4-H Horse Program
2012 Horse Shows & Game Days
Open Ride: May 4 at 6:00 p.m.
Game Day: May 5 at 2:00 p.m.
Open Horse Show: June 2 at 10:00 a.m.
Open Wayne County Fair Horse Show: August 4 at 10:00 a.m.
Open Ride: October 5 at 6:00 p.m.
Game Day: October 6 at 2:00 p.m.
All shows and open rides will be held at the new Horse Show Ring just north of Wayne, off Rte. 152. For more information about these events, please contact Jessica Willis at (304) 486-5299 or Gary Napier at (304) 486-5077.
Highlights from the 2012 Hippology Clinic
The 3rd Annual Horse Hippology Clinic was held on January 21 at Spring Valley High School. The schedule from the clinic is available for download here: Hippology Schedule . The winners from the advanced, intermediate, and beginner divisions are listed below.
Advanced Division
1st – Anna Meurer (Boyle County, KY)
2nd – Brandi Caldwell (Wayne County, WV)
3rd – Meghan Fawcett (Greenup County, KY)
Intermediate Division
1st – Annie Whelan (Lawrence County, KY) and Lucy Robinett (Wayne County, WV)
2nd – Emily Opell (Boyd County, KY), Olivia Dodgion (Wayne County, WV), and Sarah Ferry (Wayne County, WV)
3rd – Kimberly Wolfe (Cabell County, WV) and Levi Napier (Wayne County, WV)
Beginner Division
1st – Joseph Boggess (Cabell County, WV)
2nd – Hunter Donahoe (Wayne County, WV)
3rd – Jimmy Young (Putnam County, WV)
Many thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the clinic. For more information about the clinic, please contact Jessica Willis, Hippology Clinic Planning Committee Chair at (304) 486-5299. Below are photographs from the clinic.
Next year’s clinic is set for Saturday January 19, 2013.
Highlights from the 2011 Hippology Clinic
The 2011 Wayne County Hippology Clinic was held at Celebration Church in Huntington on January 15. Nearly 100 people attended from Kentucky and Ohio and from Cabell, Lincoln, Kanawha, Putnam, Raleigh, Summers and Wayne counties in West Virginia. Many thanks to Jessica Willis, Gary Napier, the Wayne County 4-H Leaders and WVU Wayne County Extension Office for their leadership and support in making this event possible.
Below are a few photographs from the event as well as one from the ‘Meet & Greet’ with Dakota Griffith, National Youth President of the American Quarter Horse Association who joined us for the event. Many thanks to the volunteers, parents, vendors and most importantly the youth participants who made the event possible.
To learn more about the 4-H Horse and Livestock Program, contact Julie Tritz in the Extension Office.
