California Western Dressage Association

08/26/2024

Thank you to this week's top three most engaged followers!
🤠 Jessie Harlan
🤠 Terry Collins
🤠Virginia Marie Gredell

08/26/2024

Entries for September 15 Southern California Professional Horse Show Associate Show Series (Temecula) are due September 9

08/26/2024

08/25/2024

🔆 It's Sponsor Sunday! 🔆

Thank you to our Sponsor - Kathleen Elliott Equestrian Training
https://kathleenelliottequestriantraining.com

All of us at CAWDA truly appreciate your support and generosity 🤠🫶🏼🐴

08/24/2024

Due to unfortunate circumstances the September 7-8 Silver State Western Dressage & Hope 4 Hooves show is canceled 🥵

Dear fellow WD riders,

After long thoughts and a close monitoring of the Las Vegas weather, SSWD/H4H Management has come to the unfortunate decision to cancel September Show due to continued high risky temperatures/heat index and showing in a non-covered arena.

ON A POSITIVE NOTE, we are very pleased to announced that October show will be run as a 2-Day Show, showing both days on the Large Court (Friday & Saturday), stalls available beginning Thursday October 24, rail classes will be shown on Sunday morning.

After the rail classes SSWD/HOPE 4 HOOVES will also host our famous Judge/ Clinician Cliff Swanson for a Western Dressage CLINIC! Clinic sign-ups are open and PRIORITY will be given to show exhibitors on a 1st come, 1st serve basis with a NON-refundable but transferable deposit to any other rider as replacement; Clinic sign-up cost TBD and will be announced in the October show prize list, if we have spots left, then outside non-showing riders will be able to participate as well. Auditing is available for a small fee likely $10-$15 TBD later once we know Cliff’s clinic contract and fees.

THIS WILL BE AN EXCITING SHOW AND CLINIC OPPORTUNITY!
Since it is a 2-day show ALL levels can submit a total max of 4 scores from 2 show days (2 scores from Friday and 2 from Saturday)!

LASTLY, THERE WILL BE OUR ANNUAL HALLOWEEN COSUTME CLASSES🡪Juniors and Adults (two separate classes) Saturday after we are finished with the dressage classes and we will have PIZZA for all to enjoy while watching the costume classes!

We are looking forward to seeing you all in October .

Again very sorry for The September Show cancellation but the safety of our riders and our horses is always our first priority.

Valerie Porter
CEO. Silver State Western Dressage & Hope 4 Hooves

08/24/2024

Entries for September 14 Woodland Stallion Station Show Series (Woodland, CA) are due by September 7

08/24/2024

2024 CAWDA Virtual Shows Standings
(As of 8/22/2024)

OPEN DIVISION TOP 10
🏆 1st Place - S Welch/Quail Roberts with 205.1510 points
🥈 2nd Place - M Frank/AKA Tango with 142.5360 points
🥉 3rd Place - D Miller/After The Gold Rush with 141.4000 points
🤍 4th Place - D Miller/Struttinlikacelerity with 138.6390 points
🩷 5th Place - M Frank/Smokes Jose Una with 137.5600 points
💚 6th Place - A Spinetti/Ronald Up with 134.8910 points
💜 7th Place - T Skinner/Plaudit with 130.8840 points
🤎 8th Place - S Welch/Everydays Valentines with 129.4060 points
🩶 9th Place - S Welch/Star Dust with 129.4060 points
🩵 10th Place - S Welch/Chili Dog Roberts with 57.0310 points

AMATEUR DIVISION TOP 10
🏆 1st Place - D Roberts/Wrangler with 369.1260 points
🥈 2nd Place - А Kopak/Suzi's Big Hot Rod in Heaven with 350.7030 points
🥉 3rd Place - J Huebner/Sierra Sky with 325.5840 points
🤍 4th Place - K Adkins/All I Need To Know with 290.8450 points
🩷 5th Place - A Lewis/Beaumont with 290.2230 points
💚 6th Place - M Hiser/Dreamin Miracles with 282.1330 points
💜 7th Place - M Lightcap/Grand Emerald+ with 272.8390 points
🤎 8th Place - L McKim-Hill/Khalifornia Dreamn LD with 252.0850 points
🩶 9th Place - K Storm/Mickey O'Hanlian with 144.9780 points
🩵 10th Place - K Wolf/Jacoby with 141.0170 points

