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ApHCC YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP FUND
2008 Essay Topic Scholarship Application Form 2006 Essay
Dear Appaloosa Youth;
Once again it is time to bring your attention to the Youth Scholarship Competition. If you are in Grade 11 or 12, this is your chance to earn $500. The odds are better than any lottery ticket you could buy!
This year the topic is "An Appaloosa Horse". You ask, "What is a hero?" The dictionary says a hero is a person/horse that does great and brave deeds and is admired for those deeds or a person/horse admired for contributing to a particular field. You can look back into the history of the Appaloosa and find a horse or a person that you believe deserves to be called a "hero". Yes, we want that horse to be an Appaloosa or that person to be strongly connected with the Appaloosa breed. Your selection of a person or horse will reflect your values of a hero.
The Board of Directors looks forward to receiving your entry to what we believe will be an interesting and exciting competition. We thank you in advance for your participation and wish you good luck!
Karen Bedford
ApHCC Youth Director
The ApHCC Youth Scholarship Fund has been established to assist a deserving youth member of the ApHCC in the pursuit of their educational goals. The National Club’s Youth Committee may select one candidate from applications received at the national office by July 1st of the current year.
The Appaloosa Horse Club of Canada may award one Scholarship of $500.00
annually on the following basis:
- Applicants must be residents of Canada in their final 2 years of high school. The Scholarship must be applied to a recognized post secondary education at a recognized institution.
- Applicants must be a member in good standing of the ApHCC.
- Applicants must submit a completed application form, a recent photograph and a 1200 word essay.
- The scholarship may not be awarded if applications are not of acceptable quality.
- Applications will be reviewed by the ApHCC Youth Committee and winner announced at the National Convention.
- All applicants’ essays and photographs may be published in the Appaloosa or placed on our web site.
- Proof of registration will be required prior to payment of scholarship.
- The scholarship will be held for up to five years after award for applicants not entering post secondary education immediately upon graduation from high school.
2006 WINNING ESSAY
By: Kerry Moore
Tyndall, MB
History Of The Spotted Horse
T
he Appaloosa horse that we know and love today has a "colorful" history, with blank "spots" spread periodically throughout. What information is known about spotted horses in Pre-north American times is scattered and vague. Most of the information we have about the history of the Appaloosa horse is from ancient art.
Evidence of the spotted horse can be traced back to Cro-Magnon man's time. Pictures of this majestic animal were drawn on cave walls, with round bodies and stick legs. Early man hunted these animals for food. It was about a thousand years later that early man realized the value of the horses as transportation, rather than food. From here on the horse became a prized possession. The Holy men of tribes worked hard to ensure enough new foals were bom every spring. The first evidence of the spotted horse can be found in cave paintings dating from around 18,000 BC at Lascaux and Peche -Merle in France. These drawn horses were covered with dark symmetrical spots, and looked like some of our modem Appaloosas.
Persian history tells of their greatest hero, Runstem, who at age 15 was chosen to lead the Persian armies against invading Tartars. He was very large and asked for a horse able to carry him. His father sent out a call for the best horses in the country. He then set up a great horse show. The plains were filled with thousands of steeds. All of the horses Runstem saw and liked could not handle his weight. All the horses failed. Then a young spotted stallion caught his eye. Apparently this stallion, called Rakush, was so strong that it could carry Runstem with ease. It was fast and had beautiful spots. This horse became extremely precious, and was considered the best warhorse in the world at this time, and partly responsible for Runstem's success in war. Rakush was also known far and wide as a wonderful sire of beautiful spotted foals.
In 1229 a man known as Temujen was crowned Genghis Khan. His mounted Mongol army conquered two thirds of the known world. He lived during the 12th and 13th centuries. Through his conquering, Genghis Kahn is credited with spreading the spotted horses around the world, but not with bringing the spotted horse to the North America Continent.
In all civilizations and cultures spotted horses are usually drawn as the mount of a person of stature, indicating that people of rank and wealth prized spotted horses. Around 875 BC the Phoenician colony of Carthage dominated trade in the western Mediterranean. Colored horses spread to many countries, but were given different names in each place. In the Old World spotted horses were not known as Appaloosas. They were named according to the region where they were bred, or for their color. To the Persians and ancient Greeks, these spotted horses were called "the Sacred Horses of Nisasea." The Chinese knew them as "Heavenly or Celestial Horses from the Extreme West". The French named them "Le Tigre." The Old English people called them either "Piebald Chubarry," or "Bloody Buttocks" because of the pattern of dark red spots on their hind quarters. The Austrians identified them as "Pinzgauer." This makes it very difficult to trace the history of the Appaloosa and there are still blank spots. There are records of these spotted horses in France, England, Austria, Persia, Argentina, China, and Mexico. When the Spanish Conquistadors traveled to the new world they were believed to be gods since the natives had never seen horses and were awed by the beautiful spotted horses the Spaniards rode.
