Equine Center > News and Events
To view a slide show of the Leatherdale Equine Center click here.
(Please be patient, this is a large file with excellent pictures!)
Press Releases
Click on the following links for more information about the Center's Grand Opening Celebration
Equine Center in the News.
Follow this link to read what the Minneapolis Star Tribune has to say about the new Equine Center.
We Can Ride is Up and Running!
The following email was received from Judi French,
Program Development Director, We Can Ride, Inc.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
This week of Hippotherapy classes at the Leatherdale Equine Center was amazing!
The facility is working so well and all the staff has been so generous. The arena screen is perfect and the lighting and fan controls work like a dream. Please know how lucky we feel and how much we appreciate all you have done to make this possible.
Our new clients and their families are also thrilled. We had many teary parents on Monday and Tuesday as they watched their children ride and do so well. Two of our parents told me that they were so worried about how this would work for their VERY involved child that they felt like crying on the way to the facility...... and then when the children were on their horses and smiling .... the parents couldn't help crying for joy!
And then there was the 10 year old autistic boy who, when asked if he was done riding, said for the FIRST time more, more....... of course we gave him more and his mother was thrilled.
We anticipate seeing many little miracles happen over the next 4 weeks and this is just the beginning!
Thank you for helping to give these families hope for the future.
University of Minnesota researchers discover the gentic cause of PSSM
Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy (PSSM) is a common cause of tying-up in horses. Click here for an Adobe Acrobat file describing the recent advances in PSSM genetic testing.
Maneighs by Hercules
Support the Equine Center by making a donation of $50 and receive a Maneigh from Hercules. The grand opening event will take place in 2007! Checks can be made payable to the University of Minnesota Equine Center. Please note that you would like to receive a Maneigh. Mail to CM 3854, PO Box 70870, St. Paul, MN 55170. |
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Hercules is a Belgian gelding that lives at the University of Minnesota Equine Center and is a blood donor for equine patients. He has a universal blood type, and since horses have seven major blood groups and more than 200,000 different blood types, this makes Hercules a very valuable asset to horse owners across Minnesota! |
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A truly unique Maneigh from Hercules!
Hercules paints with his hooves using non-toxic paint |
$50 tax deductible donation to support the
University of Minnesota Equine Center capital campaign project
to build the new Equine Center on the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus.
University of Minnesota
Equine Center |
For more information, visit the Equine Center Campaign page
at:
www.cvm.umn.edu/devalumni/campaigns/equine/home.html.
Newsletter:
Read the Spring 2007 Newsletter "The Equine Connection" (Acrobat reader required.)
Read the Fall 2006 Newsletter "The Equine Connection" (Acrobat reader required.)
Construction Update...
The Center is nearing completion
July 2007
August 2007 |
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Interior - the Arena |
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