20/ FEBRUARY 2013 THE RIDER
Northern Run Farms Makes History
Northern Run Farms (The Mathieu Family – Richard, Annett, Jessy, Phil and Lina), of Ancaster Ontario, would like to announce the very first Cana- dian sale of a barrel horse to China; DOINGIT THE- FRENCHWAY aka Frankie, a daughter of FRENCH- MANS GUY, out of a ROLL THE CASH mare, made the journey across the ocean in late November. Frankie was bred, raised and trained at NRF. She was purchased as a
six year old, after two out- standing years running for us. Last season (2011) in her short futurity year, due to a lung infection, she set an arena record, won a rodeo, won the Eastern Canadian NBHA Finals Futurity and was Reserve Champion in the OBRA Finals Futurity. This year (2012) was an extremely fun and successful year, Frankie placed top 15 in both NBHA Super shows in Michigan and New York against over 400 entered at
each, in addition to placing in the Derby in Quebec at the largest paying show in histo-
ry, to finish her career off with us by placing 6th out of 552 at the NBHA Worlds in Georgia. We wish Mr. Yu luck with his incredible new mount. We are looking for- ward to seeing the NRF brand in China – while still on Canadian soil we have high hopes for her full sister running her Derby year in 2013. A special thank you to Chris Blane and Equine Acquisitions LLC for their assistance in making this sale possible.
Quebec Reining
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André de Bellefeuille receives the Equine Canada ‘Canadian Breeder of the Year Award’
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The Canadian Breeder of the Year Award will recognize a Cana- dian breeder for their contribution the quality of Canadian bred horses. Nominees must be members of an Equine Canada breed association. André de Bellefeuille of
St.Basile le Grand, QC, is the recipi- ent of the Canadian Breeder of the Year. Introduced to reining about 20 year ago, de Bellefeuille has been involved in the sport at all levels-as a rider, owner, breeder and volunteer at the provincial, national and inter- national levels.
2011 was a great year for de Bellefeuille’s home-bred horses. Spooks N Sparks won the National Reining Horse Non Pro Futurity in Oklahoma City, his horses finished in the top 10 in four different levels at the National Reining Horse Asso- ciation Futurity out of 880 entries and Please Me Whiz became World Champion in two different levels. His success continued in to 2012. De Bellefeuille horses won the Quebec Derby Open Champion and Reserve, the NRHA Pink Ribbon Open Champion and Reserve Snaffle Bit Champion, and Open Level 3 Co-Champion at the Congress Futu- rity.
Two New Faces For AQR’s Hall Of Fame: Lise Roy and Snow Gun
Hoping everyone has a good and prosperous year!
The former AQR presidents meet every year before the Annual General Meeting: They analyze the various propositions received for peoples and/or horses and vote to accept and/or decline the AQR Hall of Fame nominations. On January 19 last, LISE ROY and SNOW GUN were added to the AQR Hall of Fame. Mrs. Roy becomes the first woman to be elected and she joins a group of eleven (11) other persons elected since 2005. The mare ‘Snow Gun’ is the third horse elected to the AQR Hall of Fame after ‘Torima’ (2005) and ‘The Gunners’ (2011).
De Bellefeuille’s careful match- ing the best mares and stallions has proven time and again to be the cor- rect choices.
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