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Guelph native rides with RCMP Musical Ride

BY OLIVIA RUTT

GUELPH – Atop gleaming black horses, riders in bright red uniforms concentrate as they steer the horses in graceful manoeuvres.

Then a rush of thunderous hooves pound the ground as the 32-member troop charges together.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride, a famous Canadian performance, returns to Wellington County in September.

The Musical Ride dates

back to the late 1800s as a way to break up the calvary drills in the sparsely populated west. It has become a proud Canadian tradition.

Donning polished boots, a red serge and a felt Stetson, Constable Anne Howitt becomes one of the most recognizable Canadian symbols: a Mountie.

The Guelph native joined the RCMP in 2009. She was posted in Manitoba until she decided to apply to the RCMP Musical Ride, encour-

aged by her co-workers.

In 2013, she was selected for the five week tryout course in Ottawa.

“They put you through rigorous horse training drills and see how you do, see if you’re teachable or not and how well you get along with your co-workers, because you’re going to be spending six months of the year with them, non-stop,” said Howitt in an interview with the Advertiser.

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RCMP public liaison Corporal Terry Russel said the Musical Ride receives around 1,000 applicants each year, filling only 10 to 12 open spots in the 32-member troop.

Howitt was selected and transferred to Ottawa where she spent eight months in an intermediate course.

The course trains the officers, many who have never ridden before, to ride and practice performing the drills.

“We ride with two hands initially, then we are introduced to riding with one hand then we are introduced to riding with the lance,” explained Howitt.

“During the performance, we ride with one hand and we’re carrying a lance at the same time.”

During the training session, which is taught by the RCMP, the chosen officers ride each horse in order to match up with one of them.

The officers then perform a

“form up” in January where the troop joins together, are assigned a horse and start practicing for the Musical Ride.

Once the Mountie has been matched with a horse, they are with them for the entire show season.

Howitt bonded with Warren, a 14-year-old Hanoverian warm-blood.

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Yee-haw: Canadian Cowgirls are coming to the Fergus Fall Fair

BY JAIME MYSLIK

FERGUS – The Canadian Cowgirls are headed to the Fergus Fall Fair this September.

“We’re doing a standalone show so ... it’s almost a full hour performance,” said Canadian Cowgirl rider Chloe Boydell in an interview with the Advertiser. “We do a couple of different drills and a couple of different paces.

“There will be some pretty spectacular stuff.”

The Canadian Cowgirls are a rodeo-style precision drill horseback riding team from the Chatham area.

“This is not our job this is our hobby,” Boydell said.

The team will be performing at the Fergus Fall Fair on both Sept. 17 and 18 at the Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex and entry to the performance is

included with general fair admission.

The cowgirls perform musical drills throughout the hour-long performance but as for highlights, Boydell wouldn’t give away any tricks.

She did say the audience

each performance.

Throughout the summer Boydell said the team performs on average three of four weekends per month and in the winter the riders participate in weekly practices.

We’re doing a stand alone show so ... it’s almost a full hour performance, - CHLOE BOYDELL

would be impressed, “seeing the precision, seeing these horses that know their jobs.”

She added, “We do a really nice salute to the military.”

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The Canadian Cowgirls have performed at the Calgary Stampede and they have represented Canada in the Kentucky Derby’s Pegasus Parade and the Indianapolis’ 500 Festival Parade.

The group was also chosen to stand as the honour guard for Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla when they

visited Canada recently.

In 2013 the riders were at the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, California on New Years Day. The parade takes place before the Rose Bowl football game.

The Canadian Cowgirls team consists of riders from all different disciplines, ranging from hunter/jumpers to barrel racers to reiners, Boydell explained.

“I think riding is such a diverse sport, there’s so many different disciplines that you can take into it, that you can branch off in but fundamentally they’re all the same and you can learn something from everybody,” she said.

“You can learn something from every discipline.”

The Canadian Cowgirls will be bringing their precision drill show to the Fergus Fall Fair on Sept. 17 and 18.

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Retired racehorse society to make Hillsburgh its new home

BY JAIME MYSLIK

TORONTO – Hillsburgh is set to be the new home for about 50 off-the-track thoroughbred racehorses come September.

The LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society is taking over one of Gail Wood’s Woodland Farm facilities southwest of Hillsburgh.

“She was instrumental in assisting us ... not only to help afford the property but in all its setup and all the rest of it,” said Vicki Pappas, LongRun board chair. “Her sister’s a vet too so we have a built-in vet.”

The LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society is a registered charity that takes recently retired thoroughbred racehorses as donations from their owners or trainers and helps transition them to another equine discipline.

“Hopefully into riding horses or show horses and in some cases they’re just retired and they live with us forever unless somebody wants to adopt a companion animal,” Pappas said.

She added that even through a thoroughbred might be too slow for racing success it doesn’t necessarily mean the horse wants to stand in a field all day.

“These horses are used to so much attention daily at the track and adulation ... that they don’t just want to be turned out in a field,” Pappas said. “They actually are much happier if they’re doing something.”

But the society is selec-

er to live out their retirement.

As of July 7 LongRun had placed over 20 horses this year alone.

Presently the 50 horses in the society’s care are fostered out at various farms in Ontario. By bringing all the thoroughbreds to one facility

These horses are used to so much attention daily at the track and adulation ... that they don’t just want to be turned out in a field.

- VICKI PAPPAS

tive in who adopts the retired animals. Would-be adopters must go through a rigorous screening process to be considered.

“We do ... a reference check and try to do a best possible match of horse to the potential adopter’s needs and we do due diligence in checking references and checking the facility the horse is going to and we do a year’s followup during which we ensure that everything is going well and offer support to the adopter,” Pappas explained.

She said generally if the horse is healthy, slow and quiet it could be adopted within a month of coming to LongRun, whereas other horses stay at LongRun forev-

it will be easier for interested adopters to see all the horses offered.

The society was able to purchase its own facility largely thanks to a bequest from Lana Hershelle Sniderman.

“We had been saving actually towards buying a facility of our own and we did look at a variety of farms,” Pappas said.

It was when Woods, Pappas’ best friend, mentioned she was considering downsizing that Pappas saw the opportunity.

“We were in discussion one day and ... she started telling me how she was going to renovate the farm that she lives on so that she could scale down and move whatev-

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er horses and clients that she was going to be able to keep onto the one facility,” Pappas said. “And I said ‘well, maybe we should buy the other facility’ and we got into a discussion and she said ‘I’ll do everything possible to make it work financially for you and everything.’”

The facility is on 40.5 hectares (100 acres) and has two barns, an indoor arena and 16 paddocks.

Woods’ one stipulation was that her longtime staff members keep their jobs at the barn if possible.

Pappas confirmed LongRun is providing the staff with future employment and though the society does not currently pay for grooms and stable personnel, Pappas said she didn’t think it would change much financially.

“I mean we’re still paying foster farms money,” she

said.

In fact, by having its own farm, LongRun may actually be able to save extra money.

“We’ll often get offers of tack or feed or bedding and that sort of (thing) and that was difficult for us to do because each foster farm would have its own program, its own suppliers. Now when we get somebody that wants to send us 100 bails of hay we CONTINUED PAGE 28

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RCMP Musical Ride performs two shows in Wellington County CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23

third season, but she has also been able to continue riding Warren.

“I’ve actually been with him for three years. Typically you change horses every year but we just got along so well.

We work well together, he’s good to me and likes me so they kept me with him,” she said.

Howitt initially joined the RCMP because of the opportunities to see Canada. With the Musical Ride, she gets to do just that.

“I loved what it stood for and the opportunities that it gives you to travel across Canada and meet new people and go to small communities that you would probably never vacation to or go see in your personal time so it’s a great experience,” she said.

On the Musical Ride day, Howitt and the rest of the troop start grooming the horses a couple of hours before the show.

“We’ll groom our horse, get them ready, tack them up, polish our boots and our kits, and get dressed up in our red serge,” she said.

The horses are warmed up before the show, which lasts for about 25 to 30 minutes. At the end of the performance, the officers and their horses allow the crowd to meet and greet to learn more about the

Musical Ride.

“It’s a really nice change from regular police duties to be on the Musical Ride, to have the public come and want to see you and happy to see you and the horse,” said Howitt.

