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Back To Last Call OnlineFebruary 25, 2010
Rutherford and Ingham set the gold standard for boutique breeders
The latest installment from my weekly Guelph Mercury column…
The gold medal for breeding harness horses in Canada has been presented to a hands-on retired couple with a small band of broodmares.
Harry Rutherford and Diane Ingham — subjects of The Canadian Sportsman’s Feb. 25 cover story — operate Cool Creek Farms in Mount Pleasant, near Brantford. Recently, the couple won an O’Brien Award as the nation’s breeders of the year.
Though Rutherford and Ingham have a share of seven previous O’Brien Awards for horses they have bred at Cool Creek, clearly the breeder of the year award was special.
“It’s a nice thing to have,” Rutherford said with typical modesty, though his eyes suggested it was a pinnacle moment in a breeding career that began in 1977 when he was still a member of the Brantford Police Department.
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