Archive for October, 2007

Working Mountain Horse Competition & Sale Results

Oct 20, 2007 No Comments by

Kingman Alberta was the place to be for horse enthusiasts, this past weekend, Sept. 28-30/2007. Brenda Winder and Terri and Chuck McKinney of Wild Deuce Retreats & Outfitting Hosted Canada’s Only, 3rd Annual Working Mountain Horse Competition and Sale. Saturday saw 21 Competitors, ranging in age from 12 to 83 vie for the 1st place [...]

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Horse Haulers

Oct 15, 2007 2 Comments by

Perhaps the reason there are no horse haulers using the Northernhorse.com Classifieds is that they are all so busy they just don’t think they can take on any more work. It can’t be the $30/with a photo that the ad would cost to run for 3 months, renewable at 1/2 price after that. I suppose [...]

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Results of Painted Coffin & E&B Acres Sale

Oct 12, 2007 No Comments by

Barb Sisson sent us the following results of their sale. The sale went good, the highest selling baby was a Black and White filly (Comet) who sold for $1350.00 The sale average was $700.00 One was sold for a show filly, all comments we had were very positive. We have people from all. We are [...]

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Classifieds upgrades now live!

Oct 11, 2007 No Comments by

We are continually improving our Northernhorse.com Classifieds to make them a better experience for all of you. This past week has been particularly exciting with a few changes that will change your life… ok well maybe not quite THAT exciting, but they are pretty darn cool. Here is an overview of what we changed and [...]

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2007 CWHBA Fall Classic Sale Soars to New Heights

Oct 11, 2007 No Comments

For the first time, the Fall Classic Breeders Sale broke the 1/2 million dollar mark in total sales. The 2007 gross of $582,450 was $200,000 higher than in 2006.  For the first time, a sale horse is being exported to Europe.

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Doug’s Weaning (2)

Oct 10, 2007 1 Comment

Well, when Doug still wasn’t much calmer yesterday morning and he was still beating up on anybody his size, I decided that Danny, the kid’s pony would make a good roommate. Danny was living with Doug and his mom in the pasture so they do know each other. Doug’s mom had helped Doug put the [...]

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West Nile Cases In Alberta in 2007

Oct 10, 2007 No Comments

Positive Cases of West Nile Virus (WNV) detected in Alberta horses in 2007 Aug 8 – Innisfail Aug 10 – Frog Lake Aug 17 – Round Hill Aug 17 – Dapp

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The Western Horse Sale Results 2007

Oct 08, 2007 No Comments

Elaine Speight does a thorough job of running this sale. Not only does she get the sale listed on the Northernhorse.com Sales Section well in advance, she gets the consignor’s horses listed as soon as she gets them, to make sure they get as much advertising as they can get. Elaine even provides tips on [...]

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Doug’s Weaning Day 1

Oct 08, 2007 No Comments

Weaning the foals. Been going exceptionally well. Heck most of them seemed almost happy to be rid of the old girl and hanging around with us humans. And then there is Doug. He was a pretty friendly fellow all summer. A bit arrogant but his mama is boss and is more than willing to make [...]

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Working Mountain Horse Competition & Sale Results

Oct 02, 2007 No Comments

Kingman Alberta was the place to be for horse enthusiasts, this past weekend, Sept. 28-30/2007. Brenda Winder and Terri and Chuck McKinney of Wild Deuce Retreats & Outfitting Hosted Canada’s Only, 3rd Annual Working Mountain Horse Competition and Sale.

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Racehorse Joke

Oct 01, 2007 1 Comment

A new jockey starts work at a new stables and is about to compete in his first race. The owner of the horse comes to him and says he has a great ride and should win: “All you have to do is this. As you’re coming to a fence say, ’5 4 3 2 1 [...]

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