FEB 2025
2025 will mark our 48th year of Horseshoes in Brampton. Our Club has come a long way from the beginnings back in 1978 when our “Founders” decided to give this Horseshoe pitching idea a go! Well, it paid off in spades and we are all happy for it.
As many of you know Ken Condie has stepped down as President of this Club after 22 years at the helm. He has certainly laid the groundwork and accomplished unimaginable feats during his tenure at the Club, His is not going anywhere as VP but will continue to guide us along the way with his expertise.
As your new President, I will certainly be looking to the executive for help along the way and update and make some minor changes going forward but will try to keep the same routines and happenings we have been used to for these many years.
We just had a successful Brampton/Hamilton Friendship Tournament in February with 15 of ours playing 15 of theirs. They beat up on us and took home the trophy with 54 wins to their 44. Well done guys! it was a great day! The same tournament will be held again on June 28th this year at our Pits, so we are looking for players for that date to get back the coveted trophy.
The last few years have been very busy construction wise. The city has built us a state of the art bleacher system which we certainly needed and is getting great use. They have also installed new LED Lighting systems for our pits so now we can see what we are doing. LOL.
Our tournament dates this year will posted on this site soon. There will be some change in dates to avoid conflicts with some of the Ontario tournaments. We will still have our Ken Condie Sanction Tournament on the first Saturday in June each year, this year being the 7th.
I hope that many of you have had a chance to check out the new website Ken and I built in the winter of 2019. If you won an award of any kind your photo and story will be there. In addition to all that, Ken has created a 555-page History Book of Brampton Men’s Horseshoe Club in two parts. This book can be found on the website under the BMHC History Tab. Check it out…. it is impressive!
The club will still be looking for helpers for various tasks along the way, like painting stakes, watering pits and minor maintenance, so if you can assist, please step up and help your club.
Our end of season Banquet is ear-marked for October 25th at the Legion.
Our registration date is set for Wednesday April 2nd, 7pm at the Legion. Bring your completed forms (Please print legibly) and payment that night, We will have a short meeting and meet our new players. If you have a friend who wants to play bring them along.
Wishing you all a great season of Horseshoes and hope you have a little fun along the way!
Gary Branning
President
For a look at the Executive for 2024-2025 Season click HERE
About our New Website
To all members past and present, checkout the History of our club, from 1978 and currently to 2024. This will be continually updated, and changes made. I hope you enjoy going back in time, to see how our club started and how it has progressed over the years.
Gary Branning our webmaster spent hundreds of hours plus to build the site and update all the information. If you find any errors or information you would like to add, please let us know.