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The Mission of the 4-H Middlesex County Horse Advisory Council, is to assist the University of Massachusetts Extension Services 4-H program in the development and implementation of educational programs in equine science studies for the youth in the Middlesex County.

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All the following files are in Adobe pdf format, use the link to get Adobe Reader.   Choose your current Windows or MAC operating system for your computer. Adobe Reader is FREE, works with all systems and does not cause problems, it is the internet standard.

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After you have installed it you can come back here and right click on the file link and choose “Save as” to save it on your system or “Open” and use the print function on the icon bar inside the Adobe window. NOT the normal file print!  to print out the class list, show rules and entry form using the links below.

Horse Verification Form. You can download the form in either WORD format or Adobe.

The UPDATED official
Mass State 4-H Horse Show Book
This book answers all your 4-H horse show questions. From Fitting & Showmanship, English, Western and Gymkhana; how to prepare and how to show in the rings. Also in this book is how to run a horse show, how classes are judged and what is expected. This is a 1 meg file and if printed out in single pages, 88 in length. Double sided printing can be done in Adobe by printing the odd pages first and reinserting the pages into the printer and printing the even pages. Usually you might need to insert the pages upside down and backwards DEPENDING on your printer!!!

The SHOWPERSON is suggestions of how to prepare you and your horse for the up coming show season.

Here is a suggested CHECK LIST of items you might need to bring with you to a horse show event.

The SPECTATORS GUIDE (PARENTS) is a helpful explanation to the type of classes at the typical 4-H type horse show.

Project records & project summary records can be printed from UMass Extension as well as some other 4-H forms. Click here

  • Do you hold an Officer Chair in your club?
  • Do you know what the responsibilities are of that officer chair? If not, check out the following booklets.
  • Do you need help in how a meeting should be held?

So you are President (Chairperson)of your group or club!
So you are Vice-President(Vice) or (Co)-Chairperson)of your group or club!
So you are Treasurer of your group or club!
So you are Secretary of your group or club!

Do you need help recording your Club Meetings?

Robert’s Rules of Order....The next step in how to hold a meeting.

The following documents are more detailed for the contestants to use, as how to do the contest. Books and notes are able to be used while judging in the show ring. This are used by the county teams as guides for the state competition.

County Judging Handout

 

This is a downloadable copy of the
STATE HORSE JUDGING BOOK
THIS IS A LARGE FILE

save a copy to your computer and open with a “Adobe Reader” to print and view.

To find out about all the events across the state go to the 4-H Program Calendar @ UMass Extension...

Any questions or comments about this web site can be sent to: Web master

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