{"id":5785,"date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ataa.mattharris.tech\/2014\/06\/24\/cascade-golds-cathy-leddy-is-running-for-board-position\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T00:00:00","slug":"cascade-golds-cathy-leddy-is-running-for-board-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/2014\/06\/24\/cascade-golds-cathy-leddy-is-running-for-board-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Cascade Gold’S Cathy Leddy is running for board position!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have been breeding, training, riding and competing on Akhal-Tekes for 28 years now.\u00a0 I saw my first live Akhal-Teke in 1986, when my husband and I were moving from Michigan to Washington State.\u00a0 I stopped off at Eberhard Sprandel\u2019s farm in Colorado (it happened to be on the way!) and lost my heart.\u00a0 I bought my first Teke mare, Molnija, sight unseen later that year and have never regretted it.\u00a0 She died in 2006 at age 20, but left behind quite a legacy!
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<\/span> I bought my second Teke at the Sprandel Auction in 1990 and Mirija joined my herd.\u00a0 At this time, these two Teke mares were the only Akhal-Tekes in the Pacific Northwest.\u00a0 Since 1986, I\u2019ve ridden dressage, done some jumping, had a few children and I\u2019m now dabbling in endurance.
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<\/span> In 1993, I bought several more Tekes and I was on my way.\u00a0 Since then, I\u2019ve had over 40 foals born at my farm, many of them by my now retired stallion, Astrachan.\u00a0 There are now about 100-250 pure and part-bred Akhal-Tekes in the Pacific Northwest and several other breeders.
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<\/span> I started The Akhal-Teke Quarterly in 1995 and published it until 2003. I hosted the 1st Annual North American Akhal-Teke Conference in Snohomish in 1995 and have sat on the Board of Directors for the Akhal-Teke Association of America for many years, mostly in the capacity of secretary, although I\u2019m now acting as registration secretary too.\u00a0 I have been editing the ATAA Newsletter since January of 2012 and helping out with some beeed promotions, including the first Akhal-Teke DVD and our upcoming one and the Breeder\u2019s Co-op booth at the 2010 World Equestrian Games, along with giving lessons, competing and breeding.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I enjoy getting the word out about our fantastic horses and plan on continuing my efforts for years to come.
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I have been breeding, training, riding and competing on Akhal-Tekes for 28 years now.\u00a0 I saw my first live Akhal-Teke in 1986, when my husband and I were moving from Michigan to Washington State.\u00a0 I stopped off at Eberhard Sprandel\u2019s farm in Colorado (it happened to be on the way!) and lost my heart.\u00a0 I..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82504444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82504444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}