July 3, 2025
PRESIDENT’S LETTER
Hello all,
I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe tomorrow is July 4th! And next week is the 2025 WORLD SHOW!!! I hope you all have a happy and safe 4th of July and for those of you traveling to Springfield, Illinois, for the 2025 PHBA World Championship Show, I hope your trip to and from is safe and uneventful.
The Executive Board has been keeping a very busy schedule. We have regularly scheduled bi-monthly Zoom meetings as well as other special meetings as needed. We have accomplished so much and taken action on many things. It is hard to recap it all here but I will give you some highlights. Rest assured, after the World Show, we will get our minutes on the website as well as our meeting dates. If you look at this information on the website you know that no minutes have been published since 2022. They are available and we always have very accurate minutes for each meeting; they just didn’t get put on the website. Our By Laws state our minutes should be posted, so we will get our current year since March published very shortly. That way you can keep up with what the EB is doing in our meetings. We have such a dedicated, passionate, hard working group of people on the EB; I am privileged to get to work with them. We conduct the business of PHBA, agree to disagree and always strive to make the best decisions to ensure the growth and stability of PHBA. The Amateur EB and Youth EB have been working hard and meeting regularly as well. The lines of communication are open between all boards. We are so fortunate to have all these great people volunteering their time and resources to promote our association.
We have the absolute best membership as well; members who want the best for PHBA and work selflessly to promote our association and support one another. With that in mind, one of the actions the Executive Board has recently taken is to come up with a formal request form for the membership to use if they have a compelling issue or concern they would like to present to the EB. This form will be on the website as of today; I believe it is self explanatory on how to fill it out and the steps that follow to be scheduled to present on an EB Zoom call. So look for “PHBA Member Request To Have An Audience With The PHBA Executive Board” if you want an opportunity to present your issue or concern to us.
The Sponsorship Committee has exceeded all expectations this year! They have worked hard and our sponsors have really stepped up for PHBA this year! We can’t thank each and every one of our sponsors enough; we couldn’t put on the great world show we are going to have this year without you! A special thank you goes to Britt Eagan for her work producing the 2025 World Show Program this year. I can’t wait for all of you attending the world show to get a copy! If you can’t attend, hopefully there will be extras taken to APA shows after the world show that you can get.
We need our committees to work during the year, not just at the convention. Some of them do have meetings or communication with committee members. We need all of them to be more active, communicate with your members and come up with goals your committee wants to achieve for PHBA. If you are not on a committee and would like to be more
involved, as long as you are a current member of PHBA you can ask to be added to any committee you choose. It just takes a call or an email to the office. We had several new or amended rules that have been approved for immediate
implementation for 2025. They are posted on the website under “NEWS”, so please take a look at those, especially if you are a judge or showing. Our registration rules also opened up further and some were immediate. The Executive Board is here to serve the membership; we can all be reached by phone or email if you have any questions or concerns. Our contact information is posted on the website.
Thank you for taking time to read this. I look forward to seeing those of you attending the world show and wish all exhibitors good luck! Happy trail riding, horse watching or whatever horse activity you are doing! I know we all have our special “Golden” horses and Palomino Bred horses in our hearts even if we don’t have one in the pasture!
My best,
Lynn Rohwedder, PHBA President ’25-‘26