CAN-AM ALL BREEDS EQUINE EXPO /19 Jonathan Field


and Jonathan decided to pursue a stable future with his family’s water well drilling company and his cowboying days were delegated to occasional opportunities. However, a well-drilling accident in the bush, 20 minutes from the nearest town, changed everything. A 500-pound steel casing fell from 20 feet in the air after its supporting chain failed, landing on Jonathan’s arm,


demonstration at their ranch. Still a cocky, brash young cowboy, Jonathan wasn’t prepared for what


Cindy Ishoy


team and placed fourth individually at the 1971 Pan Am Games in Cali, Columbia. In 1979, she became the first Canadian to win a European international dressage Grand Prix event. She was seventh at the 1986 World Championships and second at the 1988 World Cup in the Netherlands. A member of Cana- da’s bronze medal winning dressage team at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Cindy was fourth individually. She also competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and 2004 Athens Olympic games. In 2006 she repre- sented Canada at the World Cup Finals in Amster- dam.


schooling session. Each horse and rider is worked for as long as is required to reach a positive goal. An incredibly generous personality, Cindy is both kind hearted and approachable and she believes that every- one is capable of taking the journey to excellence and she is there to help!


learn, regardless of their age, ability, or the type of horse they choose to ride. Her organized approach to dressage, “systematic gymnastic training” and “per- fect practice makes perfect”, is easy to understand and implement even when I am riding on my own. As well, her classical training approach is sympathetic and kind to the horses.” says student Karen Daoust Always willing to help, Cindy never hurries a


other’s to do the same. She feels a duty to improve the quality of the sport by sharing her knowledge and experience. “Cindy is very supportive of anyone keen to


Canadian dressage teams. Just look through the histo- ry of Canada at major international dressage events and you will frequently find Cindy’s name as a team member,” said Dressage Canada 2010 Celebration of Dressage organizer, Lisa Hossack-Scott. “ Cindy strives to be the best she can be and helps


she bought as a youngster, was inducted into the Canadian Dressage hall of fame in 2010. To date he was the most accomplished Canadian horse on the international stage. In 2010 she was named Dressage Canada’s Owner of the year. “Cindy has been a long time supporter of our


Dynasty, her legendary Hanoverian gelding, who


with horses and dressage. Stationed in Germany with her family she was fortunate to have learned from the best. A dedicated student, she was entering competi- tions by the age of 13. As she worked to become an excellent rider, she took in all she could learn from her trainers and mentors – masters of classical dres- sage Bimbo Peilcke and Willi Schultheis. “I was passed on valuable lessons,” she says. “If you’re dedi- cated and willing to put in the work, the journey to excellence is very rewarding.” Cindy Ishoy was a member of the gold medal


Since the age of 11 Cindy has been involved


his family changed Jonathan’s focus, spurring him toward another path with horses. He was now deter- mined to be a cowboy. For four seasons Jonathan worked at the historic Quilchena Cattle Company, one of the largest operating cattle ranches in Canada. He lived the cowboy life, nestled in a cow camp, riding the range every day, driving cows, branding calves — rain, snow or shine. Each day was spent in the saddle, and a teenaged Jonathan could imagine nothing better. In 1995 Jonathan’s family hosted a horsemanship


he was just a year old and he’s been around them ever since. Growing up in the rural community of Bradner, British Columbia, Jonathan spent many evenings and weekends with his family and friends spending time with their horses. In a helmet and jodhpurs riding his small, buckskin Quarterhorse ‘Wee Mite Buck’ every- where, jumping everything, racing friends on the trail and competing in the local 4H club. At the age of 13, a trip to a cattle branding with


Jonathan’s parents introduced him to horses when


awaited him there. The demonstrator was Pat Parelli. Witnessing the rela- tionship between Pat and his horses really opened Jonathan’s eyes to the possibility of a similar bond with his own horses. Life so often shifts unexpectedly,


crushing and amputating all but half- an-inch of skin on his left wrist. After nearly succumbing to blood loss and shock during the almost ten hours of travel by plane and ambulance, four doctors at Vancouver General Hospital decided to attempt the reattachment and rebuilding of Jonathan’s hand and wrist. After a remarkable and success- ful surgery, Jonathan awoke in a haze in the hospital’s plastics and burns unit, obviously uncertain of his future. The painful months of recovery were the beginning of a journey that would change Jonathan forever, leading him toward a life with horses and a new perspective on life overall.


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