Court of Arbitration for Sport exonerates Nicole Walker and highlights her commitment to clean sport - Equestrian Canada (EC) has learned of the reasoned rulings by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the Arbitral Award concerning Nicole Walker, EC and The Pan American Sports Organization.

The Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI) Tribunal has suspended USA Jumping athlete Andrew Kocher for ten years, and disqualified him from eight events between June 2018 and November 2019, for using electric spurs on horses. The athlete has also been fined CHF (Swiss franc) 10,000 and ordered to pay costs of CHF 7,500.

During the early 1950s, Quarter Horses began their introduction into Canada’s west. The Canadian Quarter Horse Association (CQHA) was first formed in 1957 by inaugural president John G. Millar of Milestone, Saskatchewan with George M. Cheatham of Calgary, Alberta acting as vice president. The following year, Roy Ionson brought the first registered Quarter Horse to Ontario. Ionson, the founding president of the Ontario Quarter Horse Association, was also the first person from the province elected to the CQHA’s board of directors in 1961.