{"id":220,"date":"2009-05-07T13:38:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2016-03-04T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:37:51","slug":"2009-mgaa-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/2009-mgaa-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 MGAA Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_221\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221\" data-attachment-id=\"221\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/n26602747_32898455_3940\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/n26602747_32898455_3940.jpg?fit=604%2C403&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"604,403\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chesapeake boomerand\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Chesapeake Boomerang and I competeing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/n26602747_32898455_3940.jpg?fit=590%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-221\" title=\"chesapeake boomerand\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/n26602747_32898455_3940.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"Chesapeake Boomerang and I competeing\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/n26602747_32898455_3940.jpg?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/n26602747_32898455_3940.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chesapeake Boomerang and I<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are you familiar with the exciting equestrian sport of Mounted Games? If not, let me describe it in the words of some of the competitors \u2013 \u201cfast and challenging,\u201d \u201cthe most intense riding ever,\u201d \u201ca partnership between rider and horse.\u201d   Mounted Games is an equestrian sport that involves head-to-head team relay racing requiring skill, agility, courage, and discipline from riders, as well as speed, obedience, and flexibility from their mounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July of this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountedgames.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mounted Games Across America<\/a>, the largest mounted games organization in the United States, will hold its second National Competition.  Over two hundred competitors, along with supporters, family members, and spectators, will be in attendance.  You or your company can be a part of this event by sponsoring MGAA Nationals with either a financial contribution or a donation in kind.<\/p>\n<p>Benefits to sponsor include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Recognition in the official program<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Listing and link on the MGAA website<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Announcements of your name or your company\u2019s advertisement during the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Donations are tax deductible.  (MGAA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 See form for other benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two types of sponsorships are available\u2014an entire division or a single race.<\/p>\n<p>Division Sponsorship:  Over the course of the 3-day National competition, 75 races will be played in each division.  Your company\u2019s name will be displayed and announced throughout the entire division of 75 races.<\/p>\n<p>Race Sponsorship:  Over the course of the 3-day National competition, each race will be played 4 times.  Your name will be announced each time the race is played.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the attached form for descriptions of the sponsorship levels and the full benefits of sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>MGAA members would like to thank you for any level of sponsorship support you are able to offer, whether in cash or product donations. We all appreciate your generosity!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Calhoun<br \/>\nPresident<br \/>\nMounted Games Across America, Inc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0As an avid member of MGAA I fully support the organization and all of their efforts to further the sport. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponypaintings.com\" target=\"_blank\">PonyPaintings.com<\/a> plans to donate several paintings, if you are interested in contributing please check out these sponsorship options: Download Forms Here and Here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0-KD<br \/>\nwww.ponypaintings.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Are you familiar with the exciting equestrian sport of Mounted Games? If not, let me describe it in the words of some of the competitors \u2013 \u201cfast and challenging,\u201d \u201cthe most intense riding ever,\u201d \u201ca partnership between rider and horse.\u201d Mounted Games is an equestrian sport that involves head-to-head team relay racing requiring skill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,948,115,125,261,273,323,338,379,381,406,410,543,545,546],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","tag-assateague","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-clicker-training","tag-horse","tag-iron-horse-farm","tag-mgaa","tag-mounted-games","tag-painting","tag-painting-horse","tag-pony","tag-pony-club","tag-trick","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-3y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34808,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/34808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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