 Dawnville Farms Training, lessons and boarding for Morgan Horses
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Dawnville Farms Training, lessons and boarding for Morgan Horses
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About Us
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About Us
McDonald and Bienert Receive 2009 Distinguished Service Award Peggy McDonald and Eldon Bienert have worked in the horse industry in Alberta and with Morgan horses in particular for more than 50 years. This Alberta husband and wife team have individually and together worked tirelessly to promote Alberta bred horses nationally and internationally. For their years of work and their dedication to Alberta's horse industry, McDonald and Bienert were awarded the 2009 Distinguished Service Award. From Dawnville Farms,
established in 1973 in Leduc, they established a Morgan horse breeding
program that is internationally respected. They were among the first
breeders to bring Morgans into Alberta, and Dawnville Farms continues to
operate as a breeding, training and boarding business. Bienert, a member of
a homesteading family raised in Leduc, was among the first to bring
electricity, telephone and gas to the area, was involved in 4-H and was a
director and president of the Leduc Light Horse Association. In 1985, he was
honoured as Leduc's Citizen of the Year. "McDonald was one of the founding members
of the Canadian Morgan Horse Association, and she and
Bienert have held many executive positions with the association, the Alberta
Morgan Horse Club and the charity organization Equine Foundation of Canada,"
said Les Burwash, head of equine programs with Alberta Agriculture and Rural
Development, Airdrie. "Their many years of active support and dedication to
the Morgan breed and to the horse industry in this province are very
deserving of recognition." •
Dawnville Farms is owned by Eldon Bienert, a life-time farmer and former dairyman in the Leduc area, as versatile as his Morgan horses and fully involved in all aspects of community life. Eldon’s experiences with the Morgan breed began in 1970 when he imported his first of these wonderful equines from the United States. Since then Eldon has been involved with the Alberta Morgan Club as a Director and President, and with the Canadian Morgan Association as a Director and President. He is currently a Director of the Equine Foundation of Canada, and held the same post with the Canadian Morgan Foundation. Dawnville Farms Morgan bloodlines were first based on the horses owned by the McDonalds - Peggy and daughters Karen (Abel) and Kelly (Miller), who first became involved with the breed in 1958. They moved to the Leduc location in 1973 and a thriving Morgan partnership began. Peggy was the first Secretary of the Canadian Morgan Association and later was Office Administrator as well as Canadian Morgan Horse Association magazine editor. Peggy also published the Alberta Morgan Club newsletter for several years. Karen and Kelly were involved in many aspects of the Morgan breed organizations both provincially and nationally, and with a lifetime of experience with Morgan horses, have produced show ring winners from the local to the national level. The Dawnville property expanded in 1996, adding an additional 160 acres in an area 20 minutes southeast of the main facility. This is pasture and hay land, where the mares and foals and other young stock spend their days grazing the gently rolling hills, sheltered by bush and trees. This land is set up for a Combined Driving course and has been the scene of several such annual events, as well as being used for recreational riding. Over the years many stallions and mares have graced our barns and pasture. Most of them have been successful producers and were kept for the rest of their lives. Carefully selected mares were first shown, and then allowed to join the broodmare band. To name a few: Intrepid April Dawn by Windcrest Don Again, Northwind’s Collette by Applevale Boy King, Mary-Mel's Jasmine by Gringo, and RJ's Perfection by Mr. America, all out of equally good dams. Our present group of broodmares consists mainly of mares from or by our own Morgan stock.
The list of Dawnville Farms stallions includes Northwinds Quizman by the Government-bred Quizkid, Northwinds Commander by Quizkid and out of a Payday mare with heavy, old Government lines, Bar Z Morgan County by the great Waseeka's Skylark, Treelane Mystery Man, a fine son of the renowned Fleetwing, Merri-lee Centurion by Orland Leader, Southerly Conowingo by Lord Appleton and Carlyle Cartier by Waseeka's Showtime. This is just a partial list and their pedigrees contain many of the Morgan World's finest individuals, in the first and second generations.
You will find most of the Morgan families represented in the bloodline of the Dawnville Morgans: the Westem lines, the Archies and Lippitts, both the old and new Government lines, Brunks, and traces of the rest. |
