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Georgia
Hunter
Jumper
Association,
Inc.
Promoting and standardizing all recognized hunter jumper horse shows and
other equestrian activities within Georgia and contiguous states and
acting for the common good of exhibitors, sponsors, spectators and
management. |
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The Georgia Hunter Jumper
Association (GHJA) was organized in 1973 with the goal of promoting
and standardizing all recognized hunter jumper horse shows and other
equestrian activities within Georgia and contiguous states and to
act for the common good of exhibitors, sponsors, spectators and
management.
The current GHJA membership totals over 830 active individual
members, of whom 90 are life members; our membership is evenly
divided between Junior (under the age of 18 years) and Senior
members. Our members come from throughout the Southeast including:
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida,
Tennessee, and Virginia. The Association maintains a registry of
more than 2,000 lifetime horse recordings with new registrations of
approximately 200 horses and ponies each year. Click
here for
detailed charts of Membership and Horse Recording statistical
information.The GHJA is
an Affiliate Member of the US Equestrian Federation (USEF) and the
US Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) and follows USEF rules unless
GHJA rules supersede.
The GHJA is governed by a
Board of Directors of 20
Senior members and is administered by an
Executive Secretary. In
addition, there are several
committees handling
areas such as Show Standards, Rules and Regulations, and the Awards
Banquet, (to name a few) as well as numerous social activities.
In 2005, the GHJA adopted the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
(JDRF) as its charitable cause, fielding a team of Juniors for the
JDRF Walk to Find A Cure and donating $4,589 from the 2005 GHJA
Grand Finale Horse Show. In June 2007, the GHJA will host its
second annual JDRF Benefit Horse Show at Chicopee Woods in
Gainesville. Other charities which the GHJA has supported over the
past decade have been the USEF Hurricane Katrina Equine Relief Fund,
the Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center, Camp Sunshine -- a
Center for Children with Cancer, the Bolshoi
Colic Research Fund, the Crawford Center for Therapeutic
Horsemanship, the American Horse Protection Association, the Georgia
Equine Rescue League, and the United States Equestrian Team.
The Georgia Hunter Jumper
Association is qualified under IRS Section 501 c-3 as a non-profit
organization, contributions to which are tax deductible. |
GHJA Membership
& Registered Horse Data
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