About 35 firefighters and search-and-rescue team members from Grande Prairie, Beaverlodge, and Hythe responded to the emergency call when ten horses fell through an ice-covered slough near Grande Prairie, Alberta. The incident occurred on Sunday, April 16, 2017, about 65 kilometres west of Grande Prairie, where the herd had wandered onto the ice before falling through. All ten horses were removed from the ice by 6 pm, although three later died of exhaustion and injury…

Who didn’t have a poster of their celebrity crush hanging on the wall when they were a teenager? Equestrians have a similar feeling about meeting Carl Hester, Ian Millar, Mark Todd or any of their favourite “big names.”

In the ultimate test of trust Canadian trainer David Cowley rides his horse 918 feet above the valley floor on the Glacier Skywalk for the first and possibly only time this will ever happen. “What I’m hoping for out of this experience is that people who are learning about it for the first time can realize the potential of a relationship that can be built between horse and rider,” Cowley narrates in the video.

If you own horses and / or are responsible for the care of horses please take five minutes to complete an important survey respecting the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Equines (the Code)