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Inspired by people
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INSPIRATIONS
HORSE, HEALTH & HOME
HAPPENINGS
Mack Murray’s legacy
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More than just
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COLUMNS
A Breed Apart . . . . . . . . . 10
Back Country Travels . . 24
Doing it my way . . . . . . . . 7
Equitrekking . . . . . . . . . 28
Eye on the Industry . . . . 31
From the field . . . . . . . . . . 4
Get a Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Going Down the Trail . . 29
Homeward Bound . . . . . . 9
Horse Health . . . . . . . . . 25
Horse Heroes . . . . . . . . . . 8
In it to win it . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Inspirations . . . . . . 12 & 15
The Mercantile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
My Tunes . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Profiles of exciting new product offerings from local businesses
Our Way of Life . . . . . . . 11
Association News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-34
Rhymes from the range . 13
Riding out of your Mind . 26
Talking Back . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Two-Bit Cowboy . . . . . . . 4
Time to Chill . . . . . . . . . . 13
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Young Guns . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Bring on the Yankees
No need for regressive rules against American cowboys
TWO-BITS FROM A
TWO-BIT COWBOY
Craig Couillard - Editor
N
ovember — the best time
of the year if you are a
rodeo fan. The Canadian
Finals Rodeo — Farmfair goes this
month and Horses All is proud to be
a media sponsor. We hope you enjoy
our extended coverage.
A friend called me recently to talk
about the amount of Canadian rodeo
dollars being won by U.S. competitors, and was concerned about the
loss of income to our Canadian-born
competitors, and possibly a spot at
the CFR. There was even an extensive Facebook train going around on
the subject.
Now I’ve never competed in
rodeo, and nor do I profess to be an
expert in the sport. But I do have
an extensive business background
and the tone of the discussion sure
smacked of protectionism.
Prior to joining Horses All, I was
the Sales Manager of I-XL Brick, a
clay brick manufacturer based out
of Medicine Hat, Alta., so I’ve had
a bit of exposure to international
trade.
Let’s face it… we are in a global
economy. The North American
Free Trade Agreement was a historic document for many Canadian
businesses. Billions of Canadian
goods and services cross the border
every year to feed the largest consumer market in the world (including Canadian cattle and agricultural products).
However, despite NAFTA, U.S.
protectionism has, at times, been
in full force during this extended
U.S. recession. U.S. federal and state
governments have encouraged
the practice of giving preferential
treatment to U.S. companies for
government funded, economicstimulus projects. That meant our
Canadian brick could be excluded
simply because we had a maple leaf
on our packaging.
goings on
From the field
Snapshots from our field editors
Sure, we blamed and complained,
but in the end, we had to knuckle
down and become better at what we
do. We had to work harder, smarter,
and more efficiently. And in doing
so, we became a better company,
and still got our brick on many U.S.
buildings.
So, as much as I have a little
empathy for our Canadian cowboys,
in the spirit of international trade,
it would be a huge step backwards
to try and somehow limit American
competitors to compete in rodeos
north of the 49th parallel, not to
mention the potential for retaliatory measures by the PRCA against
our Canadian athletes.
Sport fans love to worship their
heroes, and right now, a lot of the
rodeo stars hale from the States.
But I’m sure many a rodeo committee is delighted to see some of these
super stars entering their rodeos,
which puts more bums in the seats
which attracts more sponsors.
I also have to believe that the
majority of our Canadian rodeo
r ea d ers spea k
Talking back
“Horses All provides us great
coverage in advertising... we’ve
had people stop in and inquire
from all over”
– Joan Longeway,
Home Quarter Mercantile
via email
I loved the article in the last
issue about the 98-year-old
cowgirl from Alberta! An
inspiration!”
– Sheena Morris
via Facebook
I used to get this paper probably
30 years ago. The best part
was cutting out all of the great
pictures for my scrapbook. Now
my kids are signing up!
– Karen Gauett at
our trade show booth

Horses All Field Editors Natalie Sorkilmo and Crystal McPeak present
John Swales and Krazy Kat Lady with their championship buckle and
a bottle of bubbly for winning the Open Snaffle Bit Futurity. Horses
All sponsored this event as well as being a media sponsor at The
Canadian Supreme.
Heather Grovet lives on a
farm near Galahad, Alta. —
population 150. She currently
has one husband, two adult
daughters, four Paint horses,
an overweight pony and two
dogs. “I love my horses, but I
also know what it’s like to be
yelled at when chasing cows,
crash when cross-country
jumping, and lose my Western Pleasure class!” She is the
author of 13 children’s books,
plus hundreds of magazine
articles.
Reader feedback – Send your comments to:
[email protected]
Our September story on 98-yearold rancher Doris Fenton received
hundreds of positive comments.
Unfortunately she recently
suffered a stroke. You can send
her your words of encouragement
by emailing her grandson Gordon
Fenton’s at gord7807543367@
yahoo.ca and he will make sure
they get to Doris. Let’s show her
our western support.
– Editor’s Note

Our Editor, Craig Couillard (left), attended the Wild Deuce Mountain
Horse Competition and Sale near Kingman, Alberta in September. He’s
standing next to Wild Decue owner and Horses All monthly contributor
Terri McKinney with her husband Chuck on the end. Mantracker Terry
Grant was also on hand to help raise $4,600 for STARS. Top horse went
for over $17,000. If you are looking for a well-broke, dependable saddle
horse, then plan to attend this sale next year.
competitors are not intimidated or
threatened by their U.S. counterparts. In fact, most of them would
have the mind set of “bring it on.”
And finally, purely as a fan, I personally like to see the best of the
best… to occasionally see Trevor
Brazile, Lisa Lockhart, Bobbie Mote,
and the Cooper boys.
The sport of rodeo has definitely
evolved in recent years, and in doing
so, has created mega superstars
including our own Lindsey Sears,
Chad Besplug, the Cassidy family,
and Lee Graves to name a couple.
Rather than thinking regressively with restrictive rules and
policies, I say let’s do it the oldfashioned Canadian way — lean
into the plow collar and work even
harder. This year makes the 200th
anniversary of the War of 1812…
and we all know how that turned
out. We don’t have to take a back
seat to anybody.
That’s my two-bits for this
month. See you at CFR… stop by
our booth to say “Hi.”
Dianne Finstad
Chasing cows on horseback
was the best kind of work
Dianne Finstad enjoyed growing up on a ranch in southern
Alberta. But she found another
great way to combine her passions — as an agriculture and
rodeo reporter. She’s been able
to work in her boots and jeans
for three decades, covering
rodeo and farm stories across
western Canada from a home
base in Red Deer, on TV, radio
and in print.
Really enjoy the stories... best
magazine we get.
– Bonnie Pearson at
our trade show booth
I just wanted to say thank
you for the great article on
consignment tack stores in you
September magazine. It was
excellent, both interesting and
useful for us and the buying
public.
– Kippy Maitland-Smith,
The Tack Trunk
Got the back issues AND THEY
LOOK FANTASTIC! I love the new
look and layout, it’s so much
more fun to read.
– Dixie Stewart
via Facebook
We were saddened to hear that
the artist and horsewoman
Lena Endicott passed away
this summer. She was very
excited about having her story
published in our July issue.
We’ve been told the story is now
proudly displayed at the Flying
U Ranch that Lena loved to go to
each summer. Our condolences
go out to her family
– Editor’s Note
This year some of you have been
enjoying a complimentary copy of
Horses All that has been arriving
each month in your mail box. To
ensure you continue to receive
Horses All in 2013, go to www.
horsesall.com, click on Subscribe,
fill in the blanks, and you will be
good for another year.
– Editor’s Note
Born and raised in the urban
setting of Calgary, Robyn
Moore was the only one in her
family to catch the horse bug.
Robyn worked at a dude ranch
and kids riding camp to earn
enough money to purchase her
first horse when she was 14.
Robyn still has her first Quarter
Horse who is now retired, and
has a young Appaloosa prospect that she hopes to have in
the show ring next year. She is
the Manager of Horse Industry
Association of Alberta.
BEHIND THE COVER
Front cover photographer
Thank you to Jennifer Mack for
this month’s cover photo of her
inspirational painting — Caramel
Dream.
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PROFILES
Stories from People who Live, Work and Compete with Horses
TEACHERS
East versus west in twin riders
Twin sisters Leslie and Laurel Hunt are city bred but horse bound
world of riding. She began jumping lessons
but quickly became interested in Dressage.
She met Leanne Copithorne, who broke the
news that she didn’t have the right engine
underneath her for dressage.
She purchased a Warmblood named
Gardez who is still her current mount in the
show ring. Leslie loves to compete, “focussing on dressage tunes out the rest of the
stress,” she comments.
“There are three things I don’t compete
in,” says Laurel, “golf, waterskiing, and
horse riding.”
Despite that, Laurel can be seen at Leslie’s
dressage competitions helping behind the
scenes and on the bench cheering her on.
In 2011 at a show in Claresholm, Leslie
won First Level Championship in the Adult
Amateur division and Reserve Champion in
the Adult Amateur.
WOMEN OF THE WEST
Personal profile
By Robyn Moore
Airdrie, Alta.
E
very summer, two city girls packed
their bags and left for their family’s
cabin in Angelmont, British Columbia. It may have been on the long drive from
Alberta to B.C. where they saw horses grazing in pastures and knew that they wanted
horses to be a part of their lives.
For twin sisters Leslie and Laurel Hunt,
red hair and a passion for teaching are
just two qualities they share. Horses are
another. However, one concentrates on
English riding, one prefers Western —
Laurel rides western and Leslie currently
competes in dressage.
It began in the 1960’s with birthday parties on horseback, and trail rides at dude
ranches. Leslie comments, “Riding whatever
we could put our butts on!”
Laurel adds, “We were self taught — the
bruised way.”
Leslie bought Santana, an Appaloosa
gelding, “He was 15 hands high and kept
growing. He was so young that when I
asked him to canter, he didn’t know how.” It
was this horse that the Hunt twins shared
that really cemented their lifetime love for
horses.
Leslie kept Santana for three years. When
she decided to sell him, her first thought
was that Laurel should buy him. And she
did, eventually, after the neighbours first
purchased him, she purchased him from
them.
“Santana would steal cigarettes right
out of people’s hands. He would take an ice
cream bucket, scoop snow, and throw it at
you,” says Laurel.
“The only thing he didn’t like was water,”
Laurel and Leslie say in unison. Leslie
remembers riding him home after purchasing him in Bragg Creek when she spent
three hours trying to cross a small creek.
Laurel, Santana, and dog Strider rode
many miles together. When Santana passed
away, Laurel could not even look at a horse
for two years.
Laurel concentrated on her teaching
career. But, as fate would have it, her
co-worker Diane Hickey worked at Griffin
Valley Ranch and talked her in to volunteering one weekend. There was a group of 200
students from Japan that were scheduled
to go on a trail ride at the ranch west of
Cochrane, Alta., and they needed experienced outriders to help. Laurel met Al Griffin, and he coaxed her into working the kid’s
camps during the summer.
All at once, Laurel was thrown back into
the horse-world full force. That summer,
she rode over 50 horses in the two summer
months. “It was the first summer of 11 years
that I worked at the ranch,” says Laurel.
Through the camp, Laurel met Doc, a sorrel
quarter horse that she knew she had to have.
Leslie had continued to ride. When she
returned from the East coast, she purchased a paint mare C.C. from an auction
in Ponoka. “I’ve had her for 14 years and
been all over Alberta. We’ve seen bears and
cougars, the tail end, which is the good one,”
Leslie laughs.
But, it was a thoroughbred named Chick
that really introduced Leslie to the English
“Santana would steal
cigarettes right out of
people’s hands.”
– LAUREL HUNT
Above: Although she grew up in a western saddle, and still loves to trail ride,
Leslie Hunt has successfully moved into the competitive dressage arena with her
horse Gardez. Right: Twins Leslie and Laurel Hunt both grew up on an Appaloosa
gelding named Santana during their teenage years (shown here with Laurel).
During her summer breaks, teacher Laurel Hunt spent 11 years working at Griffin Valley Ranch, usually
on her horse Doc. Laurel recently retired after 33 years in the classroom.
“I always wanted to promote
dressage,” Leslie says. It was that urge that
led her to organizing an EC Bronze show in
Cochrane this past summer.
“There aren’t enough Bronze shows
in Alberta,” comments Leslie, “A bronze
show is an Equine Canada recognized show
which is a great way for people to return to
showing or to start showing as it tends to be
more relaxed than a higher level show.”
Leslie’s many hours of planning after her
full time teaching job were rewarded with
a successful show that is sure to become an
annual event.
Laurel recently retired after 33 years in
the classroom and Leslie just celebrated her
20 year teaching milestone. Laurel continues to teach, although it is in a dirt arena
with tack and horses instead of textbooks
and pencils.
With six horses between them, and a
genuine interest in promoting and teaching
riding, these women of the west are a force
to be reckoned with in the horse world.
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musical ride
The pride of Saskatchewan
Young rider’s success in the show arena includes a Gold medal
and an invitation to ride with the Mounties
YOUNG GUNS
Up and coming stars
By Amie Peck
B
rooklyn Braun is an extremely
well-spoken, intelligent and
vibrant 14-year-old girl. Growing up near Beechy, Sask. in a family
that has been involved with horses for
generations meant that she caught
the horse bug early in her life.
At about 10 years old, Brooklyn
became more interested in reining, a discipline that her mother,
respected trainer Vicki Braun,
specializes in. At 12 years old she
started showing and her accomplishments in the arena started to
accumulate.
“Brooklyn is a thinking rider,”
explains Vicki. “She is always preparing for her next manoeuvre in
the arena and controlling what happens in between.”
Brooklyn ended off her 2012
show season with three first place
finishes (and buckles) at the 2012
Reining Alberta Fall show.
In September, 2011 Brooklyn
was invited to compete for Team
Saskatchewan at the Canadian
Equestrian Championships in
Bromont, Quebec. At the interprovincial competition, teams
were comprised of two junior and
two senior members in the disciplines of reining, dressage and
jumping.
“ T he C hampionships were
really cool,” Brooklyn beams. “I
had never competed on a team
before as reining is usually an
individual event. We encouraged and pushed each other to do
our best in all of the disciplines.
I learned so much watching the
jumping and dressage, and it was
an amazing experience to represent my province.”
At the end of the competition,
Braun was awarded the Gold medal
for reining in the junior division,
with an excellent combined score
of 141.5 — in fact, the highest
of all the competitors. Team
Saskatchewan went on to win the
overall Silver medal.
“It was really exciting when I won
the Gold medal,” explains Brooklyn.
“That was the biggest competition
that I have ever been to so it was
very special to me.”
Of course, Brooklyn’s success
is also attributed to her fantastic
mount, Peppys On Top, known as
Charlie. “I was so proud of my horse
as well,” says Brooklyn. “He can
have these little quirks but he was
so good down there and did everything that I wanted him to. It was
like he knew this was a pretty big
deal.”
In August of 2012, Brooklyn
was invited to don the North-West
Mounted Police uniform and ride
with the Mounties to celebrate the
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
As a child, Queen Elizabeth II’s
favourite book, written by Muriel
Denison, was titled Susannah: A
Little Girl with the Mountie. The
story is about a young girl who
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Brooklyn Braun gives her horse Peppys On Top (Charlie) a well deserved pat at the 2012 Reining Alberta Fall Classic show.
spends the summer with her uncle,
a Mountie, in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Brooklyn paid homage to the
character Susannah and even lead
the famous charge at the conclusion of the musical ride. Brooklyn
was also invited to give a reining
demonstration aboard Charlie, in
celebration of her Gold medal.
Brooklyn is an inspiring young
rider for her accomplishments both
in, and out, of the show arena.
“She is well liked by all the other
girls and is very sportsmanlike,
always cheering everyone else on,”
explains her grandfather Roger
Heintz. “She is also active in the
barn, cleaning stalls and getting
horses ready for her mother. She is
a great athlete, very compassionate, and a huge help to her parents,”
Heintz adds proudly.
W h e n B ro o k l y n i s n’t r i d ing, she somehow manages to fit
track and field, softball, volleyball, hockey, 4-H and piano into
her life as well. It appears that
whatever Brooklyn sets her mind
to, she does it well.
Braun was awarded
the Gold medal
for reining in the
junior division,
with an excellent
combined score of
141.5 — in fact,
the highest of all
the competitors.
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dressage
Alberta rider
prefers top hat
and tails over
western wear
International dressage rider
sets sights on 2016 Games
I DID IT MY WAY
Personal Profile
By Wendy Dudley
Springbank, Alta.
G
rowing up, Jewels Vysniauskas wanted to be a barrel
racer. But along the way, her
cowboy hat became a top hat and her
blue jeans were traded in for tails and
white breeches.
Her journey from a duster to an
international dressage rider has been
challenging but rewarding. She has
overcome injuries and self-doubt, and
is now focused on the 2016 Olympics.
Jewels, 31, is the head trainer
at Kestrel Ridge Farm, her family’s
boarding and dressage facility that
includes a Grand Prix indoor ring,
outdoor sand arenas, and hacking
trails spread over a valley quarter section in Springbank, west of Calgary.
In Alberta, dressage — often
described as equine ballet with its
finesse and precision — takes a back
seat to the western disciplines and
show jumping. It is not unusual to
have less than 200 entries in a show.
“We are a quiet community,” said
Jewels. “There are even horse people
who don’t know what dressage is.
You say ‘dressage’, and they think it is
show jumping.”
But the sport is slowly attracting
better horses and coaches, and Rocky
Mountain Show Jumping, just south
of Calgary, stages major dressage
shows. In October, Canadians won
a slew of medals in dressage at the
Devon show in Pennsylvania.
“Things are slowly improving here,”
said Jewels who admits dressage was
not her first love.
Riding since age 12, she was initially drawn to the western arena. “I
wanted to do barrels. I had a Grade 4
teacher who did that. I wanted to do
the Queen and Princess, the whole
thing.”
She excelled in gymnastics and
track and field, but riding was her passion. Encouraged by her mother to
learn the basics of proper riding, Jewels moved to a dressage-based stable,
and was bitten by the bug.
“I love its elegance. The passage,
piaffes and lead changes.”
With its history in Greek horsemanship and military manoeuvres,
dressage is popular in Europe and the
eastern United States. “They are light
years ahead of us with their knowledge and breeding programs. Dressage is not an action, or thrill sport.
You have to have an appreciation for
what goes into it,” said Jewels.
“This isn’t about what your horse
can do for you. It’s about how you
can work with your horse. It’s about
knowing and feeling your horse. I
have to feel what he is requiring from
me.”
A seamless partnership between
horse and rider is crucial. “This is a
very technical sport, so you have to
find a way to communicate with your
horse,” she said. “This is like the classical arts, and over time it evolves into
something spectacular. This is figure skating on a four-legged animal.
When I put on my top hat and tails, I
get a little giddy.”
Once Jewels decided to pursue
a career in dressage (she fell in love
with the sport while watching videos of Dutch Olympian Anky van
Grunsven on Bonfire), she packed
her bags for Ontario. “My instructor
told me if I was serious, I wouldn’t
go anywhere if I stayed in Alberta.
