No registry gets it 100% right and pleases everyone. AHR certainly has had its bumps but I'm here asking what it is that people are feeling they need to see done differently.
Yes, we have done "theme issues" for the magazine, but it made many members unhappy because they didn't find what they were interested in in a particular issue. The dressage people really don't want to read about draft hitches, and the western trail folks don't care for the articles on jumpers and the draft folks could care less about the dressage ring. So we try to incorporate something for everyone in each issue, if we can.
It is trial and error and it will never be "just right" for everyone!
Emily
--- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "eaglepointeacres" <eaglepointeacres@...> wrote:
>
> So just to clarify on the comment below, If you do not have registration papers then you shouldn't call your horse a Haflinger. But since I love haflingers I should be "should still feel an allegiance to the mission of the registry, and support it with their dues dollars."
> Sorry but that really doesn't make me feel like I want to join the registry.
> For whatever reason I have been hearing more and more negative comments about the AHR. There is no easy answer. But if something doesn't change things will only get worse. The current board needs to find a way to pull everyone toghether.
> I will toss out one idea about the magazine. What about having each issue focas on one disapline. For example 6 issues how about 1 ea on draft, pleasure driving, western, english, dressage and a stallion issue. Wouldn't people be more inclined to advertise is the issue that best showcases the "type" they market. At the beginning of the year schedule each issue and assign someone to be in charge of getting all the articles for that issue to Ruth.
> I do hope things move in a positive direction. I love my guys even if one technically isn't a Haflinger. Just promise me you won't tell him cause as far as he is concerned he is the "best haflinger" in NW Ohio. <smile>
>
> --- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, Emily Gibson <briarcroft@> wrote:
> > but where there is no proof whatsoever that a horse is purebred Haflinger?
> > To me, calling it a Haflinger is only wishful thinking as it can never be
> > proven.
> >
>
> >
> > Those owners who believe they own a Haflinger, but without papers, and there
> > are many of you out there, should still feel an allegiance to the mission
> > of the registry, and support it with their dues dollars. That is what breed
> > support and promotion is all about.
> >
> > Emily
> >
> >
>
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