Show Dates 2008:

We are pleased to announce our show dates for the upcoming year. Please click on the image below for the pdf file.

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Collingwood:

What was once a small one-week venue has developed into two separate events spanning a two-week period. The first event is called the Collingwood Festival, the second, the Kubota Collingwood Classic. Together they are known as The Collingwood Horse Shows.

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West Edmonton Mall:

Rocky Mountain Show Jumping is pleased to announce that the West Edmonton Mall has donated 14 Choice Passes to the Santa Clause Classic. Each pass is valid for one of the following: Daypass to the Waterpark, or to Galaxyland.

These passes will be used at the Santa Clause Classic as value added prizes.

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"The Greatest Show on Earth"

CWD Saddles:

Welcome to a place that is completely dedicated to your passion. And your satisfaction. In fact, as you browse this site we hope you will get a sense of the force that drives us…a constant striving to offer you the very best.

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Barn Pros :

BarnPros,Inc. was founded in 1987, with the purpose of providing high quality traditional wood horse barns to a discerning clientele in an expanding Western Washington market. Offering the finest barns and buildings available, BarnPros quickly established a reputation as the premier barn building company in the Pacific Northwest.

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Santa Clause Classic:

With the Santa Clause Classic scheduled to get underway on Friday, we would like to remind everyone again, that the tournament is intended to be fun! Please, we encourage you to dress in a festive nature. Santa Clause hats, reindeer horns, or whatever you feel appropriate. You can also dress up your horse or pony! Don't forget, that on Saturday, we will be having a gingerbread house making contest with tons of fabulous prizes.

Don't forget to check the web on Thursday night, when we will post the updated schedule for the times of the classes throughout the weekend. We have done this all year, and it really helps give you the competitor a pretty true time for your classes that helps you better plan your day.

Get the Santa Clause Classic info here

New Warm Up Ring:

We have been receiving numerous inquiries as to the rumor that we have built a new warm up ring on the property. Well consider it rumor no more! In listening to the desires of our competitors all year, one of the most common things we heard was; "You guys need to build another warm up area!"

It is true that the grass area next to jumper ring two was quite inadequate for horses to warm up in, especially if the weather was poor. RMSJ believes in listening to our competitors, and 21,000 square feet of filter cloth, 300 tones of pit run, 350 tones of crushed limestone, and 200 tones of mixed sand later, there will be a 110' X 185' warm up ring that will help service the two jumper rings for the 2008 season.

View the pdf pages to see the images of the ring under construction

Heartland:

This past week, RMSJ played host to the new CBC Sunday hit series Heartland. "It is a sprawling family saga that follows Amy and Lou Fleming, their grandfather Jack, and the newly arrived Ty Borden through the ups and downs and highs and lows that follow the death of Marion Fleming.

Heartland will struggle from near bankruptcy to paying for itself. During these struggles, Amy's relationship with her sister Lou will grow closer as they both try and reconcile with their estranged father, Tim.

As Amy starts to become more comfortable with the fact that she possesses her mother's skill to help injured horses, the bond between her and Spartan grows stronger. Amy knows Spartan can once again be the powerful jumper he once was.

Ty's past haunts him, but he tries to overcome it and with Amy's help, learn to heal the horses of Heartland.

Scott Cardinal, the local vet and old friend of Lou's, and Mallory Wells, a local girl who's almost part of the family, also play a major role in the daily life of Heartland and the Fleming family."

With over three hundred people at RMSJ for three full days, and every imaginable lights, camera and action in the cards, it was a great way to share our venue and help increase the knowlege of our sport. It was also great to see many local horse enthusiasts be invited to be extras in the show, including Rocky Mountain Show Jumping's own Tani Anderson who was able to do some stunt doubling for the character Ashley Stanton.

RMSJ will appear in the final two episodes of the season.

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Check out some of the photos at RMSJ during the filming

Canadian Sport Horse Assosciation:

Canada has long been famous for its good horses.  By the early 1900’s a great many Canadian bred horses were being sold to the United States market.  Canadian were exhibiting hunters and jumpers constantly in the US and Europe with gratifying success.  The First World War saw many of our horses shipped to the army in Europe, never to return.  At the suggestion of Colonel Frank Moss, the Canadian Racing Association imported 16 English Thoroughbred stallions suitable for half-bred production.  To avoid the mistakes made in earlier years by indiscriminate breeding; Col. Frank Moss, Clifford Sifton and Victor Sifton, joined by T. A. Crow, Frank Hodgson and Dr. Charles Temple, after studying the articles and by-laws of the Hunter Improvement and National Light Horse Breeding Society of Great Britain, formed the Canadian Hunter, Saddle and Light Horse Improvement Society, which was officially incorporated on October 8, 1926.  Its objective was to produce “admirable conveyances to carry sportsmen comfortably and safely to the hounds or cross-country.”

In 1928, the Foundation Brood Mares Register was started; the Canadian Racing Association stallions and some others were accepted and approved as Foundation Sires and the Society offered to extend its services to other Canadian Provinces.  The Canadian Hunter Society was incorporated in 1933, under the revised National Livestock Pedigree Act and arrangements were made with the Canadian Live Stock Records to maintain the Canadian Hunter Studbook.  In 1970, the Canadian Hunter and Light Horse Improvement Society and the Canadian Hunter Society were amalgamated into the Canadian Hunter Improvement Society.  In order to produce sound, hunter-type horses of correct conformation and type, full registration was conditional upon inspection and approval (or rejection) of each horse, mare or stallion at 36 months of age.  Mares, if they were a product of two generations of Canadian Hunter breeding, were automatically approved for breeding purposes.  Originally, great stress was placed upon the horse’s proof of ancestry, however, it was found to be more advantageous to consider the individual horse’s worthiness.
Realizing that the European Warmblood horses were gaining supremacy in the sport horse world of competition, the Canadian Hunter Improvement Society, recognizing the potential for increasing the quality of their horses, became the first open studbook in North America to include European warmbloods in its pedigrees. 

In the mid -1980’s, to reflect the changing times, the Society’s name was changed to the Canadian Sport Horse Association, incorporating the term ‘sport horse”, defined as a horse suitable for the disciplines of dressage, jumping, eventing or hunter.

Reflecting the changing standards and practices of the sport horse world, the studbook was restructured in 2002.  In 2004, the changes were ratified.  The changes required that all female breeding stock be inspected for conformational soundness and suitability of type to obtain breeding approval.  Stallions have always required inspection and now must also pass a performance test or its equivalent, to be approved as breeding stock.

The CSHA is incorporated under the Agriculture Canada’s Animal Pedigree Act as an Evolving Breed.  This designation provides CSH breeders flexibility and freedom to plan their breeding programs based on genetics and market trends.  Members also benefit from the credibility of registering their horses with an internationally respected studbook.

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