We just didn’t have the quality of
instructors and horses.”
Jewels spent 10 years, from age 15
to 25, preparing to compete, crediting coaches Christian Garweg of Germany and Canada’s Olympian Lorraine Stubbs for her success.
Jewels Vysniauskas, on her new horse Diamond, is the head trainer on her family’s Kestrel Ridge Farm, one of only a few dressage
facilities in Alberta. She is setting her sights on the World Equestrian Games in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. Photos: Wendy Dudley She is a two-time Canadian
National Young Rider champion, and
in 2006 she qualified for the World
Equestrian Games in Aachen, becoming the first Lithuanian dressage
competitor to qualify for a worldsanctioned event. Riding under the
Lithuanian flag was a salute to her
Lithuanian heritage. “I grew up speaking Lithuanian. I wanted to do this
out of respect for my grandma.”
Up until a year ago, Jewels rode
with an injured shoulder that would
slip out if she tried to shorten her
rein or put on her spur straps. She
has since undergone two surgeries.
“I wasn’t going to let something like
that keep me from riding.”
Kestrel Farm has a distinctive
approach to teaching, whether it be
for the youngest at age 13 or the oldest at 79. “The horse is first,” said
manager Julia Vysniauskas, Jewels’s
mother. “This is not a place about
egos. It is peaceful. It is quiet. No one
is pushed. Programs (which include
a riding academy) are tailored to the
rider. We teach anyone who wants to
learn, no matter the age.”
Dressage provides a solid foundation for all English and Western disciplines as it builds strength and balances muscle, said Jewels.
Dale Jackson, a retired concert
pianist who teaches gifted students
at Calgary’s Mount Royal University,
vouches for Jewels’ patient approach.
“She has taught me how to sit properly, so I am more comfortable and
the horse is comfortable. I wasn’t balanced before and I was pulling on the
horse.” Another student has gone on
to become a provincial junior training
champion.
It hasn’t been an easy haul, and at
times Jewels has questioned her abilities. But with the recent purchase of a
new horse from Germany, she is back
on track.
Diamond, a dark bay Oldenburg
gelding, stands more than 17 hands,
with a willing disposition and long
legs, a plus when presenting artistic
lines in competition. In the early days,
dressage horses were often Thoroughbreds. “My first dressage horse
was a Quarter Horse off the race
track. His name was Dashing Spud,”
laughed Jewels. Today, most dressage
horses are Warmbloods.
Jewels is hopeful for the 2016
Olympics. Diamond’s sire, Don
Schufro, is a Danish champion and
was the Olympic team bronze medalist in Hong Kong. “We may even consider the Worlds (Equestrian Games)
in two years. We’ll see.”
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Swedish Warmblood gelding takes
student to international stage
Rowan was the youngest horse and Holm was the youngest rider in the CAADA CDI2*
HORSE HEROES
Profiles of exceptional horses
By Robyn Moore
W
hen Allegra Holm began
university, she decided to
stop riding to focus on her
studies. It didn’t last long. She found
herself at the barn often and looking
at horses to purchase. In the spring of
2008, she found herself at Mandala
du Lac in Sherwood Park speaking
with horse breeder Laurie James.
Rowan was a five year old Swedish
Warmblood dressage prospect and
exactly what Allegra was looking for.
Ever since beginning riding at Whitemud Equestrian Centre and purchasing her first horse, Bullwinkle, at
the age of 11, Allegra was terrified of
jumping anything over knee-height.
But dressage appealed to her and she
was able to progress up the levels to
FEI Juniors on various horses before
entering university.
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impressed not only by the calibre of
his breeding, but also the wonderful
and talented horse that stood before
me,” says Allegra.
Born in 2003 in Sherwood Park,
Rowan is sired by the Hanoverian
stallion Rotspon and out of a mare by
Come Back II. “He was so talented so
I was trying to find someone to help
me take him up the levels, and we
luckily stumbled upon Bonny Bonnello. The rest is history!” says Allegra.
Of course, the history includes a
lot of hard work from the rider and
the mount. “I’ve had to work a lot on
myself and improving my riding and
training techniques to learn how to
work with a horse with such a strong
personality,” says Allegra.
“Rowan is a very particular horse,
he definitely knows what he likes
and dislikes and is not afraid to let
you know! He is a very steady horse
Rowan and Allegra Holm accepting their ribbon and cooler for winning the FEI Prix St. George at the CAADA CDI2* at Anderson
Ranch. PHOTO: HOLLY BURNS MEDIA
as well; he will go past or over any
scary object, and in the show ring and
schooling at home he is very dependable and always shows up with a good
work ethic and lots of focus.”
In 2010, Rowan and Allegra earned
a national level award for excellent
results in third level freestyle. They
were also invited twice to ride in high
performance clinics with national
technical advisers Robert Dover and
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include FEI Intermediare I and the
FEI Intermediare I Freestyle competitions. This summer, Allegra and
Rowan rode in their first international competition.
The Calgary and Area Alberta Dressage Association (CAADA) CDI2*
took place on June 29th to July 1 at
Rocky Mountain Show Jumping at
Anderson Ranch. “Rowan, of course,
was typical Rowan and more concerned about when his next meal
and walk was than the riding stuff,”
Allegra says.
“By the point of the competition
actually beginning I had resigned
myself to the fact that I was actually
crazy enough to pay money in order
to ride in front of a bunch of judges
and spectators and have my scores
posted up for the world to see.
“So I was actually less nervous than
I had been a few weeks prior. However I did just have my toenail ripped
off and had fractured my toe so the
bandage fitting in my boot without
cutting off circulation was a bit of a
stressor,” she says laughing.
They rode to first place in the FEI
Prix St. Georges class, fourth place in
the FEI Intermediare I class and second in the FEI Intermediare I Freestyle. Rowan was the youngest horse
in the CDI2* and Allegra was the
youngest rider.
“Overall I was quite happy with
how we did and, like I do after every
show, wonder why I got so stressed
over a $10 ribbon, but I think I am
getting better. Rowan was very happy
to go home and eat grass in his field
but was overall not too perturbed
about the whole thing,” Allegra says
laughing. “I guess I need to learn to be
more like my horse!”
Allegra is planning to continue her
success with Rowan at the FEI levels
next year and would like to be able
to represent Canada again in a CDI
competition. And, yes, she is still in
university and is now working on a
Master’s of Science degree in Mining
Engineering.
If you have or know of a horse hero, tell
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we’ll feature a horse that stands out from
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Alberta rancher leaves 88-year legacy
Mack Murray (1923-2012) was a third generation rancher who’s family settled vast tracts of land in southeast Alberta
HOMEWARD BOUND
Celebrating lives lived
By Cindy Bablitz
Calgary, Alta.
I
n his 88th year of life, Mack
Murray left as quietly as he lived.
He was a rancher, through and
through, and embodied the enigmatic silhouette perhaps romanticized in western pictures, though
he’d be the last to envision himself in
such a romantic ideal.
“My dad’s whole life was about
cattle,” says his eldest child, daughter
Anne Lynn Millar.
“Calving and weaning time were
what he lived for. He loved putting
up hay for the winter. He would have
ranched 24/7... but when my brothers got old enough to take over some
of the responsibilities, mom put her
foot down and said, ‘We’re taking
Sundays off.’”
Mack lived and worked on the
ranch his father homesteaded, ten
miles south of Whitla, Alberta (a
ghost town itself 20 miles southwest
of Medicine Hat), at one time ranching up to 10,000 sheep before cattle
emerged the stock star through the
1950s.
He felt what we’d now probably
call an old fashioned connection with
the ranching life, enjoying the lowing
cattle in the early afternoon as much
as the sparkle of the frosted dew on
the early dawning pastures he operated with his brother, G.W. (George
William) until the next generation
came along and shared the ranching
roles with their respective fathers.
Mack and Anne were married in
1949. She was 21 and he was 25.
“It was in the spring, and it was
lambing time. We had to go out to
sheep camp right away after we were
married,” says Anne, Mack’s bride of
63 years.
And so went the humble seasons of
Mack and Anne’s life together, during
which they raised four children, Anne
Lynn, Mack II, Stuart and Wayne.
“He was a very good person,” says
Anne. “A very kind person.”
Like Mack himself, the legacy of
him is a quiet one, with the art of the
understatement seemingly a family
tradition.
“He was a very private person,”
says Anne Lynn. “You’d have to pry
to get him to tell you what he was
thinking,” she adds, laughing, “And,
well, to get him to tell you what he
was feeling, you’d have to pry even
more.”
His first love was ranching,
though many came to know the
name Mack Murray through his
association with the Medicine Hat
Exhibition & Stampede. He began
volunteering with the board in 1970,
served as president for two years in
1989 and 1990, and had volunteered
with the board for a total of 42 years
by the time of his passing.
“Mack had every right to brag,”
said Bob Porter, fellow rancher and
one of Mack’s oldest friends at his
funeral service earlier this year in
May, “But never once did you hear
Mack brag about what he accomplished. I’ve heard other people bragging who had no business bragging...
but Mack, he just loved what he did.”
And he did it with as little fan-
Ranching was the only thing that Mack Murray ever did… and loved it.
Mack Murray served 42 years on the
Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede
Company, two of those as President.
fare as he was willing to give or ask.
Which was none.
“He was the kind of guy that
when we were little, when we were
growing up, learning about riding
and ranching, just said, ‘You just
get on that horse and chase those
cows... and keep your hands off
that damn horn,’” remembers Anne
Lynn, smiling.
“I wouldn’t have traded my grow-
The Murray ranching family (l-r), Mack, G.W., and their father George Murray.
ing up life for anything. I loved it,”
she says with the same quiet confidence her dad imbued.
“He was quiet. He never got
excited, and he worked hard,” says
his widow Anne.
“We had a wonderful life together.”
There’s something sad whenever a
beloved family man passes from his
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of Mack Murray leave us, there’s a
hollow left in the place he used to fill
that in our times, one can’t be sure
will ever quite be filled again.
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Morgans sold around the world
Tatanka has one of the busiest breeding cards in the industry
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Horse breeder profile
By Robyn Moore
A
big, black horse following people around
might be thought of as an omen to some
people. Not to Sandy and Ivan Chrapko of
SSS Morgans. It was 1996 and they were at a dispersal sale at a guest ranch looking for a few horses to
ride to help release stress from their jobs in government and their engineering business.
Sandy suggested to her husband that he try him.
It ended up being Sandy who tried him out, and she
was in love. “I still have him and he is my main riding horse though he is 21 years old,” says Sandy. He
The stallion Tatanka is a homozygous black Morgan
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was the first horse that started them on the path to
breeding quality Morgan horses in Alberta.
Both Sandy and Ivan were raised on farms and
were looking to purchase a stallion and a few broodmares. They met Dorothea Hildreth of Bessia Morgans in Montana. “We told her when her stallion
Sharthunder and her mare Jubarose had a stud colt
to let me know,” says Sandy. “In 1997 we got the call
that we had our boy!”
Bessia’s Tatanka arrived at their farm in Pincher
Creek and the Chrapko’s set off to find the right
mares to match Tatanka. They researched bloodlines and colour genetics to find just the right match
to produce western working Morgans.
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SSS Morgans first sale was made
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waiting for foals. We could not keep
up with the demand and bought
more mares.”
Referrals made by Dorothea Hildreth helped SSS Morgans crack
the international market. Morgan’s
bred in Pincher Creek can be found
in Europe and coast to coast in the
United States and Canada. SSS Morgans mares and foals have been on
display at Spruce Meadows and the
Calgary Stampede.
Sandy comments, “Our farm has
been featured in magazines, newspapers, and on the radio because of our
success, and our love of this magnificent breed. The selling of our horses
in Italy was our biggest accomplishment, resurrecting the Morgan breed
there. It was a fantastic opportunity
for us!”
The Chrapko’s admit that mistakes were made along the way,
sometimes Sandy’s heart ruled over
her reason. “We tried to be responsible and honest to both the horses
and the people we dealt with. Many
of our customers were repeat, some
up to thirteen horses from us!”
In 2001, Sandy was diagnosed
with cancer. “Trying to find a way
to tell my kids, I went and saw my
horse Morgan’s Ace and he put his
head on my shoulder and kept it
there while I cried. During my treatments, my family and these wonderful animals helped to keep me
going.”
Thankfully, Sandy is still going
strong: “We are still breeding, showing, training and selling! None of us
can imagine our life without Morgans and now we have grandchildren
that are getting started! We thank
everyone we have come into contact
with because of the Morgan breed.
Each one of them has brought something to our lives.”
Bessia Morgans now stands a son
of Tatanka, SSS Tatanka’s Black Licorice while SSS Morgans continues
to stand Bessia’s Tatanka.
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Crisp, cool days, brightly coloured
trees and the calls of migratory
birds signal the arrival of autumn.
For many, the Spruce Meadows
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the holiday season. Carollers
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OUR WAY OF LIFE
Making a living with horses
By Cindy Bablitz
Calgary, Alta.
I
n 1962, 9-1/2 miles southwest
of Water Valley, Alberta, Jack
and Barbara Bates offered their
ranch, a bunkhouse and their horses
to a motley group of eight kids for a
summer camping experience. Fifty
one years — and thousands of campers later — under the direction of
their son Randy and his wife Kathy,
Bates Bar J Ranch bid a fond farewell
in a massive auction held September
22, 2012.
“We’ve had the grandkids of
campers who used to come to the
ranch when they were kids telling us
how much this place has meant to
them,” says Randy. “It’s kind of got a
legacy all its own.”
A couple weeks after the auction,
conducted by Shields Auction Services, Randy says the memory of the
day is still kind of a blur. 118 horses
ranging from foals at foot sold with
their mares right up to old bomb
proof dude horses were sold in the
one day event. The eldest, a 27 year
old gelding, had been at Bates Bar J
Ranch since Randy bought him as a
weanling.
“Nowadays
everyone’s so
coddled, cocooned
inside of buildings
and programs,
and then all of
a sudden, when
they’re 18, they’re
kicked out and
expected to survive
on their own.”
— Randy Bates
“I’m happy to say he went to a
good home,” says Randy, with a small
trace of melancholy in his humble
voice.
When Jack and Barbara founded
Bates Bar J Ranch, most young
campers who would attend were
pretty comfortable with horses,
and had at least some riding experience. Over the years, that dynamic
changed as urbanization over the
decades translated into children
whose growing up years grew further
away from connection with animals,
farming and the land, and closer to
concrete, city-living and X-boxes.
“We had to come up with different activities as the nature of the
kids who came to the ranch evolved,”
explains Randy.
“We’d organize hikes and offer
basic survival skills experiences, like
how to start fires, build lean-to shelters, and gather forest edibles. We
hoped to teach kids just a little how
to be more savvy.”
It’s a loaded reference, given the
Quote of the
month
“What he loved in horses was
what he loved in men, the
blood and the heat of the
blood that ran them”
— Cormac McCarthy
(All the Pretty Horses)
photo: thinkstock.com
celebrity-centric urbanized notion
of savvy these days. Today, more ten
year old children know more about
fashion than farming, more about
chutzpah than horses.
“In today’s society, youth are so
sheltered in one respect and just
turned loose in another,” notes
Randy.
“It used to be kids maybe went to
kindergarten, or just started school in
grade one... but now they have to go
to playschool and many are in school
type programs right from when they
can walk and talk.”
Bates Bar J Ranch offered a place
where kids could be kids. Learning to
ride was never offered in formal ways,
but in hands on experiences. Days
at the ranch were structured but not
regimented, learning was abundant
but informal.
One of the consistent favourite
activities at the ranch were the mud
fights which campers relished with
reckless abandon, loving the opportunity to get dirty without consequence “maybe even more than riding
horses.”
“I think over the years the kids were
happy doing it that way. And we’re
living proof that less formal programming works. We grew up playing.
Nowadays everyone’s so coddled,
cocooned inside of buildings and programs, and then all of a sudden, when
they’re 18, they’re kicked out and
expected to survive on their own.”
Bates Bar J Ranch celebrated play
and work and neither Randy nor
Kathy, nor his sister and brother-inlaw, Pamela and Dave Gunderson —
who worked at the ranch for a while
along with the roster of seasonal staff
— made much of the difference. It’s
sad to say, but with the ending of this
half century venture, a great outlet of
adventure has been lost to future generations.
“Computers were supposed to
make life so much easier,” laments
Randy, “But everyone’s working so
much harder to stay ahead .. it’s not
easy these days for people to get out
and even go camping with their family anymore.”
There is no doubt that we’ve lost a
gem of a resource now that Bates Bar
J is no longer. With the horses, tack
and equipment now gone, all that’s
left is for the ranch itself to sell.
But, much like the philosophy
that sustained the live-in youthoriented dude ranch for 51 years,
Randy is matter-of-fact about the
transition. When doctors said “slow
down,” he and Kathy sat at their
kitchen table and made a list of pros
and cons for shutting down the
operation.
“We just came to the conclusion it
was kind of obvious I can’t do what
I used to do... so selling just came to
be the right thing to do. It’s kind of
a catch-22: you can’t do something
for this long and not feel something
when it’s over... but when it sells,
it will open up an avenue for us to
move on and do different things...
our own adventures can take a new
direction.”
Randy and Kathy — you were true
pioneers of the western spirit, and
Bates Bar J Ranch will be missed.
photo: wendy dudley
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INSPIRATIONS
Inspired by People and Horses
ARTIST PROFILE
“Pals”, by equine artist Jennifer Mack. Inspired by
wild desert horses in the African Namib desert,
Mack returned to Alberta to paint only horses.
Calgary
Artist Creates
EQUINE
DREAMLANDS
“Off To Dreamland” The viewer is invited to imagine
what the horses may be looking at, and whether the
outer landscape is cloud, water or desert.
“Sugar” All artwork by Jennifer Mack. All photos by Wendy Dudley.
The only thing that separated Jennifer Mack from the vast and unforgiving
Namib Desert were the walls of a small hut. Outside, under a blanket of
darkness, a feral herd of horses investigated her lone shed. “I could hear them
breathing and blowing. Some would pop their heads into the window frame.
It just blew my mind,” she recalls, nine years after that trip.
By Wendy Dudley
Priddis, Alta.
T
he intense heat. Prowling hyenas. The white
crumbling rock and blue sky. The uninhabited
plains and mud-cracked dirt. And, of course,
the horses. The unfenced and treeless vistas enabled
her to observe the horses’ natural behaviour. “There
were young stallions, mares and foals. It was incredible to watch.”
Her seven months spent in southern Africa in a
region of space and shifting dunes was a life-changing
experience, taking her full circle back to her passion of
painting horses. “It was simple and stark, but so rich
in scenery. I knew then that I wanted to do nothing
else but paint horses.”
From that experience, she painted her Desert
and Firelight series. The canvases are bold and as
intense as the desert heat, the red paint as searing as
the scorching African sun, up against blue shadows.
“The effect of red and blue is that they flicker. They
shimmer like a mirage. The horses move. They are
tumbleweeds of emotion, their spirits integrated into
the landscape.”
