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Russel Rogers with his Belgian draft horses Ginger, left, and Lily at Murray Grein’s farm in Grey County. Photo by Jaime Myslik
Mount Forest horse plowman to represent county at IPM BY JAIME MYSLIK
AYTON - A longtime tractor plowman switched to horse plowing in search of a friendlier and stress-free atmosphere. “I plowed with tractor and plow for a number of years,” said teamster (driver) Russel Rogers. “Like everyone else I was getting older and ... the class I was in was competitive and I wanted something a little less stressful and I’ve always loved horses and decided that the horsemen
looked like they were having more fun than I was - so that’s how I got started in the plowing.” The 82-year-old Mount Forest resident has now been plowing with horses for eight years. Before that he’d competitively plowed with a tractor for over 15 years. Rogers has now taken his involvement in the International Plowing Match (IPM) one step further: he is responsible for the horses and horse plowing at the 2016
IPM near Harriston next week. “There’s always a certain amount of pride and that’s why you wear (plowing match) hats and T-shirts,” he said. “This is the first time that I’ve ever been involved at this level, like to be in charge of the horses or anything. “I just went and plowed before.” The horses and mules will be stabled one kilometre south of the IPM’s tented city in a machine shed that has
been outfitted with box stalls for all 28 competitors and their teams. At other plowing matches Rogers said he remembers traveling about an hour to get from the barn to the plowing fields. However, even with the close proximity, trailers will take the horses to and from the site each day. Rogers will be the only competitor representing Wellington County in horse plowing. It will be his fifth plow-
ing match competition since his transition from tractor to horses. When he decided to make the switch in 2008 he didn’t even own a plow. “I went out and I bought a new pioneer plow in Ohio and I just started learning how to plow with horses,” he said. At the time he had two Haflinger horses that learned with him. “I had them until three years ago when we were in Ivy ... they were good to pull but
it was just getting too much for them and they were too good a team and I didn’t want to ... ‘break them,’ which means they go over and they won’t do anything ... so I sold them and bought a team of Percherons a year ago and they didn’t pan out.” About two months ago he bought a team of Belgian mares named Lily and Ginger. Luckily, harnessing horses wasn’t completely foreign to Rogers. CONTINUED > PAGE 35
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Wellington riders heading to Australia for mounted games BY JAIME MYSLIK
ARISS – Five riders, five ponies and a hodgepodge of obstacle course relay races is the recipe for a successful mounted games competition. Savannah Weber of Ariss and Shalom Leger of Rockwood, both 15 years old, play mounted games and are travelling to Australia for the Pony Club International Mounted Games Exchange this October. The annual competition, between Canada, Australia, the United States and Great Britain, is for Pony Club members who are 15 at the beginning of the competition year. Competitors will travel around Australia for about a two weeks, with the Prince Philip Games competition taking place on the second last day of the tour. Usually there are 25 different games in a mounted games competition, however in the Pony Club International Mounted Games Exchange only 15 games are played, explained team Canada coach Nicole Robinson. One of Weber’s favourite games is the sock race where the rider starts with a sock, reaches down to put it in a bucket in the middle of the field, jumps off their horse to get a new sock, vaults back on
the horse and hands the sock to the next rider. Teams consist of five riders, though the majority of the games only use four. “Four people play ... a different role,” Robinson said. “The last person is normally fast with a lot of confidence and doesn’t get shaken ... and the first person usually is fast ... but the two in the middle have to be very steady. “It’s kind of an accuracy -wins type of game because
ty quickly before they start riding,” Robinson explained. The competition is fast paced, Robinson said, so it’s important for competitors to focus on the task at hand. “As a coach I find their biggest challenge is staying very level headed,” she said. “A lot of the time the kids [are very] competitive or hard on themselves for mistakes which makes it a make or break for the next game . “So I always tell them ... if
You’re representing Canada but you’re there to have fun. - NICOLE ROBINSON
there’s a lot of hand-eye coordination.” When participating in the International Mounted Games Exchange all teams will be using provided ponies and before the competition none of the riders will have experience riding them. “A day before we’ll get a sheet on each pony and what they’re good at and what they look like, what speed type they are and then from what I know I try and match the girls up with the right horse and they have to figure it out pret-
