CF Equine

21/06/2025

Slowly but surely making it happen 🤞🏻

Yeah, but….
I don’t have the resources.
I don’t have the time.
I’m way behind everyone else.

Don’t let these things come out of your mouth and don’t let them take up room in your mind.

That dream was put on your heart for a reason.
Work hard. Get after it!

19/06/2025

https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/canadian-youth-development-program-advisor-permanently-suspended-for-sexual-misconduct-allegations/

Not the biggest surprise that they’re generally terrible people coming from the people who told me not to go to the ER because they needed me to come into work the next day after I was double barreled by a horse in the ribs and leg, who also had rebar set into their jump rails so if a horse bumped a rail it would hurt more, who often used the bamboo cane to hit their horses as they jumped to ‘make them more careful’, and who told me putting rocks into tendon boot elastics would make the horse’s legs hurt more if they hit a rail and it would pass the stewards at boot check.

And people wonder why I left the show circuit and pursued a career away from the horse industry. Sometimes the people who are supposed to be your mentors just teach you about what kind of horseman and what kind of person you never want to become.

Dayton Gorsline, who has served as the jumping youth development program advisor for Equestrian Canada since 2019, has been permanently suspended by the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner, part of the Canadian Safe Sport Program, for alleged “boundary transgressions, grooming, physical mal...

18/06/2025

13/06/2025

We kind of can’t believe we have to say this, and set ground rules AGAIN, 5 years in, but…

YES, we will delete peanut gallery type comments about the horses, whether it’s feet, soundness, presentation, etc. . They do not in any way help the horses.

NO, we do not allow judgement on the asking price set by the connections. Hey, if no one is willing to pay it. They can either lower the price or not sell the horse.

NO, we do not know everything about these horses. We present the information we are given. We do our absolute best to ask as many questions as we can to cover the bases that we as a buyer would want to know and what we think other buyers may want to know.

So the appropriate way to approach our ads is:

If you are genuinely interested in the horse and have a question about something that is represented OR something you see in the pictures or videos - please contact the listed contact and ask them about it, in a way that is respectful.

If you want to make an offer below asking price, do that! But please don’t lowball; or offer reasons or judgement that will offend.

Prepurchases are always an option! And we are working on ways to get a list of HRA licensed vets with availability who can do them to take the pressure off the track vet.

If you are NOT interested in the horse, or you disagree with the pricing, or what not, it doesn’t matter - and doesn’t need to be said.

Our relationship with the horsemen presenting these horses relies on a lack of judgement and a recognition that black and white doesn’t exist. Sometimes these videos are taken after a week off; where the horse is sharp and tight and managed very carefully to avoid a big reaction. Sometimes the back shoes were freshly pulled. Sometimes they just worked or ran and are a bit tight the next day. Sometimes they’re not sound.

In short; if you don’t like the horse or the price; don’t buy it. If you do like the horse, and have questions, then have a professional and educated conversation with the trainer.

Also, these horses aren’t usually looking for “retirement homes” - they’re looking for a new career and the next thing to do with their lives.

(Random photo for attention)

11/06/2025

Head injuries are a harsh reality of making a living riding. When I was less than a year away from finishing my BSc, and coincidentally in the middle of a semester long research project about CTE, I had a major concussion. I still have bits and pieces of memory missing and parts of the next three months that are still coming back to me, I broke my helmet in half, and later found fractures in my upper jaw and T1 vertebrae I hit my head so hard. I don’t recall signing the bill of sale that bought my first horse trailer and diesel days after my wreck, and I struggled immensely with attention span and being able to retain new information for months to the point where I had to drop almost all my courses the semester after and take an extra semester to finish my degree. Now whenever I do have a concussion, I find I take way longer to recover than I used to. There’s lots of people out there way worse off than me, it’s scary that I was one of the lucky ones and it still affects me years later.

Enjoy this Eclipse Award-winning feature from former Paulick Report editor-in-chief Natalie Voss

11/06/2025

There’s a lot of people on the backstretch that I like and respect and would help any time, but there’s also some who make me really glad that I’m not going down the road racing anymore this season. Some of the messages, rumours, and sh*tty little comments do get back to me, and they are just nasty, and then we all wonder why nobody new gets into this and why we’re hurting for horses and help back there. Just killing the sport faster and some of you are doing it to yourselves.

For the ones who remind me why I love the sport, I’m grateful for you and excited to cheer you all on this season.