Mack refuses to paint anything depicting violence,
believing she has a responsibility to infuse the world
with positive thoughts. “My paintings are peaceful.
They may evoke excitement, but I don’t do wild and
crazy. I paint emotion, to involve something inside of
us that is not harmful.”
Working from her at-home studio in Calgary, she
shows at the annual Spruce Meadows Equi-Fair in
September, and past exhibits include shows in Saskatoon, Ontario and Quebec. Many of her clients are
international, with much of her business stemming
from her website at jmackfineart.com.
Mack’s affinity for equines began when she was a
toddler, learning how to ride before she could walk.
Her family farmed near Acme, and then at Cochrane,
Contemporary equine artist Jennifer Mack poses with one
of her large canvases, entitled Lucky Star.
and kept several horses, including Appaloosas and
Quarter horses. “And we had a mountain horse that
dad found when he was out trail riding.”
If she wasn’t sitting in a saddle or showing in
gymkhanas, Mack was drawing equines, referring
to anatomy books and photographs. “The school
bell would ring, and my teacher would let me stay
and keep working on my poster of running horses. I
worked on it for four classes.” She was in Grade 4.
Her plans were to be an architect, but her math
skills weren’t strong. “And I kept building models of
elaborate stables, so everything was still about the
horse.”
Mack enrolled at the Alberta College of Art and
Design, but was told to stop drawing horses and
broaden her horizons. She didn’t know it at the time,
but that advice sent her in a new direction which
continues to shape her art. She went into textiles and
ceramics, influenced by an instructor who studied in
Japan for 22 years.
“My composition, simplicity and quality of
craftsmanship all come from those standards with a
Japanese flair.”
Whether the heat of the desert in her Firelight
“Summer“ Strongly influenced by Japanese art, Mack also
uses a high quality India Ink for some of her creations.
series, the softer sepias of her Dusty West images, or her
strong India Ink Flash of Memory series, Mack invites
viewers to use their imaginations in filling in canvas
space. There are backdrops that fade into dreamscapes,
washes that could be water, cloud, sun-bleached grasses
or barren desert.
“The viewer gets to take a ride with that horse. They
become invested in the painting. They are involved,”
Mack said.
There is serenity in her acrylic paintings, spun from
the power of the horse and the uncluttered landscapes
that sets the viewer free to wander, to think, to dream.
They are meditative scenes, an extension of Mack
herself who has taken five trips to India for meditative
purposes. She also has visited ashrams in upper New
York State, and spiritual retreats such as Findhorn in
Scotland.
“It seems I always end up in Holy places.”
And it is the retreat within her paintings that attracts
buyers from around the world. “People are drawn to the
feelings in my paintings, to the horse as an iconic symbol
of spirit and freedom.”
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INSPIRATIONS
COU NTRY MUSIC
BOOK REVIEW
Wildflower
Breathe Life Into
Your Riding
Dean Selby and Jennie Clarke
release new duet album
by Jenny Rolfe
TIME TO CHILL
Book and movie reviews
Reviewed by Carol M. Upton
Once we begin to master our own
state of mind, tension and balance,
we will be in a place where we can
more easily be taught, by both a
trainer and the horse. We will be
able to respond more effectively with
fluidity within our body and greater
focus of our mind. ~ Jenny Rolfe
I
n this follow-up to Ride From
the Heart, Jenny Rolfe expands
upon her training techniques
using the power of breathing and
energy exchange between horses and
people. We already know that Yoga
and Tai Chi practices, for example,
help us to move through life more
easily. Rolfe combines her extensive
experience as an international dres-
MY TUNES
sage trainer with testimonials from
other riders to demonstrate how
a similar approach can profoundly
impact horse and rider performance
in all disciplines.
The first part of the book provides
the reader with exercises to build
awareness and core breathing with
the horse from the ground. Each
page is graced with stunning photographs that illustrate this path to
greater connection. Rolfe discusses
loose work and the foundation it provides for trust and harmony to grow
between horse and handler. The
more the horse learns relaxation in
loose work, the more this will be carried into work under saddle.
Later chapters cover the subtle
energy of core breathing and illustrate how these techniques support
balanced, collected riding. The most
empowering stories are those of
Rolfe’s relationships with her Iberian stallions and the lessons learned
RYHMES FROM TH E R A N G E
Keepsakes
by Carol Heuchan,
Hunter Valley, New South Wales
Music reviews
By Jody Seeley
High River, Alta.
from her intuitive work with them.
She writes of sometimes delving
into the unknown, yet always using
breath with calm energy and creating
space to allow the horse to become
the teacher.
“Much of our present-day teaching
relates to technical knowledge,” Rolfe
says, “but my experience, working
daily with my stallions, has taught
me the significance of a further
dimension.”
Attitudes are shifting and there
are many ways in which we can learn
together. Riders and trainers who
want to improve will definitely be
inspired by Rolfe’s approach in this
book and the transformation it can
bring to both human and horse.
Breathe Life into Your Riding
(Transform your riding with inspirational and innovative breathing
techniques) by Jenny Rolfe is available through J.A. Allen Books. Hard
Cover, 2012, $34.00 ISBN: 978-085131-984-1 Available on Amazon
Jenny Rolfe’s clients come from all
over the world and include those
professionally involved with horses,
among them British Horse Society
trainers, western dressage afficionados
and natural horsemanship instructors.
She is also author/producer of the book/
dvd Ride from the Heart and writes for
a multitude of international equestrian
magazines. Visit Jenny and her Iberian
stallions at: www.naturallyclassical.com
When life takes a different direction
and pathways are chosen anew,
you find there are things to surrender,
accoutrements long overdue.
The play things you had in your childhood,
the trinkets and toys that accrue, are easily discarded, forgotten,
with teenager games to pursue.
And even the pastimes and habits
of single years slip by the by,
when love takes a grip on your heartstrings;
the best laid of plans go awry.
T
he duo Wildflower is made up
of Dean Selby from Okotoks,
Alberta and Jennie Clarke
from Airdrie, Alberta. Their musical collaboration came together just
over a year ago after some years in
the country music biz as solo artists.
This acoustic partnership has
had a first year of many gigs and the
recording of their six song EP. The
two are currently working on the
idea of a full band sound and other
ways to grow their music…. which I
personally cannot wait to hear!
When you hear these two you can
see how a full band will really compliment their powerful sound. Both of
them are extremely talented on their
own… and together they’re dynamite.
Sometimes, and I say sometimes,
when you get a duo, one of the people has an obvious strength over
the other person. When it comes to
Wildflower, both Selby and Clarke
have big strengths vocally, and in
song-writing and stage presence
(hence why I think a full band sound
will compliment them).
The only real difference you see is
Selby on guitar and Clarke on percus-
sion. The EP features all songs written
by Wildflower. And they tell a little bit
about both Selby and Clarke.
For example, the single you can
hear on 99.7 Sun Country and AM
1140 radio is called “Hey Mama,”
which is a song Clarke wrote about
her little boys.
“Friday Night at Big Rock” was
inspired by fun nights in Okotoks. It’s
a six-pack of awesome (a phrase I have
used before but not lightly)!
Wildflower was one of the first
duo’s of Season 2 for “A Room Full of
Sound” in Okotoks — a concert series
that features Alberta music. They
were filmed by Shaw Cable 10 and will
be featured on the station as part of
the concert series.
Selby and Clarke were also featured
nationwide earlier in the year on
“Canada Sings.” They are both Westjet employees and teamed up to win
$25,000 for the Alberta Children’s
Hospital as part of the contest.
These two will continue to grow so
keep your eyes out for them! And pick
up the EP — these songs are great.
If you want to catch the Wildwood
live, they will be playing at Rylie’s Cattlebarn in Okotoks later this month
and will be part of the Canadian
Christmas Tour with Sean Hogan
coming to High River December 11th,
2012.
Catch all their details at www. wildflower-music.ca
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Then shedding some trivial trappings
is not such a hard thing to do.
They’re only inanimate objects you know you already outgrew.
But sometimes the forks in life’s roadway
are not always taken by choice
The question of what is discarded
is asked in a soul-seeking voice.
For reasons without explanation
(the justifications are rife),
I’m faced with the time to relinquish
my horses – the loves of my life.
My mares are quite valuable assets.
They’re champions still in their prime,
so people are saying I’m crazy; ‘Just sell them now, while there’s time.’
But somehow, I’ll manage to keep them,
these gems in the crown of the land. The people that say I’m foolhardy,
are right but do not understand.
Working Hats – Don Weller
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I NSPIRATIONS
art
from
ashes ART
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Horse hair ceramics
Alberta potters honour equines with their
one-of-a-kind works of art
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By Wendy Dudley
Millarville, Alta.
A
ngie Faltus drapes several strands of horse
hair across a pot just
removed from the kiln. The tail
hair sizzles, shrivels and burns,
pungent smoke rising from the
clay vessel that is more than a
thousand degrees hot. Within seconds, meandering lines twist and
curl across the pot. The hair has
turned to ash, leaving its decorative carbon imprint forever etched
as art.
Horse hair pottery, believed
to be thousands of years old, is
an ideal way to honour your best
equine friend, said Angie who,
along with her mother Judy
LeBlanc, works out of her Two
Springs Ceramics workshop near
Millarville, Alta.
If a horse has died, its size
makes cremation difficult and
expensive, so many owners have
strands of its mane and tail hair
incorporated into a piece of pottery. The ceramics range from
horse head molds to vessels with
equine drawings to heart-shaped
boxes, each carrying a one-of-akind horse hair pattern.
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Judy LeBlanc with one of her equine heads featuring horse hair. She will be selling
the ceramics at the Millarville Christmas Market Nov. 9-11. Photos: Wendy Dudley
“It gives the owner
something that
is permanent and
unique.”
— Angie Faltus
“It gives the owner something
that is permanent and unique. We
can also do ornaments using horse
hair,” said Angie who has plans to
make porcelain horse hair jewelry.
Some owners bring Judy and
Angie hair before their pet has
passed, finding it less emotional
than removing the hair after its
death. “Groomed hair is the best,”
said Angie, who also has worked
with dog and cat hair.
The way the hair imprints the
fired clay varies depending upon
the breed and hair structure.
Mane hairs leave a much finer
line than the coarser tail hair, and
there is no predicting the pattern.
“The hair does what it wants to
do. It has its own way,” said Angie,
laying the hair across the vessel
while Judy uses tongs to hold and
rotate the heated pottery. No two
pieces are the same.
“It doesn’t take a lot of hair,”
said Judy. “The first piece I did
was not pretty, as it came out with
1. As the horse hair is draped across the pre-heated pot, it burns and
shrivels, leaving distinct meandering lines on the vessel. 2. Patterns are
determined by the thickness of the horse hair. Coarse tail hair leaves
thicker and bolder lines, with mane hair making fine imprints. 3. Once
cooled, excess soot and unburned hair is brushed off the ceramic. 4.
Making horse hair pottery can be a tedious process, as there is only a short
time to apply the hair before the ceramic will no longer accept it. 5. The
final stage of making horse hair pottery is to wax and polish it, bringing
out a sheen. 6. A finished piece of horse hair pottery, after it has been
washed and polished.
Angie Faltus began making horse hair pottery as a way to honour owners who
want to capture the spirit of their favourite steed, or to honour their passing.
black clumps because I put the
hair on so heavy.”
It is a delicate process, with
very little time to effectively capture the carbon trace. “You have
about a three-minute window
and then you start to get ghosting, with the trace becoming very
faint,” said Judy, a certified Dun-
can ceramics teacher and ambassador.
The pottery is first heat-soaked
to 1,200 F, with the horse hair
applied as soon as the vessel is
removed from the kiln. Once the
temperature has dropped much
below 950 F, the ceramic will no
longer take the hair. These are
low firing temperatures which makes
the pottery porous and necessary for
applying the horse hair. But it means
it is not suitable for holding water.
Once the piece is cooled, excess soot
is brushed off, and the pot is cleaned,
waxed and polished.
Horse hair pottery is considered
a native American art form, the process discovered when a potter leaned
over her vessel and her long hair accidentally came into contact with the
fired clay, leaving its distinctive ash
imprint. Angie believes horse hair
pottery was made at the same time
natives came into contact with horses
that arrived from Spain in the late
15th century.
“There are historical pieces of pottery that were done in earth ovens,
or what we call pit firing. Horses were
part of their culture, and making
horse hair pottery was a way to honour a favourite horse, or to celebrate
the birth of a horse.”
Today, horse hair pottery by
renowned native artists has become
collectible art. Prices for Angie and
Judy’s work range from $15 to $250.
Judy has been selling the ceramics at
the Millarville Farmers Market since
1993, and will be at the Millarville
Christmas Market, Nov. 9-11.
For more information, Two
Springs Ceramics is developing a
website at twospringsfiredarts.ca.
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SPECIAL
FEATURE
CANADIAN FINALS RODEO / FARMFAIR
The National Championship
COMEBACK
After not qualifying last year, former
two-time Canadian bull riding
champion Scott Schiffner is back
and a top contender at this year’s
Canadian Finals Rodeo.
PHOTO: MIKE COPEMAN
Scott
Schiffner
His job is all bull
Strathmore bull rider
on comeback trail and
poised to challenge
for CFR title
Heather Grovet
Galahad, Alta.
H
ow does an Albertan rancher
start down the path to riding bulls? For professional
bull rider Scott Schiffner it
all started when he rode the
team roping cattle at age eight.
“I’d always been involved in rodeo, and
roped a lot as a kid,” Schiffner says. “But
to be honest, I found roping a bit boring.
One day a bunch of us kids got permission to ride the team roping cattle, and I
really liked it. I guess that was the beginning of the whole deal.”
At age 14 Schiffner qualified for the
CFR in Boy’s Steer Riding. While he
didn’t win the event, he managed to ride
all six of his steers. “That first time in
the CFR was the most exciting thing I’d
ever done,” Schiffner says. “And I knew I
wanted to go back again.”
Schiffner admits his mother would
have preferred him to be involved in a
sport different than bull riding. “She
didn’t want me to get hurt,” he says.
“But she tried hard to not discourage me
either. Basically my parents said ‘If you’re
going to do this, then do your best.’”
Schiffner has qualified for the CFR 12
times since going professional in 1998.
In 2001 he was the Canadian Bull Riding
Champion with the highest season earnings that year, plus the CFR Bull Riding
Champion. In 2009 he won the CFR Bull
Riding Champion again.
“I’ve got so I expect to be at the CFR
every year but that doesn’t always happen,” he says. “Last year I didn’t qualify,
and there really wasn’t any excuse for
it. Yes, I hurt my knee, but everyone has
an injury of some sort so that shouldn’t
matter. Luckily bull riders have short
memories, so I quickly forgot about it and
focused on the future!”
This year things have been going
smoother for Schiffner, who is currently
sitting second in Canadian Bull Riding
earnings, only about $500 behind the
leader, Ty Pozzobon.
“I’m getting older in my career, and I
guess my bull riding days are numbered,”
Schiffner admits. “But I feel good, and I’m
ready to compete. One day I’ll retire, but
when I do, I don’t want to go out with any
regrets.”
Schiffner and his wife and two young
daughters ranch near Strathmore,
Alberta working with extended family.
The ranch runs a 750 commercial cowcalf operation, and also owns 15 Quarter
Horses of various ages.
“We use our horses for everything,”
Schiffner says. “Unlike some ranch-
“For me, horseback riding is the closest thing to
bull riding… doing that uses the same muscles
and abilities as bull riding.”
— SCOTT SCHIFFNER
ers, we don’t even own a quad. We use
our horses for all the necessary doctoring, sorting and treating. And we don’t
bring the cattle up to the corral very
often, instead we’ll do everything in the
open with the horses if at all possible. I
might not be a great roper in the arena
but I’ve got so I can do okay out in the
pasture.”
Schiffner feels his many hours of
horseback riding have made him a better
bull rider.
“I know there are a lot of good bull riders that never sit on a horse,” he says.
“But for me, horseback riding is the closest thing to bull riding. Nothing simulates bull riding as much as loping a horse
bareback in a circle. Doing that uses the
same muscles and abilities as bull riding,
and I find it a lot more realistic than the
mechanical bulls.”
When asked how much longer he
expects to bull ride, Schiffner hesitates.
“Everyone asks me that,” he finally
replies. “And I don’t know the answer.
I do know that I have at least one more
year left in me. I guess as long as I’m having fun, and still winning, I’ll keep coming
back. When those things change, then I’ll
quit. But when that will actually happen
is still up in the air.”
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Three accomplished and beautiful horsewoman vying for national title
YOUNG GUNS
Nicole Schlaak currently holds
the title of Miss Rodeo Okotoks
2011. She is an honour student
at Mount Royal University,
completing her Bachelors of
Business Administration degree.
Nicole has been an athlete and
a volunteer in her community,
but her passion for horses comes
first. She has ridden in numerous
Rodeo Grand Entries and would
eventually like to own her own
ranch and riding facility to teach
children about the heritage of
rodeo.
Up and coming stars
Nicole Schlakk, Miss Rodeo Okotoks
Sarah Michel,
Miss Grande Prairie Stompede
Crowned as Miss Grande Prairie
Stompede one week after
graduation, rodeo is not this barrel
racer and team penner’s only talent.
An accomplished football player
and wrestler, Sarah Michel both
medaled in and was recognized
for sportsmanship at the 2010
Arctic Winter Games. As a 4-H club
member, Sarah has competed all
over Alberta and still volunteers as
an Assistant Leader. Inspired by the
Trades Work for Women program,
Sarah hopes to later become a
Journeyman Electrician.
Gillian Shields got her start in
rodeo at the Airdrie Pro Rodeo
Mutton Busting. She moved on
to be a member of the Didsbury
Outlaws 4-H Horse Club, a barrel
racer, and currently holds the
title of Miss Rodeo Airdrie 2011.
As well as volunteering in her
community and working as a
registered massage therapist,
Gillian is obtaining her Bachelor’s
Degree in Education at Red Deer
College.
Gillian Shields, Miss Rodeo Airdrie
Farmfair home to top notch
equine events
For more than 35 years, Northlands has been hosting Farmfair, one
of Canada’s top agricultural shows. Visitors are entertained, educated
and engaged with beefed-up cattle shows, world class equine sales,
competitions, and clinics. Here’s just a few:
Bloodstock 2012
After its inaugural year, Bloodstock 2012 will capitalize on last year’s
event by making enhancements to help make the sale even more
successful. This year, the sale will be limited to yearlings, two year olds
and three year old horses. Providing they meet the criteria, any horse
that sells through Bloodstock 2012 will be eligible to return to Farmfair and compete as three year olds in the Snaffle Bit Futurity in 2012,
and as four and five year olds in the Team Roping Futurity and in the
Snaffle Bit Derby for added monies, in subsequent years. This will provide purchasers with more incentive to pay a premium for the horses
in the sale and incentives for sellers to consign top notch horses.
