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by Janice Sather Beaverlodge, Alberta
What I have found about the history of Quarter horse racing in Alberta is that it enfolds many interesting concepts. Quarter Horse racing truly has been a grand endeavor and shares
some common features with everyone who has participated in it since its beginnings.
What I found out was how family oriented it
has been. The interest in Quarter Horse racing has been transmitted down to our future generations.
Our children have been involved and now, even our grandchildren. We have given race horses to our children when they were nine or eleven years old.
We have given Quarter Horses as wedding presents
to our sons. We have partnered with our daughters and grand-daughters on future stakes horses. Many of the best Quarter Horse trainers today in Alberta have early roots in the industry because they started being around the race tracks at a very early age, helping
their father or mother with the horses, and they just carried it on. We have exercise riders and jockeys, from Woodvine and Northlands Park who first obtained their licenses on the backs of Quarter Horses.
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CHAPTER 8
The Final Chapter
WE’VE CAPTURED THE DREAM - WE’VE LIVED THE DREAM