Canadian Registry of the Tennessee Walking Horse News

 By Fran Kerik, CRTWH board member

With spring just around the corner, calendars are filling up fast with all the horse activities planned! Camping trips, endurance rides, perhaps a clinic or two? Winter is the time for planning and dreaming of warmer weather. Of course, if you have or are close to an indoor arena, you may have continued to ride all winter. Or, the cold-hardy have taken advantage of the nice days and filled them with riding the snowy trails.

Just in case you are looking at ways to continue with your horse journey, the CRTWH has a program for YOU! From the ride, drive, or alternative (agility, liberty, trick training,) to submitting video for the Program for Excellence, which includes Bronze (conformation and flat walk at halter), Silver (flat walk and running walk under saddle) and Gold (flat walk, running walk and cantering under saddle), there’s something for everyone.

Ride, Drive, ALT is as simple as submitting your hours at the end of the year. The Program for Excellence (Bronze, Silver & Gold) involves videoing your horse’s movement and submitting it for an accredited judge to evaluate. You will get a completed evaluation form with such things on it as head nod, hocks, way of traveling, all scored from minor faults all the way to disqualifying faults.

We also have the Training Levels Challenge. These challenges include Basic Skills, Trail, Driving, Horsemanship, Extended Trail or Horse camping, Liberty and Optional. Optional can include Endurance,

Cowboy Challenge, Reining, Hunter, Shows, and whatever you can dream of. (Optional must be cleared with the Board first.)

CRTWH now has some of the back issues from Walking Horse News up on the website, with plans of eventually posting ALL the back issues. This will be quite the feat, and will take some time as the Walking Horse News has been publishing for over 45 years!

If you would like to know more, be sure to visit our website crtwh.ca. It is packed with information.

Happy Trails!

This is CSR Gold Fever #3501 who achieved Basic Skills, and Trail Levels 1, 2, and 3 in the Training Levels Challenge, 2022. Owned by Fran Kerik.