Wednesday, December 4, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 5
Horse judging team
wins 3 national meets
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Photo by MIKE SI
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By SHERI A. STEBENNE
Reporter
■ The Texas A&M Horse Judging
Team is the First collegiate team in
the nation to capture the “Triple
Crown” of horse judging.
I The team secured the title by win
ning first place in three major
judging contests held during the fall
semester.
H “This team is uniuue from all the
others,” team coacn Gary Potter
sjiid. "They are the first team to ever
\yin all three contests.”
BThe first contest the team com
peted in was the U.S. National Ara
bian Horse Show in Albuquerque,
i.M. on Oct. 18. The team placed
first, and the individual leaders were
Barbara Callaway and Miriam Frey.
■ On Oct. 25, the team traveled to
Columbus, Ohio for the All-Ameri
can Quarter Horse Congress. Win
ning first place again, the team re-
cjeved its second victory. The team
leaders in Ohio were Scott Gryder,
Mendy Fenton and Clay Whitehead.
■ The third and final contest was
the World Championship Quarter
Horse Show in Oklahoma City,
Okla. Nov. 20. The juding team cap
tured first place, securing the
; "Triple Crown.” The individual
leaders for the third competition
were Barbara Callaway, Mendy Fen
ton, Wes Shahan and Amy Sheffield.
■ “This was an outstanding team,”
Potter said. “They were all competa-
tive, hard working and very support
ive of each other.”
■The judging team is sponsored by
the Texas A&M Horseman’s Asso
ciation. They help the judging team
pay travel expenses to the judging
competitions.
To qualify for the judging team, a
student must first take a horse
judging class taught by Potter, a pro
fessor of animal science.
The horse judging team is com
prised of 11 members this year, he
said, but only five members and one
alternate travel to each competition.
Potter said that one reason this
judging team is so extraordinary is
that a different five-member team
was chosen for each contest.
The members chosen to go were
picked from the practice judgings
held throughout the fall semester.
Practice judgings started during
delayed registration this summer. As
the semester progressed and the
contests got closer, the number of
practices increased. Before the
World Championship Quarter
Horse Show, Potter said, the team
was practicing every day and putting
in many long hours of preparation.
There are two classes of horses
that are judged in a competition, a
halter class and a performance class.
In the halter class, the team mem
bers judge a set of four horses and
rank them in five categories — bal
ance, skeletal stucture, muscling,
quality and movement.
The team members look for pro
portional balance in the horse and
straight form in its skeletal structure.
When judging the muscling of the
animal, they judge not only how
much muscle the horse has but also
the type and conformation of the
muscle.
Quality in a horse refers to its
overall appearance and attractive-
FRONT ROW — Diane Schuhman, Rene Graf, Barbara Galloway,
Wes Shahan, Mendy Fenton, Jane Pruitt, Dr. Gary Pruitt.
Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ
BACK ROW — Clay Whitehead, Amy Sheffield, Scott Gryder, Bran-
dee Browwer, Gary Hebbert, Miriam Frey, Brett Scott.
ness. Finally, the team judges the
horse’s movement, or how straight it
walks and trots.
In performance classes such as
western pleasure, reining or work
ing hunter, the four horses are
judged on functional correctness, at
titude and movement.
Functional correctness examines
how the horse executes maneuvers
such as walking, trotting, jumping a
fence or navigating an obstacle.
The horse’s attitude is also a fac
tor. Members of the team must
judge if the horse is well-trained and
willing to follow commands.
As in halter classes, the horse’s
movement illustrates iis athletic
prowess.
After judging the horses the team
members must prepare to defend
their reason for ranking one horse
above another.
Greenville police file countersuit against Geter
Associated Press
■ DALLAS — Two members of the
Gfeenville Police Department have
filed a $57 million countersuit
against Lenell Geter and five other
black engineers who sued the de
partment in connection with its in
vestigation of a series of 1982 armed
| robberies.
[in a federal suit Filed here Mon
day, Police Ghief Leon Powers and
Lt. James Fortenberry said they suf
fered mental anguish and irrepara
ble loss to their reputations as a re
sult of a $28 million civil rights suit
filed Nov. 8 in Dallas by Geter and
the five other plaintiffs.
|Geter and the others are seeking
compensation for damages they
Police Chief Leon Powers and Lt. James Fortenberry
said they suffered mental anguish and irreparable loss
to their reputations as a result of a $28 million civil
rights suit filed Nov. 8 in Dallas by Geter and the Five
other plaintiffs.
claim were inflicted during an inves
tigation of a series of armed rob
beries in Greenville and Dallas
County in 1982, and the subsequent
prosecution of Geter and Anthony
Williams.
Geter was sentenced to life for an
armed robbery in the Dallas suburb
of Batch Springs and served more
than a year in prison before the
charges were dropped in early 1984
following national publicity concern
ing his plight.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People led
the Fight to exonerate the young en
gineer, claiming he was the victim of
racism.
Dallas County District Attorney
Henry Wade announced he was
dropping the charges after another
man was identified as the robber.
Williams, Geter’s roommate in
Greenville, was also charged with an
armed robbery in Dallas County but
was acquitted.
Geter, Williams and the other
four plaintiffs are described in their
civil rights suit as “six young black
men, who were recent graduates of
college in South Carolina and who
were recruited to work as engineers
at E-Systems Corporation in Green
ville, Texas.”
Greenville City Attorney Mick
McKamie said the city has an insur
ance policy which will cover the at
torney’s fees if the f ederal court den
ies the damage claims of
Fortenberry and Powers.
Student Senate to consider
modified bill on bicycles
By FRANK SMITH
Staff Writer
The Texas A&M Student Sen
ate tonight will consider a bill rec
ommending students refrain
from riding bicycles on sidewalks
through a designated part of
campus.
Tne area specified in the bill
runs from Military Walk to
Spence Street. That comprises a
substantially smaller region than
was included in the original ver
sion of the bill introduced at the
Oct. 23 Senate meeting.
The original bill encompassed
most of the central part of cam
pus.
Carol Ellison, the Senate’s vice
president of student services, said
Tuesday senators have been talk
ing to their constituents about the
bill. -
“We’re not going to give up on
it,” she said. “If it doesn’t pass, we
may make a new bill and make it
more agreeable.”
Another bill scheduled to come
before the Senate tonight calls for
the establishment of a ticket ex
change bulletin board in the Me
morial Student Center.
The bill is designed to provide
a single location at which students
can leave their names and tele
phone numbers when they need
or have extra football ticket
books.
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