a game’s over and you messed up, focus on the next game. “I never really try to let them get fazed by it but it’s a hard lesson to learn at that age when there’s not a lot of experience.” As much as mounted games is a team sport, riders need to focus on their own performance. “You’re only as good as the person coming in and you can only help the person that’s going out,” Robinson said. “So staying positive, never really getting mad at
From left: Shalom Leger, coach Nicole Robinson and Savannah Weber will travel to Australia in October for the Pony Club International Mounted Games Exchange. Photo by Jaime Myslik
someone else for making a mistake because you’re most likely going to make one yourself and yeah you’re representing Canada but you’re there to have fun.” For Leger, who is primarily an eventing rider, competing in dressage, cross country
and show jumping on her own, it’s a challenge to be in a team setting. “The pressure of being on a team is a little bit scary. You don’t want to let them down ... but you can’t worry about that too much or you will ... get in your own way,”
she said. Alexis Vahey of central Ontario and Danielle Henderson and Shayna Dyrland of Alberta will join Weber and Leger on the Canadian team. The girls will all practice CONTINUED > PAGE 37
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good home here. We just have fun at it.” Rogers said he makes sure he gives the mares treats for a job well done. “I have alfalfa pellets that I feed them at the end of the day after a good day and they look forward to that,” he explained. “It’s just part of building
“My dad still had horses on the farm when I was a teenager ... the greatest joy was the day that I could throw a harness over a heavy horse ...” Rogers said. “You watch their movements and so on and you know when they’re tired and need a rest and you make sure you give them a good rest, especially plowing and it’s learn by doing.” However, he said he also read a lot about plowing. “In the plow book it will tell you certain things like maybe the traces are too long or too short and it’s a lot of trial and error and where [the horses are] comfortable and everybody has to be comfortable in it ... and you try to be quiet with them and just work with them,” he said. Lily and Ginger are stabled at Murray Grein’s farm in Grey County and Rogers spends about five days a week working with them for about three and a half hours. a day. “It’s a trust that you build and ... the teamster that sold [the Belgians] to me said he would sell them to me and he wouldn’t sell them to anybody else - he’d keep them instead,” Rogers said. “He knew they’d have a
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a relationship with the horses but you have to be comfortable with them ... around them.” In competitive horse plowing there are three categories: walking plow, sulky plow (antique) and riding plow. Competitors are tasked with plowing a 25-foot (7.6-metre) by 100-foot (30.5-metre) plot in five and a half hours. “Lots and lots of time and so the main thing is to just take your time,” Rogers said. “Don’t rush them and get them upset ... it’s learning and knowing the horses.” He said it’s important to
Russel Rogers with Ginger and Lily
this to the horse,” he said. “Oh yes, they’re very, very, very intelligent animals.” Even though more than one team is plowing at a time, in the IPM horse plow teamsters are competing against themselves. “In plowing we do not compete against our neighbour,” Rogers explained. “We compete against the scorecard and there’s a scorecard that the judges have.” The teamsters are competing to get as close to 180 points, a perfect score, as they can. “You can’t get upset with
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the competitor to your left or to your right because it’s what you did,” he said. “That’s why I enjoy it.” In order to qualify for the IPM each team must receive a score of at least 100 in a competition the previous year. Each IPM competition day is scored individually and the results are announced at the end of the match. Though teamsters are competitive, they don’t hesitate to give each other a helping hand. “If someone’s having a
bad day, something just isn’t right, they’ll try and help them to correct it,” he said of competing teamsters. “I didn’t find [that] in the tractor plows.” The IPM horse plowing field is located across from the tented city. Plowing runs from Sept. 20 to 23, beginning at 10am each day. Rogers said he frequently stops to talk to curious spectators during competitions. “With the horses we plow around and somebody’s there we’ll talk to them for a few
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Local rider performing with Canadian Cowgirls at Fergus Fall Fair BY JAIME MYSLIK
