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By ANNE GRIBBONS  TN ,' ORONTO

                                              L. to right. Master of Ceremonies, Gerhard Schickedanz;
                                                 guest speaker, Col. G. A. Burton; Doris Whinery, President
                                                Whinery, and Fraulein Gabriele Schilke enjoying the fes-
                                                tivities of the Friday evening banquet.

    HE FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING Of thc                        The meeting continued with the election of officers
                                                           for the 1976 frscal year. The slate remained the same
American Trakehner Association began at the Royal          except for the Board of Trustees, where three new
York Hotel in Toronto when the Boardof Trustees met        members replaced the outgoing trustees; Dr. George
on Wednesday, November 19th, 1975 to prepare and           Allen, JohnBuechner and Susan Davidge are the new
discuss the agenda for the next few days. The general      trustees. The election was followed by a discussion
membership started arriving on Thursday, and met           and vote on the new Amendments to the Corporate
for the first time on Friday for registration, which took
                                                           Regulations. Due to the amount of discussion, it was
a little longer than expected because, besides the
                                                           necessary to break for lunch and continue the voting
thirty-six voting members who registered, there were       when the meeting reconvened.
close to forty non-voting members and guests who
needed tickets for the various events ofthe weekend.           After lunch Dr. Schilke showed slides of Trakehner
                                                           breeding stock and commented on the strong and weak
    The General Membership meeting started with the        points of the stallions and mares shown. He described
                                                           the evolution ofthe Trakehner race and explained how
announcement of a delightful surprise: Dr. Fritz           the blood of the Arabian and English Thoroughbred is
Schilke, the former head of the German Trakehner
Verband, and his daughter, Fraulein Gabriele               infused in order to improve the breed. He also indi-
                                                           cated what specific features one ought to look for in a
Schilke, were present as our guests for the weekend.       true Trakehner t5pe, and what faults should be out-
ATA President, Leo Whinery, showed motion pictures         bred. Many of the horses were familiar to the audience
of member's breeding farms he and his wife had visited     and it was very exciting to hear Dr. Schilke's evalua-
during the past year. The movie gave the members           tion of them. Helen Gibble's excellent translation
present some idea of the inventory of Trakehners in        made it possible for everyone to enjoy this educational
the United States and Canada, as weII as a glimpse of
the different farms where these horses are bred.           experience.

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