YOUTH 14-17 DIVISION TOP 10
🏆 1st Place - H Prinster/ Shining Bueno Bar with 251.5140 points
🥈 2nd Place - H Prinster/ All That Jazz with 65.7690 points
🥉 3rd Place - H Prinster/ Smokes Jose Una with 64.1380 points

YOUTH 13 & UNDER DIVISION TOP 10
🏆 1st Place - M Lamb/ AKA Tango with 113.8380 points

THERAPEUTIC RIDER - AMATEUR
🏆 1st Place - J Baggott/ Fancy Southern Moon with 372.8830 points
🥈 2nd Place - K Hindman/ As You Wish Princess Buttercup with 363.8210 points
🥉 3rd Place - M Young/ LW Champagne Ice with 143.1930 points
🤍 4th Place - S Stein/ Sashey La Fey with 141.4880 points
🩷 5th Place - J Baggott/ One Hot Moonlit Nite with 61.5910
💚 6th Place - J Baggott/ Chisums Stormy Gal with 57.7780 points

THERAPEUTIC RIDER - YOUTH 14-17
🏆 1st Place - R Gurski/ Dreamin Miracles with 149.2860 points

*** For all Virtual Show Standings please check CAWDA Website Virtual Shows HP Standings - California Western Dressage Association🤠👍🏼

*** THESE ARE CURRENT, NOT FINAL STANDINGS!!!

*** SUBJECT TO BE UPDATED HERE AFTER EACH VIRTUAL SHOW UNTIL END OF SHOW SEASON!!!

08/24/2024

We quickly interrupt your scrolling with

〰️ The CAWDA Weekly update! 〰️

Woohoo we currently have 2,146 Facebook followers, 77 Instagram followers and 187 Active Members 🎉 Spread the word about Western Dressage with CAWDA and let's keep growing!

Let's also welcome our new FB followers Sandra Harris, Ruth Kibler Jorlan, Lainie Indy, Megan Jones, Sophie Devonshire & Cuadra Tuna 🎉
& new IG Followers.
Thank you for your support, we are excited to be a part of your journey! Please share our Facebook and Instagram pages with your friends, family and fans! 🤠👍🏼

08/23/2024

🍂🎉💃🏻CAWDA Fall Fiesta Virtual Show💃🏻🎉🍂

🍂 Entries open August 23 - September 15, 2024

🍂 Video Submissions through October 6, 2024

🍂 Results by October 17, 2024

🍂 Enter at Spotlight Horse Shows: Enter an online show — Spotlight Horse Shows

🎉 Short Sleeve shirts APPROVED!!!!

🎉 Score(s) automatically accounted towards CAWDA Virtual Show High Point, score(s) may be used towards CAWDA Rider Medals

💃🏻 Western Dressage Judge -
Heather Stalker - R
(Additional judges may be added)

🎉 WDAA Show Recognition # 24 - 143
� Qualifying Event for:

🍂 2024 CAWDA Year End Awards
🍂 2024 CAWDA Rider Medals � 🍂 2024 WDAA World Show� 🍂 2024 US National Dressage Classic Regional Qualifier

🍂 APHA Recognized� 🍂 FHANA Recognized

Show Secretary- Gail Mathews, for show specific questions contact [email protected] OR Message CAWDA's page!

08/22/2024

Do you celebrate your horses' birthday?
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08/22/2024

Congratulations to Krystal Hindman for earning her Silver Therapeutic medal
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08/22/2024

Congratulations to Andrea Lewis on earning both her Silver Medal 🥈 & Silver Freestyle Medal 🥈💃🏻

08/21/2024

Dear Friends,
Considering recent publicity of horse abuse at the hands of elite athletes and trainers, I ask you all to be advocates for horses.

