Finnegan Farms Inc.

02/27/2026

Save the date and come out to meet and interact with a variety of different parrots including Parker & Scully from Finnegan Farms !

08/20/2025

03/12/2025

Registration is now open for the 2025 Summer Riding Camps! Email [email protected] to register!

02/16/2025

Save the date in your calendar and come check this out !

05/30/2024

We are gearing up for our first show of the season, coming up on June 8th, and would love to see you there!

Equitation starts at 9am, jumping begins at 10am.

Dressage from 12pm-3pm.

- Walk/trot ground rails and X-rail divisions for the greenies.
- Open Jumping Divisions X-rails to 2'6.
- Walk/trot and Training Level Dressage, Tests A+C: http://www.cadora.ca/dressage-tests/

Jumping Entry forms can be found here:https://da5971d1-9479-4989-9862-149bc2ca4631.filesusr.com/ugd/108113_587401ff74a6435289c0e6c25ef87257.pdf

Dressage Entry forms can be found here:https://da5971d1-9479-4989-9862-149bc2ca4631.filesusr.com/ugd/108113_d08c696f09694323bf81214df645ff4e.pdf

03/01/2024

Great photo of late movie star Hightower as Ginger in Black Beauty
Hightower’s career took off and this gentleman, tractable gelding was in high demand! In fact, they even used him as a mare in BLACK BEAUTY because he was that good. They shot around him so he could appear as “Ginger”. The director of that film, Caroline Thompson, said that Hightower had “an attitude of gratitude”. Nice.

In 1999, HIghtower played Pilgrim in THE HORSE WHISPERER. Now, lots of horses played Pilgrim… but Hightower did something no other horse had done at that time. He was trained to charge.

As legend has it, Robert Redford came to Rex’s ranch to meet Hightower. Rex had his chestnut gelding charge Redford, teeth bared, and back him against the rails before quitting on cue.

Hightower got the job…

Another fan of Hightower was Julia Roberts. She was atop Hightower in the beginning scenes of RUNAWAY BRIDE where he reared and ran off with her. Julia loved him and wished to purchase him (not for sale).

At the end of the movie, the director decided to add scenes. One required Hightower to reappear. Unfortunately, Hightower was already on set in Los Angeles (across the country). No worries. The Studio arranged for Hightower to be Fed Ex’d to the location so Julia could ride him in the closing scenes.