Steve Rother of Oregon took home the Championship trophy Sunday for the second year in a row at the Mane Event Trainers Challenge at Red Deer’s Westerner Park. “I was nervous as usual,” said Rother, after accepting the special edition Mane Event trophy from Canadian Cowboy Country Magazine representative Terri Mason. But he said his [...]
We have heard so much positive feedback from those who attended the Mane Event. It was the biggest event yet. It took all 3 days just to check out all the booths and trailers and demos. Then there was the Trainers Challenge and then there was the clinics. All day, every day. The quality of [...]
The Trainers Challenge at the Mane Event in Red Deer continued Saturday with the trainers each having two round pen sessions with their horses. At the end of the day they all declared satisfaction with the progress they had been able to make with the two-year-old fillies. “The horse is pretty nice. She’s gentle, she’s [...]
The Mane Event Education & Trade Fair ended Sunday having had over 42,000 people come through the doors to take in over 100 hours of clinics and presentations, and shop at the over 400 trade fair booths. As the doors closed on the Event’s second appearance at Red Deer’s Westerner Park, the general consensus was [...]
RED DEER, AB – Recent heavy snowfalls in Alberta didn’t deter thousands of horse enthusiasts from lining up in unprecedented numbers to take in the first day of The Mane Event Equine Education & Trade Fair at Red Deer’s Westerner Park. And there was standing room only at the arenas and demonstration areas as attendees [...]
Three top trainers had their first encounter with three unbroke two-year-old fillies as the crowd favourite Trainers Challenge got underway at the Mane Event at Westerner Park in Red Deer Friday. Jon Ensign from Montana entered the round pen first with Jose, one of the registered Quarter Horse fillies supplied by Lukacs Farms of Olds, [...]
Would you like to participate in a research study about heaves? Andrea Wasko (Graduate student) and Dr. Renaud Léguillette from the new Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Calgary (UCVM) are conducting exciting research in Alberta on Recurrent Airway Obstruction (also known as heaves).
We have had repeated requests for ad space on the front of Northernhorse.com and we have decided to give it a try. We are limiting the ads to 5 at a time as we see on the comments on the April Draw that we still have a lot of regular visitors who use a dial-up [...]
We received this update from the Mane Event Organizers: Hi Everyone, I think this is a cruel joke from mother nature with all of this white stuff. I feel like I should be saying hohoho Merry Christmas!!! Well I have had a serious talk with mother nature and she assured me that the weather is [...]
Mahatma Gandi once said “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. Although we still see way too many examples of animal abuse in this country, I do see some very positive trends happening. One group that is working hard to set up reasonable, [...]
Many methods have been used to straighten crooked limbs on foals, and in the past staples placed across the “long” side’s growth plate have received somewhat mixed reviews. However, some researchers suggest that this was due to poor staple choice and resulting complications. Stephanie Caston, DVM, an equine surgeon at Iowa State University, showed attendees [...]
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