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May 9, 2008Toronto, Ontario – The Hong Kong Tourism Board and Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office (HKETO) in Canada have announced an exciting contest featuring a trip for two to the 2008 Olympic Games equestrian events Read more »
Assiniboia Downs forced to cancel Saturday racing
May 8, 2008Winnipeg – MB - Unfortunately live racing has been cancelled for Saturday, May 10, 2008 due to a lack of entries. Although the horse population is up around 800 horses, the poor weather leading Read more »
Canadian Eventing Committee supports Eventing Canada [!]’s lottery for 2008 Olympic Games
May 7, 2008The Directors of Eventing Canada [!] are pleased to announce a unique opportunity to win tickets to attend the three day eventing competition of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, August 8–12, in Hong Kong. First Prize includes air fare, hotel accommodation and tickets to all three phases of the Olympic three day eventing competition for two fortunate individuals. The tickets are $25 each, or five for $100.00. Proceeds to fund the Canadian Eventing Team in their Olympic bid! Draw will be made on July1, 2008. For more information, visit our website www.eventing.ca, and fill out the order form and fax or mail it to : imagine (!) Beijing Raffle 59 Hillside Drive, Toronto, ON M4K 2M1 Fax (416) 255-5722
ORC Equine Task Force shuts down supplier of illegal drugs
May 7, 2008Toronto, ON – The ORC’s industry-funded Equine Medication Control and Drug Task Force, made up of ORC investigators and seconded members of the OPP Illegal Gambling Unit, has succeeded in taking a supplier of drugs Read more »
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Announces 2008 Nominations
May 7, 2008Toronto, ON - A total of 22 nominees have been put forward by the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame’s Thoroughbred and Standardbred Nominating Committees including six thoroughbred horses, four standardbreds and twelve people. Read more »
Featured Articles
Cheating: A Sensitive Issue
by Kim Izzo | Horse Sport May 2008What is being done to combat hypersensitization in the jumper ring? The old adage “cheaters never prosper” has renewed relevance in today’s world of sport. You need only think of the blood doping scandals Read more »
A Canadian Equestrian Abroad
by Vanessa Annand | Horse-Canada May/June 2008Vanessa Annand is a 21-year-old native of Alberta and lifelong rider. She took a gap year from her studies at the University of Victoria to tour Europe in 2007. To fund her trip, she worked Read more »
Derby Bloodlines Past & Present
by Jay Leimbach | Canadian Thoroughbred May/June 2008The dramatic rise and fall of dominant sirelines is a vastly under-appreciated fact of Thoroughbred racing and breeding, and nowhere is this illustrated better than in the list of Kentucky Derby winners of the past Read more »
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