Canadian Snaffle Bit Futurity
The most prestigious reined cowhorse event in Canada, the Canadian Snaffle Bit Futurity will showcase the top three year old horses
as they compete in cutting, fence work and reining. All of the top
professionals, trainers and non-pro competitors gather in Edmonton for this event. This year, the event will be tied to the Bloodstock
Futurity where horses that sell though Bloodstock 2012 and meet
the criteria will be eligible to compete in the Canadian Snaffle Bit
Futurity in 2013.
The 8th Annual Heritage Ranch Rodeo
The Heritage Ranch Rodeo exists to preserve and showcase the
traditional working skills of the working ranch cowboy. Sixteen
teams from some of the largest ranches throughout Western
Canada compete in Team Sorting, Team Branding, Team Doctoring, Wild Cow Milking, the Wild Horse Race and Bronc Riding.
Ranch Horse Sale and Competition
The sale is limited to 15 competition horses and five prospects. Potential sale horses are selected by a panel of anonymous judges to help
ensure that the quality remains high. The participants complete a
prescribed pattern in the competition component and are judged on
the suitability for ranch work, athletic ability and training.
Heavy Horse Pull
Northlands Farmfair is proud to present the Heavy Horse Pull again
this year. This crowd pleasing event is fan favourite and great family entertainment. To add to the excitement this year, the Heavy
Horse Pull auction will take place just before the main event.
Shooting
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an you guide your galloping horse through a pattern using only one hand? Can you shoot a gun
well enough to hit a balloon at that speed? If the
very idea sounds overwhelming, you’ll want to clap and
cheer for those competing at Farmfair’s Mounted Shooting Competition.
Mounted shooting features various patterns, each
with ten balloons. Competitors must gallop through the
pattern as fast as possible while shooting balloons. A
missed balloon incurs a five second penalty so speed isn’t
enough; control and good horsemanship are essential.
Competitor’s guns use a crimped shell filled with black
powder. The powder and the heat generated break the
balloons, but they must be within a 20 foot range.
Duncan MacMillan from Vermilion has been competing in mounted shooting for two years after watching a
demonstration on the sport.
“I’m 64 years old, so I’m not as fast as the younger
guys,” MacMillan says. “But I am steady and consistent,
and that takes me a long ways.”
“You need a really good horse for mounted shooting,”
MacMillan says. “And it’s essential your horse is properly
prepared before you compete.”
The couple’s horses are ranch raised and trained, and
carefully desensitized to gunfire.
“Each horse is different,” MacMillan says. “Jean’s horse
is 17, and had a lot of experience working cattle, travelling
to rodeos, and carrying flags before we started mounted
shooting. He’s doing great now, but at first he was really
bothered by the loud noise. We thought Silver would be
worse since you can’t carry a loose coat on him without a
reaction, yet he was hardly bothered by gunfire.”
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balloons.
and levels. MacMillan competes in men’s senior level two
classes. “Beginners start at level one and work their way
up as they win and earn money,” he explains.
“For most classes I will use two 45 Colt pistols. I’ll
shoot the first five balloons with one pistol, then holster
it and use the next for the last balloons.”
But MacMillan’s favourite class is the rifle competition where a pistol is used for the first five balloons and
a 44-40 Winchester rifle for the others. “Those last five
balloons will be in a straight line on the way home,” MacMillan says. “Riders must drop the lines and run flat out
while shooting. It’s a real kamikaze class, and not for the
faint of heart!”
Mounted shooting pays well at the CFR with a $5,000
purse plus prizes. But the money isn’t the part the MacMillans enjoy the most. “For us the people and the fun
are more important than the prizes,” he concludes.
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BRIEFS
Pony races
Wild ponies and tough little
kids — a great combination
Farmfair
welcomes top
equine speakers
and clinicians
Northlands is thrilled to once
again present top equine
clinicians from across North
America at this year’s Farmfair
International from November
4-11 at the Edmonton EXPO Centre.
There’s more to the Wild Pony Races than first meets the eye
By Heather Grovet
Galahad, Alta.
O
ne of the events you don’t
want to miss at this year’s
CFR is the Wild Pony
Race. This contest pits a team of
three children, ranging in ages
from six to 12, against an unbroken pony. The event is 18 seconds of chaos, excitement and
humour, but there is more going
on behind the scenes than you
probably realize.
Mel Lawes of Provost, Alta.
has organized and produced
the Wild Pony Races for over 12
years now.
“I saw something similar to
this done at a small rodeo,” Lawes
says. “The audience seemed to
really enjoy it so I decided to
organize something similar.
Rodeos now hire me to produce
everything about the race. I organize the teams of children, coordinate everything and supply
the ponies.”
Finding suitable children willing to make the commitment to
racing all year can be challenging.
“The CFR will be our 61st performance this year,” Lawes says.
“I have 12 teams of three kids,
some girls and some boys, and
they need to commit to making a
certain number of races. It can be
tough to arrange.”
“There’s nothing
more fun (for
a pony) than
dragging a kid
across the pen!
Those ponies
know what’s going
to happen when
they get in the
chute, and they
seem to enjoy the
challenge.”
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— Mel Lawes
Always a crowd favourite, these young cowhands try their luck with one of
Mel Lawes’ wild ponies at the 2012 Calgary Stampede. photo: Mike Copeman
Most of the children come
from ranching backgrounds,
often with parents who have
been involved in rodeo in the
past.
Each team is composed of
three contestants — a header,
rider and shankman. The goal
is to get the rider on a haltered
pony as quickly as possible.
“These are tough little kids,”
Lawes says. “And they love what
they do.”
Locating truly wild ponies can
be equally challenging. You can’t
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“I have 80 ponies, with two
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Lawes said. “I got lucky and
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and breeds it into his offspring.
My other stallion is a blue roan
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These ponies seem to enjoy
their job. “There’s nothing more
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Bulldogger
CFR rookie finally gets his shot
Pro Steer Wrestler Travis Reay has been oh so close to making the CFR the last three years
IN IT TO WIN IT
Competitor profile
“If you don’t make the CFR, the year can be
a wash. You’re not reaching the goal, and
getting to where you need to be.”
By Dianne Finstad
Red Deer, Alta.
O
ne of the hardest working rodeo cowboys on the
trail has earned a steer
wrestling spot at the Canadian
Finals Rodeo this year.
But for Travis Reay, the journey to Rexall Place has been a
long one.
When he earned the Rookie of
the Year honours in pro rodeo in
2009, Reay had already logged
countless miles, pursuing his
dream at just about any rodeo
they’d let him enter.
“Most of the amateur rodeos
are from Friday to Sunday, so I
went to everything,” stated Reay,
who ranches with his Mom west
of Mayerthorpe. “I’d do close to
100 rodeos a year, from B.C. to
Manitoba, in three events.”
“I was dabbling in the pro
rodeos, but it’s tough to run a
farm and only be home three
days a week.”
Reay rode broncs, wrestled
steers and did team roping, and
had considerable success. He’s
vague on the actual number of
titles he’s earned, but does know
he’s got 56 trophy saddles in his
collection!
“I’ve rodeoed really hard since
I was about 12 years old. I’ve
used the same horse trailer since
1998, and there’s probably no
other trailer in rodeo with more
miles on it than mine.”
Ever since he first rode sheep
and steers as a youngster, Reay
knew what he wanted to do. So
at the age of 30, he committed to
a pro rodeo schedule in hopes of
making the CFR.
“I’ve been on the bubble since
2009. Just one steer away, it
seems.”
— Travis Reay
After spending all winter at the gym and practicing, the Mayerthorpe cowboy
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quickly. photo: Mike Copeman.
Last year, Reay hit a crossroads. He finished the season
in 13th spot, where 12 qualify,
missing Edmonton by just a
couple hundred dollars. But he
also suffered a serious injury at
the last rodeo of the season in
Hanna, and had to make some
tough decisions.
“I ripped the bicep off my arm
in Hanna last year, so I had to
decide if I wanted to do surgery
and take six months off, or let it
heal on its own.”
Reay opted to skip surgery, but
knew the alternative would take
a lot of hard work.
“So I practiced all winter long,
and went to the gym every day. I
also quit riding broncs. I thought
I should stay healthy for the
event I figured I was better in.”
Reay has a place in the Canadian cowboy community in
Maricopa, Arizona, and hooked
up with buddies down there for
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It was a strategy that paid off
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but found out in the gym that I
wasn’t as strong as I thought. I
worked as hard as I did all winter to get my strength back, and
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After being part of the CFR in
1998 as a novice saddle bronc
rider, Reay pledged to himself he
wouldn’t go back to Edmonton
until he’d earned his way there.
“I did slide in and watch one
round last year, because I had a
bucking horse called Reay Bay
out in one go-round. But I’ve
kind of tried to stay away.”
Reay is preparing for his CFR
debut by practicing, to stay
sharp.
“I’m going to try to win every
time I nod my head. It’s pretty
tight in the standings this year.
Basically, whoever wins the first
round will go to first place in
Canada. I just want to be consistent and throw the six steers as
fast as I can.”
Reay admits he’s excited about
going to Edmonton, but he’s also
encouraged.
“It’s something that’s been a
goal of mine since I turned pro,
well, since I was a little kid. I’ve
wanted to be the best I can, and
I’m relieved I finally made it to
the CFR.”
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Former champio n
T ea m Roping
Saddle bronc champion
becomes a rookie in a
different saddle
Two-time Canadian rodeo champ Clayton Hines keeps
competitive edge in reined cow horse world
Farmfair’s Canadian National Team Roping Futurity
also focuses on control and training
IN IT TO WIN IT
Competitor profile
By Heather Grove
Galahad, Alta.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
I
Catching up with heroes of the past
By Dianne Finstad
Red Deer, Alta.
I
t took a dramatic, tie-breaking
ride to determine the saddle
bronc champion at the Canadian
Finals Rodeo 31 years ago. Young
Clayton Hines handled the pressure
and came through to snatch the honour from decorated champion Mel
Hyland. Proving that he was no flash
in the pan, the Drayton Valley cowboy came back and claimed a second
Canadian title in 1985. In fact, Hines
qualified for the CFR 10 times, and
always finished among the top four.
But it was 20 years ago now when
life took a different turn for the talented bronc rider, known as “Low
Tone.” He’d just finished winning
the 1992 Strathmore rodeo, and was
at home riding a colt. Hines, who’d
ridden some of the toughest broncs
on the rodeo trail, was bucked off,
thrown into the fence, and broke his
neck.
“My wife Susan told me later the
doctors were optimistic I’d make it,
but said most likely I would be a quadriplegic, and if I was lucky, a paraplegic,” recalled Hines.
Surgery to insert a piece of hip
bone to replace the fractured vertebrae was successful, and as the swelling went down, feeling gradually
returned to Hines’ limbs. His miraculous recovery took some two years,
but he believes ranch life helped.
“I fed the cows that winter, and had
a team of horses. It was hard to get
them harnessed, and brushed. But by
the next spring, I was riding again.”
“I’m lucky I’m as healthy as I am.
The best thing about an injury like
that is I knew I was done rodeoing.
You wake up after surgery, and you
know you’re done. My son Cory was
just three months old, and my daughter Amber was four. What would happen to them if I was paralyzed? I had
to focus on raising them.”
Hines had his welding ticket and
built up his pipeline welding business, along with the cattle herd on
their ranch northeast of Drayton
Valley. The family became active in
junior rodeos, and then the high
school rodeo scene, where Amber barrel raced, did pole bending and goat
tying, while Cory pursued an early
love of roping, and later added bronc
riding to his resume.
In the meantime, Hines began
refining his own horsemanship skills.
“I sent Cory to roping clinics, because
I believe if you want to do something
and do well at it, you have to go and
get help.”
He applied the same philosophy to
his own endeavours, attending horse
clinics put on by the likes of Ray Hunt
and Mel Hyland.
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Purple chaps and a big grin are what you’ll see when Clayton Hines takes to the
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w h at a r e th e y d o i n g ?
“The best thing
about an injury
like that is I
knew I was done
rodeoing. You
wake up after
surgery, and you
know you’re done.”
— Clayton Hines
“I got going to ranch rodeos, and
from there got interested in the ranch
horse competitions.”
Hines began to buy some younger
horses, put ranch skills on them, and
market them. But he also became
interested in the working cow horse
world, competing as a member of the
Alberta Reined Cow Horse Association.
“It takes a long time to learn,”
sighed the rodeo champion. “You
don’t do good, so you go home, practice, go out, and humiliate yourself
again. Every weekend, you’re just
filled with optimism, and have a plan,
and then come home Sunday night
deflated.”
But as he works on his new equine
pursuit, Hines has to remind himself
it’s not unlike his own rookie years
of rodeo. And even though he could
pass along what he learned from his
mistakes to his son and other aspiring
bronc riders in high school rodeo, he
saw that it just took time, dedication,
and try to develop the skills and mental toughness to excel.
Embarking on such a ride midway
through life, though, is a bigger challenge.
“I’ve had a few people come up and
congratulate me for entering, but
sometimes I feel more stupid than
gutsy. But you can learn so much
about horsemanship from the riders
in the sport, and they all help, if you
ask, and listen.”
Hines is becoming a fan favourite
Update on
Clayton’s family
Today, both Cory and Amber
Hines live in Olds, where
Amber is Sustainable Agriculture Specialist for Mountainview County and Cory is in his
fourth year of an instrumentation tech program. Susan
Hines enjoys riding the ‘quieter
ones’, as Clayton puts it, and
cools out his horses when he’s
competing.
“I wouldn’t be able to do it if
she wasn’t supporting me. And
every year, she hosts a Tammy
Pate horsemanship and yoga
clinic here.”
When he’s not riding or
training horses, Hines keeps
busy with his oilfield inspection
consulting business. While his
rodeo days are passed, Hines
remembers them fondly.
“One of the coolest things
for me was being inducted
into the Rodeo Hall of Fame,
because it was completely
unexpected.”
f you want to watch a
unique, one-of-a-kind event
in Canada, don’t miss Farmfair’s Team Roping Futurity held
in conjunction with the CFR and
Farmfair.
In a typical team roping competition the fastest time always
wins, but at the Farmfair futurity that isn’t the case. This futurity is a judged event, open for
horses aged four or five. Here
heading and heeling horses are
evaluated on their team roping
abilities, responsiveness, and
obedience.
Klay White will be competing
in heeling at this event, riding a
five-year-old red roan Quarter
Horse named Lobos Rollin Red.
White describes the horse as
quick, strong and having a big
stop. “Lobo is only about 14.1
HH,” White says. “But he’s a
thick little horse, and he’s doing
his job really well.”
This year will be White’s first
time competing in the futurity,
and his second time roping in
the CFR. Both events are important to White, but each requires
slightly different approaches.
“The futurity is judged completely on the horse, and not
on the rider’s skill,” White says.
“In the futurity we won’t rush
quite as much; I’ll try to ride him
smart and make clean runs.”
Lobo was purchased by
White’s father this year at Rory
Patton’s production sale, held at
Buck Lake, Alta.
Patton runs Patton Rope
Horses with the assistance of
his wife, son and daughter. “For
the last 25 years we’ve regularly
crossed the U.S. border and
shopped there for horses that
will work in our program,” Patton explains.
“Lobo might not
be a big horse,
but he’s built
like a little body
builder. He has a
big, massive hip,
and he’s got a
great stop.”
— Rory Patton
“We’ve developed quite a few
contacts in the States after all
these years, and they keep their
eyes open for suitable horses. We
look for horses with roping type
conformation, ideally that have
done ranch work before this.
We’ll ride them and try them out
there, and if they seem suitable,
they come home and go to work.
We’ll drag calves on them, and
do whatever it takes to get them
ready for their new jobs.”
“Lobo might not be a big
horse, but he’s built like a little
bodybuilder,” Patton says. “He
has a big, massive hip, and he’s
got a great stop. I wouldn’t be
surprised if Lobo does well at
the futurity; he’s just the type of
heeler I really like.”
While Lobo’s colour wasn’t a
major factor, Patton does admit
that unique colouring is an added
bonus that can increase the value
of an already good horse.
Patton competed in the first
team roping futurity held about
four years ago, winning the
heading portion. This year he
won’t be competing but two of
his roping sale horses will be at
the futurity.
“This is a great way to promote your horse,” Patton says.
“You can increase their value,
plus showcase your own horsemanship abilities.”
The Canadian National Team
Roping Futurity goes Thursday,
November 8 at Northlands.
on the reined cow horse trail, with his
colourful bronc riding style chaps, his
enthusiasm, and his always big grin.
And he enjoys the event because it
features the variety of disciplines.
“It takes a special horse to be able
to do the spins and sliding stops, then
be cowy, and able to cut. And it’s a fine
line as a rider between helping them
and getting in the way.”
“The only way I’d be better at this
is if I’d started as soon as I was done
rodeoing. But I had to raise my family. I had to take care of that first,”
he smiled.
Dianne Finstad has covered the sport
of rodeo and agriculture news for three
decades on radio, in television and
through print. She’s now enjoying the sky
view while working from home
near Red Deer.
Klay White’s Quarter Horse, Lobos Rollin Red excels at heeling, even though
he is only 14.1 hh. You can see him at the Canadian National Team Roping
Futurity in November at Northlands. photo: Rory Patton
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SPECIAL
FEATURE
Trainer’s Chall e n g e
Sibling Rivalry — a new twist on
trainer’s challenge at Farmfair
Renowned horseman Doug Mills and his family will also be giving advanced training clinics at Northlands in Edmonton
OUR WAY OF LIFE
Making a living with horses
By Amie Peck
A
ccomplished horseman Doug Mills travels the country
every year to teach his “Training Thru Trust” program
to riders. From November 5 - 11, Mills is bringing his
clinics and seminars to Edmonton’s Northlands, the site of
this year’s Farmfair.
“This is my first year running clinics at Farmfair,” explains
Mills. “I was there in the spring for the Northlands Farm and
Ranch show and just loved the atmosphere. Of course the thing
I enjoy the most is the people as the Canadian Finals Rodeo is
running at the same time, and rodeo is our roots. This year my
niece, Gaylene Buff has qualified in the barrel racing so we are
really excited to watch her runs.”
From Monday to Thursday, Mills will be teaching advanced
clinics, with all students being trainers and other high level performance riders. More than likely, a few of his children — all
horse trainers — will be in attendance.
“The advanced clinic will focus on roll backs, spins, and lead
changes as well as advanced collection. It will be entertaining to
watch and educational for all levels of riders,” says Mills.
Saturday and Sunday there is advanced liberty clinics, where
the horse is loose in a round pen while the trainer asks it to perform various exercises.
The Mills family, all heavily involved in the horse industry, will be
attending Farmfair to teach clinics and compete in a unique
trainer’s challenge.
“I hope what the audience is able to take away from any of my
clinics, is leadership,” comments Mills. “If you have leadership it
makes the biggest difference in your riding and simplifies everything you try to accomplish with your horse.”
An exciting addition to the program at Farmfair this year is
the Sibling Rivalry horse training competition. The event consists of three of the Mills’ children — Kyle, Kade and Kaylee —
competing against each other as they train two horses each.
The green horses will be drawn at the beginning of the competition but with one catch — each competitor will only ride
one horse in the finale, and they won’t know which one until the
night before.
