by Caroline Williams
Focused. Intense. Quietly self-assured. All of these are apt descriptors of Duane Latimer, Canada’s home-grown cowboy who won the 2006 individual gold medal at the World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Aachen, Germany.
Latimer shared his WEG experience and his insights into the reining industry with a large audience at a question-and-answer session at the Horse Breeders and Owners Conference in Red Deer, Alberta, January 13.
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Equine Health Research Fund-supported studies at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) have made many significant contributions to the cause of improving horse health around the world. But in 1997, a welcome — if unintended — byproduct of a research study was born in the form of a feisty bay filly that was eventually christened ZF Mocha.
Exploring the genetic makeup of other species helps scientists to explain many of the mysteries still surrounding human disease — but those explorations also generate significant breakthroughs in animal health research. So when the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) recently announced its plans to sequence and map the entire equine genome, the news was welcomed by all scientists studying genetically-linked conditions in horses — including researchers based at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatchewan. 
November 1, 2006, was the first-year anniversary for Foxwood Farms, ending 12 months of construction on the brand new equine facility.
Alexandra Duncan of West Vancouver, BC (pictured left), represented Canada at the second annual FEI Young Rider Dressage World Cup Final, held December 15 to 17 in Frankfurt, Germany, finishing in fourth place overall.
Police have been on the lookout for Zebastian, a missing “zorse” (a horse/zebra hybrid), since he escaped or was taken from a farm at Carrot Creek, west of Edmonton, on December 14, 2006.