During the show, the riders and their horses complete a series of manoeuvres including the diamond, star, wagon wheel and maze foundation.

communities visited. It also has an impact on those that attend the show.

Howitt explained a women approached her at a recent show, saying her daughter was at the RCMP training academy.

The daughter was inspired after speaking with Howitt at the Musical Ride in Quebec two years prior.

Howitt herself was starting her application process for

The pictures you see of the RCMP, you picture a Mountie on a horse with a red surge, it’s pretty recognizable ...

- CONSTABLE ANNE HOWITT

Howitt explained the dome formation, famous for being on the back of the $50 bill in the 1970s and 80s, is one of the most difficult.

“Once we get to that formation, the horses know it is near the end and they get to charge. So out of the dome they get a little bit more difficult to control because they’re a little more excited,” she said.

For Howitt, being part of the Musical Ride is more than just a performance. She explained the Ride is a positive economic impact to the

the RCMP when she attended the Musical Ride in Fergus in 2008.

As for being a Canadian icon, Howitt didn’t think about it before.

“The pictures you see of the RCMP, you picture a Mountie on a horse with a red surge, it’s pretty recognizable … it’s cool to be known as that I guess,” she said.

Two shows Those in Wellington County can catch the RCMP Musical Ride at two locations this year.

The first stop for the

Ride will be in Erin on Sept.

10 at 1 or 6pm at the Erin Fairgrounds.

Tickets for the Erin shows are being sold through the Erin Agricultural Society website at www.erinfair.ca.

Tickets are $10 for an adult or $5 for a child. Family rates are available.

The second show will be held at the International Plowing Match in Harriston from Sept. 20 to 24.

The Ride will be performing on Tuesday at 1:30pm and on Wednesday at 9:30am and 1:30pm.

The entry fee to the IPM will include entrance to the performance. Tickets are $17 and can be purchase online and at the gate.

RCMP breeding program The RCMP has a systematic program when it comes to their horses. All horses are sourced from the RCMP breeding farm in Packingham, outside of Ottawa.

Of the approximately 20 horses born every year, five or six “try out” with the Musical Ride, explained Russel. Those horses spend anywhere between eight and 19 years doing the show.

Those that do not go into the Ride, are sold at a horse auction held every two years.

The “prestigious equine event” gives those interested the opportunity to buy

Cst. Anne Howitt, atop of Warren, has been riding in the RCMP Musical Ride for three seasons. Page 23 photo: Howitt and Warren at a sunset performace in Ottawa. submitted photo

a horse “well trained and Hanoverian certified, from the world famous Musical Ride breeding program,” states the RCMP Foundation website.

Since 1995, the auction has raised over $1 million for the breeding program and

funds the RCMP Foundation, which supports youth-at-risk programs across Canada.

The last auction, held in 2015, sold 21 horses raising $342,000. The horses sold for between $5,500 for London, a chestnut gelding, and $40,000 for Helen, a black mare.

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A rodeo for everyone coming to Trigaire in Guelph-Eramosa

BY JAIME MYSLIK

GUELPH-ERAMOSA - A local family is taking on the behemoth task of offering a non-traditional rodeo in an unconventional way to all members of the community.

Sisters Lynn Faubert and Susan McGonigle, along with their mother Joy Cole, are preparing to launch the Special Cowboy Rodeo Association – a program out of Trigaire Inc. farm in Guelph-Eramosa Township. The association plans to offer monthly rodeos for people with special needs free of charge on the third Saturday of each month.

“We want to make sure that everybody feels like they have their own spot here,” Faubert said. “So there will be different levels of events.”

The Special Cowboy Rodeo Association will take place the third Saturday of each month and the number of participants will depend on who registers by the deadline and their individual needs.

There are no age restrictions for those who would like to participate.

“The special needs rodeo will have the barrel races, the pole races ... some side-byside races,” Faubert said.

McGonigle added, “And if the kids want to rope they will rope. Depending on their

level ... some might be at the skill level where you could let the calf out and then they could try to rope it or some might be at the skill level where we stake the calf to the ground (or hold the calf at the end) ... and they try and

helmets and other equipment to keep the participant safe.

Faubert explained that Trigaire purchased eight miniature horses for a variety of reasons.

First they’re not very threatening in appearance.

