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Horse Day Erin - Family Fun, Country Kicks!
Mark your calendars. Saturday, June 8 is Horse Day in Erin at the Erin Fairgrounds.
A full day of family fun is being offered featuring the Ontario X-treme Cowboys Clinic and Race.
Horse Trainer David Cowley will be showcasing his Two Way Trust training techniques, and Tom Bishop’s Wild West Show will turn up the fun with
four horse Roman riding and trick riding demonstrations. The day will also include a dog agility show and performance and equine, pet and country lifestyle trade show vendors.
The Erin Agricultural Society volunteers will be serving up a Cowboy Breakfast and food vendors and food trucks will provide plenty of refreshment options.
The entire family will enjoy plenty of kids’ activities, pony rides and games as well as educational displays, equine equipments displays and demonstrations.
Tickets are $5/child, $10/adult and are on sale now at
www.horsedayerin.com
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Erin Agricultural Society Building Renovation and Accessibility project.
Be sure to come out to Horse Day Erin on June 8, a family event celebrating horses and country living!
Ontario Equestrian Donates over $30,000 to Research
Ontario Equestrian and its members are helping strengthen research programs aimed at improving health and welfare
of horses. With $1.50 per OE membership allocated to the Ontario Equestrian Member Equine Research Fund, this year’s cheque for just over $30,000 was presented at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair last November.
Ontario Equestrian President, Mark Nelson and Vice President, Peter Chiddy are thrilled the cheque for $30,700 brings the two-year research total to $59,300.
In 2017 instead of spending $1.50 on the production of plastic membership cards, the $1.50 per Ontario Equestrian member was directed to Equine Guelph, to fund a research topic voted on by the membership annually.
In 2017, members voted to support research on equine digestive health. Two researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College are studying “what is normal” concerning inhabitants
in the equine gut. Once this is known, the future becomes exciting with the possibilities of restoration of normal microbiota which play critical roles in nutrition, metabolism, and a wide range of other functions required for health.
Equine Guelph is the horse owners’ and care givers’
Centre at the University of Guelph in Canada. It is a unique partnership dedicated to the health and well-being of horses, supported and overseen by equine industry groups. Equine Guelph is the epicentre for academia, industry and government - for the good of the equine industry as a whole.
For further information, visit equineguelph.ca.
Ontario Equestrian is committed to horse welfare and providing leadership and support to the individuals, associations and industries in Ontario’s horse community.
The Equine Guelph Newsletter is Now Digital
The latest Equine Guelph newsletter is now in digital format touting the same great information in an easily accessible, eco- friendly format.
This month’s newsletter features an update on the Ontario Equestrian supported Research on Gut Health:
Gastrointestinal illness such as colic and colitis can affect any horse. The equine industry suffers large economical loses due to preventive and sick animal treatments, days lost to training and competition, and crippling complications or death. A better understanding of gastrointestinal disorders in horses is very much in need and of great value to the industry and equine health in general.
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