In old Chinese art the spotted horse depicted was very similar to the American Appaloosa. Many historians believe that Chinese reference to a "blood sweating" horse, was actually referring to what we call the "leopard" coat pattern. Theses spotted horses were not uncommon in China for the last thirteen hundred years, but never made up more then a small population of the horses in the country. Gradually the Chinese horses began to deteriorate in quality and breeding. Europeans noticed that by the 19th century the average horse was small, coarse, and poorly kept in China. There are still some paintings from this era that depict well bred spotted horses, and spotted horses were raced at Shanghi as late as 1931. In Persia there is more abundant evidence of the spotted horse earlier. Art produced from the 6th century A.D. shows horses with spots.
African and Middle Eastern colored horses were given mythical value. A horse with too much white, like white feet, and white body spots was considered inferior and undesirable. The legendary stable of the Abbas Pasha had a very little number of colored horses, with eye sclera, white spots on the body, and stripped hooves, that were descended from two stallions, Jadib, a grey, and his full brother, Al Mahyubi the chestnut. Both of theses stallions were classes of Seglawi Jedran Arabians. Two stallions in America Appaloosa pedigrees were traced back to the two Abbas Passha horses. Both of these stallions influenced early color pedigrees in the U.S. prior to any spotted horse registry.
As well, the earliest evidence of the spotted horse in Austria was a sword found at a graveyard in Hallstatt, Austria, dated around 800 BC. The sword was encased in an iron scabbard decorated with an engraving of four men riding horses with spots on their rumps.
Horses with Appaloosa patterns appear in Spanish art as early as 1109 A.D. The history of the Spanish Jennet horse began in Ancient Spain and developed in Medieval Spain as combination of several worlds and their horses. The mingling of cultures and their horses developed one of the world's finest riding horses - the Spanish Jennet. At the time when Columbus selected twenty-five horses to take to the Americas on his second voyage, the Spanish Jennet were spotted with an easy gait. The comfortable gait, medium size and extraordinary athletic ability made the Spanish Jennet the obvious choice for the daunting task of exploring and conquering the vast unknown territory. The Spanish introduced horses to North America in the 16th century.
The first evidence of spotted horses in France was found in the 11th century. Artwork with spotted horses often depicted the horses carrying nobles, kings, or saints. In the 17th century Louis XIV and Louis XV both demanded to be portrayed in paintings and tapestries on spotted horses. Louis the XVI had a driving team made up of two spotted horses. Ferghana, which is a province in Persia, was another place with a supply of spotted horses in ancient and prehistoric times. There are spotted horses in the art of ancient Egypt dating from 1500 -1300 BC. As well, Alexander of Macedon on his conquest of Asia in 329 BC detoured through Ferghana specifically to secure these war horses prized for their courage, tough hooves and endurance. Spotted horses are depicted in Mycenaean art from the 14th century BC. The fact that spotted horses were depicted in Persian art prior to Mohammed's teachings leads us to believe that spotted horses were common in Persia since before the Muslim conquest.
In Western Europe, the spotted horse appears sporadically throughout history. The famous Lippizzaner horses often sported spots from the 16th to 18th century. These spots still crop up today, and the Lippizzaner often displays evidence of mottled skin, one of the modem Appaloosa's characteristics.
Part of the reason why the Appaloosa breed means so much to me is because I currently own my own Appaloosa horse. Sun Slicker. I have had years of success in the western show ring, as well as the English one. We have achieved multiple Eventing championships together. Slicker is a near leopard Appaloosa and I think it is very neat to have a horse with the same coat pattern that prehistoric man painted on cave walls. He is loud colored and often draws much attention from people at horse shows, so I find it easy to believe that the spotted horse was revered and sought after, even thousands of years ago. I owe years of success and happiness to the Appaloosa breed.
Kerry Moore
For more information on the 2007 contest, contact the ApHCC office or Karen Bedford at 306-868-4526.
