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WHERE ARE THEY NOW
We are happy to report on the progress of our
wonderful CanAm Sport Horses and what they are doing now. Please e mail us with
your story of your CanAm Sport Horse. Here are a few.
CanAm Sport Horse Update
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CanAm Sport Horses Impressive in Manitoba Young
Horse Championships at
2011 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair
Congratulations to
two CanAm Sport Horses, Skye III and Geo, who turned
in notable efforts in the 2011 Manitoba Young Horse Championships, Four and Five
Year Old Divisions, at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair held at the Keystone
Centre in Brandon, Manitoba. As a bonus, each picked up $500.00 in cash awards
for being the CanAm Sport Horse high point earner in the Young Horse
Championship divisions. They were also the high point Canadian-bred Sport Horse
(CSHA) in their respective divisions, receiving breeder plaques for this
distinction.
The Young
Horse Championships are designed to showcase young Manitoba-bred horses.
Competition consists of four classes: conformation, hunter, jumper and dressage.
Points are awarded for each class and the horse accumulating the most points is
declared Champion.
This was the first year at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair
that CanAm Sport Horses were eligible to win $500.00 for accumulating the most
points in each division of the Young Horse Championships. The awards were
sponsored by the North American Equine Ranching Information Council (NAERIC) as
a way to promote and reward NAERIC registered sport horses, also known as CanAm
Sport Horses, when competing in these highly regarded classes.
Skye was Reserve Champion in the Young Horse
Competition Four-Year-Old Division, including a second placing in three classes,
the Pre-children’s & Adult Amateur Hunter Over Fences Stake, winning a $75.00
prize; Young Horse Hunter Suitability Four-Year-Old Class, and Young Horse
Jumper Suitability Four-Year-Old Class. Geo was Reserve Champion
in the Young Horse Show Hack Class for Five-Year-Olds.
Four-year-old CanAm Sport Horse Skye is by
the Hanoverian stallion Samual and out of the Thoroughbred-Percheron
crossbred mare, Lenore. She was bred by Ravine Ranch Sport Horses,
Deb & Doug King and Sons, Lenore, Manitoba. Skye is a sale
graduate of the 2007 CanAm Sport Horse Sale and Futurity held at the Kentucky
Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, and is owned by Cynthia Kulczycki of Dugald,
Manitoba. Skye also won the $3,500 CanAm Sport Horse Futurity in
which all sale weanlings were eligible to compete.
Geo is a five-year-old CanAm Sport Horse
sired by registered Hanoverian stallion Gringo and is out of a
registered appendix Quarter Horse mare, Map Easy Delight. He is
owned by Samantha Harland of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and is another home bred of
Ravine Ranch Sport Horses.
In addition to their cash prize winnings, Skye
and Geo both are also eligible to win award money through the
NAERIC Advantage® an incentive program that rewards horses bred by NAERIC
member ranchers when they compete successfully at approved events.
More than 48,000 horses are
registered with NAERIC so far and are eligible to earn NAERIC
Advantage ® rewards.
NAERIC horse owners, participating in NAERIC approved events, have received over
$2,900,000.00 since 1998. Does your horse qualify for NAERIC Advantage ®
money? Search for NAERIC registered horses and find out more about the NAERIC
Advantage® on the NAERIC web site at
www.naeric.org.
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CanAm Sport Horse Doc
Enjoys Multiple Championship Season
Doc,
a seven-year-old CanAm Sport Horse owned by Kathy Schneider, California, has won
multiple Championships on the California circuit. The 17.2 hand ¾ Thoroughbred
– ¼ Percheron is sired by the registered Thoroughbred stallion Hopkins
Forest.
Doc
started off
his winning 2008 season at Rancho Murieta, CA, with a Reserve Championship in
the 2’9” jumper division. He followed that up with a Level I Jumper
Championship at the Golden Gate Horse Show, Sacramento in May. In June at the
Pebble Beech Classic I, Doc was Champion Pre Adult Amateur Jumper
and Reserve Champion Low Adult Amateur Jumper. Doc most recently
won another Level 1 Championship at the Pickwick Fall Classic in Elk Creek, CA,
in September.
Ms. Schneider,
very pleased with Doc’s efforts, said, “What can I say? CanAm
Sport Horses make excellent amateur mounts because of their temperament while
they don’t sacrifice athletic ability.”
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CanAm Sport Horse Kalan

Kalan, a four-year-old CanAm Sport
Horse, has been a model of consistency in his recent show record. 2008
accomplishments include:
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Milner Downs Summer Classic II,
British Columbia – Second place every class; Reserve Champion Baby Green
Hunter
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Evergreen Classic (AA Rated),
Carnation, Washington – Ribbons in every class over fences; Four and
Five-Year-Old-Hunter
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British Columbia Sport Horse Fall
Show – Top ribbons in Young Horse and Junior Rider Divisions; Hunter Under
Saddle and English Pleasure
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BCHJA Championships, British
Columbia – Ribbons in every class; Baby Green Hunter and Young Hunter Stake
Kalan is sired by the registered
Thoroughbred stallion Expect Greatness and out of a cross-bred Percheron mare.
