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Everton Farms Equine Equine Reproduction Services and Young Horse Development

A lot of people throw the term ‘24/7’ around, but, I don’t think there’s many people who actually live that. Those of us...
05/05/2026

A lot of people throw the term ‘24/7’ around, but, I don’t think there’s many people who actually live that. Those of us on breeding farms, particularly in April and May, we know it all too well. And not only is it gruelling round the clock work, but there are some pretty intense life or death moments that drive your stress and exhaustion to a whole new level.

So as usual, I have fallen behind in…..well everything, but certainly making any social media posts. However I had a nice quiet evening last night and thought I’d snap a few pics of my birthday boy before running the c**t herd back from the pasture for the night.

These photos are the result.

And pretty much sum up what life has been like for the last year, with the result of my ‘can’t go wrong’ breeding that was supposed to produce a sweet bay filly pony with 4 white socks (and maybe mom’s belly splashes?). Instead I got a complete a$& h@! # c**t, with a pony brain, horse size, chestnut with 2 friggin socks (and no belly splash!).

Born at 6pm on May 4th 2025, out in the field, mom walked a whole 10ft from the hay bale to lay down and knock him out. Dad watched the whole thing from a respectable distance. The rest of the herd out there carried on eating. Yes, after rigorously devoting hours and hours and hours of the past 4 years to watching client mares around the clock in order to assist their foalings, I turned my own out with her regular group at the very back of the farm and mostly ignored her for the day, expecting a foal late that night. I wrapped him up in my sweater and carried him out of the field, but he then promptly stood up and at not even 45 minutes old, trotted the lengthy distance back to the barn!

So, happy first birthday Interrobang. It’s a miracle you exist, and it’s a bloody miracle we haven’t killed each other yet. There are plenty of videos for those of you who haven’t met my little sh?! disturber, but I’m not sure I’m willing to share them until he gets some brain surgery (gelded) and learns some manners.

The source of many ?! moments since conception, Interrobang is a warmblood/welsh pony cross, produced using frozen epididymal semen prepared post-castration by the therio team at OVC (Dr Tracy Chénier) and bred by the legendary Dr Claire Plante. Sired by Searchlight (Sir Wanabi x VDL Voila - Flemmingh/Nimmerdor) out of Arkell’s Quintessa (Arkell’s Robbi x Queenie).
Happy first birthday dude, and May the 4th be with you!

Brace yourselves, our 5th foal of 2026 requires a CUTENESS OVERLOAD warning! Not only that but this exceptionally well b...
04/05/2026

Brace yourselves, our 5th foal of 2026 requires a CUTENESS OVERLOAD warning! Not only that but this exceptionally well bred hunter/jumper prospect is available! So if you aren’t in the market for the horse of your dreams, I recommend you scroll on before laying eyes on his adorable little face!

This little c**t is a product of ICSI, and was carried by a wonderful recipient mare Gelati, who had a terrific jumping career and produced jumper foals of her own. But the biological dam is Emerald Coast Z RWC (El Salvador x Quality Touch Z), an absolutely stunning mare making waves on the US hunter circuit, after winning at Devon in 2025 and earning the title of top scoring KWPN hunter in North America in 2024. The sire of the c**t is none other than Lordanos, the 2013 USEF top jumping sire.

Much like the foaling two days earlier, Gelati kept me up all night, delivering this very special c**t at 1:40am. I didn’t have to work too hard though, as he was up and nursing in no time!

“Wexford Coast RWC” has been non stop entertainment ever since. This boy is truly made out of springs and has endless energy! It’s difficult to catch photos of him still!

Congratulations to Jane and Robert Clark, while they have a breeding program full of high quality animals, this little guy is truly top-tier, just perfect in every way!!

03/31/2026

Have I mentioned lately how adorable our yearlings are? I mean, I wanna get a bale of hay in for them, but how can I possibly disturb their nap time??

