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London show for the second year running. Last year, hoards of fans were excited to meet the young star and some even came away with an autograph after shopping at the Amber Marshall apparel booth. Amber is looking forward to attending on Sunday the 20th for autographs, and to meet her fans and friends.


GEORGE HEWITT


Be sure to stop by Ionson’s Saddlery booth while you’re at Can-Am. Author, TV personality and vintage rodeo cowboy George Hewitt will be signing books all three days of Can-Am. George has enjoyed an interest- ing life, by most people’s standards. By the age of 18, George was breaking and training horses. George also trained TB racehorses here and in the USA. and spent a good number of years as a bull rider. In the late 50’s, George’s work as a play-by-play sports announcer took him to the U.S., Australia, South America and England. George also enjoyed a 6 year stint training and racing Standardbreds on both Canadian and U.S. tracks, earn- ing a couple championships along the way. While he set numerous track records, winning with no-chance horses earned him the nickname “The Miracle Man”. George even competed in the world famous “Little Brown Jug” race driving a horse named “Shadow Don Time”. In the early 70’s, George starred in the T.V. series, “Open Roads” as well as other Disney projects. In 1998 George joined the prestigious “OPENING TEAM” at Walt Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Read about his many adventures and misadventures in his books. But, come meet him at Can-Am and get it straight from the horse- trader’s mouth.


AWARD WINNING EQUI-MANIA Gayle Ecker of Equine Guelph presents Equimania.


This traveling inter-active display was developed in Ontario and was just featured at World Equestrian Games. The Can-Am is proud to have them as part of our show. No matter what age you are or what level of horsemanship you are at, you will undoubtedly find this educational display interesting.


SELENA O’HANLON SILVER MEDALIST EVENTING CLINIC


Selena Jade O’Hanlon started eventing at age nine and by the time she was sixteen, she earned a place on the first of many North American Young Rider teams. From this first international involvement, there was no stopping Selena. She worked hard and brought on horse after horse for her mother’s sales barn, taking most of them to Prelimi- nary level whilst dreaming of being at the Olympic level. Selena brought her own mare through the lev- els from Novice to Advanced before being given the ride on Columbo, her star horse since 2006. This part- nership showed talent right from the beginning and in 2008,


Selena achieved her Olympic dream, representing Cana- da in Hong Kong Olympic Games.


REINING CHAMPION LISA COULTER At the conclusion of the 2010 FEI Reining season, Lisa Coulter of Princeton, BC, earned the top spot on both the FEI Reining World Ranking and World Stand- ing Lists.


Riding Angels Mark, Bob Thomp- son’s eight-year-old paint gelding, Coul- ter topped the FEI Reining World Standings List, which is


calculated based on results accumulated with one horse, total- ing 73 points. Coul- ter also topped the FEI Reining World Ranking List with a total of 100 points. At the peak of Lisa’s year, she competed


at the WEG and although she did not win there, the competitions leading up to WEG put her to the top the FEI World Rankings and Standings lists.


INTERSPECIES TELEPATHIC COMMU- NICATOR LAUREN BODE


Lauren Bode has always had a special


affinity with animals. She grew up on a back- country cattle ranch in South America with horses, the usual domestic pets and more exot- ic animals as her daily companions. Lauren has maintained her telepathic communication abili- ties working with all types of animals. It is often amazing to hear the specific information that they tell her: health


problems, behavioural problems, training prob- lems, information on food and exercise prefer- ences, opinions on family matters and gossip gathered from the people and other animals around them. Lauren’s travels throughout


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