CF Equine

24/11/2025

That 4am wake up call to go get horses ridden before work isn’t so bad when the views are this nice 😍

21/11/2025

Tell me more about how you think thoroughbreds can’t out- jump your warmbloods 😉 What a lovely round and a nice horse.

Each time Michel Feitosa and his partner Niven have stepped out under the lights for an international show jumping round, the 13-year-old chestnut gelding by Lemon Drop Kid has been the only Thoroughbred in the class.

Watch him jump around at the video in the comments, and check out the full story here: https://tinyurl.com/22yv5tzw

📷Cassidy Klein and Equ Photography images

18/11/2025

Reminder for all the new horse owners out there:

Final Furlong loves updates from our alumni! In an effort to follow and cheer on our loved equines we are offering to cover up to $100 CAN towards passport/recording fees with Equestrian Canada or the United States Equestrian Federation (or an equivalent sport governing body) for any Thoroughbred listed on our page when you keep (or change to!) their registered Jockey Club name. . Any horse listed since January 1, 2020 is eligible for a reimbursement with a picture of your documentation showing their name. Send your request to [email protected]
or message us with any questions 😊

17/11/2025

Thankful for the people who get it ❤️

❤ Surround yourself with women who want to see you win

16/11/2025

Super important part of the racing game that is way misunderstood here in AB. Starter allowances should not exist on a B track for horses valued at less than a $5000 claim tag, and catering to nobody wanting to run for a tag has over valued horses, made it more difficult to find places to run lower end claimers, made ownership less accessible, and compounds the horse population problem by reducing the incentive to keep horses going who should be running at lower tags but are now forced to run at a level above their heads if they do enter at all.

The part of claiming I’ve always loved was taking a horse and improving on it, and trying to find a diamond in the rough. Most notably in my own career, I claimed my mare Ay Italian for $3200, she went on to move up to the stakes/ allowance level that same season and won two AB bred stakes on the B track when we had an extremely nice group of mares running at that level at the time.

Last season, I had a nice solid older gelding in the barn who fit at about the $3000 claiming level. I could not get a race for him on the B track, he sat in the barn for five weeks at one point. I could get the odd race on the A track, but how does it make any sense that my horse who was running at the bottom B track claiming level couldn’t get a race there, but instead was on the A track? The A track is meant for horses that are running above the level of the B track, and yet nothing my horse fit in was written on the B track. It makes no sense.

I also remember when we ran a $2500 claiming race series years ago going 3F, the same group of older, competitive horses came back week after week and it was so great for the fans to see familiar faces return at a level they were all competitive at where it was really anybody’s race to win.

For owners wanting to get started in the sport and get racing right away, claiming something is the best way to do so, you claim it and run back fairly quickly. Reducing support for our claiming ranks discourages ownership and makes it harder for new people to get into the sport.

Not everything is a stakes or allowance horse, and that’s ok. And well written claiming races where horses are entered where they belong do wonders for the overall health of the sport.

Long an integral part of Thoroughbred racing, claimers offer affordable ownership options and can become stable stars for smaller outfits.

16/11/2025

Grade 3 winner Joey Freshwater joins the Alberta stallion ranks after beginning his career in California: https://tinyurl.com/mtbh8p3

15/11/2025

Ay Don’t Hesitate ‘Ace’ (JC pending) Ay Italian X No Hesitation 2025.

What a nice c**t he’s turning out to be, I couldn’t ask for a more intelligent, kind, and well put together baby for my first home bred.

Hope he’s fast, if he tries even half as hard as his mother did on the track, he’ll be a winner.

15/11/2025

Working every day to make all of these little dreams come true and getting closer all the time ❤️

🐴❤ and make the world a little better than I found it

15/11/2025

One’s happy to see me, the other’s just happy to see his morning grain bucket and wondering why I didn’t bring him a coffee to go with it.