**** MAJOR changes for the Cottage Grove event this year **** HIGHLIGHTS BELOW, details in text, please read and recognize all changes!
1) WE ARE NOT PROVIDING BEDDING OR PENS!!! This is a BYOB…Bring Your
Own Bedding show. The entire event is SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 with market jackpot entries to weigh in starting 8 AM, start Market show about 9 AM, and ABGA show to follow. You can still come Saturday and stay the night, enjoy the car races and good company. There are about 20 permanent 4x7 chain link pens and about 10 permanent concrete solid walled pens (use at your own risk) suitable for wethers and young animals.
These will be first come/first serve or you can bring your own panels or leave your goats in the trailer or come Sunday for the day, as you like. But you will need to supply your own bedding…shavings NOT STRAW. Obviously there will be no pen fees! Let us know
AHEAD of time that you are coming and what you will need.
2) MARKET JACKPOT SUNDAY MORNING / NO SHOWMANSHIP
3) CAMPING? CALL 541 942 6150, speak with DENA.
4) Raffle with a 50:50 jackpot!! Bring cash for a 50:50 jackpot drawing with proceeds going to awards for the wether jackpot!
WHEN: Sunday, June 22, beginning with market weigh from 8AM – 8:45. The market goat show is part of the Northwest High Point Wether Goat Series. Market show will start 9AM SUNDAY JUNE
22 followed by an ABGA show. There are no showmanship classes.
DIRECTIONS: At the local fairgrounds in Cottage Grove, OR , located on the north end of Cottage
Grove, very close to I 5. IN THE PAST, GPS DIRECTIONS LED AN EXHIBITOR TO HWY 99
AND UNDER THE TRAIN TRESTLE, PEELING ONLY THE TOP OFF HER TRAILER.
YOU MIGHT NOT BE SO LUCKY. Moral of the story, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE
YOUR TRAILER UNDER THE TRAIN TRESTLE! If you are driving South on I-5, get off at the main exit, # 174, go straight south onto Gateway Blvd in the right lane, take a quick right onto
Oswald, and follow the very small highway department signs to fairgrounds. Details are below following the **. Northbound drivers, the exit ramp loops around so you’ll be facing south when you stop. Turn to right to go back under the I 5 overpass, proceed to the light, turn left onto
Gateway Blvd but get in the right lane as you make this turn. You will go only one short block to turn right onto Oswald,** go to the “T”, where you will again turn right onto 19th. Stay on 19th as it curves to the left and changes names to Ostrander.
Now, PAY ATTENTION, because you will be driving through a neighborhood, and Ostrander ends at the railroad tracks. TURN RIGHT onto N Douglas. It is initially paved and later gravel for a total of .3 miles. You will pass the water treatment facility on right and will be driving toward Cottage
Grove Speedway. As of this writing, there is no fairground sign at that turn to follow! I’ll try to get a goat sign this year, but the point is that if you are wondering for more than ¼ mile, back up and start over. We’ll see you there
LODGING: The fairground has parking for campers, $20/night with water and electricity or $10/ night without. Portable toilet/no showers. No races Friday night. Racing has to quiet down by

10PM Saturday. IF YOU ARE STAYING ON SITE, RESERVE YOUR SPOT WITH DENA BY
CALLING 541 942 6150. SHE IS AVAILABLE AT THIS NUMBER 10AM – 4PM TUES AND
THURS. LEAVE MESSAGE ANYTIME.
If you‘d prefer a motel, there are 3 civilized ones very close. None are inexpensive unless you want to stay where Animal House was filmed. It hasn’t changed much! Otherwise, choose from 3 that are close and include breakfast. The Village Green Resort is an older remodeled motor inn, with on-site restaurant, huge rooms, windows that open, no upstairs, lots of open space, very nice gardens, pool, etc. Phone is 800 966 6490. Best Western is closest – right at the interchange. Then the Comfort
Inn is on Gateway nearby. Creswell is 10 miles north of Cottage Grove and sports a new Comfort
Inn and Suites, a remodeled Super 8, and 2 good eateries.(is all this detail necessary? Maybe you could just list the available hotels with a brief description).
REGISTRATION INFO: Your American Boer Goat Association registered Boers and youth market goats are welcome. At check in, YOU MUST HAVE THE ORIGINAL ABGA REGISTRATION
PAPERS!!! Except 0-3 month entries may be entered if their registration is in process at the ABGA office. DON’T DO LIKE ME AND FORGET TO TATTOO! DO IT NOW!
Classes are described on American Boer Goat Association website. Providing entry name, registration number, tattoos and date of birth will allow placement into correct classes. Please pre enter and have entries emailed or mailed to arrive by Wednesday June 18.
Please include payment with your entry, and make the check to Cary Heyward. Alternatively, if you pay upon arrival, please expect to pay with cash for both the ABGA and youth market goat show.
Entries received after Wednesday June 19, or entries upon arrival will be considered late entries, so expect to pay with cash. Even if you do not meet entry deadline you are welcome to come but please give Cary Heyward ADVANCE NOTICE; please don’t surprise us by simply showing up. Call
(541)228-8580 or email lynxhollow@aol.com
MARKET GOATS: YOUTH MARKET ANIMAL EVENT $15 entry fee, $10 of this is returned to the jackpot in awards. We will repeat the 50:50 jackpot with winning ticket drawn Sunday morning. Winner gets half the pot, the other half goes into the youth Market Wether jackpot as added award money. As you read this, you’re welcome to make a donation to the jackpot yourself.
Weigh in Sunday JUNE 22 Morning 8-8:45. Entries must have permanent ID, such as a Scrapies tag or tattoo. Yes females can be shown as market animals if they are not shown in breeding stock classes. This event is limited to YOUTH exhibitors 18 or younger as of the show date. Substitutions are no charge.
OTHER NOTES: Dogs are not allowed in either barn with the goats, and use of power tools is not allowed during the show inside the barn, so DON’T RUN YOUR CLIPPERS OR YOUR
GRINDERS INSIDE WHILE THE SHOW IS HAPPENING.
The Cottage Grove Classic has historically been a family friendly and relaxed event. Be sure to bring your best sportsmanship and friendly attitude to this event!
CONTACT: Cary Heyward, P O Box 215, Cottage Grove OR 97424
Email lynxhollow@aol.com
Cell Phone 541 228 8580,
or David Armstrong 503 752 2602