By all outlooks, the big, flea-bitten grey didn’t have very many options. The day he ultimately could have faded away, turned out to be his luckiest. Here’s how a horse with a bleak future, transformed into one of the sweetest Valentine stories of all time. By Jenn Webster, Photos by Jessica Wilson Katie …
Blog by TJ NASH Starting November 7, 2016, Farmfair International will be hosting several different equine events. Men, women and horses from all across Canada will be competing to showcase tomorrow’s champions! Exciting raw talent will take part in the Canadian National Team Roping and Northlands Barrel Racing futurities, as well as the new …
PHOTOS BY CHERYL SMYTHE A highlight of the 2015 Canadian Supreme, this year\’s edition of the Western Horse Sale took place on October 2 at Westerner Park in Red Deer, Alberta. Organized by Perlich Bros. Auction Market Ltd. of Lethbridge, AB, buyers were in for a treat with a lineup of \”top selected cutting, reining and barrel …
STORY & PHOTOS BY LARRY LARSON One word – STELLAR. The decision to offer a sale merging two of the Nation’s leading Quarter Horse Performance and Breeding Operations has proven to be the right one. Myers Performance Horses, long established as the Nation’s leading 2-Year-Old Prospect Program and home to $9 Million Leading Sire Frenchmans …
BY DONNA BEIERBACH They say records were made to be broke. That was truly the case in the sale ring on Saturday, September 20th, at the 38th Annual Cypress Hills Registered Horse Breeders Production Sale. The longest running horse sale in Canada drew in a good sized crowd of horse enthusiasts from British Columbia to …
The 2014 Ranch Country Horse Sale, the 10th annual, was a cool but fun day. Held September 13th in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, the preview ran at 9:30 a.m. with the sale starting at 1:00 p.m. Fifty-six horses sold. The high selling weanling was a bay Quarter Horse stallion owned by Roger and Lou Parsonage. He was by Chex …
A very active and enthusiastic crowd of buyers met April 19 at the Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch, west of Billings, Montana, for the annual REAL Ranch Horse Invitational Sale. Interest in guaranteed-to-be-authentic ranch-ridden horses just keeps increasing – as evidence, this eight annual REAL Sale continued to enjoy an ever-increasing average. The top five horses …
Overall average price: $2649.00 Top 5 horses averaged: $5410.00 Top 10 horses averaged: $4795.00 Average price of 4 yrs & older: $3730.00 Average of 3 year olds: $2650.00 Average price of 2 year olds: $3011.50 Average price of yearlings: $1678.00 The 5th Annual Prairie Quarter Horse Breeders Sale, was held at Prairieland Park on Saturday, …
The 2015 Calgary Stampede poster artwork, created by artist Oleg Stavrowsky, was revealed at the annual Canvas Auction taking place on Thursday, March 20. The annual auction of chuckwagon tarps used for business advertising, proved to be a suitable venue for the chuckwagon-themed painting. The artwork pays homage to the chuckwagon drivers and horses that …
From distinctive prospects to arena ready campaigners, childproof ponies to stand-out stallions, Billings Livestock’s “February Special Catalog Sale” February 21-23 swelled with blue chip livestock. A lot of good horses – all in one spot, all offered for sale, and all given the opportunity to preview, the three-day sale weekend hosted 702 individual buyers, 692 head …