“Kyle, Kade and Kaylee will have four days with a two hour
session each day to work their horses,” explains Doug. “They
have to prepare their two horses not knowing which one will
have to be ridden in the finale. Friday morning they will draw
the horse that they ride in the finale and have one last session
to prepare that horse. Friday night is the finals where really anything could happen.”
The youngest of the Mills children, Kelsey, will be master of
ceremonies for the competition, making it a true family affair.
Doug sees strengths in all of his children competing in the Sibling Rivalry challenge, although they all use his “Training Thru
Trust” method. The result is while there should be similarities in
the methods used, the temperament and reactions of the horse
will ultimately determine the time needed to create a foundation.
“Kyle’s greatest strength at starting horses is that he can always
land on his feet,” laughs Doug. “Kade has a real ability to gel with
any horse and Kaylee has great confidence.”
When asked if he would make any predictions on who might
win, Doug simply laughs. “Every one of them has a great chance
to win. It will come down to whoever’s horse is best on that day.”
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FEATURE
Greatest Horse m a n
One rider, one horse, one bit — four events
Top riders to compete for $30,000 and bragging rights at Canada’s Greatest Horseman
By Heather Grovet
Galahad, Alta.
“Nu Sign Cash is
very strong in the
fence work, and
he’s a great rope
horse as well. He’s
got lots of run, lots
of speed, and he
isn’t afraid to get
in there and stop a
cow.”
O
ne rider, one horse, one
bit, four events. This
describes Canada’s Greatest Horseman competition being
held during the CFR/Farmfair.
This competition pushes horse
and rider as they compete in
four separate disciplines — steer
stopping (where a steer is rated,
roped and stopped), herd work
(similar to cutting, with 2-1/2
minutes to cut your cow), reining (following a typical reining
pattern), and fence work (where
the horse and rider must box
a cow, run it down the wall and
then circle both ways).
The winner of Canada’s Greatest Horseman will be crowned
on Friday night after the scores
of all four events are combined,
with close to $30,000 in cash
and prizes being paid out.
One horseman who plans
to compete in Canada’s Greatest Horseman is Geoff Hoar, a
— Geoff Hoar
Geoff Hoar aboard Nu Cash Sign at a recent reining competition. photo: Natalie Jackman
cutting, cowhorse and roping
trainer from Innisfail, Alta.
“This is a really fun event,”
Hoar says. “I’ve competed in it
before, and appreciate the good
venue and the big audience. It’s
just a terrific place to bring good
horses and show how versatile
they are.”
Hoar plans to compete on Nu
Sign Cash, a nine-year-old Appaloosa gelding out of High Sign
Nugget.
“This horse has been shown
through all the levels; hackamore, snaffle bit and bridle,”
Hoar says. “We entered Canada’s
Greatest Horseman before, and
did well because he’s so versatile. He’s very strong in the fence
work, and he’s a great rope horse
as well. He’s got lots of run, lots
of speed, and he isn’t afraid to
get in there and stop a cow.”
Hoar also hopes to compete
on San Storm Chex, a 10-yearold Quarter Horse mare. “She’s
strong in all the events, too,”
Hoar says. “She’s done all the
hackamore, snaffle bit and bridle
classes, plus she’s competed in
rope horse futurities. It will be
fun to show her diversity.”
Horses of all breeds can compete at the event, but Hoar
expects the majority will be
Quarter Horses and Appaloosas.
“The skill set is very high at this
competition,” he says. “It isn’t
an event for everyone. Not every
person can do all four events,
least of all every horse!”
Careful preparation is key
to this competition, with most
horse and riders having years
of experience under their belts
before entering.
“It’s essential to prepare properly,” Hoar says. “When I get
there, I want to know that I’ve
done everything necessary. On
the other hand, there is also an
element of luck anytime you
work with cattle. If you draw a
tough cow it can ruin you, or you
can excel. You just don’t know
how it will go until you’re out
there.”
Hoar believes this competition
will be very popular with Farmfair spectators. “Some of Canada’s top horse and riders will be
there,” he said. “It’s quite a deal,
and certain to keep everyone
entertained.”
C a t c h C a n a d a ’s G r e a t e s t
Horseman at Farmfair at Northlands.
Nu Cash Sign chases down his cow on a 152 fence run with Geoff Hoar at the
Canadian Supreme. photo: Barbara Glazer
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Inside and Outside Your Stable
training
Moving
out
fast and slow, back and forth, right and left
Glenn Stewart explains his seven elements to progressively move your horse in different ways
GET A GRIP
Ask the trainers
By Glenn Stewart
Baldonnel, B.C.
W
henever I’m playing with
my horses, I try and be
very conscious of what is
working and what isn’t. Or what is
working a little and what is working
a lot.
It is easiest for the horse and the
human both to break everything
down into understandable, trainable portions. Separate the individual elements, get each working a
little, and then a lot so we can start
putting them together.
In this case, I’m referring to what
I call the seven elements — these
are what we need to have working
to move the horse or parts of the
horse, separately at first and then
many times together and at different speeds and gaits.
The 7 Elements are:
Lateral flexion — being able to
bend your horse’s neck left and
right both without the feet moving
and when you ask the feet to move,
on a straight line or on a circle.
Vertical flexion — being able to
ask for the horses nose to come in,
the neck to get round from the withers to the pole when you pick up the
reins, standing still or when moving.
Hindquarter control — Being
able to move the hindquarters
right or left separately from the
forequarters when standing still or
when moving.
Forequarter control — being
able to move the forequarters separately from the hind, standing still
or when moving.
Sideways — being able to move
the horse sideways in a straight line
as well as when moving forward.
Backwards — being able to ask a
horse to back up on a straight line,
in an arc, or a serpentine.
Forward — At one point I considered there to be only six elements
because I thought obviously all
horses go forward. Then I remembered all the people who, when they
ask their horse to go forward, the
horse kicks out, bucks or goes forward but barely.
These seven elements are the
first things I check out on a horse
when I get on. I want to know how
many of the elements work and
how well. The less they work or the
worse they work, the more I know I
won’t be able to do with that horse
and the worse the ride is going to be
at that point in time.
I check out the elements at first
standing in one spot and asking for
each element separately. This is the
easiest for the horse and rider to
manage but many horse and rider
teams are unable to do these seven
elements standing still with the use
of their reins.
When I say standing still I mean
they are not trying to accomplish
these things at a walk, trot, or canter. All these things should be able
to be done at all gaits and most
going backwards as well. If I can
manage the elements standing still,
then I want to know how many I
can ask for without the reins.
Next I want to know if I can ask
for them at the walk, then the trot
and finally the canter. For example,
can I ask for lateral flexion at each
gait and come to a stop, keep riding
straight ahead, or on a circle. So my
goal is to move from lateral flexion
at the standstill to possibly cantering on a circle and being able to
ask for right or left flexion without
interfering with the canter.
“The bare minimum
from a safety
perspective is to
have the seven
elements working
at a standstill.
Then as many as
possible at the
walk and trot.”
– Glenn Stewart
If these elements work at all gaits
separately, then it is time to see if
any two, three, or four of these elements can work together at the
same time with or without reins.
Here is an example of a horse in
motion with five of those elements
combined:
1.Cantering on a right lead
(forward),
2.Lateral flexion to the right,
3.Vertical flexion, nose in,
neck and back rounded,
4.Half passing right (sideways),
5.Hindquarters leading.
What you would be looking at or
asking for is a horse that is cantering forward and sideways with a
bend in the neck to the right, head
in, neck round, and the hip a bit
ahead of the shoulder.
Much more difficult or advanced
would be able to do that same picture without reins or head gear
of any kind. The sky is the limit as
they say with what we can do with
our horses and how much we want
to know and be able to do with our
horse.
Once you’ve mastered the seven elements standing still, try to incorporate them at different gaits, and eventually
combine two or more together. photos: Dixie Stewart
The bare minimum from a safety perspective is to have the seven elements
working at a stand still. Then as many as
possible at the walk and trot.
The faster you want to ride, the more
of these elements should be working,
and if they all work well at any gait you
will have safe enjoyable rides and be able
to do most anything you would like with
your horse.
It’s important says Glenn Stewart that your horse
know the seven elements, including lateral
flexion shown here.
Glenn Stewart travels extensively conducting
clinics, demonstrations, and colt starting
sessions. He rides 30-60 client horses per year,
including young horses, restarts, challenging
horses, and foundation training. More
information by calling 1 877 728 8987 or
visiting www.thehorseranch.com
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H
ORSE, HEALTH & HOME
Horse selection
Looking for a mountain horse?
Terri McKinney isn’t too concerned about colour and papers — she’s looking for something more
BACKCOUNTRY TRAVELS
Trail riding tips and information
By Terri McKinney
H
Wild Deuce starts their horses in the round pen, then used as a pack horse, and
eventually as a riding horse. photo: submitted
owdy folks. Well the winter
is starting to sweep in and
we can reflect back on the
mountain moments we had this
summer.
Through the years we were asked
“what do you look for in a mountain horse?” This is the time of year
I start looking around for horses so
thought I would share the things I
look for when shopping to help you
if you’re looking.
After our September Mountain
Horse sale, we need to get a few more
good mounts to train up through the
winter and put them in the summer
season for our guests if they are ready.
If they pass all of the tests, they then
go in to our sale, with around 1,500
mountain miles and training.
With that said, what should
you look for in buying a mountain
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horse? Mountain horse being a
general term as I feel what you can
do in the mountains you can do
anywhere. Mountains and miles
make horses, but first you have to
find the horse to make.
The No. 1 thing I want in a
mountain partner is a good mind
— without a mind you are putting
yourself in danger. Life out west is
not a controlled area and wrecks
happen. If you have a thinking
horse you will fare better than a
high-spirited knothead.
Along with the mind, a big heart
with try is huge when riding long
days, steep inclines and not in the
best weather. Next I look over the
body, and a whither is a must for
both packing and riding. If a horse
is mutton withered, your pack will
continue to slip and, when riding,
your saddle can keep shifting and
make sore spots.
Well-muscled and good bone
is extremely important because
you need a horse that can handle
the weight of all your gear. Folks
don’t realize how much everything
weighs once you get your saddle,
slicker, full saddle bags, saw, and
gun on. Having a solid mount will
not weaken on you for the long haul.
A good foot is so very important
— a size one and up should be your
minimum. Black feet are harder
and stand up to all the rock.
We buy four year olds and older
because there brain is not ready till
four and their bodies are not ready
for the mountain miles.
The breeds that seem to work
for us have been quarter horses or a
draft cross. We don’t mind mares or
geldings. If we have an aggressive
gelding or cranky mare, they are sold.
A minimum 15 hands and an easy
keeper is a must for the miles and
sometimes lack of high quality feed.
Colour, papers, gorgeous heads
are not in our checklists because
bears don’t care about that!!
When the horse seems to have
everything on your checklist, then
ask the owner lots of questions.
I only buy privately so I have time
with the owner to ask the questions and meet the owner. Here’s
some questions to ask:
• How many honest hours have
you been on your horse? (this
will give you an idea how much
work you have in front of you)
• Where were they rode — inside
or out? (if a horse is rode only
inside, you will have some issues
when riding outside, something
to consider)
• Do they have more whoa or
go? (for our dude horses, we like
horses with more whoa. Something in the middle is okay too
for an all around horse. Horses
with lots of go don’t work in
the mountains as they tend to
prance and waste energy. They
also sore the rider when going
eight hours a day)
• Where do they rank in the
herd? (This is important because
the top horse in the herd we find
become performance horses and
can cause problems in our herd if
you get too many top aggressive
horses. Horses near the bottom
are easy going horses and are
great for our lifestyle).
• When were they started? (I
want a horse started when they
are four for a lifetime of healthy
joints, bone and muscle)
• Vices? (Very very rare that a
horse doesn’t have a vice or
quirk).
Once I have asked the questions, I go watch the owner. I ask
them not to catch the horse ahead
of time so I can watch the whole
procedure from catching to riding.
In our program we want a horse to
be able to be able to pack, ride and
hopefully drive.
Read the seller (tone of their
voice, eye contact, body language)
and go with your gut. Don’t buy
out of desperation, and stick to
your checklist and budget. Do
your homework, try the horse, and
happy horse hunting! Remember
you’re the one with the cheque
book!
See you next time and may your
trails be clear, your pack string
safe, and your camp just around
the corner.
Terri McKinney outfits with her husband
Chuck & their daughter south west of
Rocky Mountain House Alberta in the
Bighorn Backcountry. They teach clinic’s,
do packing demo’s, train horses in the
mountains, offer trail rides and pack
trips. Check them at www.wilddeuce.com
or email [email protected] or
call Terri at 780-679-8451.
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Terri and Chuck McKinney look for a good mind and withers, solid bone and muscle
structure, and big black feet for their mountain horses. Color and papers aren’t
important to them.
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H
ORSE, HEALTH & HOME
Poisoning
Monensin can be lethal to horses
Absorption can be blocked once discovered but long-term effects can continue
HORSE HEALTH
Expert advice
By Dr. Carol Shwetz
Westlock, Alta
M
onensin, also known
under its trade name,
Rumensin, is extremely
toxic to horses. It is one of the most
common accidental poisonings in
horses, and yet often goes unrecognized.
Farm animals such as horses,
cows, chickens, and pigs can and
commonly do share similar feeds.
However it is extremely important that horse owners are aware
that feeds intended for promoting growth in cattle, chickens, and
swine may contain ingredients fatal
to horses.
Many modern livestock feedstuffs contain ionophores, feed
additives used to enhance feed efficiency, promote growth, and control coccidiosis, a protozoan parasite, in cattle, swine and poultry.
Monensin is the most familiar
ionophore. Others include lasalocid (Bovatec), an anti-bloat agent;
Horses working in feedlots are particularly prone to eating feed with ionophore
supplements. photo: submitted
salinomycin, narasin, maduramicin, laidlomycin and semduramicin.
The concentrated product is rarely
found on the farm. It is more commonly available as a premix or in
pelleted feeds. Ionophores can also
be found in molasses-based mineral blocks for ruminants.
Horses are much more sensitive
to ionophore toxicity than other
species, yet the exact reason is not
well understood. Any exposure to
monensin is cause for concern, as
horses are nearly 20 times more
sensitive than cattle and 200 times
more susceptible than poultry on a
mg per kg body weight basis.
A common case of this poisoning
is seen in horses used to work feedlots, who have been poisoned by
consuming cattle feed containing
monensin.
Ionophores disrupt the normal
flux of ions, particularly sodium
and potassium, across the cell
membrane. This leads to failure of
the mitochondria, which is the part
of the cell responsible for energy
production.
Therefore, the highly energetic
tissues of the body such as the
heart and skeletal muscles are primarily affected with intoxication.
Ingestion of sublethal doses
results in structural damage to the
heart as damaged heart muscles are
replaced by fibrous tissue during
the healing process. More severe
intoxication ultimately leads to
death of the heart muscles.
Clinical symptoms following
ingestion of monensin are dose
dependent and individual horse
dependent. Affected horses may
just look like a severe colic with
their heart rate consistently double or triple normal rhythm and
breathing laboured.
Symptoms are progressive and
include reluctance to eat, abdominal pain, sweating, excessive urination, and an unsteadiness of foot.
Following the initial episode of
illness, horses have a guarded prog-
nosis, often exhibiting signs of congestive heart failure. Sudden deaths
are common weeks to months following exposure. Symptoms of
monensin intoxication are often
non-specific, making it difficult for
veterinarians and horse owners to
confirm the problem.
Once exposure has been discovered, veterinarians will initiate
symptomatic and supportive care.
Products such as activated charcoal
or clays may be used to block further absorption, however there is
no antidote for the monensin poisoning that already occurred.
Some horses might die regardless of treatment, others might
recover over days, weeks or
months. Of those that survive,
some develop irreparable heart
damage and so never fully recover.
Knowing the devastating effects
ionophores can have on your horse
makes it obvious that prevention
is of key importance. Accidental
ingestion of ill-fated feeds must be
avoided.
Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian
specializing in equine practice at
Westlock, Alta.
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ORSE, HEALTH & HOME
Jealousy
Green with envy sucks you dry
Psychologist April Clay shows how to turn jealousy into a powerful competitive tool
RIDING OUT OF MY MIND
Equestrian sport psychology
By April Clay, Psychologist
Calgary, Alta.
R
iding can be a tough sport. It
takes a big time commitment
to be successful, and it takes
a certain amount of money as well.
So it’s no surprise that the proverbial
green-eyed monster can make an
appearance or two in the course of
your riding career.
You might be envious of some of
your fellow riders. You know, the ones
with the expensive mounts, endless
training time and access to the best
coaches.
In a sport environment, the consequences of jealousy can be quite
costly. Every time you have a jealous
thought, you are breaking your focus.
You are giving away energy to another
competitor and thereby strengthening their advantage. Doesn’t sound
too appetizing does it? Even if you are
prone to jealous thoughts, you can
learn to tame the monster. It doesn’t
have to run your life or your sport.
Identify your hot
thoughts
Chances are there will be a certain
object or objects of your jealous
thoughts. Even more certain, there
will be identifiable dialogue that goes
with your shades of green. Chris,
a hardworking junior competitor,
often suffered from strong feelings
of jealousy toward several fellow riders he barely knew.
“Every time I saw them, all I could
think about was how they had it so
much better than me. Their horses
were from Europe, only the best.
Already trained. And here I was
working my butt off on green horses
that weren’t ready to do those same
divisions, even though I could do
them as a rider. I was just so mad
that I didn’t have a horse that could
take me where I wanted to go.”
Chris’ jealousy often manifested
in bouts of anger which frustrated
his coach and sometimes scared his
horses. He needed to get his emotional reaction under control before
it threatened his career. Chris was
able to identify several “hot thoughts”
which got his emotions rolling:
• They are going to get ahead and I’m not
• I won’t ever be able to ride in the
divisions I want
• It’s not fair they have all the
advantages
• I might as well give up, it’s useless
The more Chris repeated these
statements to himself like a cruel
mantra, the more helpless he felt.
He soon began to realize that he was
feeling insecure and scared about
not meeting goals that were very
important to him. He loved to ride,
and at home in training felt very
competent. But the minute he went
into a competitive environment he
felt as though he was shrinking and
his efforts were useless.
It was a big step for Chris to
acknowledge that it was his own fear
that was holding him back. Once he
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In a sport environment, jealousy breaks your focus and can prove quite costly to
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identified the threat, he summed it
up like this: “I am scared that without some of the advantages other
riders have, I won’t be able to make
it in the horse business.” With this
truth out in the open, he was then
able to begin to identify what he
could do with this insecurity. This led
him to identify some “cool thoughts”
that he could anchor himself in when
he felt the pangs begin.
Cool thinking
Cool thoughts are those that
re-establish your equilibrium. They
balance your perspective and enable
you to get back to business. As an
added bonus, they help you feel
better about yourself. We all know
that green is not the most flattering
of inner colours. It can leave you
feeling ashamed after the fact.
