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HORSESALL.COM HORSES ALL • SEPTEMBER 2013 3 CONTENTS Inspired by horses and people Volume 36 · Number 9 · September 2013 EDITOR Craig Couillard [email protected] SPIRIT OF THE WEST (403) 200-1019 SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER Crystal McPeak HUGH [email protected] (403) 360-3210 MCLENNAN (866) 385-3669 (toll free) Broadcaster, working cowboy, trainer, entertainer SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER Natalie Sorkilmo 14 [email protected] (403) 608-2238 SUBSCRIPTIONS [email protected] 1-800-665-0502 PUBLISHER Lynda Tityk [email protected] (204) 944-5755 PRESIDENT Bob Willcox Glacier Media Agricultural Information Group [email protected] 204-944-5751 THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS: Carol Hannson, Amie Peck, Doug Mills, Glenn Stewart, Ted Stovin, Luke Creasy, Robyn Moore, Cindy Bablitz, April Clay, PHOTO: SUBMITTED Craig Couillard, Wendy Dudley, Dianne PROFILES INSPIRATIONS HORSE, HEALTH & HOME HAPPENINGS Finstad, Heather Grovet, Darley Newman, Terri McKinney, Mark McMillan, Doris Daley, Amanda McFarlane, Jochen Schleese, Julie McKinnon, Rae-Anne Laplante PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY: Farm Business Communications 1666 Dublin Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3H 0H1 Jim Berry Candice Edwards Saddle fitting Bomb proof horses ADVERTISING DEADLINE Wins Calgary Stampede’s Digital photography Tips to see if your Wild Deuce horse sale Second Monday of the month. 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Those received will not be returned. 4 HORSES ALL • SEPTEMBER 2013 HORSESALL.COM OUT FRONT Welcome to Horses All MY hero From World War II Hero to Two-Bit Cowboy How the heck did I ever get to be a cowboy editor? Over the course of his six years of You can imagine the energy in We lost Dad in 1980 to cancer. He TWO-BITS FROM A service to our country, he trained in our home with four sons. One day, was 58… the same age I am now. TWO-BIT COWBOY Ontario and England. Saw duty in Italy, Dad figured he needed an outlet for But something continued stirring Craig Couillard - Editor France, and Germany, primarily with that energy. deep within his boys… some connec- the Lanark and Renfrew out of Calgary. He debated whether to buy a ski tion back to old Corby and Banner. Rose to the rank of Sergeant-Major. boat or a horse. With more prairie Although dormant for many years, o this is it. The end of an He was injured a few times, and grass than water around our town, he it has sprouted as we’ve gotten older. era for Horses All which was decorated with the Oak Leaf For Valor opted to buy a horse. Then another… We’ve bought our own horses, trail- S started 36 years ago by Doug for successfully sweeping a mine field. and another… and another. ers, and tack, and we now share that and Jackie French. On VE day, a buddy, playing with Since we lived in town, Dad with our children and grandchildren. This is my last editorial as ‘cowboy a grenade, accidently pulled the pin, boarded the horses at a friend’s farm The next time you have to saddle editor,’ a role I’ve been playing for the panicked, and dropped it. Dad picked just outside of town. He built a corral up a horse for a friend or child to ride past 19 months. it up, threw it out of harm’s way but in our backyard, and would bring a around your yard, or you make an Thank you to the many horse peo- not before it exploded. Shrapnel sev- horse or two into town for his boys to extra effort to take somebody trail Sergeant-Major M.M.