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Royal Horse Show Enters Second Century of Excellence National Hunter/Jumper Championships Highlight 2023 Schedule


Toronto, Ontario – Having celebrated its centennial in 2022, the Royal Horse Show will continue its tradi- tion of equestrian excellence as it prepares for this year’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair to be held from Novem- ber 3 to 12, 2023, at Exhibi- tion Place in downtown Toronto, ON. The CSI5*-W Royal


Horse Show will continue to host international show jumping highlighted by the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Toronto on closing night. Offering more than $1 million in prize money, this year’s Royal will also mark the debut of Great Britain’s Kelvin By- water as show jumping course designer for national and international competi- tion.


As the highly antici-


From Our Founder


Remembering June 1989


Is our June 1989 issue the


Summer was here in all its glory. The weather back then did not seen to be as hot as it is now.


The CSBA was in its in-


fancy back then. They were fea- tured in a front page story and the headline was “CSBA Rapid Ex- pansion” Big Money Shows at- tracted new riders.


The Heritage Classic got


underway. These shows were the brain child of Shirley Crane. She had a fabulous way of rallying horse people to help put on these shows. Her ultimate goal was to get Western horses recognized by the Olympics. Here we are 34


pated season finale for Canadian competitors, The Royal has once again been awarded the National Championships by Eques- trian Canada for all its the hunter, equitation, and jumper divisions, including Under 25 and Junior/Ama- teur show jumping athletes. Following last year’s suc- cessful introduction of a Junior/Amateur National Championship at the 1.30m level, invitation modifica- tions for this year’s 1.40m Junior/Amateur National Championship have been made to ensure the widest possible rider representation from across the country. Opening weekend of the 10- day Royal Horse Show will feature the Canadian Show Jumping Championship, which will offer an in- creased purse over the two


Royal Horse Show prize list will be available in late June.


In addition to the ex-


nights of competition. Canadian horse sport


breeding fans have long fol- lowed the entries and out- comes of the prestigious Governor General’s Cup for three-year-olds shown in hand and the Lieutenant Governor’s Cup for three- year-olds shown under sad- dle. The ponies will now have their turn in the spot- light with the newly intro- duced Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Pony Cup, fea- turing in hand and under


years later and NOTHING! Linda Harrison Sisson re-


ported on the Andy Moorman Clinic at the Humber College Equestrian Centre as the most in- formative clinic to be held in the province. Joan McMann was there to help along with Carolyn Stacy who flew in from Alberta to assist.


The University of Guelph


had a new program underway on teaching pet dentistry.


The 6th annual Spring Reg-


istered Shamrock horse sale was a huge success, enough for Mar- ianna and Stewart Geil to plan a fall sale through an advertising program in The Rider.


Picov’s Tack Store were ad-


vertising a top end Stetson hat for $89.95. Today try $350.00.


Cowboys for Christ became contributors to The Rider. A col-


saddle sections. All Cup classes, showcasing the quality of Canadian breed- ing, will take place in the Coca-Cola Coliseum on Saturday morning, Novem- ber 11. “The Royal continues


to evolve in order to show- case the best horses and ath- letes in equestrian sport,” said Charlie Johnstone, CEO of the Royal Agricul- tural Winter Fair. “Having celebrated 100 years of being the place where the


umn was written by Ted K. Press- ley, later taken over by Jerry Kin- sella, a bronc rider with the ORA and an employee of The Rider.


The Rider was proud to


welcome a new member to our staff, Melissa Short, niece of actor Martin Short.


The president, Melanie


Sundermeir wrote a very nice ar- ticle welcoming back the riders and supporters to the new WHAO show season. The Ex- travaganza was scheduled for the Paris Fair Grounds on June 23 - 25.


Herman (Scobey) Hartley,


president / chair was very happy with the results of the Canadian Quarter Horse Association ‘89 Benefit auction. It raised $27,000.


Robert Moorman Denhart,


first secretary of AQHA passed away at 77 on April 20th. Den-


Do you love Fergus? Visit his website at: http://www.fergusthehorse.com


Our Classified section had 22 horses for sale.


