100 Hours in 100 Days

Your participation helps! Proceeds from the Challenge will be shared with two non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving the Canadian Horse:

• The Canadian Horse Heritage & Preservation Society, (CHHAPS), generating breed awareness through educational activities, events, breed displays and demos at equine expos and fairs.
• The Canadian Horse Rescue and Rehoming Society, serving at-risk and in-need Canadian horses in both Canada and the US.

Learn about the Canadian Horse: https://chhaps.ca/about-the-canadian/breed-info/

“One hour” is more than just time in the saddle. In addition to riding or driving, you earn qualifying time doing other activities focused on your horse’s care or training. After all, we strengthen the relationship with our horses through both mounted and un-mounted activities!

Hours to include:

• Mounted activities: General schooling, trail riding, parades, demos, lessons, showing, and riding in clinics. Include warm-up time and cool-down hacks at home or when attending shows/clinics/events.
• Driving: in-harness work (single or part of a team)
• Grooming, bathing, braiding mane, tacking/un-tacking.
• Lunging, long-lining, ground-driving.
• Ground work or liberty work.
• In-hand (i.e. halter training young foal, hand walking, versatility/obstacles training).
• Ranch or farm work: logging, skidding, plowing, harrowing, working cows.
• Equine Assisted Learning or therapeutic riding activities you and your horse provide.
• Trailering your horse to shows, clinics or public events that provide an opportunity for people to meet endangered breeds, (measured in travel time).

Hours NOT to include:

• Feeding, mucking stalls, cleaning paddocks, mending fences, cleaning tack and other general barn chores.
• Work with your horse NOT performed by the registered participant, (i.e., trainer schooling or showing your horse).
• Time at horse shows when the horse is resting between classes.
• Horse receiving services from a veterinarian, equine dentist, chiropractor or other professional.
• Horse being shod (unless participant is personally shoeing or trimming their horse).
• Having your horse transported by a professional shipper.

Sample hours for a particular day may include:

• Grooming, riding lesson, short hack afterwards = 1.5 hours
• Trailering to a local show, grooming/braiding, warm-up, 2 show classes = 2.5 hours
  

Hours do NOT need to be earned on consecutive days.

Earn recognition for completing the CHHAPS Challenge! Keep track of your hours (kilometers optional), throughout the 100 days using the complimentary Hours Tracker. The form is customized for this event and easy to keep handy at the barn. Download a copy from the link in your registration confirmation or from our private Facebook Group.

Enter your hours (and kilometers) into Race Roster to qualify. Final update must be made by 11:59PM PDT on 10/11/21.

Commemorative Pin - Mailed to each participant who completes 100 Hours in 100 Days!

Medals - recognizing special achievements in duration, distance & more! (Rider must complete the challenge with the same horse listed in their registration).

• High Achievers - Honoring participants with the highest number of HOURS*. Three medals per division to be awarded based on Handler's age: Juniors (age 18 and under), Adults (age 19-54), and Masters (age 55+).

Canadian Horse Division - Registered Canadian Horses & Handlers.

Endangered Breed Division - (Non-Canadian horses) Endangered-breed Equines & Handlers. (Includes endangered equines per Heritage Livestock Canada, Livestock Conservancy or Equus Survival Trust classifications).

Open Breed Division - Non-endangered breed equines (including horse/donkey/mules) & Handlers. (Equine does not need to be registered. This division includes part-bred and un-registered Canadian horses).

• Longest Journey - Horse & Handler that completes 100 hours in 100 days and chooses to track their DISTANCE, (measured in most kilometers mounted, in-harness, and/or in-hand).
• Sensational Seniors - Oldest Horse & Handler (combined verified age).
• Rising Stars - Youngest Horse & Handler (combined verified age).
• Journalism Award - Best submission under 500 words. Tell us about your experience! Did you overcome a challenge? Have a unique experience with your horse? Embrace a new discipline? Accomplish a goal? (top picks to be featured in future CHHAPS newsletters).

Team Award - Certificates awarded to each member of the team with the most participants who complete the CHHAPS Challenge.

Personal Accomplishment - spending dedicated, quality time with your horse - Priceless!

* Eligible High Achievers are required to submit a completed Hours Tracker form as proof of completion to the Challenge Coordinator, by October 15, for verification before winners are announced. This refers to the manual recording form used to log your hours at the barn.

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Invite your friends and enjoy the CHHAPS Challenge with fellow horse lovers! When you click the blue REGISTER button, registration will ask, "Add registrant to a team?" Choose from the following options:

• No, do not add the registrant to a team. (individual participation)
• Yes, create a new team and add the registrant.
• Yes, add this registrant to a team created by someone else. (Canadian Horse breed organizations are listed here)

Teams for each Canadian Horse breed organization are already created. Click the 3rd option listed above. "Select Team" will appear with a drop-down menu. Choose the team in the drop-down list that represents an organization you're a member of, or if you're participating as a friend of a member.

To create a team for your Club, Organization or Stable, click the 2nd option and follow the data prompts. The creator of a new team automatically becomes the Team Captain. Your team will appear in the drop down list of option 3 for future registrants and under VIEW TEAMS.

Team Captains may choose to award additional prizes to their team members. Get creative and add some fun!

For example: A trainer who has created a team for her stable, could donate a lesson to the team member with the most hours. Or, find a local farm store willing to donate a gift certificate to the rider with the most kilometers. (Additional team awards are at the discretion and expense of the individual teams).

VIEW TEAMS button (see menu). Click for a listing of current team names. You may also register for an existing team by finding your desired team name and clicking JOIN TEAM. Registration will automatically identify you as a member of the selected team.

TEAM AWARD - certificates awarded to each member of the team with the most participants who complete the CHHAPS Challenge!

While a CHHAPS membership is not required, interested participants are encouraged to join.