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Santa Cruz County Horsemen's Association
since 1945
1145 Graham  Hill Road   Santa Cruz, California
Since 1945, the SCCHA has been a center for equestrian activities in and around Santa Cruz, California. Its colorful history includes many generations of horse enthusiasts competing in shows, clinics, blazing - maintaining - riding redwood and coastal trails,  and all forms of equitation, while promoting quality care, education and humane treatment of horses. 
SCCHA is the home of the famed Fireworks Endurance Ride, a sanctioned endurance ride through the redwoods to the ocean. Trails comprising this ride are spectacular and often rugged as horse & rider travel through and descend from the forested Santa Cruz Mountains torwards expansive views of blue ocean north of Santa Cruz.
Home of the SCCHA has long been the Graham Hill Showgrounds, just north of Santa Cruz. A monthly Newsletter is full of Club news, local horse related items, entertaining & educating articles, and events calendar.
Membership Meetings are listed on our web site and newsletters. Meetings have guest speakers covering a variety of engaging topics and equestrian news that affect all horse people locally. Meetings are also a great way to meet horse folks and find trail companions. Non-members welcome!
September Newsletter
August Newsletter
Due to Premarin production,  thousands of mares live in horribly unnatural conditions and  their foals are excess by-product. Although many alternatives exist that provide supplemental estrogen from plant sources, the company that uses mares continues to sell 3 billion dollars of Premarin each year.  Inform  friends  about the cost to the mares & foals involved in Premarin production, and make sure they know perfectly good alternatives are widely available.
Links to learn more:   www.premarin.org       www.unitedpegasus.com
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Your SCCHA membership supports our Club,
the Graham Hill Showgrounds,
trail preservation & a variety of other horse activities.
2008-09 Membership Info& Application
Email Contacts -- Board Members

The best thing I try to do for myself is to try to listen to the horse.  I don't mean let him take over.  I listen to how he's operating: what he's understanding or what he doesn't understand: what's bothering him and what isn't bothering him.  I try to feel what the horse is feeling and operate from where the horse is. - Tom Dorrance


Upcoming
Events  &
Announcements
Help Conserve Water at the Showgrounds... Please Sponge Bath Your Horse Only
 Trail Work Day  - October 11,  9 am to noon

Our goal is to brush Ridge Road from the Observation Deck down to Pipeline Road. This is such a beautiful trail, but it's severely overgrown in several places.  (It really did use to be a road!)  We'll also clean out the water bars to protect the trail from from the rains to come.

If you can help out on this needed project, let us know.  We can use your help in trimming or stashing brush off the trail.  Or, if you aren't up to that, the crew would certainly appreciate some snacks or lunch to keep them going.

Call or email Steve or Linda Richmond at MuckersTwo@aol.com or 831-335-3542 if you can join us.



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== == == Club Items == == ==
Membership Application Information
Calendar
Club Sponsored & Showgrounds Events
 Club History
Membership & Club Information
 Graham Hill Showgrounds
General Information
Old Time Club Members
Email Contacts -- Board Members
 Showgrounds Trainer Policy
Club Meeting



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CSHA: Statewide /  Region 6  /  SFHA
 Santa Cruz County Pony Club
 Links to info on adopting PMU  foals
http://www.unitedpegasus.com/availfoals.htm
Santa Cruz Mountains Parks Map
Great Map Link
Bay Area Equestrian Network

Equine Evac Website
 Let 'Em Run Foundation
nonprofit organization in partnership with government, business & community, committed to protection & preservation of wild horses and the heritage of the American West.
Hoof Care Links
sound information on achieving hoof health

Email address: manedance@baymoon.com
Web Page last updated on September 30, 2008
Web site authored & maintained by Claudia Goodman for the SCCHA since May 1999