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The Rider and Equine Niagara News publisher Barry Finn recently acquired one of the most popular equestrian social networking sites in the world: www.Barnmice.com Barnmice.com connects horse enthusiasts in a friendly online community where thousands of videos and photos are uploaded by members from as far away as New Zealand, Germany, the UK, and even South America. The site offers discussion forums, advice from the experts, and is a safe environment for riders of every level to interact with industry professionals and international equestrian champions. Members connect directly with equine product and service providers, veterinary advisors, real estate brokers, insurance and investment specialists, even fashion and jewellery designers in both Western and English styles. Founded in 2008 by Canadian dressage rider, Barbara Fogler, Barnmice.com was created as an easy way for her to share videos and photos with friends and family. With a business background in pub- licity and social media, she soon realized that Barnmice.com offered the perfect social networking plat-


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form that would allow everyone to join the conversation.


“I wanted to find a way to bring together riders from every background in an international community, where everyone could make new friends and have lots of fun sharing horsey experiences and learning from some of the most respected experts in the equine world,” explains Barbara in a recent interview. “It occurred to me that if I could somehow bring together the video sharing capabilities of YouTube with the social network- ing of Facebook and Twitter, and


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From Our Founder


Remembering December1978


Our cover featured Ian Tyson, Canada’s legendary song writer, cow- boy, ranch owner and Ontario Cutting Champion. Ian is now 78 years old and is still going strong, From his ranch just south of Calgary he has just com- pleted composing songs for his new just released album Raven Singer. Ian was a strong supporter of Ontario Cut- ting and helped with the entertainment at many Quarteramas.


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Thieves were out in full force at the October Western World Horse Show at the Coliseum in Exhibition Place. A Miley 2 horse trailer was stolen, a downed filled jacket was lift- ed from a Western competitor. A blacksmith had all four horse shoes stolen while working on a horse. All members of the horse community should be aware even 35 years later to


be in constant vigil of your property.


We received a letter form Margaret Reed of Beamsville, Ontario regarding an article we wrote about her stolen pony. She advised that she had received several phone calls but she did not recover her pony. She also advised that another pony was stolen and she was offering a $2,000 reward, even though the animal had no real market value.


On September 9, the Meredith Manor School of Horsemanship in Waverly, West Virginia advised The Rider that had they just reached a milestone in their history by the enroll- ment of 157 students. The Rider was their Canadian Advertising medium. We are currently running their column in The Rider.


Mr. Brock McCauley, one of Ontario’s finest Quarter Horse Train- ers, ran a training clinic at the Humber College.


The Walkerton District Saddle Club advised The Rider that they were forming a 4H club in the area.


Copenhagen / Skoal invited the Super Stars of Rodeo to a Champi- onship Rodeo. The Rodeo Superstars spectacular raised funds for the Fort Worth Children’s Hospital.


The American Horse Council, of which The Rider was a member, requested that the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, creators of the Special Olympics, include horseback riding as a demonstration activity at their 1979 Special Olympics.


The WHA of Ontario held their annual Awards Banquet at the Howard Johnson’s Airport Road in Toronto.


Jim Muir was elected president of the Ontario Paint Horse Club for 1979. Other members of the board were Marilyn Dowie, Lyn Johnson, Bonnie Goheen, Audry Woods, Fred Cronkite, Clyde Grey, Lyn Patterson, Julie Lon- desboro and Peggy Finnigan.


Quarterama ‘79 got underway with advertising for the the show entries. The show was held at the Coli- seum Exhibition Place in Toronto on


combine them in a community just for horse people, I would be able to realize my goal.”


Having recently achieved a stag- gering one million visitors per year mark for the site, Barbara has decid- ed to pursue other exciting projects so she has confidently handed over the Barnmice reins to Barry Finn, who intends to build on the heritage established by Ms. Fogler.


“Barbara did a fabulous job building Barnmice over the past four years and it’s an honour to continue what she started. We have many plans for the site and I’m thrilled with the number of exciting new opportunities it presents, especially with its international reach,” enthused Mr. Finn. “Our advertisers will have a unique digital platform from which to market their products to equestrians around the world, and our social networking community will connect horse lovers and equine professionals from every corner of the world. Barnmice is a perfect


March 8-11, 1979.


Deadlines for advertising in The Riders annual Stallion Edition were set along with the deadline for Quartera- ma.


Thank you to Nancy Nicholson for sending us the Ontario Rodeo Association Champions for December 1978:Saddle Bronc - Brian Doner Bareback Bronc - Shawn McDonald Bull Riding - Brian Doner Tiedown Roping - Fred MacKenzie Steer Wrestling - Jerry Kinsella Ladies Barrel Racing - Lisa Taylor Junior Steer Riding - Dave Doner Goat Tying - Sue Kinsella All Around - Brian Doner Rookie - Vic Hewitt


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addition to The Rider and Equine News Niagara media family!” So after you’ve stuffed yourself with turkey and fixin’s over the holi- days, why not stretch out in front of your computer screen, log onto www.Barnmice.com and take a tour, browse the videos, learn something new and join the conversation? There’s over a million horse folks waiting to welcome you.


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