MARCH/APRIL 2013 THE RIDER /3 Ruth Carlson Named as the 2012 Equine Canada Volunteer of the Year
Ottawa, Ontario, February 9, 2013 —- Equine Canada has named Ruth Carlson of Kimberley, BC, as the 2012 Volunteer of the Year. Ruth has been involved with the sport of Endurance since 1977 as an organizer, competitor and groom at both the national and international level. In addition, to winning a world champi- onship medal, she is also an FEI judge- exemplify- ing all the positive aspects of equestrian sport. She has logged over 6000 competition miles, with 66 starts and, incredibly, 66 completions. She also rode in North American and World Champi- onships from 1986 to 1989 and was a member of the silver medal Endurance Team at WEG in 1988. In 1989, Ruth became and FEI endurance judge, and she was in demand at all levels of com- petition including North American, Pan American, World Championship and World Equestrian Games.
Ruth has also served as an FEI course direc-
tor and member of the FEI Endurance Technical Committee. In 2007, she became the acting chair of the committee and was named the official chair in 2008 - a position she held until 2012. She proudly represented Canada and the rest of the world - committed to the welfare of the horse and the growth of the sport through education, under- standing and the implementation of positive change. During her time with the FEI, the disci- pline of endurance grew rapidly and has become the bureau’s second largest sport.
Since the inception of Endurance Canada as committee of Equine Canada’s Sport Council, Ruth has played a major role and made numerous contributions to her sport at home from the grass roots to the international level as well. “I have never thought of myself as a volun- teer-it is just what I did,” said Carlson. “Having said this however, there is nothing more encourag- ing or gratifying than an expression of recognition
from one’s peers.”
“I think most people do not start out thinking of themselves as being a volunteer, but more of an advocate for something about which they are pas- sionate, and my years of working in and for Endurance have definitely been a labour of love,” she added. “Love for the sport and for the horses who share it with us. It is encouraging to know that maybe I have helped to make a positive differ- ence in the path that Endurance has taken, both at home and throughout the world.”
themselves to the ideals of EC, worked for the improvement of the organization and who has had a notable impact on the sport. Ruth Carlson was honoured at the Equine Canada Annual Awards Gala on Fri- day, February 8, 2013, in Ottawa, ON, with the 2012 Equine Canada Volunteer of the Year award by Sara Runnalls of BFL Cana- da, and and Jack de Wit, member Equine Canada Awards Committee.
“I feel that I share this award with all my col- leagues across Canada and around the globe who have worked shoulder to shoulder with me to get where we are today, and I count on their continu- ing commitment in the future. In particular, I share this honour with my husband and my family who have been unfailing through this journey.” The Equine Canada Volunteer of the Year is presented to an individual who has dedicated
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Northern Dancer Named as
Equine Canada Horse of the Year
Award Recipient Ottawa, ON - Northern Dancer, a Canadian- bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century, has been named as the winner of the Equine Canada Horse of the Year award-the Hickstead Tro- phy.
Foaled in 1961, Northern Dancer was a small bay colt sired by Nearctic and his dam Natalma, was by Native Dancer. The follow- ing year at the yearling sales held at Wind- fields in Toronto, Ontario, Northern Dancer didn’t find a buyer willing to pay his reserve price of $25,000, so he joined the Windfields Farm racing stable.
In his two years of racing at the ages of two and three, Northern Dancer won 14 of his 18 races and never finished worse than third, winning prestigious races such as the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and fin- ished third in the Belmont Stakes. After the Belmont, Northern Dancer won Canada’s Queen’s Plate by seven and a half lengths before retiring to stud. He was named North America’s champion three-year-old colt of 1964 and Canadian Horse of the Year. Northern Dancer’s success continued as a sire where he left an indelible mark on thoroughbred breeding throughout the indus- try and the world.
“The racing world first took notice when his son Nijinsky II won classic races in England and Ireland in 1970, becoming the first English ‘triple crown’ winner since 1935,” said Tom Cosgrove of Co-Chair, Thoroughbred Nomination, Election and Legends Committees. “Northern Dancer’s sire line remains dominant and can be found in the winners of every major stakes race held around the globe.”
“At the 2012 Eclipse Awards, his descendants took home nine of the eleven equine trophies for flat racing,” added Cos- grove, who also worked Windfields Farm from 1969-1973. “Also, his tail-male descen- dants won more than a third of North Ameri- can graded stakes last year.”
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Northern Dancer’s record as a sire is unmatched with 147 graded stakes winners at least 11 sons who became incredible sires. His granddaughter, Dance Smartly, became the 1991 Canadian Triple Crown winner and won 12 of her 17 career starts including the 1991 Breeders’ Cup Distaff and over $2 mil- lion in prize money.
At the 2013 Equine Canada Annual Awards Gala, on Friday, 8, 2013, in Ottawa, Ontario, Bernard McCormick accepted Equine Canada Horse of the Year Award-the Hickstead Trophy on behalf of the Taylor and Mappin families
In Europe, Northern Dancer’s great- grandson Frankel was acclaimed the best horse in the world in 2012 after an unblem- ished 14-race career.
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Bernard held the positions of General Manager and Director of Sales and Market- ing at Windfields Farm from 1987-2008, and currently sits on the Equine Canada Industry Council and Health and Welfare Committee.
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