It’s time for our annual membership drive! We’d like for you to join us in 2021! Your renewal is critical because it sustains our organization to govern, register, protect and promote the Mangalarga Marchador breed in North America. Lynn Kelley, USMMA Treasurer, is the membership coordinator with help from your local Regional Director at times. The easiest…
The 2021 USMMA calendar is ready and features our wonderful horses every month for 12 months. A calendar is a great gift for clients and friends, shows and for promoting the Marchadors too.If you are interested in purchasing calendars, please order today for shipment that delivers by January. 1 Calendar = $12.50 plus $9 shipping and handling = $21.50…
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! It has been a very challenging year but we all have many things and reasons to be thankful for As COVID 19 presents a challenge to any planned activity, we are hoping to host a “Mangalarga Marchador Open House” at Silver Stables on January 17, 2020 from 10:00am until 12:00 pm!…
Recently, we sent an email ballot to vote for one of three candidates for Regional Director for the Pacific Region. Our thanks to Alessandra Deerinck, Theresa Longo and Linda Holst for volunteering to take on these duties. The election is now closed. We welcome Alessandra Deerinck as the new Regional Director for CA, OR, WA…
Enjoy your Winter edition of the USMMA Journal! View on-line using ISSUU.READ WINTER JOURNAL ONLINE We always ask for your photos, but with this issue, we are pleased to feature the member photos that we received during the 2020 PHOTO CONTEST. We would also like to see MEET THE MEMBER COLUMN to become a regular feature, so if…
Hello from your new USMMA Facebook page administrators! We want to make the Facebook page more vibrant, up to date, informative, and a place that you will be proud to share with others. To do that we need your help. We came up with a few ideas that we want to share, but we hope…
We want to see new faces, horse faces that is, so we decided to start a photography competition at USMMA. We will use the contest photos to create a USMMA photography bank and to publish a USMMA 2021 calendar. Tom Sliter, fine art photographer from Washington, D.C. has agreed to judge the contest. The winner of the contest…
Enjoy your Spring edition of the USMMA Journal! View on-line using ISSUU. Marchador Journal Spring 2020 The Journal is also attached below as a pdf file along with the photo contest release form. We always ask for your photos, but with this issue, we would like to see lots of participation in the new PHOTO CONTEST.…
The USMMA Board of Directors unanimously approved the proposed bylaw changes. Regional Directors Election Committee No Term Limits Discussion was held to answer all of the members’ questions and concerns following the email announcement about the bylaw changes. The result of that work resulted a document further describing the Regional Directors positions and…
The USMMA Board of Directors have created a COVID-19 grant fund to provide membership dues relief to those people who are having financial difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you would like to apply for this relief, please contact Lynn Kelley, USMMA Treasurer at lynnkelley@me.com. We are all in this together. Best regards, Jeff…