In order to arrive at a cool mindset,
you’ll have to begin to challenge your
existing inner chatter. For Chris, he
had to acknowledge the flaws in his
current thought patterns:
• They are going to get ahead and I’m not
I don’t know this for sure, I am just
assuming they will because I want
what they have.
• I won’t ever be able to ride in the
divisions I want
Not true. It will likely just be on a
different timetable than some of my
competitors.
• It’s not fair they have all the
advantages
They have some advantages, so do I. They don’t own every single one!
• I might as well give up, it’s useless
I don’t want to give up; I want to come
up with a plan to feel and ride better.
The next time he faced a competitive situation, Chris was ready
with some key thoughts that could
redirect his focus. He added to this
a visual image. Each time he felt his
thoughts drift toward his competitors, he saw a ball bouncing off their
heads and returning to him. It was a
way of reminding himself to keep his
energy for himself. He was not about
to just give away his focus so someone else could reap the benefits.
He even made a game out of seeing how many times he could successfully catch that ball and hang on
to it. When he got his “ball” back, he
would then say to himself “ride the
horse and the plan you’ve got.” It
was his way of reminding himself to
stay on track and not compare his
riding career with others. His own
experience was his own, and the
more he stayed focused on it, the
more he could make it into something great.
Identify your own
advantages
Chris was beginning to realize he had
a choice. To continue to be jealous of
what other kids had and he didn’t,
or use that energy to get to work.
He began to wonder if he could see
this as a challenge, and actually create an advantage out of a disadvantage. When you drop the idea of how
things should be, and stop comparing yourself with others, you come
face to face with “what is.”
The thing about the comparing
trap is that there is no end to it —
you could always find someone who
has it better. Some people never
stop searching, and never stop torturing themselves with how hard
done by they feel. In fact, for some
it can become a convenient excuse
not to try. That’s why “what is” is
such a perfect place to start from
in realigning your thinking. It represents the reality of where you are
right now with your riding, and also
encourages you to honour where
you are instead of diminishing it.
When Chris examined his own situation, he discovered maybe his reality was not so bad after all. “I thought
they had everything and I had nothing, but I had things they might well
have been jealous of me for.” He realized he had the experience of training horses, and this enabled him to
develop skill in reading his different
mounts. That riding in the “lower”
divisions made him focus on aspects
of his riding that others might well
take for granted. He could really use
these years of riding young horses
to perfect and refine his style and be
patient for the right opportunity and
horse to come along.
Chris also challenged the notion
that he had to make enemies out
of his competitors and see them as
different. You don’t need to alienate
yourself from your competition in
order to beat them in the showring.
So, he got to know some of these
people he had been so jealous of,
and that helped him relax more at
horse shows and enjoy himself.
Perhaps the biggest belief Chris
challenged is one you could consider
for yourself: life is not always fair. If
you deny this, you run the risk of getting stuck in your anger and frustration because you don’t like the way
things are. If you accept it, it won’t
come as a surprise when an unfair
circumstance comes to your attention. You’ll be one step closer to getting through or around it.
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RESEARCH
Remote-controlled car substitutes for trainer
Australian scientists test round pen “join up” methods with toy car
simple negative reinforcement, she
said.
Henshall and her Italian coresearcher Barbara Padalino, PhD,
of the University of Bari Veterinary
School, taught 11 horses and ponies
to follow a remote-controlled car.
Once the horses were following the car, Henshall applied an
adapted join-up technique with
the car in the place of the human.
The horses heard a warning signal
(an electronic tone) for 10 seconds,
and then the car began to chase
the horses around the pen, which
caused them to react with a flight
response.
If the horse stopped and turned
to face the car (“avoidance” instead
of “flight”), then the car would stop,
and so would the warning signal.
They would hear a different sound
instead — what the researchers
referred to as a “safety” signal.
But if the horse moved away
again, then the car and warning
signal would start up again. These
training sessions would last for a
maximum of 90 seconds, Henshall
said.
Nine of the 11 horses learned to
react with “avoidance” within four
sessions, and three of them would
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even approach the car while the
safety signal was sounding, Henshall said.
But training was often associated
with “strong” or even “aggressive”
behaviours, Henshall said. “The
horses who weren’t scared of the car
would frequently kick out at it and
some even stomped on the car,” she
said, adding that four cars had to be
used during the experiment due to
damage by the horses.
“We believe the results of this
research suggest that round pen
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“People would just say, ‘Put it
in a round pen and chase it,’ and I
struggled with the ethics of this,”
she said.
Even so, she defended her study
as being a step towards improved
care for horses.
“I certainly felt the ethical
dilemma of deliberately frightening these horses, but that’s the reality of what is going on in round pens
around the world,” she said. “If it
means that people either chase their
horses less or think more clearly
about what they’re doing so as to
minimize that flight response, then
this experiment will have ultimately
resulted in better welfare for animals.”
ISES President Andrew McLean,
PhD, BSc, equitation scientist and
manager of the Australian Equine
Behavior Centre in Broadford, Victoria, cautioned that Henshall’s study
was not an attack on “join-up” or
any other round-pen training techniques. “It just shows, though, how
science can really illuminate the real
causes of behaviours when they otherwise might delude us,” he said.
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training may rely on the offset of
states of fear, anxiety, or fatigue
to reinforce the target behaviour
of approaching and following the
trainer,” Henshall wrote in the comment of her YouTube video illustraing the study.
Henshall described her motivation as coming from her frequent
observation of American horse training forums on the Internet, where
she would very often see round
pen training suggested as a way to
resolve problems with horses.
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ound pen training isn’t only
effective with humans being
the ones working the horses.
According to Australian equitation
scientists, even a remote-controlled
car can create the same reactions in
horses.
“Round pen training is said to
rely on a human’s ability to mimic
another horse through the trainer’s
body language, but our research
suggests that this may not be true,”
said Cathrynne Henshall, MSc candidate and professional trainer,
under the supervision of Paul
McGreevy, PhD, both researchers at
the University of Sydney.
“We were able to get similar
results from an inanimate object —
a toy car — which indicates that this
training result relies on applying an
aversive stimulus which elicits fear,
and then rewarding horses by turning off the frightening stimulus.”
Henshall presented the results of
her study at the 8th International
Society for Equitation Science
(ISES) conference, held July 18-20
in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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HAPPENINGS
Events and News of Note
TRAIL RIDES
Darley Newman is in fine Welsh ‘spirits’
on her Welsh Cob with guide Sian in
the Brecon Beacons National Park in
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WELSH
BEER
— and —
WELSH
PONIES
Darley Newman explores
Brecon Beacons
National Park… and
the occasional pub
By Darley Newman
Bethesda, Maryland
T
he remote Brecon Beacons
National Park in South
Wales is a great place to
explore on horseback. Named after
brecons (fires lit on high points in
this area to alert the Welsh of English invaders), this mountainous
park has been awarded the British
Horse Society Access Award for the
National Park most active in opening up equestrian routes. It’s also
absolutely beautiful with that picturesque patchwork countryside
that I imagined I’d find in the British
Isles.
I trekked out to explore the wide
open spaces of the Brecon Beacons
with Sian of Tregoyd Mountain Riders, a local stable with direct access
onto the Black Mountains near Hay
on Wye. My very reliable, pretty
much bombproof horse named Burgess, a Welsh Cob, led me through
lush, green, hilly countryside. I was
in a true storybook riding setting!
We had a lot of chances to canter
and ride fast, which made it fun. Up
in the high Commons there is a huge
flat, grassy area that is great for gallops. It’s here that the short, grassy
footing gave me confidence to race a
bit with Sian.
On the way, we passed some feral
Welsh Mountain ponies grazing in
the moorland. There were a few cute
foals and the ponies were not skittish about us riding around them.
Though the weather can be harsh in
the Brecon Beacons, we had beautiful sunny skies on our first day’s
ride.
We let our horses have a break
and had a picnic lunch by a natural
spring. Waterfalls abound in the
Brecon Beacons, making plenty of
nice spots to rest along your ride.
Lunch, even a simple sandwich,
tastes especially good after time on
the trails!
We then climbed up to a spot
where we were able to have ice
cream and take in the views. No
joke. In a nearby parking lot a ways
down from where we were riding,
there happened to be an ice cream
truck. I guess he knew there’d be a
good number of people enjoying the
park on this sunny day.
I could almost hear music as
my Welsh guide Sian led me up
the locally named “Gospel Path,”
a forested dirt trail well trod by
generations of area churchgoers.
We’d passed through soft, grassy
moorland, by idyllic waterfalls and
streams amid truly awesome scenery. Burgess seemed to be having
just as much fun as I was exploring
the countryside of Wales. We rode
fast again past more sheep towards
a hill called Twmpa or otherwise
known locally as Lord Hereford’s
Knob.
The landscapes are pretty, but it’s
the seemingly endless expanses that
are most attractive for equestrians
who ride here.
While in the area, I stayed in a
horse friendly B&B, which gave
Three Horseshoes Pub — an early version of the “drive-in” restaurant.
me comfortable accommodations
at night and the ability to ride out
from the stables on a different route
each day. On one special ride, Sian
led me down into her tiny village
to the Three Horseshoes Pub. We
parked our horses outside and were
able to sit at a table beside them. We
ate toasted ham and cheese with
“chips,” what we call fries in North
America, and I drank a Coke.
As normal as this pub trek was
for Sian, who frequents the Three
Horseshoes on horseback, it was
quite the adventure for me. I relished in eating by my horse at a
neighborhood pub in Wales and
feeling like I was truly a local equestrian exploring the Brecon Beacons
in Wales.
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APPENINGS
Agribition
Agribition showcases
top horse events
Well-known cattle and agriculture show also features CCA rodeo finals,
ranch horse competition/sale, team penning, and more
GOING DOWN THE TRAIL
Places and events of interest
N
ot only has Agribition
become one of the finest cattle shows in North America,
it has evolved to be home of some of
North America’s finest rodeo action as
well.
Each year, Agribition hosts the
Canadian Cowboys’ Association
Finals Rodeo — the biggest, most
exciting and most prestigious semipro rodeo competition in the country.
“The rodeo athletes who come to
Regina are the best of the best. Over
the course of the year, they compete
in over 60 rodeos with the top 11
competitors from each event making
it to the Canadian Cowboys’ Association Finals Rodeo,” said Marty Seymour, CEO of Agribition. The Canadian Cowboys’ Association has come a long way since its
early days in the 1960s. Carl Barrett
was in the room the day the association was formed. “It all started by
a storekeeper who had an interest in
the sport. He wasn’t even an active
participant; he just wanted to see
something get started,” Barrett said.
Today the association has over 700
members who annually compete for
a million dollars in cash and prizes,
with prizes at this year’s Agribition
expected to top $125,000.
Barrett notes that “in the early
days, we were all real cowboys; that is,
most competitors had regular jobs in
the cattle industry. Today, you could
find anyone from a school teacher to a
lawyer involved in the sport.”
That’s not to say the association
has lost touch with its agricultural
roots. The McDermits from Southey,
Saskatchewan are a farm family whose children have become avid
rodeo competitors. Their son Kyrell
and daughters Shayana and Shalayne
have grown up around horses and
cattle and have developed a passion
for competitive rodeo.
Like any major sport, rodeo
requires dedication and discipline.
Mother Tamara McDermit says the
family can travel as much as 2,000
kilometres in a weekend.
“The kids have had to get used to a
life of sleeping and doing their homework in the vehicle,” Tamara says.
“We travel all over North America and
meet all sorts of great people from as
far away as Australia. It’s our rodeo
family — that’s what it’s all about.”
The Canadian Cowboys’ Association Finals Rodeo runs November 20
- 24 at 7 p.m. in the Brandt Centre.
Canadian Western Agribition
is also pleased to once again invite
guests to the Brandt Centre to witness a wide range of equestrian events
showcased throughout the week. Each year Agribition plays host to
one of the nation’s most respected
forums for ranch horses — Canada’s
Premier Select Ranch Horse Competition and Sale on November 23. This
premier event sets the standard for
equine excellence in Canada.
Trainers have the opportunity
to show the skill and athleticism of
their animals at the competition.
Horses are judged on their ability to perform a set pattern as well
as working cattle within a set time
frame. The stakes are high in this
prestigious event — the 2012 prize
pool will total $10,000.
The competition gives spectators a
chance to witness the skills of some of
Canada’s finest working horses. The
sale provides an important marketplace for ranchers looking to acquire a
new four-legged assistant.
Other equestrian events include
the Agribition High School Rodeo,
Canadian Horse Pull Finals, and Team
Cattle Penning.
For more information on Agribition, go to www.agribition.com. Tickets are available online at www.ticketmaster.ca and at the Brandt Centre
Box Office.
A working cowboy puts his horse through the paces at last year’s Premier Select
Ranch Horse Competition and Sale. Many of the horses that compete are later
offered in the sale. photo: submitted
PRESENTS
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
2012 CPRA YEAR END
WINNERS & CFR QUALIFIERS
• 2012 Saddle Bronc of the Year is
Wayne Vold’s Pedro
• 2012 Bareback Horse of the Year is
Calgary Stampede’s, Special Delivery
• 2012 Bull of the Year is Kesler Rodeo
Company’s
• 2012 Stock Contractor of the Year
The Calgary Stampede
• 2012 Tie Down Horse of the Year Pincher owned by Chad Johnson;
• SteerWrestling Horse of the Year –
Pistol - owned by Clayton Moore;
• Barrel Horse with the Most Heart –
Mooney -owned by Cranna Roberts;
• Team Roping Head Horse of the Year Stetson - owned by Levi Simpson
• Team Roping Healing Horse of the Year Dunny - owned by Rocky Ross.
CONTRACT ACT OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
• Comedy Act Crash Cooper
• Dress Act Niki Flundra
• Rodeo Announcer, Brett Gardiner
• Committee of the Year awards went to
Ponoka, Alberta (large event), La Crete,
Alberta (medium event), Maple Creek,
Saskatchewan (small event).
• Most improved ground honors (determined
by the barrel racers) went to La Crete,
Alberta (large), Maple Creek,
Saskatchewan (medium) and Dawson
Creek, British Columbia (small).
2012 CANADIAN FINALS RODEO PERSONNEL
• Pick-Up men Gary Rempel & Jason Resch
• Bull fighting Scott Byrne and Jesse Byrne
• Brett Monea as alternate Maxine Baird and
Brenda Vold
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$28,839.68
$26,499.60
$26,158.62
$24,968.55
$24,704.45
$22,009.02
$21,981.33
$20,865.11
$20,274.59
TIE-DOWN ROPING
1 HANCHEY SHANE (16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 COOPER CLIF (15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 PEEK JOSHUA (18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 HOFER LOGAN (30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 JOHNSON CHAD (42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7 ROBINSON CLINT (22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8 VEST STETSON (24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9 POLE MURRAY (37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10 BOUCHARD ALWIN (40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11 DEPAOLI STEELE (43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12 CASSIDY CURTIS (37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$36,042.84
$26,862.22
$17,715.43
$15,872.55
$15,800.77
$15,288.83
$15,166.80
$14,996.12
$13,699.09
$13,626.86
$13,204.30
STEER WRESTLING
1 CASSIDY CODY (36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 MILAN TANNER (28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 REEVES MATT (16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 FLOYD CHASON (20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 HAYS JD (43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 HANKEL ZANE (43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7 MOORE CLAYTON (26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8 KOHORST COLEMAN (31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9 REAY TRAVIS (42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10 SMITH WYATT (18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11 PUGH TRYGVE (43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12 MILAN BAILLIE (42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$20,915.37
$20,803.33
$17,392.72
$16,111.65
$16,111.51
$16,045.04
$15,231.85
$14,897.86
$14,716.07
$13,869.16
$13,749.75
$12,854.25
LADIES BARREL RACING
1 PIERCE CARLEE RAE (15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 RUST LEE ANN (20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 ROBERTS CRANNA (38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 LOCKHART LISA (18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 MCKENZIE RYLEE (36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 CHURCHILL TRULA (23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7 MAYS BRENDA (15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8 SEARS LINDSAY (19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9 BUFF GAYLENE (31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10 CSABAY NANCY (33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11 HANSEN ADEL (35). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12 MATHER STEFFANIE (39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$32,382.96
$27,018.59
$25,620.04
$17,168.64
$15,149.16
$14,796.66
$14,339.33
$13,700.06
$13,042.51
$12,336.47
$11,712.70
$11,106.82
TR HEADER
1 BIRD DUSTIN (15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,101.44
2 MCFADDEN ROLAND (36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,446.43
3 SIMPSON LEVI (33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,067.33
4 CRAWFORD CHARLY (11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,964.83
5 BUHLER CLINT (33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,161.59
6 ULLERY CLAY (34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,964.53
7 ROBSON JEFF (38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,591.45
8 MADDOX CLINT (40). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,668.86
9 DEPAOLI STEELE (41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,158.79
10 SIMPSON CHASE (40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,743.82
11 DODDS JORDAN (41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,675.35
12 LILLICO MARTY (37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,604.77
TR HEELER
1 EAVES PAUL (15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,657.72
2 ROBERTSON JOHN (33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,067.32
3 DALLYN ROCKY (31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,625.98
4 BUHLER JEREMY (35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,027.03
5 COOPER JIM ROSS (11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,964.84
6 WHYTE KLAY (38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,591.43
7 JOHNSON CHAD (39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,790.55
8 BOOTH TRAVIS (40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,668.85
9 RICHARD RHEN (17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,434.85
10 WILSON RILEY (31). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,197.79
11 SCHREINER KEVIN (39). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,755.05
12 RUTHERFORD SPENCER (39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,743.80
NOVICE SADDLE BRONC
1 GREEN LAYTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,389.49
2 NEELY COLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,212.55
3 ELLIOTT CLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,338.62
NOVICE BAREBACK
1 BILTON DYLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,355.93
2 LAMB KODY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,335.97
3 STEMO JACOB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,840.23
STEER RIDING
1 SCHMIDT KAGEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 SMELTZER GRIFFIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 FUCHS GUNNAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 BIEVER LOGAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 THOMSON K’S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 AYKROYD COLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$6,647.89
$5,438.08
$4,969.00
$4,839.65
$2,991.24
$2,562.26
ALL-AROUND
1 THOMSON KYLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,228.44
HIGH POINT
1 PEEK JOSHUA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $30,303.22
PERMIT
1 MARSHALL KY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,235.65
ROOKIE
1 FLOYD CHASON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,111.65
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years. During this time he attended
clinics, watched videos, worked
with several trainers, and developed
an outstanding feel for horses.
Pasture work taught Dale many
details regarding working and handling cattle, and he began training
ranch horses as well as competing
in ranch horse and working cow
horse competitions.
Dale has won and placed in several
national and provincial competitions,
and hosts cow horse clinics, cutting
horse clinics and trains horses.
In 2011 Dale was a top 30 money
earning rider in the National
Reined Cow Horse Association.
