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An increase to Canadian sport funding, including equestrian, is needed to support organizational demands and address cost increases.

Canadians played a major role in a new program designed by the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) to support their Professional Horsemen Association, which was facilitated over two days in person in a workshop format hosted at the South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 16 to 18, 2024.

john swales million dollar club, National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA)

John Swales is the first Canadian rider to win over $1 million in lifetime earnings in National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) classes and join the prestigious NRCHA Million Dollar Club. Swales earnings surpassed $1 million during the Alberta Reined Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity, Derby, & Cow Horse Show in Claresholm, Alberta at the end of August 2023. He’s only the 27th rider to achieve the feat.

Canadian-bred horses earned a total of 22 All American Quarter Horse Congress Championship titles, 14 Reserve Championships and one Grand Championship at the 2023 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) and National Snaffle Bit Association sanctioned show. Hosted by the Ohio Quarter Horse Association in Columbus, Ohio, the show was held from September 26 to October 22 at the Ohio State Expo Center. Traditionally this show is one of the biggest and most prestigious events within the North American Quarter Horse market.

CQHA Launches Its New Reproductive Best Practices Virtual Seminars - Canadians Win Several World Champion and Reserve World Champion Titles at the 2022 AQHA World Championships - The Shannon Burwash Memorial Fund Announces 2022 Scholarship Recipients

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Medina Spirit, the controversial winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby, died on Monday, December 6, 2021 at Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia, California, from an apparent heart attack. The three-year-old Thoroughbred had just completed a five-furlong workout.

Tokyo, JPN, August 31, 2021 – Lauren Barwick of Aldergrove, BC, and Sandrino (sired by Spirit of Westfalia) lit up Baji Koen Equestrian Park with a lively Individual Freestyle Test on August 30, 2021 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan.

It can be said that breeding horses is not for the faint of heart. It takes a lot of time, energy, and perseverance to develop a foal into a competent athlete, let alone one that can shine in world class competition. Yet six Canadian breeding operations proved again this past summer that Canada is quite capable of breeding such horses.

2020 olympic show jumping team, swedish winning team, henrick erickmann, peter fredericson, Malin Baryard-Johnsson, olympic equestrian, horse events

A Golden Moment for Swedish Show Jumping - It’s almost a century since Sweden last won Olympic Jumping Team gold, and when they did it on August 7, 2021 they did it with both style and grace.

Mario Deslauriers 2020 olympics, canadian equestrians at olympics tokyo, show jumping olympics

Canadian Olympic veteran Mario Deslauriers, 56, of New York, NY, and Bardolina 2 (Clarimo x Landos) spared no effort for a 22nd-place finish in the Jumping Individual Final on August 4, 2021, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.

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