8/ OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2012 THE RIDER
Grand Opening of the Morgan Horse Heritage Centre
Bi Nancy Kavanagh
For the past few months, a few dedicated Morgan owners would meet to discuss, visualize, contem- plate, debate and have some serious and fun chats about what our end goal for the Centre was. It was agreed that our mission was the fol- lowing:
The objectives of the Centre are to preserve, promote, research and display the history of the Mor- gan Horse, particularly in Canada. We were particularly excited when we learned of Green Mountain Morgan (also known as Major’s Green Mountain Morgan) who stood at stud in in the Port Perry area. He was advertised at stud in the Port
Heritage Centre.) To this end, we will maintain an archive of Morgan information: Cana- dian and American magazines, newslet- ters, show programs, stud books, pictures, etc. Research on breed history, par- ticularly those early Morgans who came to Canada, from Volume 1 – 6 of the AMHA Registry will be carried out. A researcher will be
Lisa Kavanagh aboard Cyan Star Trinity while Anita Speers and her mom Rosemary Herrell look on
available to help or do the work for a fee.
plays of the Centre.
We had a building, we had a mission, now we need to fill the building with articles of historical significance and raise a few dol- lars to put it all together with vol- unteer labour.
Weanling colt LLF Hudson Bay and Sherri Wilson
Deana Wilson spearheaded the mission with her team – Greg Reeves, Christine Monteith, Heather Stark, Brenda Casteels and Nancy Kavanagh. This enthusiastic group of Morgan owners met many times over the spring and summer and pulled it all together to meet our deadline of September 22nd, the day we had our Grand Opening of the Morgan Horse Heritage Centre. The day went off without a
Displays of the Morgan beauty and versatility were part of the line- up starting with the weanling colt, LLF Hudson Bay owned by Sherri Wilson. Hudson’s sire SHW North- ern Eclipse was shown In Hand to display typical Morgan type and con- formation, also owned by Sherri Wil- son. Cyan Star Trinity was ridden under western attire with Lisa Kavanagh in the saddle for owner Nancy Kavanagh. Under English attire, MLF Merlin was ridden by owner Kyla Vendrig. Coming out in hunt attire was the mare, HD Aiden Lair, ridden by Sherri Wilson for Deana Wilson, owner. Sherri then returned to the ring riding her stal- lion SHW Northern Eclipse to let everyone know that he isn’t just a
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10/12 Nancy Beacon and Deana Wilson cutting the ribbon.
Perry Star in May 1866 and followed a route from Cannington in the north to Oshawa in the south and did this each week during the breeding sea- son. He was owned by Mr. Edward Major and he and wife Maria owned property at Borelia and on Crandell and Lilla Streets. (For more info on Major’s Green Mountain Morgan, please contact the Morgan Horse
operated with some sunny skies, albeit a bit windy but no rain! It was like a Morgan Family Reunion, see- ing former Morgan owners, new Morgan owners and many of us who were there in the beginning and still there today. Deana Wilson and Nancy Beacon presided over the Rib- bon Cutting and then opened the door to our visitors to see the dis-
hitch, even the Autumn weather co-
SHW Northern Exposure and Sherri Wilson pretty face, he can trot too!
A fabulous bar-b-que was set up by Brenda Casteels and ably assisted by her riding students and Fay Wilson, Deana’s daughter-In- Law. A used tack sale was organized by Christine Monteith to help raise a few extra dollars for the Centre and we must acknowledge the generous donation from the family of Colleen Longhurst who passed away a couple of months ago. Colleen loved her Morgan to the end and would be proud to know she is still contribut- ing.
Greg Reeves did a lot of the work on the building particularly with the installation of an air condi- tioner, we will all be grateful for the AC next summer!
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It was a wonderful day of renewing old friendships, watching beautiful horses perform and learning more about the breed of horse that we love and admire. We continue to work on new exhibits and donations of historical equine and/or Morgan artifacts (either permanently or tem- porary) are welcome.
The Centre is open to the pub- lic by appointment only and is locat- ed at 971 Scugog Line 12, Uxbridge, ON. We offer different levels of membership to anyone interested. We are on Facebook and the friends list is growing. An on-line auction will be featured as a fundraiser this Fall.
This is an exciting new venture for the Morgan horse in Canada. For more information, please contact Deana Wilson, 905-852-9850 or
djwilson@powergate.ca
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