill with 3 riders (Equitation) or 3 horses (Hunter) and are listed in the NIHJA Rule Book under Combining Divisions they MUST be combined with the exception of the Long Stirrup, Rusty Stirrup and Beginner Adult divisions. 
  1. The Junior Amateur Jumper division will now be renamed High Training Jumper to allow professionals to compete in this 3’3″ jumper division.
Updates

January 14 Update

Congratulations to all our members receiving 2020 NIHJA Year End Awards! You should all be proud of yourselves for all your efforts and achievements throughout the season.

We have uploaded the list of the NIHJA 2020 Year End Award recipients to our Awards tab and would again like to thank you all for your support of our horse shows and adhering to all the COVID restrictions to make our 2020 season actually happen. 


Trophies, ribbons and prizes will be delivered to rider’s barn affiliations in the coming weeks or trainers can make arrangements to pick up their barn’s awards at Palatine Stables.

We look forward to seeing you at the 2021 NIHJA Horse Shows!