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The Mane Event, Equine Education & Trade Fair is coming back to Westerner Park in Red Deer, AB April 25 – 27, 2008. Disciplines will include Jumping, Dressage, Western Pleasure, Horsemanship, Reining, Western Pleasure, HUS and much more for over 100 hours of equine education over the 2 ½ days of the event. The large indoor equine trade fair will offer products ranging from bits to boots and tack to trailers plus breed associations and clubs. Continue Reading »

I’m not sure if this is to represent where they got their name or where they are headed – he certainly is strong over the back.

We are adding a category on the Northernhorse Blog to report news, achievements, press releases, etc. from all our members. If you are one of the Northernhorse.com ranches or businesses, we want to help get YOUR news out. What better way than on the Northernhorse.com Blog. Another tool at Northernhorse.com to make your website work even better for you. Send news
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Brackett Creek Quarter Horses from Wilsall, Montana have joined the ranches at Northernhorse.com. Some nice looking reining horses on their site. Be sure to check it out.

http://www.brackettcreekqh.com/

Today we added the MtRHA, the Montana Reining Horse Association to the “Horse Associations” section on Northernhorse. Because of “cross border competing” many of the names in their organization are already familiar. Check it out!

http://www.mtrha.com/

The web addresses linked in this post have been corrected – Lynn

The Equine Respiratory Lab of the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is looking for volunteers to participate in a online questionnaire:

Epidemiologic study on equine respiratory health in Alberta

HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Continue Reading »

I see on the Alberta Agriculture newsletter that they are looking for quotes to develop curriculum for a new equine technician program to be used throughout Alberta.  The proposal is due by 4:30 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2007.  View the Request for Proposal here.

A record crowd of just under 24,000 horse enthusiasts converged on Chilliwack’s Heritage Park October 19-21 to take in the Mane Event Equine Education & Trade Fair.  The wet weather outdoors did not deter the enthusiasm indoors where the crowds filled the seats at every clinic and demonstration, and filled the aisles of the trade fair.  Continue Reading »

Some of the changes Mark has recently made to the Classifieds section probably won’t be noticed by most of our users but being able to add pedigree information to each horse on the pedigree is a big change that almost everyone is going to notice. Now, instead of having to write all the information in the “write-up” section you can put the information about each horse in the pedigree right there by his name. How cool it that?

Not only that but Mark spruced up the “add a new horse form” so that it is easier to read and follow. We welcome your comments.

We made a wee change to the “updated” and “new” tags on Northernhorse.com. Now you can tell at a glance which websites are new and which ones are freshly updated.

Mark has also been doing lots of “behind the scenes” work to keep Northernhorse.com friendly to all the search engines. Every year we are amazed at the number of new visitors who come to visit our ranches and businesses and classifieds. And many horsepeople tell us that they visit Northernhorse.com every day. Continue Reading »