We know what the traditional rodeo events are but we will tailor those events to what the athlete needs.

-SUSAN MCGONIGLE

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But the key factor is that everyone has fun.

“We know what the traditional rodeo events are but we will tailor those events to what the athlete needs,” McGonigle explained. “So that special cowboy will get whatever they need to make them feel like they’re a cowboy and (if) that’s the event they like we’re going to make that work as long as it’s safe.”

Safety is number one for the sisters and their blooming business.

They will have a Kevlar safety vest for each participant in the Special Cowboy Rodeo Association as well as back braces, special saddles,

“If you’re a child who has a disability or anything else first of all they’re very unassuming at this size. Secondly if you’re in a wheelchair perfect height,” Faubert said.

“You don’t feel like you’re going to get stepped on or anything else.”

The sisters are working to have a special chariot designed for the miniature horses to pull.

“If you’re in a wheelchair you can come up into the chariot, the wheelchair will be locked in and you can drive them,” Faubert explained.

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Each special needs rodeo will be accompanied by free food.

The idea is to give individuals with special needs and their families a fun day of extracurricular activities, Faubert said.

“I’m a mother who has special needs boys and I know that you’re paying for speech therapy, occupation-

al therapy, physiotherapy, you’re paying for behaviourist,” Faubert said.

“There’s so many things, so many costs out there that you’re pouring all of this money in to support your kids and you don’t always have time or money and everything else for the extracurricular.”

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needs in both the western and English disciplines for a fee and all of the necessary safety equipment will be provided.

At Trigaire the focus is on making the environment and facility inclusive and accessible to all members of the community There are two different options Faubert and McGonigle have been considering to offer employment to people with special needs.

“One would be a training stream so if for example the people who have disabilities or special needs would come for a year and live on site and we would train them ... on stable management to the extent of their abilities,” Faubert said.

“We would teach them basic herd health, equine health, you know to the best of their abilities, and try to prepare them so that they can have ... a service to go out and market.”

The second stream would be to hire individuals with special needs to work on the farm but not live on site.

“Say they weren’t com-

fortable around the horses but they don’t mind sweeping, they could come and they could sweep or they could clean the tack, we’d teach them to properly clean all the tack and then that would (be) okay for them or they could wash the buckets in the wash stall ... there are lots of jobs that they could do,” McGonigle said.

“That’s empowering too and ... empowerment, it also motivates them to keep going to other jobs that maybe they didn’t think they could do.”

The sisters said they’d work to find each individual’s forte on the farm.

However, in order to fund the special needs program at Trigaire the farm also has to offer services for a fee.

On the first Saturday of each month there will be an able-bodied rodeo that can be entered for a fee.

“They’ll include all of the typical rodeos except for they will not include bull riding and they will not include the bronc riding,” Faubert said.

“I don’t want anybody hurt.

“We’re here to have a really good time and I’ve been

to a lot of rodeos that don’t include those two events and they still are, they’re fun to have.”

The farm will also offer horse soccer on Monday nights where riders can bring their own horse or rent one from Trigaire and bring their own team or join one.

“It’s a 40-inch ball ... maximum of five people per team and the horses kick the ball,” Faubert said. The sport is an excellent way to keep a horse fit.

In addition the facility will offer both English and western riding lessons, boarding options and the rental of the facility for community or private events.

The farm is currently offering lessons and has a few boarded horses on site but the rodeos and soccer matches have not begun, as the arenas are not yet complete.

However, as soon as they are the sisters are ready to hit the ground running and begin their programs.

In addition to the 100by- 200 foot outdoor western arena and 80-by-160 foot outdoor English ring the site

will have a 80-by-200 foot indoor arena so the events and lessons can be offered year round, rain or shine.

The sisters said the organization is open to taking donations of any sort, whether it be monetary, equipment or supplies and a portion of

all the for-profit events will go into running the special needs program.

“What we’ve done is try to figure out a way where we can sustain the farm and every single time a chunk ... will go to help turn on the lights, pay the electricity and then that

other chunk is going to the special needs,” Faubert said.

For more information about Trigaire and to learn how to register for rodeos and lessons and how to donate visit www.trigaire. com, email info@trigaire.com or call 519-856-8228.

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