Re: (Carberry, MB – April 18, 2007) — The Canadian Quarter Horse Association is extremely pleased to announce that the CQHA will host the bi-annual American Quarter Horse Association’s Youth World Cup at Western Fair Agriplex in London, Ontario, in 2008. This event, first held in Australia in 1986 as the International Youth Quarter Horse [...]

Looking for a nice broke ranch horse or a broke horse that has seen lots of pasture miles? We have another horse sale this weekend and it has a number of experienced ranch horses. It is the Working Cowboy Horse Sale at Lakeland College Arena, Vermillion, Alberta. The performance preview is at 10 AM. The [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 10, 2007 American Horse Council Study Finds Equestrian Recreation Industry Has Significant Economic Impact WASHINGTON, DC –The term “backyard horse” does not necessarily spark images of high spending and thousands of jobs. But a closer look reveals that the recreational segment of the horse industry, including the average pleasure rider on [...]

By the comments we are getting from our Classified clients, horses must be selling as well as they ever have. It isn’t unusual to have over 600 visitors to a classified in the first day. And, even more important, lots of these visitors seem to be buyers. So if you have a horse standing around, [...]

A DNA test for the autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder HERDA has been developed by genetics researchers at Cornell University and is now available to the public. According to CU geneticist Nena Winand, D.V.M., Ph.D., the test unambiguously identifies normal, carrier and affected horses. Affected foals can be definitively identified at birth. more info

Some really interesting statistics in this report: http://www.aqha.com/association/who/statistics.html