The RSPCA in Britain is welcoming China’s first ever draft animal protection laws, which will be unveiled today September 19, 2009 The legislation, drawn up in consultation with the RSPCA, will include provisions to both protect pets and cover how farm animals should be raised, transported and slaughtered. It will also deliver protection for captive [...]
Beginning Monday, September 21, AQHA Members have two days to purchase a limited quantity of tickets to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, September 25-October 10, 2010, at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. This opportunity comes as a direct result of AQHA’s sponsorship of the World Equestrian Games. Early ticket sales begin at noon [...]
On September 19th, 2009, a historic dispersal of the award winning remuda of Stan and Nancy Weaver will be offered to the public in Great Falls, Montana. The event will be celebrated as sixty-five program building mares and their offspring will sell along with the proven stallions, Ima Bit Of Heaven and PC Joes Frost. [...]
Haythorn Ranch Co. of Maxwell, Nebraska, has been named the 2009 winner of the AQHA-Bayer Best Remuda Award, which honors working ranches that have top remudas of saddle horses. The honor puts them in the company of some of America’s most historic and heritage-rich ranches – including a ranch operated by another set of related [...]
They have marched with us through history. Lumbered with us through the North’s uncharted territories. Danced in the stories of the Indians’ ancestors. Documented in the journals of our early explorers. Like the grizzly bear, moose, and wolf, they play a vital role in the wilderness around us. Canada’s wild horses are a monument of [...]
Dave doesn’t know this yet but I am thinking of attending and covering The Mane Event in Chilliwack this fall for Northernhorse.com. I enjoy the one in Red Deer in the spring so much and they have some really interesting clinicians coming to Chilliwack too. Anyone been to both? I am interested in seeing it [...]
We received these photos in an email. They say they are from a really big wind storm in the Medicine Hat, Alberta area. Anybody know if this is true? Do you think the wind blew all these round bales around like this? Or are we being duped by some folks with some Photoshop skills?
Bucking the trends in the racing industry and the economy at large, American Quarter Horse racing indicators showed the industry is holding steady in the face of the biggest economic downturn in decades. Numbers released by AQHA show that purses in July, compared to the same month last year, held virtually steady with only a [...]
The photographer who took the winning photo in our Summer photo contest, Nola Shannon has told us that she is going to donate her $50.00 Tim Horton’s card that she won in the contest to Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society for their volunteers. She goes on to say: The volunteers of the Rescue Crew will [...]
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