I believe most professional horse people love horses and treat them well most of the time. Some people intend to treat horses well all the time, but make mistakes and can do better. We can all, do better.
Regardless, horses have no choices in where they live or who cares for them or trains them. Some horses try to use their voices by kicking out or ‘misbehaving” to tell us of their pain, but we don’t always understand them. So, let’s try harder. Let us observe more and act with compassion for the animals that we all love so much.

It’s hard to scratch from competition or not ride to allow time for our horses to heal. It’s hard to be there for every feed time and every ill time. It’s harder to sell our best friend if we can’t afford his care, but we must do what is best for our horses no matter how hard it is. We must take special care of our senior horses who gave us all their best years. We must put the horse first.

Being responsible for our own actions is something most of us feel like we can do, but it’s harder to challenge the actions or non-actions of others. I am proud to be a part of USEF committees working on horse welfare. Committees are hammering out hard issues like where do you draw a line between discipline and abuse and who will evaluate reports of abuse. I am also proud to represent WDAA where horse welfare has always been a priority and we have developed a training program based on progression of skills and competitions where judges reward natural movement and respect conformation.

If we want change in the World, it has to start with us. We’re not too small to make a difference. We can choose to be good stewards for horses. So, let’s do it with grace and compassion for all.
Enjoy the Journey,
Cindy Butler, Your President
Western Dressage Association of America

08/21/2024

Congratulations to our CAWDA Sizzlin' Summer Virtual Show Division High Point winners 🤠🎉

🏆 Junior: Kieli Adkins & All I Need to Know: 80.000%

🏆 Amateur: Faith Faile & Tinker Bell PR: 75.750%

🏆 Open: Danielle Miller & After The Gold Rush: 76.750%

Congratulations to ALL our riders who competed and support our Virtual Show series! Thank you for your support and we hope you continue to compete with us! 🤠❤️🐴

If you are one of the Divisional High Point riders and interested in sharing a bit about your WD story/experience please reach out via FB messanger or email me at [email protected] We would love to get to know you and your horse 🤠🐴 (MUST BE PARENT OR GUARDIAN FOR JUNIOR RIDER!!!)

For all results from this show please visit the Spotlight Horse Show's link below:

08/21/2024

Congratulations to our CAWDA Members who dominated their respective Divisions in the 2024 WDAA International Online Challenge 💪🏼🤠

🏆 Exceptional Rider - JENNINE BAGGOTT and FANCY SOUTHERN MOON - 79.76%

🏆 Open 39 and Under - JESSICA HARLAN and
GENERATION - 83.793%

If you are one of the Divisional High Point riders and interested in sharing a bit about your WD story/experience please reach out via FB messanger or email me at [email protected] We would love to get to know you and your horse 🤠🐴

08/21/2024

Entries for September 14 TEV CDS show series (Murrieta) closing postmark date is September 4

08/20/2024

Let’s see a picture of your soulmate. 🐴

08/20/2024

Thank you to this week's top three most engaged followers!
🤠 Jessie Harlan
🤠 Terry Collins
🤠 Harmony Ring Hillhouse

08/19/2024

Sorry I’m late my horse was on a leash.

08/18/2024

🔆 It's Sponsor Sunday! 🔆

Thank you to our Sponsor - SRQ Condo Accounting INC.
https://www.propertyaccountingfirm.com/

All of us at CAWDA truly appreciate your support and generosity 🤠🫶🏼🐴

08/17/2024

We quickly interrupt your scrolling with

〰️ The CAWDA Weekly update! 〰️

Woohoo we currently have 2,138 Facebook followers, 77 Instagram followers and 186 Active Members 🎉 Spread the word about Western Dressage with CAWDA and let's keep growing!

Let's also welcome our new FB followers Chris Carlton, Jessica Bryant & Sandra Harris 🎉
& new IG Followers.
Thank you for your support, we are excited to be a part of your journey! Please share our Facebook and Instagram pages with your friends, family and fans! 🤠👍🏼

08/17/2024

Half halt

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08/16/2024

It's Funny Photo Friday! 😂📸🐴
Time to share your favorite funny photo of your horse!

08/15/2024

Entries for September 8 Mechoopda-Camelot Equestrian Park Dressage Schooling Shows (Butte Valley) are due August 29

08/14/2024

We've all been there 😂❤️🐴