Montana News

MHSRA Stallion Auction ran February 1, 2010 through February 28, 2010. Bidding is still available throughout the remainder of the season. Click here to see the stallion auction site and put in your bids.

The MHSRA Board of Directors and student officers have designated 20% of the proceeds from the trailer raffle ticket sales go back to the members to assist with State entry fees for each member who participated in the fund raiser. The members will be issued checks following the State Finals in Bozeman June 9 -13, 2010.

Thank you to our sponsors: the Rocky Mountain Propane and Gas Association, Pepsi, Montana ReACT Tobacco Free, and the Not Even Once Montana Meth Project for their generous donations. Because of these gracious sponsors our Members enjoyed a very successful 2009-2010 season. Please be sure to thank all of our sponsors in your travels this season.

Per a Board of Directors vote at the February 2008 Board meeting, MHSRA will not be participating in the Open Team Roper option of the NHSRA rule beginning the 2008-2009 season. There will not be entries for open team roping. All team ropers must enter each rodeo with a partner. Please contact one of your State Directors if you have any questions.

The State Office has received many calls asking for contact information for the photographer that was at the State competition. This is her contact information: Gail Molyneaux Photographics (406)322-9936 or (406)539-3536.

The MHSRA has teamed up with the Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program to create the Montana REACT Tobacco Free Rodeo All-Stars. The REACT Tobacco Free Rodeo All-Stars campaign honors the best male and female rodeo competitors who have pledged to live tobacco-free. The American Heart Association is offering a $500 scholarship for the male and female REACT Tobacco Free Rodeo All-Star of the Year. For more information and a tobacco-free pledge form, click on this link, The Sports Flash, as well as read a press release about this exciting new program. Don't miss your chance to become Tobacco Free and enhance your involvement as an MHSRA member!

Specialty Program Insurors, Inc. has available an optional full mortality insurance coverage for horses. This program has many different coverages available to protect against loss from accident, illness, injury or disease. If you are interested in purchasing this optional insurance, please contact SPI at 1-800-338-3313.

Be sure to check your membership eligibility by clicking on the "Eligible Members" link on the home page.

Second semester grades must be turned in at check-in at the State Finals Rodeo in Bozeman.

LINE ADS - Line Ads (in the past has been Brand Ads) are due in the State Office on or before 9:00 PM May 4, 2010. The line ads will include the line ad, example( good luck Mary Jones at the State Rodeo), the name and address of the person or business purchasing the ad. Please DO NOT submit any line ads that include "brands" as they WILL NOT be published in the State program. Members must sell $50 in ads to collect any travel money to SSIR Rodeo, Fallon NV. or National Finals, Farmington NM. Members can mail line ads and money to the State Office. The line ads must be legible to be printed in the program; if we can't read them, they will not be printed. To download the line ad form, please click on the following link Line Ad Form Line ads are due on or before 9:00 PM May 4, 2010 - No late ads will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

CONTESTANT ATTIRE - NHSRA Rule book, page 25 (1), Contestant parent, adults, helpers and assistants must wear western attire: western hat, long sleeved shirt (must be wrist length sleeved shirt, with collar and cuffs. No sweat shirts, T-shirts or pullover sweaters allowed), western boots, and western trousers at all time during a performance while in the following areas: the arenas, chute area, stock working areas. Any contestant in any seating area, whether competing or not.

Call Backs - Call backs are on Thursday after entry for a rodeo. At call back, you may draw out of that rodeo or confirm your entry. If you drive to a rodeo and are not listed on the program, the local secretary will confirm with your call back number and you will be allowed to rodeo. If you did not call back for that rodeo and are not listed in the program, you will not participate. Entries and call backs are recorded.

Turn Out Charge - A turn out charge of $10 per rodeo will be charged in addition to fees to that rodeo. Turn out charges must be paid before rodeoing again.

Bad Checks - There will be a $25 charge for issuing a NSF check at a rodeo and after one time the member will be on a cash only basis, with their name on list to all rodeo secretaries.

Medical Insurance - If you are hurt at a rodeo, get a claim form from the local rodeo secretary (make sure she signs the bottom section). Show your membership card as proof of insurance to medical people and collect all bills yourself and submit them to the address on the top of the form. Remember the high school insurance is a secondary insurance. Claims against your own personal insurance will be 1st - unless the high school rodeo insurance is the only insurance that is being carried - then it will be primary.

Medical Release / Veterinary Release - If a contestant meds or vets out of a rodeo/cutting, the release must be signed by a doctor or veterinarian and be turned into the State Secretary to arrive within 72 hours of that rodeo/cutting. If a contestant pays their fees and then vets out of an event, no fees will be refunded to the contestant. This was passed at the MHSRA Board of Directors meeting in Great Falls, MT, January 16, 2010.

Medical Release from Rodeos - NHSRA Rule book, page 26 (c) , A contestant with a visible injury or illness may turn out of any event at a rodeo without a doctor’s written excuse provided notification of such turn out is authorized by a judge or National Director at the given rodeo. If a contestant has drawn out with a visible injury he/she must have a doctor’s release to resume competition. A contestant that has been injured and has received medical care at a hospital or urgent care facility must have a doctor’s release before the contestant is allowed to resume competition. If a contestant has presented a doctor’s release to draw out, he/she must present another doctor’s release to resume competition.

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