Bred by Cancade Farms, Kennedy, Saskatchewan, Kalan is currently owned by Pat
DuMont, Aldergrove, British Columbia.
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CanAm Sport Horse Super Seven Wins
2008 Manitoba Young Horse Championship

October 2008 -- Four-year-old CanAm Sport Horse Super Seven, owned by Dorsch Farms and ridden by Don Dorsch, won the four-year-old division of the Manitoba Young Horse Championships held during the 2008 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. Super Seven, bred by Ravine Ranch Sport Horses, was sired by Samual, a registered Hanoverian, and is out of Hurry Hussy, a registered Thoroughbred.
The Young Horse Championships are designed to showcase young Manitoba-bred horses. Competition consists of four classes: conformation, hunter, jumper and dressage. Points are awarded for each class and the horse accumulating the most points is declared Champion.
In addition to the cash prize awards for each class, Super Seven, registered with NAERIC, collected additional money from the NAERIC Advantage® rewards program. For more information about NAERIC and the NAERIC Advantage, please visit www.naeric.org.
Super Seven’s List of 2008 Accomplishments:
- 2008 Manitoba-bred Four-Year-Old Grand Champion Warmblood - Royal Manitoba Winter Fair (A-rated show)
- 2008 2'9" Hunter Grand Champion - Royal Manitoba Winter Fair (A-rated show)
- 2008 Open Low Hunter Grand Champion - Heart of the Continent Show (A-rated show)
- 2008 2'9" Hunter Reserve Grand Champion- Heart of the Continent Show (A-rated show)
- 2008 Hunter Classic Champion- Heart of the Continent Show (A-rated show)
- 2008 2'9" Hunter Grand Champion - Summer Fair – Brandon, Manitoba
- 2008 Open Low Hunter Grand Champion- Summer Fair – Brandon, Manitoba
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CanAm
Sport Horse Sashay
Owned by Janene Gerling and presented by Hans
Gerling, the CanAm
Sport Horse filly Sashay (“Saphire”)
won the two-year-old division of the Future Event Horse classes with a score
of 76.2. Sashay was bred by Ravine Ranch Sport Horses,
owned and operated by Doug and Deb King, Lenore, Manitoba, Canada. She
is sired by the Hanoverian stallion Samual
by Simply SM, both successful competition stallions, and is out of
Nina by Novalis.
UpDate
She won the 2007 USA Future
Event Horse Champion (2 yr. old filly division). The final Future Event Horse
Competition took place at Morven Park Leesburg, Virginia
last fall. She now stands 16.3 hands.
Sashay scored an 8 for conformation and
stands 16.2 hands. Future event horses are judged on conformation and
must allow for it to stand up to a career that will consist of training,
competition and performance at the upper levels of the sport of eventing.
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Back-to-Back Wins for CanAm Sport Horse
Cancade’s Saskatchewan

CHAMPION
YEARLING
GRAND CHAMPION BEST YOUNG HORSE
first time shown at the
Midstates Summerfest
June 13-17, 2007
Repeats
CHAMPION
YEARLING
GRAND CHAMPION BEST YOUNG HORSE
Midstates Summer Horse Show
June 20-24, 2007
(July,
2007 --Louisville, KY) A yearling CanAm Sport Horse with the unlikely name
Cancade’s Saskatchewan dominated the hunter breeding classes at the
Midstates Horse Shows in Mason City, Iowa. At the Midstates Summerfest, June 13
– 17, 2007, her first time shown, she won the yearling class and went on to be
named Best Young Horse. Then, at the Midstates Summer Horse Show, June 20 – 24,
2007 she did it again!
Hunter
breeding classes are for yearlings, two and three- year-olds. They are to walk
and jog and are judged on conformation, way of moving, quality, substance,
soundness and suitability to become hunters.
Cancade’s Saskatchewan,
aka “Sassy” is owned by Melissa Mihalevich Whippoorwill Ridge
Farm, Kirksville, Missouri, and bred by, as her name implies, Cancade Farms,
Lloyd and Melanie Cancade, Kennedy, Saskatchewan, Canada. She is a yearling
gray filly standing 15.2 (and growing) sired by the Cancade’s Thoroughbred
stallion, Proven Jade.
Melissa
says, “For a yearling she is absolutely correct and growing up perfect. She is
very intelligent and her world revolves around pleasing me.” Melissa, a breeder
of Warmbloods and Thoroughbreds for 25 years, purchased Sassy at
public auction. She has been a professional horse trainer for 37 years and is
former World Cup Grand Prix rider coached by the legendary Jimmy Williams.
Update
Sassy wins Best Young Horse at St. Louis Festival II, July 11 – 15,
2007, St Louis, Missouri.
About CanAm Sport Horses
CanAm
Sport Horses® is a program of the North American Equine Ranching Information
Council (NAERIC). CanAm Sport Horses®, blending quality with affordable
prices, are produced by crossing predominantly draft-cross mares with
Thoroughbred stallions that meet the needs of sport horse enthusiasts from the
show ring, to the hunt field, even recreational riding. With their exceptional
disposition, durability, athleticism, versatility and color, CanAm Sport Horse®
may be registered with both NAERIC and the Performance Horse Registry. Visit
www.canamsporthorses.com for complete information.
