4/ MARCH/APRIL 2014 THE RIDER HON. COL. A.W. FINN CD: Founder


BARRY FINN: barry@therider.com Publisher/ Editor/Advertising Manager


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GLENDA FORDHAM: fordhampr@rogers.com Entertainment Columnist


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Letter to the Editor


erage! Sincerely, Gayle


The Rider, and wow, thank you so much for the great coverage and inclusion of the Equine Guelph articles. This is so helpful to get this message out to our industry and hopefully get more people thinking seriously about the wel- fare issues we are facing in our province. Thank you for the great cov-


Dear Barry, I just received our copy of


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Bruce Lawes, a our Can-Am Booth Sat. March 29th


Gayle Ecker, Hon. B.A., B.Ed., M.Sc. Director, Equine Guelph 50 McGilvray Street Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1 gecker@uoguelph.ca ph: 519-824-4120, #56678


From Our Founder


Remembering March 1980


Again it is with deep regret that I


have to wish a friend and a former employee of The Rider, Jerry Kinsella on his way. Jerry suffered from cancer in his later years. Jerry worked in The Rider’s com-


posing room way back in the 1970’s. He would be constantly twisting my arm for more space in The Rider for his beloved Ontario Rodeo Associa- tion. Extra lunch hours were always in order when he would hold an impromptu ORA meeting in my office. Jerry was a charmer indeed. I fell vic- tim to his Irish charm and always allowed him that extra editorial space for something special. He found solace when he joined and became an active member of Cowboy’s for Christ. He had me join the ORA and I


ended up in the Belvedere Rodeo Calf Scramble, which I won. See the full story of Jerry in this issue. Godspeed and Happy Trails, Jerry


Now back to 1980. We were all


ready, well almost ready, for Quartera- ma ‘80. Tom T. Hall headlined the entertainment.


The All American Quarter Horse


ner in this year’s Canadian Landscape competition presented by Canada’s leading quarterly art publica- tion, Arabella, with his stunning painting of Killar- ney Park, Ontario. But it’s his life-like “hyper-real- ism” paintings of equestrian subjects and wild mus- tangs that are attracting international attention for Bruce. Last July 4th weekend, he was invited by the Gettysburg Battlefield 150th Anniversary Commit- tee to create a large format painting of the infamous Pickett’s Charge showing both Union and Confeder- ate cavalries in full flight. The painting was subse- quently auctioned and Bruce donated a substantial amount of the proceeds to benefit the preservation of this historical site. This year, he has again been invited to Gettysburg where he will exhibit his recently completed portrait of General George Arm-


Congress were running ads in The Rider for their various Futurities.


Some readers will remember


those bank interest rates of 18% plus. Great if you were saving, but it caused the demise of several large US shows: Equinexpo canceled the Baltimore, MD and Long Beach, CA shows. Chicago still went ahead.


The AQHA announced that the


World Show would return to Okla- homa City on Nov. 17 - 22. John Cannon, The Rider’s Adver-


tising manager died of lung cancer on January 22, 1980. John had a flair for writing and did so in his column Hoof Beats. He always found a way to have fun with the cowboy’s of the day. John served as a Captain in the RCA in W.W. II in England and France.


Charlotte Christensen and Char-


lotte Buhl from Denmark contacted The Rider for employment information at Canadian ranches. We were able to provide some leads.


The Mid-Western Horseman’s


Association were promoting shows and clinics through The Rider.


MY TURN In March 1980 we were in our


11th year and now we are in our 44th year. Other publications have come and gone but we are still alive and kicking with the same owners. We now boast ownership of Equine Nia-


renowned Canadian equine artist, BRUCE K. LAWES, will be in our booth at Can-Am on Satur- day March 29th between noon and 4pm, displaying a number of his original paintings including studies of dressage and western riding. Bruce was recently named Grand Prize Win-


The Rider is thrilled to announce that


charity that protects the endangered wild mustangs of Montana and Colorado), Bruce has painted a number of wild horse portraits and herds in full gal- lop, several of which will be on display (and for sale) in The Rider booth at Can-Am Expo March 29th.


Bruce’s website: www.bklawesart.com By Glenda Fordham


garaNews.com, Barnmice.com and OrangeaPEEL.com as well as our new Rider Marketplace. Thank you for keeping us in business for almost 45 years. Some years when we paid 18% to the bank, closing down looked good. We stayed the course and survived. Barry, my son, has done a marvel-


lous job with The Rider since he took over as publisher. He has transformed it into a major player in keeping the horse industry of Ontario informed. Meanwhile the Ontario Liberals, with the consent of the Ontario NDP, have tried to disrupt the horse industry in many ways - MPAC, PST, HST, and killing the Slots at Racetracks Program I’m not sure what happened in the


recent Niagara bi-election but a vote against the Liberal party of Ontario was quite evident. However, giving it to the NDP was fool hardy as they share the same underwear. Why did that area not show that “coalition” the door. After all they collectively destroyed the horse racing industry of Ontario.


Also note that the 2014 Olympics


had no major security issues, except the police whipping Pussy Riot for protesting human rights in Russia! I wrote the Prime Minister’s


Office about the use of phoney Canadi- an flags, especially at the Olympics, I also sent the letter to several of the Toronto Star’s clones and my e-mail list. The opening events showed tons of phoney Canadian Flags. However I think that an underling making a name


For more information on his work, visit


strong Custer at the battlefield visitors’ centre. Bruce has been invited to submit the Custer portrait to this year’s International Portrait Competition held in Washington, DC, in April, and the painting will also be shown in an upcoming south western art exhibition in Tucson, Arizona, alongside leading US and world equine and western painters. It appears the General will be busy, long after his “last stand”. Later this summer, Bruce’s work will be featured in one of the world’s most exclusive auctions featuring western lifestyle and equine paintings and sculptures in Reno, Nevada. A big supporter of The Cloud Foundation (a


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for themselves in the office pick up my complaint, trashed my e-mail and had a load of replacement real Canadian Flags sent over. The latter part of the Olympics had an abundance of our real flags.


By the way, the clones did noth- ing.


Thanks once again for looking


down in this corner. It’s a joy looking back at our roots.


Aidan W. Finn CD Founder of The Rider 1970 President, Orange aPEEL www.orangeapeel.com


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