I have fallen rather behind, with a few more 2026 foals on the ground already…but I promise I will go back and catch up ...
03/24/2026

I have fallen rather behind, with a few more 2026 foals on the ground already…but I promise I will go back and catch up the rest of 2025!

Speaking of falling and foals on the ground, our 4th foal this year started life exactly that way. The maiden mare Power of Pink had kept me on watch for several nights already, dripped out all her colostrum, and seemed stubbornly determined NOT to give birth.

The big moment was inevitable, and on March 9 at 2am, stage two labour started…..but Pink was in complete denial. I tried everything to get her to lay down but she refused, and instead stood with her head right in the corner of the stall at the door….for the entire delivery! Picture someone squeezing their eyes shut, covering their ears, and repeating ‘this isn’t happening, this isn’t happening!!!’….. and well, that was Pink.

Certainly I’ve had mares up and down plenty during labour. And I’ve heard of them foaling while standing up. But this was a first for me! Maidens are always a bit tough and benefit from some help, so I was pulling and pulling and pulling with all my might….until we got past the rib cage and then gravity took over the rest!

Let me tell you, there is no graceful way to ‘catch’ a slippery foal, in its amniotic sac, and lower it to the ground. And no, the umbilical cord does not reach that far, and bust partway down, showering me, the foal, and everything around us in blood.

The filly, by Dancin Lou, was absolutely unharmed by her unorthodox entrance. She has very quickly grown to be a strong and sassy little girl and already gaits like a pro! Congratulations to Garry Merner, this is his first foal, named by his daughter ‘Looks Like A LouLou’!

I know winter is far from over, but, these past few days have been just the break we all needed, to push through to spri...
03/10/2026

I know winter is far from over, but, these past few days have been just the break we all needed, to push through to spring, and what are always an incredibly chaotic few months at the height of breeding and foaling season.

These photos may not seem significant to most, but we are rejoicing here on the farm! With the extreme cold this year, at various points I had lost water to all but 2 of 10 fields. Prompt action got all of them running with each occurrence except one…..that served one entire section of the farm, miles away from any other water source. That water line froze in early January. So on top of all the challenges of managing 50 horses living outside in a ferocious winter, AND a barn full of mares foaling and breeding……I have been filling a trough at the barn, driving it out to the far field on the tractor, and siphoning (cause who doesn’t want to suck on the end of a hose when it’s -29 and a get a mouthful of cold water?!) into troughs in the fields. Every. Single. Day. I tried everything to get it flowing, went through 2 propane tanks and built a littke hut around it, but it’s an old hydrant and an old water line, likely frozen an extensive distance underground.

Yesterday was my favourite day of 2026 so far……for the first time in 8 weeks I lifted the handle, and hallelujah, water flowed forth! Between that and finally getting my foaling cameras working again, I cannot describe the sense of liberation I feel!

Pictured also are a few of our open mares, and another beautiful sunrise. These girls have been stabled under lights all winter, and due to the constant barrage of winter storms, have spent more time indoors than they’d like. Nearly all are bred now, and this is the happiest I’ve seen them, to be out enjoying extended turnout hours as we gain daylight and the temperatures jumped from -19 to +14 in just one week. And some of our early foals were enjoying their first blanket-free day of turnout!

Also pictured is one of my hardest working staff, Veronica Chiu, who wins the prize for being the first to break out the t-shirt while doing some spring cleaning of the foal paddocks!

We’re almost there folks….spring us just around the corner. Soon we’ll be complaining about mosquitoes instead of snow!

Our third foal for 2026 was a little more work to bring into the world, but well worth the effort. He may have a great b...
03/02/2026

Our third foal for 2026 was a little more work to bring into the world, but well worth the effort. He may have a great big blocky head like his mum, but dang is it ever cute!! This boy arrived at 8:40pm on February 19, and already by the next day he was giving us a run for our money! Hes a stout little guy, built wide and strong as an ox, just like his dam American Sara. His sire is Always B Miki, and if he attacks his racing career with the same determined energy he shows us now, he’s going to be unbeatable! I don’t think there’s a single staff member here, nor our brave vet tech Melissa, who hasn’t found themselves being bulldozed around the stall, or ended up face down in the straw trying to hang on to him (myself included)! When he’s not mocking our efforts with his astonishing strength, he’s an absolute charmer who loves his scratches just like the rest of the babies.