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CanAm
Sport Horse,
M-S Reddy Fox,
Qualifies for
Young Event Horse Series Championship
CanAm Sport
Horse, M-S Reddy Fox, is the first four-year-old in the United States to
qualify for the USEA/Spalding Lab Championships to be held in conjunction with
the Wellpride American Eventing Championships, September 13-16, 2007, at the
Lamplight Equestrian Center in Wayne, Illinois.
M-S Reddy Fox,
a.k.a., Foxy, was the only four-year-old to break the 70 percent
mark, which is the score necessary (two total) to qualify for the Series
championships, in winning the Waredeca Horse Trials on June 1, 2007/
Owned by
Rosemarie Merle-Smith of Virginia Field Hunters in Trevilians, Virginia, and
ridden by daughter Nicolette, Foxy stood out with his unique
snowflake Appaloosa blanket coloring. Merle-Smith purchased Foxy
on a trip to Saskatchewan when he was a weanling.
The flashy
gelding shows promise as both a foxhunter and eventer. "Foxy is a very laid back
gelding with superior manners,” says Merle-Smith. “He has just enough "spook"
that he jumps very carefully. I really can't fault him. He hacks out quietly by
himself but doesn't mind crowds either when he has foxhunted. He has only been
ridden by family members and never by a “professional.”
Young Event
Horse classes are designed toward education and preparation in a progressive
manner. Youngsters are asked to complete three sections:
Conformation and Type; Dressage;
Jumping/Suitability and Potential. The ultimate goal of the
Young Event Horse Series is to choose the youngster that possesses the talent
and mind set, and who with proper training, will excel in the uppermost levels
of the eventing world.
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A Great Show Season for Ms.
Moneypenny

November 15, 2005 –
Talented show jumper and CanAm Sport Horse Ms. Moneypenny,
has enjoyed much success throughout the 2005 show season. Sired by CanAm
Sport Horse sire Expect Greatness, Ms. Moneypenny
is owned by Bill and Diane Nunn, operators of Sky Rock Farm, Hamel,
Minnesota, and is ridden by Diane.
Ms. Moneypenny’s
2005 show results include: Reserve Champion Level 5 Jumper, Midstate
Spring Show; Champion Level 5 Jumper, MHJA Show; Champion Level 6 Jumper,
Midstates Summerfest; Champion Level 6 Jumper, Midstates Summer Show; and
Reserve Champion Level 6 Jumper, Alpine Animal Humane Society Show. She
also placed 2nd in the Heart of the Continent Grand Prix,
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Thoroughbred sire
Expect Greatness is an own son of the great Raise A Native
and grandson of Native Dancer, a popular hunter, dressage
and eventing bloodline. He stands at Cancade Farms, Kennedy,
Saskatchewan, Canada and sired 15 CanAm Sport Horse foals in 2005.
Expect Greatness
is also the sire of Dynex—Preliminary Three-Day Event
Champion of Canada in 1999, and named to the Canadian Eventing Team in
2000.
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Three 2005 First Level Championships for
Victoria’s Secret
October 20, 2005 --Victoria’s
Secret (a.k.a. Vicky), owned by Margaret Curtis of
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, won three First Level Championships in 2005.
The six-year-old 3/4 Thoroughbred - 1/4 Clydesdale CanAm Sport Horse was
born Regent's Minny, sired by the Thoroughbred stallion
Southern Regent. The dark bay mare "has opened a whole new side
to riding," says Margaret. "My previous horse turned out to be physically
limited for what I needed to compete in dressage."
Victoria's Secret
also placed at
both the 2004 and 2005 Alberta Provincial Dressage Championships.
Vicky is currently schooling Second Level for the 2006 competition
season. Margaret adds that Vicky jumps a little as well,
demonstrating the versatility of the CanAm Sport Horse.
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Artworks
Wins Pre-Adult Equitation Championship at Langley, B.C.
Summer Festival
(October
1, 2005) CanAm Sport Horse Artworks, owned by Pat DuMont of
Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada, carried his rider Kristin Hunsberger
to the Pre-Adult Equitation Championship at the Summer Festival, held at
the Thunderbird Show Park, Langley, British Columbia, from August 24-28,
2005.
During the summer of
2000, Pat flew to Alberta to look at “Art” after having
considerable success with a filly by the same sire named Celtic
Dream. As a three-year-old in 2000, Celtic Dream
had won the Hunter Filly Class at the B.C. Breeders Classic. In 2004,
Celtic Dream was Reserve Champion Level 1 Jumper at the
Thunderbird Show Park.
Artworks,
now a five-year-old, was also
Reserve Champion Pre-Adult Hunter at The West Coast Classic in June 2005
and Reserve Champion Pre-Adult Equitation at Thunderbird Show Park Spring
Classic in May 2005.
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