| CanAm Sport Horses Impressive in Manitoba Young Horse Championships | | 5/17/2011 | | | Congratulations to two CanAm Sport Horses, Skye III and Geo, who turned in notable efforts in the 2011 Manitoba Young Horse Championships, Four and Five Year Old Divisions, at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair held at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba. As a bonus, each picked up $500.00 in cash awards for being the CanAm Sport Horse high point earner in the Young Horse Championship divisions. Each was also the high point Canadian-bred Sport Horse (CSHA)in their respective divisions, receiving breeder plaques for this distinction.
The Young Horse Championships are designed to showcase young Manitoba-bred horses. Competition consists of four classes: conformation, hunter, jumper and dressage. Points are awarded for each class and the horse accumulating the most points is declared Champion.
This was the first year at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair that CanAm Sport Horses were eligible to win $500.00 for accumulating the most points in each division of the Young Horse Championships. The awards were sponsored by the North American Equine Ranching Information Council (NAERIC) as a way to promote and reward NAERIC registered sport horses, also known as CanAm Sport Horses, when competing in these highly regarded classes.
Skye III was Reserve Champion in the Young Horse Competition Four-Year-Old Division, including a second placing in three classes, the Pre-children`s & Adult Amateur Hunter Over Fences Stake, winning a $75.00 prize; Young Horse Hunter Suitability Four-Year-Old Class, and Young Horse Jumper Suitability Four-Year-Old Class. Geo was Reserve Champion in the Young Horse Show Hack Class for Five-Year-Olds.
Four-year-old CanAm Sport Horse Skye III is by the Hanoverian stallion Samual and out of the Thoroughbred-Percheron crossbred mare, Lenore. She was bred by Ravine Ranch Sport Horses, Deb & Doug King and Sons, Lenore, Manitoba. Skye III is a sale graduate of the 2007 CanAm Sport Horse Sale and Futurity held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, and is owned by Cynthia Kulczycki of Dugald, Manitoba. Skye III also won the $3,500 CanAm Sport Horse Futurity in which all sale weanlings were eligible to compete.
Geo is a five-year-old CanAm Sport Horse sired by registered Hanoverian stallion Gringo and is out of a registered appendix Quarter Horse mare, Map Easy Delight. He is owned by Samantha Harland of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and is another home bred of Ravine Ranch Sport Horses.
In addition to their cash prize winnings, Skye III and Geo both are also eligible to win award money through the NAERIC Advantage® an incentive program that rewards horses bred by NAERIC member ranchers when they compete successfully at approved events.
More than 48,000 horses are registered with NAERIC so far and are eligible to earn NAERIC Advantage ® rewards. NAERIC horse owners, participating in NAERIC approved events, have received over $2,900,000.00 since 1998. Does your horse qualify for NAERIC Advantage ® money? Search for NAERIC registered horses and find out more about the NAERIC Advantage® on the NAERIC web site at www.naeric.org.
CanAm Sport Horses®, a program of NAERIC, offers the sport horse enthusiast a wide variety of choices while maintaining a high standard of quality at a reasonable price. For more information, visit www.CanAmSportHorses.com.
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Top photo: CanAm Sport Horse SKYE III
Bottom photo: CanAm Sport Horse GEO
Photos by Sandy Black
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