You may be interested to know, that all of our first three foals this year were bred on the same day last year, with a 340 day ‘due’ date of February 2 this year. But they were born in a spread from January 29, to February 19. This just goes to show the range in length of gestation for perfectly normal, healthy mares and foals. And why my job is so completely unpredictable!

Congratulations to Leo Fleming on this handsome little powerhouse of a c**t! Once again, we are open to name suggestions!

Seeing as this baby girl is already over a week old tonight (and we’ve had foal number 3, and are waiting on foal number...
02/25/2026

Seeing as this baby girl is already over a week old tonight (and we’ve had foal number 3, and are waiting on foal number 4 any day now!) I’d like to introduce her, our second foal for 2026!

At 11:10pm on February 15th, the mare Party in Rome knocked out this great big leggy filly by Cattlewash, without breaking a sweat! What took minutes for Rome to push out, took me several hours (and all thecstength j ciukd muster) to get this tall girl standing reliably on her feet. I mean, she came out the size of, and looking like, a three week old foal! But since then she has been nothing short of acrobatic, bucking and leaping and deftly darting around the stall and pens. She is a born athlete, FULL of energy and enthusiasm. Congratulations to Bill Manes, Bill Cripps and Steve Papillon on this promising young filly!

We’d like to hear some name suggestions for her, and we are thinking she surely must get an Italian or Olympic themed name, given her dam is Party in Rome, and she was born during the Winter Olympics, on the day Canada won its first gold medal of the games! Any ideas??

Great opportunity to get your next stud contract, and support Canadian breeders at the same time!
02/17/2026

Great opportunity to get your next stud contract, and support Canadian breeders at the same time!

April is always a busy month for foaling. Last year we had foals on April 2, 4, 12, 19, 21, 25, 26 and 28…(and this year...
02/16/2026

April is always a busy month for foaling. Last year we had foals on April 2, 4, 12, 19, 21, 25, 26 and 28…(and this year we are expecting twice as many!!). The last 3 foals of April 2025 were born nearly one after the other, and as that’s still from the time period I am missing photos, I’m going to combine them into one post again!

On April 25, the Quarter Horse mare Hotrods Prescription surprised us by foaling a little earlier than expected. We’ll forgive her, at the age of 21 she was probably gettihg tired of carrying it around! So at 4:40am, she delivered a little bay filly by WhiskyNKrymsun. Mom is a stout western pleasure horse, but this filly was the most delicate and refined little girl, and inherited her mother’s pretty dish face. Congratulations to owner Kirsten Anderson, this is a full sibling to her c**t Finch who was born here in 2023.

The next day, at 11:15pm, another senior mare Wisteria BD, now retired from her jumping career, delivered a dark c**t by Quidam Blue. This was a first foal for owners Bonnie Schiller and her daughter Alyssa, and they couldn’t have been luckier with this fantastic little boy. Named Quantum Blue, we genuinely weren’t sure at birth if he would be black, dark bay, or grey like his father. But we know one thing for sure….he will sure jump! I cant wait to see what he can achieve under Alyssa’s expert riding!

I might have gotten some sleep briefly before our next foal (but probably didn’t!), born April 29, also just after 11pm. 2025 was definitely the year of the pretty-as-a-princess fillies, and like some of the others, I wish I still had all my photos of them to share with you! By the very popular Dreamscape stallion Viscount and out of the maiden mare Oakley, (who is by another Dreamscape stallion Checkmate) this filly is just exquisite. There is going to be some fierce competition on the hunter/jumper circuit over the next decade or so, through the careers of these gorgeous athletes. Congratulations to owner Laura Biancolin!

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