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attended. Vickie Zook also worked at the St. Jude’s Ride just before camp. Trails were dry and beautiful. Holmes County attended the last weekend in July work days at Mohican with Wayne OHC.

Mohican is very beautiful with lush green foliage right now. The newly opened Red trail is excellent. During the end of June and July, the North Blue was closed for logging Monday through Thursdays. It should be open now. Planning for our Labor Day camp at Mohican continued at our July 10 meeting. There was a raffle drawing after dinner on that Saturday. Five equine photo art prints were auctioned. A separate drawing was held for each print. We have been getting out on the trails and slowly adjusting to starting early due to warm weather. Evening rides are also great, as long as we avoid getting lost. We had a close call a few years ago at Salt Fork, but it all worked out.

Happy trails and safe travels!

~Bev Hanna

Knox

KCOHC is on the move once again. A large contingency of our chapter traveled to Brown County this past June to enjoy five days of riding on wellmaintained quite hilly trails. We all enjoyed camping, a visit to Nashville, Ind., a night out at the winery, and a ride to the crossroads of Story, where we tied off our mounts and enjoyed a rather large Story Burger.

Please welcome our new member, Connie Garner and her horse Princess, a Friesian Cross mare. Connie lives near Bladensburg, Ohio, having a Gambier address. Once, a long time ago, a barrel racer, she is just now getting back into riding. As we well know, as we grow older, we have had too many falls and getting back in the saddle is sometimes a bit intimidating, so, let’s make it an easy ride as we help Connie regain some of that old spirit.

KCOHC schedule shows us at Mohican the weekend Aug. 1820. A request was sent to members asking for an RSVP as members get priority prior to allowing for guests. Come, enjoy riding, a potluck Saturday night, a warm friendly camp fire, and maybe an interactive game or two.

Knox County OHC and the

Knox County Horse Park are teaming up to sponsor an equestrian challenge event Oct. 14 where as both the horse park facility and Thayer Ridge Park will be utilized. Obstacles will be located in the arena and on open grounds of the horse park with additional obstacles located on the equestrian trails of Thayer Ridge Park. There will be three separate classes which you elect at sign in. A $20 charge per class and the usual $2 grounds fee will be charged to participate. Food will be available. Put this on your calendar and plan to join in a fun day. Guides can be provided for individuals who are unfamiliar with trails at either facility. A flyer will be posted on Facebook and more details will follow. Hope to see you there.

As equestrians know, it’s not if you are going to fall off, it’s more of a matter when. Recently, a couple of our members have taken spills and as we know, as we get older, we don’t bounce so well. Due to life changing circumstances, I am handing off my long-time duty of writing for the Corral to a prominent member, Cindy Cossin. Let’s support Cindy as she takes the reins. Send pictures and comments that you might like to see printed to Cindy.

Come on over to Knox County where the grass is greener, the horses leaner, as we do ride them, and everyone is welcome.

~Terry L. Baker LAKE

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires to the north of us in Lake County, has limited those riders with asthma or other respiratory problems from trail riding. We wish our Canadian neighbors well, and hope the fires do not do extreme damage.

Our chapter met at Penitentiary Glen in June where we discussed our activities for summer and fall. It was announced that anyone participating on one of our rides or at one of our events could win a $20 gift certificate from Big D’s for attending.

Our Lake group rode at Observatory Park after clearing a primitive trail around the planets’ areas presented there. No one should ride on the areas of the planets which have carefully been marked and arranged. Barb J., Tina and Colleen, and Jennifer wired extremely hard clearing this trail. Barb J., Tina, and Colleen also exerted themselves clearing the primitive trail at Headwaters Park. Our president Barb J. expressed how Colleen worked like a superstar at both parks! Way to go Colleen! We are setting up obstacles at 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 9 at South Chagrin Polo Field. These are homemade and belong to various members. Riders can follow the trails afterwards. Again, on Aug. 21 at 5 p.m. we are setting up obstacles, and trail riding afterwards. If you would like to join us, please RSVP to Barb Jurgens at barbjurgens57@ gmail.com.

In addition, we are looking forward to participating in Dottie Drockton’s West Woods Trail Challenge on Saturday, Aug. 26 at West Woods. I have volunteered to help and others of our chapter want to test their horses in this event.

Enjoy the journey fellow horse folks.

~Rayneen Tisovic

Licking

I hope this article finds everybody well. We’ve had a busy few months at Licking County chapter. I’m happy to report, that our campout in June exceeded expectations. The weather was a little iffy for the riding part but we had a ton of members show up to participate in our potluck dinner and the hilarious bingo game after. What a great idea that was! I think there will be many more in our chapters future.

If you want to join us on another one of our fun rides, come on out Aug. 26 and ride with us at our Sandwich Ride at Lobdell. We’ll have sandwiches and water for you. Please let us know if you’ll be attending so we can plan ahead. And as usual, in the saddle and ride out at 10 a.m. Both slow and fast groups to choose from.