The horse sales we have visited this fall seem to be resulting in sales that are at least as good as last year if not a bit better. The Alberta Horse Industry Branch published results from the Alberta Standardbred Horse Association (ASHA) and the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (CTHS), Alberta Division sales with both reporting [...]

If this doesn’t make you laugh then you are really having a bad day! This was sent to us by Bobbie Niwa of Muddy Acres

Fat horses are no more healthy than fat people. My vet and my farrier are trying hard to reinforce that bit of knowledge for me. In fact they are even changing my idea of how fat is too fat. And it is less than I used to think was just right.

There is something about seeing a person perched on a horse in a sidesaddle that is very compelling. This summer I saw sidesaddle races at Millarville, two hunter competitors riding sidesaddle at the Didsbury horse show and then one person riding sidesaddle at the dressage show in Red Deer! The precarious position of the sidesaddle [...]

We’ve just gone through a couple of tough economic years.   Financial forecasters are giving our economy a 70/30 chance of recovery and yet I can’t help but noticing that the show pens have still been busy.   The young horse numbers have declined a little but the non-pros are going strong and the demand for good broke horses seems [...]

If bad things happen in threes, hopefully I just had my third! This is my chance to whine and write something at the same time!

After lessons a few weeks ago, our dressage instructor, Stacy Williams, mentioned that the Alberta Provincial Championships and the Western Regional Championships for dressage were going to be in Red Deer September 15 -18 at the Westerner. The dressage show in Red Deer is called the Parkland Dressage Festival. Stacy suggested we go all go. [...]

We were forwarded these images of a terrifying fall. Michael Pollard and his horse Icarus fell at fence 26 at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials – just six fences short of the finish line. The rider and the horse both survived the fall without serious injury.

Hello friends, my name is Ryan Smith and I hail from the southern part of our great province, near Champion, AB.  My great-grandfather on my mom’s side bought the place I now live on, so I can proudly say I’m the 4th generation to call this ranch home.  My mom is a horse person (which [...]

This year we got to go to Millarville Horse Races for Canada Day – something I have always wanted to do. I was a bit concerned – was there going to be anyone there? What about the rumours that horse racing was not surviving around Calgary? As we arrived at the track and there was [...]

I’m not certain who initially put this on the web but it has circulated through my inbox a couple of times now so I am going to pass it on.  I will include the photos and text pretty much as I received it. Cows taking on a black bear in B.C., Canada Now this is [...]