Dale’s 2012 achievements include:
2012 ARCHA Cowtown Open Derby
Champion, 2012 SCHA 4 yr Derby
Cutting Champion, 2012 ARCHA
Open Derby Champion, 2012
SRCHA Open Derby Champion and
Reserve Champion, 2012 SRCHA
Open Futurity Champion and
Reserve Champion, 2012 Canadian
Supreme Open Derby Cutting Finalist, 2012 Canadian Supreme Open
Classic Challenge Cutting Finalist,
2012 Canadian Supreme Open Cow
Horse Derby Reserve Champion, and
2012 Canadian Supreme Open Cow
Horse Futurity Reserve Champion.
Along with the
Trainer Challenge,
the 2013
Saskatchewan
Equine Expo will
feature Canada’s
Ultimate Cow
Horse Competition
(new for 2013)
Dale and his wife, Teri and their
two sons, Caleb and Westin live and
operate their ranch and training centre at Hanley, Sask. Visit his website
at www.justaboutaranch.com.
Along with the Trainer Challenge, the 2013 Saskatchewan
Equine Expo will feature: Canada’s
Ultimate Cow Horse Competition
(NEW for 2013), Equine Extravaganza, Seminars, Demonstrations,
a large industry trade show, and featured clinicians.
Come celebrate the diversity
of the equine industry at the 2nd
annual Saskatchewan Equine Expo
February 15 - 17 at Saskatoon Prairieland Park.
For further information on Saskatchewan Equine Expo, visit their
website www.saskatchewanequineexpo.com or call the Agriculture
Department at Prairieland Park
(306) 931-7149.
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conference
Temple Grandin featured speaker at conference
31st Annual Horse Breeders and Owners Conference coming to Red Deer in January
By Robyn Moore
T
he Horse Breeders and Owners Conference is celebrating
its 31st anniversary this January 11 - 13 at the Sheraton Hotel (formerly the Capri) in Red Deer, Alberta.
The conference starts on January
11th with an “Open Barn” reception in the Exhibit Hall at 7 p.m. The
reception is free for anyone to attend
and look around the equine trade
show, which boasts over 60 sponsor
booths.
Frank Merrill will kick off Saturday
morning’s session at 8:40 a.m. He has
been involved in the horse industry
for over 50 years. Along with his wife,
Robin, the Merrill’s operated a commercial breeding farm, Windward
Stud Ltd., in Purcell, Oklahoma for
40 years until selling the business to
the Cowan family of Havre, Montana
in October of 2006. Currently, Merrill serves as co-CEO of Cowan Select
Horses LLC at Windward Stud Ltd.
He has bred, owned and raised
champion American Quarter Horses
that have won honours in racing,
cutting, reining, reined cowhorse,
roping, and halter events. Merrill’s
mare Holme Maid ran third in the
1978 All American Futurity. Frank
also owned and exhibited two AQHA
Hall of Fame horses, Miss Jim 45
and Royal Santana.
In addition, Frank has owned,
managed, or syndicated over 95
stallions and bred and cared for
over 25,000 mares. He has acted as
agent for sales of countless numbers of horses, representing many
of the leading breeders and owners
in the horse industry. Frank is an
active non-pro competitor with over
$440,000 in lifetime earnings in
NCHA cutting events.
Australian Dan James has travelled the world to gain knowledge and
experience working with horses. He
travelled to Hokkaido Japan where
he spent several months breaking
horses, then to Celina, Texas, U.S.
working for renowned cutting trainer
Punk Carter. On returning to Australia, Dan then spent six years working
on a 1.5-million acre cattle station in
WA — Liveringa Station. It is here
that Dan was responsible for the
breeding, breaking and general maintenance of up to 200 horses on the
station. The entertainment shows
and liberty clinics that Dan now conducts all started as a bit of fun entertaining guests on that ranch. He was
a member of Team Australia that won
the 2012 Road to the Horse.
Saturday evening provides a
chance to network and socialize with
wine, dessert and live entertainment.
The conference continues until
Sunday afternoon, which closes with
the Fred Pearce Memorial Lecture
given this year by Dr. Temple Grandin.
Dr. Grandin is an American doctor of animal science and professor at
Colorado State University, bestselling
author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behaviour.
As a person with high-functioning
autism, Grandin is also noted for her
work in autism advocacy and is the
inventor of the squeeze machine,
designed to calm hypersensitive people. The subject of an award-winning
American Frank Merrill is well-known
in the Quarter Horse, racing, cutting,
roping, and cowhorse disciplines. photo: submitted
biographical film, Temple Grandin, in
2010, she was listed in the Time 100
list of the 100 most influential people
in the world in the Heroes category.
Internationally recognized speakers are coming in from all over Canada and the United States:
• Dr. Bob Coleman — Is my Horse
too Fat? and Managing Horses on
Pasture
• Dr. Temple Grandin —
Understanding Horse Behaviour
• Frank Merrill — Preserving and
Perpetuating the Future of the
Equine Industry
• Dr. Peter W. Physick-Sheard —
Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances in
Horses
• Dr. Joe Bertone — Equine
Sleep and Recumbent Sleep
Deprivation in Horses
• Christy Landwehr — Marketing
the Equine Business
• Dr. Matt Randall — Alternative
Therapies as Adjuncts to
Traditional Medicine
• Dr. Sharon Spier — Genetic
Implications of Cloning
• Dr. Saundra TenBroeck —
Maximizing the Financial Return
from Broodmares
• Dr. Michel Levy — Is my
Horse Lame or is it Neurologic:
Recognizing the Early Signs of
Neurologic Diseases
• Dr. Stephen Peters — The Horse’s
Brain and Nervous System and
How Learning and Memory Occur
in the Horse’s Brain
• Panel (Ron Anderson, Shauna
Cook, John Scott, Frank Merrill)
— Understanding Today’s Horse
Market
• Dr. Lynne Sandmeyer — Equine
Vision and Recognizing Ocular
Disease in the Horse
• Dan James — Training at Liberty
Tickets for the Horse Breeders and
Owners Conference are $105, $90
for additional registrants when preregistering. Registration can be done
online at www.albertahorseindustry.
ca. Registrations will also be accepted
at the door for $105 a person.
The Horse Breeders and Owners
Conference is an annual event organized by the Horse Industry Association of Alberta and sponsored by
a generous group of equine organizations and businesses. For more information, please visit www.albertahorseindustry.ca
World-renowned professor and speaker Temple Grandin from Colorado State University is one of the featured speakers. photo: Submitted
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Alberta Equestrian Federation
Saskatchewan Paint Horse Club
The Canadian Interprovincial Equestrian Championships (CIEC) is an Equine Canada sanctioned competition that includes the disciplines of dressage, jumping and reining. Classes
are for both junior and adult riders, and offer the opportunity for competitors to test their
skills against their peers from across Canada. The 2012 championships were held in Bromont,
Quebec on Sept. 21-23 and had nine provinces participate. Jump Alberta and the Alberta
Equestrian Federation were very proud to have a jumper team represent Alberta this year.
The team consisted of two junior riders and two senior riders as well as a chef d’equipe, a
discipline coach and a team coach. Meagan Beunder received a seventh place ribbon as well
as the sportsmanship award and Augusta Marit received a ninth and 10th place ribbon. The
2012 CIEC was a great experience for Team Alberta and also provided the opportunity to visit
the eastern part of the country.
The Saskatchewan Paint Horse Club hosted
their first APHA approved Trail Ride and Outdoor Trail Challenge Competition on June 30
and July 1 at Trails End Guest Ranch (Lyle and
Chris Benz) in the beautiful Arm River Valley.
The weekend event was open to all breeds of
horses and ages of riders. The facilities easily
accommodated campers and RV’s and boasts a
motel, showers and cabin rental options. One
of the highlights of the weekend came after
the trail ride and during the heavy heat of the
afternoon when several riders took their horses
for a swim. Lyle advised everyone to ride with
a simple halter and lead rope and to take it slow with their horses. Wondering down the riverbed towards the swim hole gave horses a chance to become acquainted with the feel of water
all around them. Some horses loved it so much they played hippopotamus and would plunge
their whole heads under water as they swam with just their eyes peeking out. The ranch staff
set up a beautiful steak supper with all the fixings. Following supper, folks saddled up and
rode over to the large outdoor arena where a mounted shooting demonstration took place.
This was a good opportunity for people to expose their horse to the gun fire and see how
they would react. Later that evening after horses were fed, watered and put to bed, everyone
gathered round the huge bonfire to listen to a trio of talented local musicians play guitars and
banjo and sing songs. The Open Trail Challenge took place on Sunday with a total of 40 riders
signed up to compete in four separate divisions. A huge thank you goes out to the Trails End
Guest Ranch for their hospitality, and to all the judges, sponsors, and volunteers. The Second
Annual Trail Ride and Outdoor Trail Challenge with take place on July 20 & 21, 2013 once again
at the beautiful Trails End Guest Ranch. Check the Saskatchewan Paint Horse Club website
www.saskpainthorse.com for future updates on the next big challenge.
Alberta Donkey and Mule Club
Stone Bridge Carriage Driving Club
Club members do anything with their mules that any horse would do, and sometimes even
better as recently exhibited by the talented mule know as Ruger, owned, ridden and shown by
Club Director, Russ Shandro of Vegreville, Alta. Competiting against 22 horses, manouvering
through, in and around various challenging obstacles in a timed event, Russ and Ruger won
the Working Mountain Horse Competition held on September 28 at Kingman, Alta. They also
emerged as the overall winner as they earned the highest score in the two separate competitions. Check out our website for our list of events coming up and for informative articles that
will answer all your questions on mules and donkeys. We would love to hear from you!
www.albertadonkeyandmule.com.
The Stone Bridge drivers hosted a Volunteer Appreciation Meal and Drive on a beautiful
September day at the Eagle Ridge Ranch west of Bowden, Alta. During the summer shows the
volunteers help out with many jobs such as measuring and setting up cones and recording
and timing in the obstacles. Without them the shows could not run and every one of the
volunteers are very much appreciated by the drivers and directors!
www.stonebridgedrivingclub.com
Wild Rose Draft Horse Association
Alberta Paint Horse Club
Metheringham Upton Hamlet, one of the equine world’s most talked about horses, was Champion Stallion and winner of the magnificent King George V Challenge Cup at England’s 2012
National Shire Horse Show. Sixty-nine stallions from England, Wales, Holland, Switzerland and
Sweden contested the honour. Seen above, coming and going, this 18.2 hand athlete can
motor. He wastes no energy rope walking or paddling in front as his tight hocks rise and fall
like pistons powering him ahead. No grass cutters, Shire stallions bred in England and Wales
have sold in record numbers to Europe this past decade. Shire stallions in Europe are siring
Sport Horses. Many bucking horses bred by the Calgary Stampede descend from a Shire stallion employed in their breeding program.
Equi-Fair at the 2012 Masters
Tournament at Spruce
Meadows was reconfigured
this year so the breed booths
were in the riding hall adjacent to the indoor demonstration ring. The American
Paint Horse Booth was the
first booth in the Line-up
and attracted many new and
returning fans. The booth
was updated with a full size
canvass backdrop of galloping Paint Horses, professional
signage for American Paint
Horse Association (APHA)
Kate Bresee with ‘Iza Lil Jazz’ greeting the crowd after the Paint
and Alberta Paint Horse
horse breed demonstration at Spruce Meadows.
Club (APHC), two handsome
embroidered directors chairs,
and a wide screen TV and DVD player. The new handout posters on Colours and Patterns provided by APHA proved immensely popular with the crowd. Breed demonstrations were held
two times/day in the indoor ring in the riding hall. A five-minute oral script was presented
by Colleen Samela during the Live Demonstrations. The script included details about APHA
registration requirements, the Paint Horse’s characteristics, colours and markings, the history
of the Association and the Regional Clubs, the World Championship Show and the many
different classes that are offered at APHA shows. Following the live demonstrations, the Paint
Horses and their riders and handlers interacted with the public on the grass area outside the
riding hall.
Alberta team members: Augusta Marit, Alanna Marsden, Kristy Mytrash and Meagan Beunder.
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University of Calgary Veterinary Medicine
Canadian Quarter Horse Association
This past September, Horses
All Field Editor Crystal
McPeak attended Vet-U-Can
at the University of Calgary
Veterinary Medicine, a public
open house to get a glimpse
of the UCVM facility and
provided a great way for
their students to interact and
share through live animal
displays, interactive exhibits
and educational events.
The Vet-U-Can open house
offered a fun area and child
friendly activities. Students
were available to explain and
answer questions about the
veterinary profession and
animal health. Tours of the
facility were offered. Some of
the highlights were emergency and critical care, blow
darting, a lameness locator
demonstration on horses,
proper bandaging of a horses
leg, and a Respiratory Scope
(DRS) demonstration on
horses and horse simulators.
Canada was one of
15 countries who
participated at the
2012 American
Quarter Horse Youth
World Cup held July
21 to 29, in Kreuth,
Germany. Canada
won four gold & two
bronze individual
medals. Rianna Storey from Cambridge,
Ont. won 2 championship buckles in
Hunt Seat Equitation
as well as trophy
spurs as the overall
Reserve High Point
Back row (l to r): Della Cryderman, Stefanie Lepp, Brittany Ruecker,
Rider. Haley Stradling Amanda Daly, Haley Stradling, Laura Anne Berensci, Quinn Brandt, Karen
of Aldergrove, B.C.
Westerback, Megan Daly, Carly Epp Front row: Rianna Storey, Joannie
won 2 championship Backes. Photo courtesy of Jessie Godin
buckles in cutting.
The Right Luke, donated by Chloe Shaw-Jackson, drawn by Team Canada and ridden by
several team members, was the Reserve High Point Horse of YWC 2012. Team Canada finished
in fourth place, with 98 total points. Team Italy was first with 144 points; Team Germany was
second with 134 points; Team New Zealand was third with 110 points; and Team USA was fifth
with 92 points
Naomi Crabtree, a UCVM student, is observing and teaching Kari
Pedder how to properly wrap a horse’s leg. photo: Crystal mcpeak
Chinook Team Penning Association
Canmark Roofing #10 Class Regional Final Champions (l to r): Kurt Robson — #10 HiPt. Rider; Craig Spangler, Jaycee Spangler and Cory Bond with sponsor Rick Bond.
Chinook penners, attending at least eight of the 15
scheduled shows in 2012, had the opportunity to ride
at the Regional Finals in Claresholm, September 8.
With $28,000 added, pay-outs totaled over $70,000!!
As well, the winning teams in every class took home
custom silver Becker Buckles and the Hi-Point Rider in
the Open, #10, #7 and #5 Classes earned the custom
Becker Silver Spurs! 345 teams competed on that
beautiful, warm sunny week-end. To see full results
and pictures of the following lucky winners, visit
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Canmark Roofing #10 Class –
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The Mill Store Open Class:
Hugh McPherson, Brian Dick, Pat Boliin
Hamilton International Consulting Youth Classes
Hi-Pt. Open Rider – Hugh McPherson
Junior – Kody, Brooklyn and Dean Palin
Hi-Pt. #10 Rider – Kurt Robson
Rolling Mix Concrete #7 Class – Lindy Barron,
Drew Parker, Carrie Patton
Hi-Poin t#7 Rider – Sonya DiStefano
O’Reilly O’Rena #5 Class – Ray Antony,
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battle of breeds
Canadian Pinto Horse Association
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his year at the Battle of the Breeds at Spruce Meadows,
Team Pinto consisted of Roxane Wenstrom and Whisperingrecklessgal, Lyle Peterman and Kolor Kode, Hope
Enders and Sweetheart and myself, Shannon Morin and SVP
Bears Magic Dots.
Thursday morning, bright and early, was the start to the
Battle with Compulsaries. Two team members must compete
in a dressage test, one ridden and one driven. Hope and Kode
went in first and performed a beautiful test, next was myself
and Magic driving. After I finished my test and was so happy
with Magic, I cried. Team Pinto got called for sixth place... my
first Spruce Meadows ribbon and I bawled like a baby. Later that afternoon was Jepardy Jumping with Lyle and
Kode and Hope and Sweetheart. Lyle went in first and scored
at 350 with only one jump down and added another 100 points
with the jeopardy jump. Hope was next and finished with
350 points as well. For those that were there it was amazing
to watch... Kode is about 16.1 HH and Sweetheart is 12.2 HH
(most of those jumps were taller than her). Team Pinto finishes in first place with a total of 800 points. And yes I was so
proud I cried!!! Team Pinto finished the day in first place.
Friday morning was the start of Precision Driving and Magic
and I were in the ring again and after a rocky finish we ended
with 200 points. Hope and Sweetheart had a successful run
with 310 for an overall team placing of eighth, not bad for both
of our first precision courses!! Barrels was up next with Roxane and Reckless and Hope and
Sweetheart. First round every one goes and then the top six
teams return for the finals. Team Pinto finished the first round
in first and after an unfortunate barrel knock down we landed
in third over all! Team Pinto finished the day in second place.
Saturday morning was the final event of Jeopardy Trail.
Roxane and Reckless and Hope and Sweetheart were at it
again, finishing with an exciting 135 and 275 respectively and
a team finish of seventh.
After an exciting few days of competition, Team Canadian
Pinto finished with our best showing ever of fourth place.
I was so proud of our team, we worked together in every
way, whether early morning or late evening feedings, cleaning stalls, helping each other tack up and most of all the support we gave each other, from screaming cheers from the side
of the ring, hugs that came with highs and lows and of course
making fun of my tears and I did do a lot of that. I can’t wait
— Shannon Morin
for next year!
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december 30th
december 31st
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school
canada’s ultimate cowboy
championship
looking for young men interested in
getting a closer look and learning
about the art of bareback riding
16 of Canada’s top all-around contestants
will be competing in a minimum of 3 rodeo
events to compete for the title of Canada’s
ultimate cowboy
location: ponoka ag. event center
Chris Irwin to headline
equine conference
Alberta Equestrian Federation promises good learning and good fun
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he Alberta Equestrian
Federation is hosting its
Annual Conference on
November 16-18, 2012 at the
Delta Calgary South Hotel. This
event has been organized to create a sense of community within
the equine industry amongst AEF
members and the general equestrian public to enjoy.
The event kicks off on Friday,
November 16 with an AEF special
general meeting, a meet and greet
with the AEF board of directors
and conference registration.
The Saturday keynote speakers
and topics include:
Chris Irwin “Think Horse, Speak
Horse & Be the Better Horse”
Russ Dantu “If good customer
service is common sense, why isn’t
it common practice!”
Mike King “Risk Management and
Insurance Solutions for the Equine
Community”
Sunday’s keynote speaker will
also be with the world renowned
Chris Irwin with his topic, “Horse
Sense for Human Potential.” Additional breakout sessions include:
Dave Watt “Backcountry
First Aid”
Nettie Barr “Equine Safe
Handling Procedures”
Dean Kozak “Long Term Athlete
Development”
Tara Gamble “AEF Bits of News”
The conference will include
breakfast, lunch and all breaks
for its delegates. A banquet will
be held Saturday, November 17
which will include a buffet dinner, awards presentations, and
live entertainment from the band
“Fast Times.”
The conference will also be hosting a silent auction to assist with
funding for the AEF “Live Outside
the Box” youth program. This program encourages youth to spend
less time in front of the TV and
computer and spend more time
outside being active with their
equine partners. The program, previously funded by a grant, is now
solely funded from donations.