The Ontario Antique Trac-


tor and Plowmans Association advertised their 7th Annual Plow- ing Match and Bar B Q and a Barn Dance. How about that? A barn dance, how original, how quaint?


Rails to Trails in USA were


boasting 200 trails. Canada today has 25,099 trails of all sorts.


My Turn Here we are celebrating our


53th Birthday. When we started out we were the only Western


best of the best meet at the end of the Canadian show season, we are proud to carry the longstanding tradi- tion into a new century. We look forward to once again hosting the future national champions across the hunter, jumper, and equi- tation disciplines to this year’s Royal.” National Champi-


onship qualifying criteria are available at www.royal- fair.org/horse-show/com- petitors/ while the full 2023


hart tracked down the “Steel Dust Horse” in and around Texas it was in 1939 that discussions got underway to establish a registry, now the largest horse registry in the world.


The Ontario Rodeo Associ-


ation was in it’s prime. Terry Dunk was the president. The first VP was John MacKenzie. The ORA is almost non-existent today. They were moved aside by several business style rodeos.


AQHA were planning a


50th Anniversary for 1990. The association was officially under- way on March 15, 1940. Today they are 83 years old with 6 mil- lion horses registered.


In 1989, Bailey Saddlery


began selling Kiefer Built horse trailers. The selection was from 2 horse to Gooseneck.


Horse Publication in all of Canada: The Canadian Western Rider. A superb western horse owner, Chuck Aylett, designed our logo. Some say that he used Bob Sisson as the horseman in the logo.


Then we started The Cana-


dian Quarter Horse Journal then every Tom, Dick and Harriett got in on the act, all promising the sun and moon to advertisers. We had one prominent English pub- lication start a Western publica- tion so we started The English Rider. All these hot shots went the way of the DoDo bird. Guess what? We are the only Western/ English print publication still standing in Ontario. Congratula- tions to us. We have lost a lot of the


original 50’s and 60’s western horse pioneers. They helped us along the way. Big thanks to all these wonderful equestrians that were there for us. There’s not too many left. They need to be hon- oured for organizing the western horse industry of Ontario. Most equestrians think that this indus- try just happened by itself. How wrong they are. Anyway, we are not going


anywhere, at least for now. So


keep history alive and support us by sending your news and shows and remember, we only survive by your advertising and your sub- scriptions. Stuff on the internet and the grapevine eventually fade into the hundreds of millions of other things posted. Our publica- tion will survive forever in the Canadian Archives. Thanks for looking down in


this corner. It is always a pleasure for me to glean through our back issues and put memories back into focus. Remember you and you


alone are responsible to report animal, spousal, child and senior abuse. Even if you are not sure don’t be afraid to call the police for a wellness check. Thanks you for looking


down in this corner I will con- tinue to bring you a few bits from our past. The Rider is HISTORY please subscribe.


Aidan W. Finn CD


Founder of The Rider 1970 Honourable Kentucky Colonel Member OQHA Hall of Fame Member Can-Am Equine Walk of Fame


citing competition, Royal fans will be thrilled with the return of Guy McLean, last seen in Toronto in 2018. The popular Australian horse- man, entertainer, and bush poet will be performing with his team of liberty horses during select Royal Horse Show performances. As always, The Royal


offers numerous hospitality experiences which sell out quickly due to their popular- ity. The Royal Terrace will be available for VIP and corporate hosting while the Coliseum’s Sky Suites offer stables and groups their own private suites. The Tanbark Club will continue to be open to Gold and Platinum VIP ticket holders. Hospital-


ity options are now on sale with returning clients being given the right of first re- fusal. Contact groups@roy- alfair.org


or


HSvip@royalfair.org for full details. For more information


and to purchase tickets for the 2023 Royal Horse Show, visit www.royalfair.org /horse-show/.


About The Royal The Royal Agricul-


tural Winter Fair is the world’s largest combined in- door agricultural and eques- trian event. The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair runs November 3-12, 2023, at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Canada. For com- petition schedules, live we- bcasting, results, and to purchase tickets, please visit www.royalfair.org.


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