ERIN - A local rider is coming to her home region to perform at the Fergus Fall Fair. Chloe Boydell, 26, has been with the Canadian Cowgirls for four seasons and she’s looking forward to performing in front of her friends and family at the Fergus fair on Sept. 17 and 18. “It’s exciting and I’m happy to show them what I do and who we are,” she said. “They’re all very supportive of this; (it’s) not even a hobby, it’s a lifestyle ... “They’re supportive when I’m away and they’re supportive when I’m coming home at 5 o’clock in the morning from a road trip to the other side of the province. So it’s nice to be able to share that with them.” The Canadian Cowgirls is a rodeo-style precision drill team and their show in Fergus will include an hour -long performance of different drills and paces to music. Boydell lives in Brampton and boards her horse in Erin. Her love of horseback riding began when she was just 7 years old. “My parents signed me up for a riding camp and they thought it would be a phase and I fell in love with it,” she said. “And follow-
ing that they signed me up for a six-week pack of riding lessons as a birthday present and my mother will swear up and down that it was the most expensive birthday present that she ever gave me because it never stopped.” From that point on Boydell increased her time in the saddle, taking more lessons, part boarding and showing. Eventually she purchased
end of the summer I couldn’t walk away,” she said. “He had to come home.” Since then the pair seems to be unstoppable. Boydell says Sysco takes everything in stride and now they often compete in jumper shows. “He just is game to play and try anything and I mean he put me in the dirt a lot while we were learning,” she said. “I was 16 or 17, I’d never trained a horse before. It was
My parents signed me up for a riding camp ... and I fell in love with it. - ‘CANADIAN COWGIRL’ CHLOE BOYDELL
her own horse, a 10-year-old quarter horse named Sysco, who she’s now had for about nine years. “I spent a summer working at a camp and fell in love with a horse that was not supposed to come home with me and he’s just given me all of the opportunities to do everything that I ever wanted to do basically,” she said. Even though Sysco was a western trail horse, Boydell saw his potential and chose him to be her staff show horse during the summer camp. “I put the work in, I put the miles in on him and at the
trial and error on both sides. It somehow worked out.” Sysco is boarded at Whitney Stables in the Town of Erin. It was at that farm one of Boydell’s friends introduced her to the Canadian Cowgirls and invited her to one of the precision drill team’s practices. “I went out there and I was just ... ‘I could do this. My horse could do this,’” she recalled. “And we had the opportunity to give it a chance and we did.” In addition to performing throughout the summer months Boydell has experi-
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RCMP Musical Ride a hit in Erin last weekend
The RCMP Musical Ride performed two sold out shows in Erin on Sept. 10. ABOVE: Riders perform at the 1pm show. Photo by Jaime Myslik RIGHT: The RCMP perform at the 6pm show.
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Savannah Weber practices the mounted game “two flag” at her family’s Ariss farm. Photo by Jaime Myslik
together as a team for the first time in the middle of October in Alberta. “We will meet three days before we leave for Australia,” Robinson said. Once they arrive in Australia teams from all four countries will travel together before the competition. “It’s more about the experience itself,” Robinson said. “The competition is very minor towards this whole trip.” Though this is both Weber and Leger’s first time competing in the International Mounted Games Exchange they aren’t new to competing in large arenas. Weber, who began riding when she was 9 years old, began mounted games shortly thereafter. “I really like it, that you get to ride different ponies, it’s very fast and then you can meet people from different countries,” she said. In July Weber travelled to Ireland as part of the U-17 team with Equine Mounted Games Canada for the World Team Championships. The five-day competition involved about 20 countries. She has also competed in numerous competitions in
the United States. In August both Weber and Leger traveled to Nova Scotia to compete in the National Masters Championship for the Prince Philip Games with the Pony Club. Though Leger has been riding since she was 7, the Nova Scotia competition was her first nationals for mounted games. “Our masters team won at regionals and so we got to go to the national competition and so there was a team from Alberta, Nova Scotia, one from central Ontario,” she said. Mounted games also encourages riders to experience riding different horses. “I think it helps make you become a better rider because you can handle different horses so if you ever have to ride a different horse then you have that more feeling than just riding your own little perfect pony if you have it,” Weber said. Leger said that her experience riding different ponies has helped in her eventing as well because it gives her the confidence and experience to ride any horse. “When you get up higher (in eventing) sometimes you can’t necessarily afford the
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