Pictured: Shannon Lightfoot and Lily at MEC in 2017 From the desk of Rider, Shannon Lightfoot: Meet Lilly. Lilly is my now 13 year old 1/2 Arab & 1/2 Paint X Mare.  I saw her for sale online in Thunder Bay and started messaging the owner.  After corresponding back and forth we figured out I…

Well there are only 4 months till our first ride of the season! How are your training plans coming? While I have been out conditioning my horses I have to say I’ve had some heart burn over my mare Tia. Tia ended the season on a rather troublesome note. She seemed stiff in the front…

We would like to thank Tammy Fontaine from Winsum Equestrian Centre for supporting our club this year. Tammy generously supplied us with various Purina Horse feeds which we used as random draws at our rides. Who doesn’t like winning a bag of feed or horse treats! If you’re in search of feed for your horse…

Pictured: L to R, Dianne on Serenade, Darice on Tia, and Tammy on Kaliyah    Photo Credit: Shannon Yaskiw Well it was a chiller thriller at the Park for our final ride of the year. So many brave souls showed up with their steeds despite the horrid weather we had to contend with on Saturday. There…

Pictured: Kat Irvine on her new horse, Time to Shine (Sunny) Spruce Woods Provincial Park south of Brandon, Manitoba is one of my favourite endurance venues. Trails run for miles through semi-arid terrain, featuring mixed-grass prairie and shifting sand dunes. Occasionally, you come across unlikely plants and strange creatures like the hognose snake. It has…

Pictured: Tanya and Desi coming in at the end of the 25 mile ride From the desk of a rider brand new to DRM and to Endurance, Tanya Wieler: The day was beautiful, the weather was perfect! Desiree, my daughter, and I, had been talking about trying an endurance ride since last May when we…

Pictured: Trish Leiman Forde on Koda (Mustang) I’m not going to talk about the ride part of Spruce Woods as I couldn’t ride it and I’ve asked others to comment on that part. I do want to talk about the event. WOW! What an awesome turnout!! We had riders from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The…

This ride recap is brought to you by Andy Dunlop, as Darice Whyte is off to race Tevis 2018!!  I hope her faith in my storytelling is justified and you enjoy this recap from a LD (limited distance) rider’s perspective.  I had done endurance with DRM when Cynder was 5 for a few years and…