Acclaimed horse trainer and speaker
Chris Irwin will be delivering the keynote speech on Saturday and Sunday.
This equestrian themed weekend is intended to “Inspire, Motivate and Educate” its delegates
who all share a common passion.
For more information, please
contact Nicole Worthylake, Marketing Coordinator at marketing@
albertaequestrian.com or 403-2534411 ext. 5. Or to register please
visit www.albertaequestrian.com
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CLINICS & SEMINARS
NOVEMBER
3 Innisfail, Alta.
Introduction to working Buffalo clinic with Geoff Hoar. For
details, call: 403-507-3126
9-11 Cochrane, Alta.
Level 2-3 Parelli Clinic with
Devanee Cardinal at the Cochrane
Ag Arena. For details, contact
Rienske Mortier: 403-472-6973,
email: [email protected]
or visit: www.cardinalranch.com
10 Onoway, Alta.
Equine First Aid Certification at
the Heatherdown Hills Arena. For
details, contact Amanda Preston:
780-722-6383, email: shimmere@
live.ca or visit: www.shimmere.com
11-19 Calgary, Alta.
Anatomy Discovery Workshop.
For details, contact Lyndsey
Deutsch: 403-556-0716, email:
[email protected] or visit: www.
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17-18 Rama, Sask.
Horsemanship and Cowhorse Clinic
with Dave Jory. For details, contact
Sheila: 306-547-3323, email:
davekoryperformancehorses.com
DECEMBER
8-9 Caresland, Alta.
Clay Webster Clinic. Reining, Cow
Horse and Horsemanship. For
details, contact Twin Corazone
Ranch: 403-861-2609, email: [email protected]
or visit: www.claywebster.com
EQUINE EVENTS
to horse owners, breeders and
professionals. For details, visit:
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WESTERN
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NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER
3 Langley, B.C.
Christmas Market & Tack Sale. 10
a.m. - 5 p.m. For details, contact
Norma: 604-789-0150, email:
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4-11 Edmonton, Alta.
Northlands Farmfair. For details,
visit: www.farmfair.ca
SHOWS &
COMPETITIONS
NOVEMBER
28-30 Calgary, Alta.
Rocky Mountain Show Jumping
Santa Clause Classic. For details,
visit: www.rmshowjumping.com
JANUARY
11-13 Red Deer, Alta.
Alberta Horse Owners and Breeders Conference. Featuring internationally recognized speakers on
a wide range of topics of interest
JANUARY
9-11 Edmonton, Alta.
ARCHA Canadian Snaffle Bit Futurity & Derby. For details, visit:
www.cowhorse.ca
22- December 1
Oklahoma City, Okla.
NRHA Futurity & Adequan North
American Affiliate Championship
Show. For details, visit: www.
nrha.com
Rocky Mountain Show Jumping Winter Training Series I
Jumper. For details, visit: www.
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BRIEFS
Did you know?
The McClellan saddle — it
may look like there’s not
much to it, but the McClellan
cavalry saddle withstood
the rigors of war. Designed
by U.S. Army officer George
B. McClellan, it was adopted
by the U.S. army in 1859
and used until the end
of World War II when the
last horse cavalry was
disbanded. It is highly sought
by historical re-enactors.
While it underwent various
modifications, the McClellan
was never an easy saddle to
fit. It best suited an animal
that was close coupled and
low withered. For this reason,
it is one of few saddles to fit
mules and donkeys.
The McClellan military saddle
was strong, comfortable
and light-weight, making it
suitable for the cavalry and for
endurance riders.
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help build vibrant communities and a great future. That’s what makes Alberta such a great neighbourhood.
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PRESENTS
Rodeo STANDINGS
CURRENT
Lakeland Rodeo Association
As of Oct. 14, 2012
Canadian Cowboys Association
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LRA SHOWDOWN 2012 WINNERS!
LADIES BARREL RACING SEASON LEADER:
REBECCA BEEBE
LADIES BARREL RACING CHAMPION: RENE LECLERCQ
LADIES BARREL RACING HORSE OF THE YEAR:
CHILI DOG OWNED BY REBECCA PARADIS
JUNIOR BARREL RACING SEASON LEADER: VAL FREY
JUNIOR BARREL RACING CHAMPION: SAM SMITH
JUNIOR BARREL RACING HORSE OF THE YEAR:
ANNIE OWNED BY VAL FREY
TEAM ROPING SEASON LEADER:
MURDOCK KEITH(HEADER) & KODY POTTS (HEELER)
TEAM ROPING CHAMPION:
MURDOCK KEITH (HEADER) & KODY POTTS (HEELER)
TEAM ROPING HEAD HORSE OF THE YEAR:
ACE OWNED BY MURDOCK KEITH
TEAM ROPING HEEL HORSE OF THE YEAR:
BULLET OWNED BY TYREL GORDON
FASTEST TIME: 4.7 MURDOCK KEITH/KODY POTTS
NOVICE HORSE RIDING SEASON LEADER: COLEMAN KELTS
NOVICE HORSE RIDING CHAMPION: BRADFORD TRENERRY
JUNIOR BULLRIDING SEASON LEADER: LONNIE WEST
JUNIOR BULLRIDING CHAMPION: LONNIE WEST
JUNIOR STEER RIDING SEASON LEADER: KAGEN SCHMIDT
JUNIOR STEER RIDING CHAMPION: KAGEN SCHMIDT
PEEWEE BARREL RACING SEASON LEADER: PAIGE MANNING
COWBOY OF THE YEAR: BUTCH MATKEA
ALL-AROUND COWBOY: MURDOCK KEITH
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: BILLY WEST
FINALS TRAILER WINNER: RENE LECLERCQ
SADDLE BRONC SEASON LEADER: MARK O’DEMPSEY
SADDLE BRONC CHAMPION: MARK O’DEMPSEY
SADDLE BRONC HORSE OF THE YEAR:
609 GOOD BYE BOB (JOHN DUFFY)
SADDLE BRONC HORSE OF THE FINALS:
609 GOOD BYE BOB (JOHN DUFFY)
BAREBACK SEASON LEADER: KYLE GOLINSKY
BAREBACK CHAMPION: COLE GOODINE
BAREBACK HORSE OF THE YEAR:
012 BOOTLACE (JOHN DUFFY)
BAREBACK HORSE OF THE FINALS:
SP SHOW STOPPER (RED ROAD RODEO)
BULL RIDING SEASON LEADER: BILLY WEST
BULL RIDING CHAMPION: TY PARKINSON
BULLRIDING BULL OF THE YEAR: R10 RIO (JOHN DUFFY)
BULLRIDING BULL OF FINALS:
688 BABY MOO (TRACH RODEO)
TIE DOWN ROPING SEASON LEADER: CHRIS VERHUN
TIE DOWN ROPING CHAMPION: BILL MELANEY
TIE DOWN ROPING HORSE OF THE YEAR:
BUCK OWNED BY JIM GUNSCH
FASTEST TIME: 7.8 BILL MELANEY
STEER WRESTING SEASON LEADER: JERRY STOJAN
STEER WRESTLING CHAMPION: GLEN ALLEN NASH
STEER WRESTLING HORSE OF THE YEAR: MAJOR OWNED
BY LAYNE DELEMONT/PETE OWNED BY DERRIC LAYE
STEER WRESTLING HAZING HORSE OF THE YEAR:
CHESTER OWNED BY JESSE LAWES
FASTEST TIME: 4.3 RUDY NIEBORG
INCLUDING: WAPELLA, SK, ST ROSE, MB,
EXCLUDING: WARMAN, SK,
ALL AROUND
1 HARDEN JOSH . . . . . . . . . $7,438.79
2 UDAL SHELTON . . . . . . . . $6,588.94
3 WEESE ROD . . . . . . . . . . $3,890.68
CANADIAN HIGH POINT AWARD
1 SIGFUSSON SCOTT . . . . $19,646.28
2 MILLER JUSTIN . . . . . . . $12,815.40
3 WILLIAMSON SHAWN . . $12,657.75
SADDLE BRONC
1 THOMPSON KI . . . . . . . . . $9,541.97
2 COX CLINTON . . . . . . . . . $9,027.64
3 WATT COLEMA . . . . . . . . $7,256.33
4 TENNANT JER . . . . . . . . . $6,732.89
5 WATT KEIFER . . . . . . . . . $6,136.12
BAREBACK
1 STRUTT CLAY . . . . . . . . . $8,443.16
2 BERTRAM BRA . . . . . . . . $7,157.50
3 TUCK MICHAE . . . . . . . . . $7,150.47
4 BERTSCH DAN . . . . . . . . $5,929.15
5 KOOPMAN MON . . . . . . . $5,603.44
BULL RIDING
1 COVERCHUK C . . . . . . . . $9,364.17
2 GINNIS KORY . . . . . . . . . $6,803.90
3 LEHMANN DUS . . . . . . . . $6,338.52
4 FLOYD CODY . . . . . . . . . . $5,729.76
5 HODGSON TEA . . . . . . . . $5,658.73
TIE DOWN ROPING
1 WILLIAMSON . . . . . . . . . . $9,760.89
2 SIGFUSSON S . . . . . . . . . $9,566.79
3 DUNHAM BRUC . . . . . . . . $7,379.22
4 SWITZER BLA . . . . . . . . . $6,618.99
5 POPESCUL JE . . . . . . . . . $5,813.28
British Columbia Rodeo Association
$8,538.34
$7,067.32
$3,225.33
$1,714.43
$1,366.25
SADDLE BRONC
1 STEVE HOHMANN . . . . . . . . . .
2 RYLAND DEROSE . . . . . . . . . . .
3 GARRETT MADLEY . . . . . . . . . .
4 WACEY MARR . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 KAYLAN EEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$4,983.66
$3,960.53
$3,682.43
$2,723.81
$1,935.61
GRASSLAND EQUIPMENT LTD.
TEAM ROPING – HEADERS
1 RYAN MACNAUGHTON . . . . . . .
2 JOSH CAHILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 CASH ISNARDY . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 LEVI SIMPSON (P) . . . . . . . . . .
5 GARY NICHOLSON . . . . . . . . . .
$6,189.97
$4,523.03
$2,252.84
$2,226.27
$2,119.26
TEAM REGENCY DODGE CHRYSLER
BULL RIDING
1 MIKE GILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,962.09
2 RYAN JASPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,688.00
3 JEFF RONEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,736.55
4 CHARLIE ATTRILL . . . . . . . . . . . $2,614.78
5 STEVE HOHMANN . . . . . . . . . . $2,200.36
GRASSLAND EQUIPMENT LTD.
TEAM ROPING – HEELERS
1 CAREY ISNARDY. . . . . . . . . . . .
2 TY LYTTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 JEFF WILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 KYLE MACNAUGHTON . . . . . . .
5 JOHN ROBERTSON(P). . . . . . . .
GJ RODEO CO ROOKIE ROUGH
HORSE RIDER
1 TYRONE HUNLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . $1665.00
2 DAVE POTTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1363.00
3 RYLAND DEROSE . . . . . . . . . . . . $1111.00
4 BREE LOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1010.00
5 KAYLAN EEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $879.00
$5,522.70
$5,506.99
$4,185.63
$2,684.98
$1,850.40
150 M & S TIRE / C & T REPAIRS
TIE DOWN ROPING
1 RILEY ISNARDY . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,019.34
2 CLAYTON HONEYBOURN . . . . . $3,250.00
3 BROCK HERMAN . . . . . . . . . . . $2,918.35
4 DEREK MOBBS . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,122.80
5 CASH ISNARDY . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,949.33
NORTHERN HEALTH ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
1 RYLAND DEROSE . . . . . . . . . . . $3,960.53
2 VANESSA LEGGETT . . . . . . . . . $3,739.77
3 CLAYTON HONEYBOURN . . . . . $3,250.00
4 COLE SCOTT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,115.04
5 TROY GERARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,897.97
JENNA WILLS MEMORIAL
JUNIOR BARREL RACING
1 LANE WILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 BACARDI ZIMMERLEE . . . . . . .
3 TOSHA SEITZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 BRETT WILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 MCKENZIE WILLS . . . . . . . . . . .
$2,575.82
$1,740.17
$1,328.97
$1,243.77
$1,121.74
QUESNEL DOOR SHOP / DOWNTOWN
TIRE & AUTO STEER WRESTLING
1 WADE MCNOLTY . . . . . . . . . . . $4,249.78
2 GRANT FOSBERY . . . . . . . . . . . $3,169.20
3 COLE SCOTT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,115.04
4 COHORD MASON . . . . . . . . . . . $3,049.12
5 RILEY ISNARDY . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,612.07
PG KLASSIC AUTOBODY PEE WEE
BARREL RACING
1 TYLER CHERRY . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,044.50
2 ELLY FARMER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $996.50
3 DYSON LENEVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $904.50
4 GRACIE ANTOINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . $408.50
5 BRIANNA BILLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $386.50
BREAKAWAY ROPING
1 KATRINA ILNICKI . . . . . . . . . . .
2 KYLE BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 TROY GERARD . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 ARCHIE WILLIAMS . . . . . . . . . .
5 DENISE SWAMPY . . . . . . . . . . .
KD. SPIERS JUNIOR STEER RIDING
1 CLAY WATERHOUSE . . . . . . . . . $1,543.27
2 JAKE GARDNER . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,357.06
3 KC SPIERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,233.19
4 TRISTAN HOLT . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,156.73
5 DUSTIN SPIERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $827.27
$3,577.51
$2,987.46
$2,752.46
$2,708.09
$2,428.61
JUNIOR STEER RIDING
1 JANS NOLAN . . . . . . . . . $2,214.04
2 RESCH BRADY . . . . . . . . $1,424.57
3 CUTLER CHAN . . . . . . . . . $1,417.91
JUNIOR GIRLS BARREL RACING
1 YARSHENKO M . . . . . . . . $5,875.23
2 PANA NICOLE . . . . . . . . . $3,222.56
3 PETERS CASS . . . . . . . . . $2,926.34
NOVICE BAREBACK
1 CHAPLAIN LU . . . . . . . . . $1,874.50
2 LINK LANE . . . . . . . . . . . $1,021.25
3 MAINES WYAT . . . . . . . . . . $804.54
NOVICE SADDLE BRONC
1 BREDHAUER J . . . . . . . . . $2,472.96
2 SWANSON JOR . . . . . . . . $1,377.87
3 DOENZ JACE . . . . . . . . . . . $639.72
LADIES BREAKAWAY ROPING
1 KAWALEZ LIN . . . . . . . . . $1,666.12
2 LANGMAN COD . . . . . . . . $1,541.46
3 EHGOETZ CAN . . . . . . . . $1,439.11
LADIES POLE BENDING
1 REATH JAYMI . . . . . . . . . $3,014.84
2 BROCK JESSI . . . . . . . . . $2,652.36
3 WALLACE ANN . . . . . . . . $2,299.08
TR HEELER
1 MCLEOD SCOT . . . . . . . . $8,638.89
2 CHAPPEL BRA . . . . . . . . . $8,289.07
3 WILSON R. . . . . . . . . . . . $8,174.36
4 BROWNLEE GA , SK . . . . . $7,183.44
5 DRAKE KENT . . . . . . . . . . $7,015.11
TR HEADER
1 ULLERY CLAY . . . . . . . . . $9,281.21
2 MCLEOD TUFT . . . . . . . . $8,638.89
3 CHAPPEL KYL . . . . . . . . . $8,289.07
4 NICKOLSON T . . . . . . . . . $6,606.08
5 TRAYNOR VIN . . . . . . . . . $6,536.60
PERMIT
1 DODGINGHORSE BRE . . . $1,374.30
ROOKIE
1 BERTSCH DANTAN . . . . . $8,075.12
LADIES BARREL RACING ROOKIE
1 DOENZ JODI . . . . . . . . . . $4,576.25
TOP 5 OVERALL
ROCK CONSTRUCTION & MINING
JUNIOR BREAKAWAY
1 JAKE GARDNER . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,362.87
2 TROY GERARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,000.39
3 KYLE BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $901.20
4 BJ ISNARDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $657.80
5 MICOLE MYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $538.43
BAREBACK
1 CASH KERNER . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 JARED MARSHALL . . . . . . . . . .
3 STEVE HOHMANN . . . . . . . . . .
4 DAN KETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 MATT BATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ALL AROUND COWGIRL
1 LAURA JAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,632.81
2 JODY COE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,075.14
3 ALLISON EVERETT . . . . . . . . . . $3,985.45
4 KRISTEN BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,183.34
5 RACHELLE HANCOCK . . . . . . . . . . $781.41
ALL AROUND COWBOY
1 MIKE GILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,761.55
2 RYAN JASPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,969.55
ALL AROUND JUNIOR
1 JAKE GARDNER . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 BACARDI ZIMMERLEE . . . . . . .
3 KYLE BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 KC SPIERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 MCKENZIE WILLS . . . . . . . . . . .
1. ROSS CHRIST . . . . . . . . $12,992.37
2. KNUDSEN DAN . . . . . . . $11,172.01
3. MATHER STEF . . . . . . . $10,636.11
4. MOEN JANET . . . . . . . . $10,363.34
5. NACE ROBBI . . . . . . . . . . $9,964.52
NOVICE BULL RIDING
1 MOEN JB . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,548.36
2 IRELAND AUS . . . . . . . . . . $935.64
3 ANDERSON WA . . . . . . . . . $773.72
Foothills Cowboys Association
2012 OVERALL FINAL AUDITED SEASON STANDINGS
20X WRANGLER LADIES BARREL RACING
1 LAURA JAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,489.60
2 JUDY HYDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,293.69
3 MONICA ORAM . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,907.81
4 VANESSA LEGGETT . . . . . . . . . $3,739.77
5 COLEEN DUGGAN . . . . . . . . . . . $3,369.72
STEER WRESTLING
1 MILLER JUST . . . . . . . . $11,662.59
2 REAY TRAVIS . . . . . . . . . $10,032.41
3 WALKER DUST . . . . . . . . $7,969.69
4 SIGFUSSON S . . . . . . . . . $5,969.68
5 BROWN SHANE . . . . . . . . $5,391.71
$2,663.86
$1,816.25
$1,704.71
$1,665.39
$1,342.19
Canadian Senior Pro Rodeo Association
BAREBACK
SEASON LEADER - DYLAN BILTON
1 BILTON DYLAN 2012 FCA CHAMPION
2 MYERS JUSTIN
3 JAMISON COLE
4 PATERSON RYAN
5 MACDONALD TATE
JUNIOR BULL RIDING
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4 BEARNES JESSICA
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2 LOWRY QUILLAN (SB)
3 GLEESON WYATT (BB)
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SADDLE BRONC
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2012 CHAMPION
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3 WATERS BEAU
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5 NIEBORG RUDY
TEAM ROPING HEADER/HEELER
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FCA 2012 CHAMPIONS
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LADIES BREAKAWAY
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BAREBACK RIDING
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STEER WRESTLING
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