A new research study published online on March 31, 2017, in Journal of Archaeological Science, indicates that nomadic horse culture in Mongolia can trace its roots to the eastern Eurasian Steppes more than 3,000 years ago, an area that is now the territory of modern Mongolia

Three annual scholarships will be distributed in 2017. Preference will be given to eligible, full-time, post-secondary students whose studies have emphasis on the horse, agriculture, agri-business or equine veterinary medicine.  

For 2017, the three scholarship awards offered are:

Painter Felice House created her series, Re-Western, as a reimagining of favourite Western movies, in response to her frustration at the gender division typically seen in Western films. In her work, the accomplished figurative painter features female leads in the roles traditionally filled by male cowboys such as Clint Eastwood and John Wayne.

The oldest DNA ever sequenced came from the frozen remains of a horse more than half a million years old discovered in Canada’s west-central Yukon Territory. Thought to be an impossible project even by the coordinator, Dr. Ludovic Orlando of the University of Copenhagen, one of the many revelations included that the shared ancestors of all horses, donkeys and zebras lived more than four million years ago.