2008 Essay Topic Scholarship Application Form 2006 Essay
Dear Appaloosa Youth;
Once again it is time to bring your attention to the Youth Scholarship Competition. If you are in Grade 11 or 12, this is your chance to earn $500. The odds are better than any lottery ticket you could buy!
This year the topic is "An Appaloosa Horse". You ask, "What is a hero?" The dictionary says a hero is a person/horse that does great and brave deeds and is admired for those deeds or a person/horse admired for contributing to a particular field. You can look back into the history of the Appaloosa and find a horse or a person that you believe deserves to be called a "hero". Yes, we want that horse to be an Appaloosa or that person to be strongly connected with the Appaloosa breed. Your selection of a person or horse will reflect your values of a hero.
The Board of Directors looks forward to receiving your entry to what we believe will be an interesting and exciting competition. We thank you in advance for your participation and wish you good luck!
Karen Bedford
ApHCC Youth Director
The ApHCC Youth Scholarship Fund has been established to assist a deserving youth member of the ApHCC in the pursuit of their educational goals. The National Club’s Youth Committee may select one candidate from applications received at the national office by July 1st of the current year.
The Appaloosa Horse Club of Canada may award one Scholarship of $500.00
annually on the following basis:
- Applicants must be residents of Canada in their final 2 years of high school. The Scholarship must be applied to a recognized post secondary education at a recognized institution.
- Applicants must be a member in good standing of the ApHCC.
- Applicants must submit a completed application form, a recent photograph and a 1200 word essay.
- The scholarship may not be awarded if applications are not of acceptable quality.
- Applications will be reviewed by the ApHCC Youth Committee and winner announced at the National Convention.
- All applicants’ essays and photographs may be published in the Appaloosa or placed on our web site.
- Proof of registration will be required prior to payment of scholarship.
- The scholarship will be held for up to five years after award for applicants not entering post secondary education immediately upon graduation from high school.
2006 WINNING ESSAY
By: Kerry Moore
Tyndall, MB
History Of The Spotted Horse
T
he Appaloosa horse that we know and love today has a "colorful" history, with blank "spots" spread periodically throughout. What information is known about spotted horses in Pre-north American times is scattered and vague. Most of the information we have about the history of the Appaloosa horse is from ancient art.
Evidence of the spotted horse can be traced back to Cro-Magnon man's time. Pictures of this majestic animal were drawn on cave walls, with round bodies and stick legs. Early man hunted these animals for food. It was about a thousand years later that early man realized the value of the horses as transportation, rather than food. From here on the horse became a prized possession. The Holy men of tribes worked hard to ensure enough new foals were bom every spring. The first evidence of the spotted horse can be found in cave paintings dating from around 18,000 BC at Lascaux and Peche -Merle in France. These drawn horses were covered with dark symmetrical spots, and looked like some of our modem Appaloosas.
Persian history tells of their greatest hero, Runstem, who at age 15 was chosen to lead the Persian armies against invading Tartars. He was very large and asked for a horse able to carry him. His father sent out a call for the best horses in the country. He then set up a great horse show. The plains were filled with thousands of steeds. All of the horses Runstem saw and liked could not handle his weight. All the horses failed. Then a young spotted stallion caught his eye. Apparently this stallion, called Rakush, was so strong that it could carry Runstem with ease. It was fast and had beautiful spots. This horse became extremely precious, and was considered the best warhorse in the world at this time, and partly responsible for Runstem's success in war. Rakush was also known far and wide as a wonderful sire of beautiful spotted foals.
In 1229 a man known as Temujen was crowned Genghis Khan. His mounted Mongol army conquered two thirds of the known world. He lived during the 12th and 13th centuries. Through his conquering, Genghis Kahn is credited with spreading the spotted horses around the world, but not with bringing the spotted horse to the North America Continent.
In all civilizations and cultures spotted horses are usually drawn as the mount of a person of stature, indicating that people of rank and wealth prized spotted horses. Around 875 BC the Phoenician colony of Carthage dominated trade in the western Mediterranean. Colored horses spread to many countries, but were given different names in each place. In the Old World spotted horses were not known as Appaloosas. They were named according to the region where they were bred, or for their color. To the Persians and ancient Greeks, these spotted horses were called "the Sacred Horses of Nisasea." The Chinese knew them as "Heavenly or Celestial Horses from the Extreme West". The French named them "Le Tigre." The Old English people called them either "Piebald Chubarry," or "Bloody Buttocks" because of the pattern of dark red spots on their hind quarters. The Austrians identified them as "Pinzgauer." This makes it very difficult to trace the history of the Appaloosa and there are still blank spots. There are records of these spotted horses in France, England, Austria, Persia, Argentina, China, and Mexico. When the Spanish Conquistadors traveled to the new world they were believed to be gods since the natives had never seen horses and were awed by the beautiful spotted horses the Spaniards rode.
