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18 The Game, August/September 2008 BlackjackThoroughbreds
SalesPrep &StartingYoungHorses
Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
Shannon Leahy Guelph, Ontario
(519) 763-7961 bjtbs@hotmail.com
Expansion in her Future
Shannon Leahy has a knack for conformation and pedigree which she hopes will help to implement her plans to expand her Blackjack Thoroughbred business in the very near future.
Along with her enthusiasm for matching potential suitors, she has a deep seeded love of developing youngsters. This love stems back to her days of raising and showing young cattle with her family in Peterborough, Ontario.
While her family excelled in showing cattle, Shannon had a love of horses and successfully competed in 4H events with Quarter Horses.
After achieving a Bachelor of Science at the University of Guelph, she ventured to Edmonton to show cattle until taking a
Shannon Leahy and her 2-year-old Bouvier Brutus
position at a Quarter Horse farm for one year which is where Shannon caught the racing bug.
Returning to Ontario, Shannon began working at a private horse farm where a boarder showed up one day with a thoroughbred yearling.
Smitten with the yearling, Shannon watched as the youngster developed and knew this is the path she wanted to take with her own business.
Shannon began in 2002 by purchasing a yearling lly named Goodbye Rubytuzday and ending up purchasing her mare, Set Destiny, in 2003 in foal to Kinshasa, unfortunately the foal was lost as a yearling.
Shannon now lives in Guelph and runs Blackjack Thoroughbreds at a farm
in Puslinch. She works full-time as a banquet manager at the popular Aberfoyle Mill Fine Dining Restaurant.
“I like the develop-
ment of young horses and matching conformation based on pedigree.” said an enthusiastic Shannon when asked about her business aspirations, “I read and research everything I can.”
Shannon would like to expand her breeding and sales preparation busi- ness, eventually hoping to get out of the restaurant business. “I developed an eye for conformation from many years of being around breeding farms and from my father who is a well respected cattle judge.”
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) THE HORSEMEN’S BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO
TAKE NOTICE that an Annual General Meeting of the Horsemen's Benevolent Protective Association of Ontario (hereinafter referred to as the “Association”) will be held in the Sales Pavilion, Woodbine Racetrack, 555 Rexdale Blvd., Rexdale, Ontario on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the hour of 11:00 a.m. for the following purpose:
1. To approve the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held September 27, 2007;
2. To report on the activities of the Association;
3. To receive the report of the auditors in respect of the audited financial statements of the Association for the year ended March 31, 2008;
4. To appoint the auditors for the Corporation;
5. To transact such other business as many be required by law or these By-laws to be brought before the meeting
DATED at the City of Toronto, in the Province of Ontario this 5th day of August, 2008. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Nick Coukos – Secretary Treasurer/Executive Director
MEMBERS ONLY – Please bring your 2008 ORC License
See Shannon’s Sale Yearlings on Page 20
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