In old Chinese art the spotted horse depicted was very similar to the American Appaloosa. Many historians believe that Chinese reference to a "blood sweating" horse, was actually referring to what we call the "leopard" coat pattern. Theses spotted horses were not uncommon in China for the last thirteen hundred years, but never made up more then a small population of the horses in the country. Gradually the Chinese horses began to deteriorate in quality and breeding. Europeans noticed that by the 19th century the average horse was small, coarse, and poorly kept in China. There are still some paintings from this era that depict well bred spotted horses, and spotted horses were raced at Shanghi as late as 1931. In Persia there is more abundant evidence of the spotted horse earlier. Art produced from the 6th century A.D. shows horses with spots.
African and Middle Eastern colored horses were given mythical value. A horse with too much white, like white feet, and white body spots was considered inferior and undesirable. The legendary stable of the Abbas Pasha had a very little number of colored horses, with eye sclera, white spots on the body, and stripped hooves, that were descended from two stallions, Jadib, a grey, and his full brother, Al Mahyubi the chestnut. Both of theses stallions were classes of Seglawi Jedran Arabians. Two stallions in America Appaloosa pedigrees were traced back to the two Abbas Passha horses. Both of these stallions influenced early color pedigrees in the U.S. prior to any spotted horse registry.
As well, the earliest evidence of the spotted horse in Austria was a sword found at a graveyard in Hallstatt, Austria, dated around 800 BC. The sword was encased in an iron scabbard decorated with an engraving of four men riding horses with spots on their rumps.
Horses with Appaloosa patterns appear in Spanish art as early as 1109 A.D. The history of the Spanish Jennet horse began in Ancient Spain and developed in Medieval Spain as combination of several worlds and their horses. The mingling of cultures and their horses developed one of the world's finest riding horses - the Spanish Jennet. At the time when Columbus selected twenty-five horses to take to the Americas on his second voyage, the Spanish Jennet were spotted with an easy gait. The comfortable gait, medium size and extraordinary athletic ability made the Spanish Jennet the obvious choice for the daunting task of exploring and conquering the vast unknown territory. The Spanish introduced horses to North America in the 16th century.
The first evidence of spotted horses in France was found in the 11th century. Artwork with spotted horses often depicted the horses carrying nobles, kings, or saints. In the 17th century Louis XIV and Louis XV both demanded to be portrayed in paintings and tapestries on spotted horses. Louis the XVI had a driving team made up of two spotted horses. Ferghana, which is a province in Persia, was another place with a supply of spotted horses in ancient and prehistoric times. There are spotted horses in the art of ancient Egypt dating from 1500 -1300 BC. As well, Alexander of Macedon on his conquest of Asia in 329 BC detoured through Ferghana specifically to secure these war horses prized for their courage, tough hooves and endurance. Spotted horses are depicted in Mycenaean art from the 14th century BC. The fact that spotted horses were depicted in Persian art prior to Mohammed's teachings leads us to believe that spotted horses were common in Persia since before the Muslim conquest.
In Western Europe, the spotted horse appears sporadically throughout history. The famous Lippizzaner horses often sported spots from the 16th to 18th century. These spots still crop up today, and the Lippizzaner often displays evidence of mottled skin, one of the modem Appaloosa's characteristics.
Part of the reason why the Appaloosa breed means so much to me is because I currently own my own Appaloosa horse. Sun Slicker. I have had years of success in the western show ring, as well as the English one. We have achieved multiple Eventing championships together. Slicker is a near leopard Appaloosa and I think it is very neat to have a horse with the same coat pattern that prehistoric man painted on cave walls. He is loud colored and often draws much attention from people at horse shows, so I find it easy to believe that the spotted horse was revered and sought after, even thousands of years ago. I owe years of success and happiness to the Appaloosa breed.
Kerry Moore
For more information on the 2007 contest, contact the ApHCC office or Karen Bedford at 306-868-4526.