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The Midwest Horse Fair 2024 · Ask The Experts

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  Eight fifty thirteen ten Wiby very apropos as. We are joined this morning by
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  Terry Joe Jannetti with the executive director. With the Midwest Horse Fair coming up
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  next weekend the nineteenth through the twenty first at the Alliant Energy Center. Tickets
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  and all information available for you at Midwest Horsefair dot com. That's Midwest Horsefair
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  dot com. Terry, how you doing this morning. I'm doing great.
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  Thanks for having me as a beautiful day and we are just nine days away
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  from the best three day horse fair in the United States. It is.
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  It is going to be a great one and it's always a great time.
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  And let's talk about the kind of the overall Midwest Horse Fair and for people
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  that have not attended, I have had the opportunity to attend, opportunity to
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  attend a number of years myself as well as brought my family out as well.
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  There is so much to do and for all I think sometimes people think,
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  oh, this is forquote unquote horse people. It's really for everybody,
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  isn't it It is. It is a family friendly event that is jam packed
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  three days full of I think we have like three hundred different events going on
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  throughout the weekend, you know, and plenty four families and kids to do
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  in terms of we've got our kids corea, we got pony rides, carriage
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  rides in addition to kind of all the education that goes on throughout the weekend
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  Friday and Saturday night. I know, the kind of the big headliner is
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  the rodeo. It is back, isn't it it is. We are proud
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  to host the largest PRCA attended rodeo in Wisconsin on Friday and Saturday nights.
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  And it's really much more than a rodeo because we have world class entertainers and
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  if our world champion Berylman John Harrison, they'll be with us. We have
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  professional trick roper Wryter Keisner and his wife Bethany. We have we actually have
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  the only standing Army mounted color guard joining us this year. We're pretty excited
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  about that. And so it's going to be a great event. Steer wrestling,
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  bronc riding, kind of some of the standard stuff as well. Sure,
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  we host of events with obviously the main event, the big event being
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  at the end with the bull riding. Yes, yes, And we talk
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  about the rodeo events and always always entertaining and just amazing athletes and amazing animals.
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  And for folks that let's talk actually to some of those horse people.
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  I know, for them, a lot of this is every single year.
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  A lot of this is going to be like, oh, of course we
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  know that. But people that may be new to the area or maybe haven't
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  had a chance to check out the Midwest Horse Fair, let's talk about kind
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  of the equestrians out there. Talk to them about the event and what's offered
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  to them specifically. Sure, So twenty twenty four marks our forty third annual
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  events. Really are you know, the horses, the breed and discipline groups
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  are the heart of our events. This year, our theme is horse Place,
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  so we get to showcase the funds that we get to have with our
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  beloved horses. We have some new features this year where we are showcasing some
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  rare and critical breeds, so we have some new breeds that have never been
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  to the fair before. This year, I think we're expecting to have you
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  know, close to over seven hundred and fifty hare and so yeah, they'll
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  be And then of course we have over thirty expert clinicians representing all the disciplines,
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  so you know, we have you know, famous equestrians on the Western
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  side as well as the English. We have Amberly Snyders. I'm going to
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  be joining us. She was featured in the movie walk Ride Rodeo, so
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  she is a very famous barrel racer. She's going to be leading clinics throughout
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  the weekend and a celebrity breakfast. We have Diane Karney is a very prestigious
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  hunter jumper clinician in we have Cole Cameron on cold Starting, Stephen Hayes and
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  Giusage. We have Margie Parr locally who is going to be showing us Arena
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  Polo and many more. Really, and I saw Blaine Blaine's farm and Fleet's
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  going to have the tax shop, and that's another great, great opportunity for
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  folks to shop some of the some of the big names that that we're familiar
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  with they think of like Wall and others that a lot of us are familiar
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  with, and also some smaller vendors and opportunity to learn a little bit more
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  about their products as well, isn't there You're right, A big part of
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  our show is shopping and exhibitors, and Blaine's is a very important spot.
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  They do a lot for us throughout the fair, really throughout the year.
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  They're very they have a great equine product and they're very important to the Horse
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  Fair and so definitely check them out. They have specials going on all weekends
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  and but we will have over four hundred exhibitors at the fair again this year,
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  so real they offer something for you know, everything for head to toe
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  for horse and rider. Talking this morning with Terry Jenety, executive director with
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  the Midwest Horse Fair, and Terry, I think I've asked you this in
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  years past, but if not, I'll still ellen ask you this year.
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  For you as somebody who puts this all together and you work so hard a
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  year round to make this a success. What's kind of your the thing this
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  year that you're looking personally looking most forward to doing and seeing. Yeah,
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  well, we've got several new things, new features this year, and you
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  know one is you know, the rare and critical breeds we're very excited to
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  build to showcase and educate folks. That is you know a big part of
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  our mission is part of the Wisconsin Horse Council. We're that supports the equine
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  community. So we're excited to be hosting that and having the five new rare
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  breeds part of our fair. We're also doing a we were hosting for the
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  first time the Wisconsin f FA Horse State Horse Evaluation at the Fair, so
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  we're proud to be doing that. And we have a new equine Career Exploration
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  Forum, so for folks to bring, you know, their passion for horses
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  to their careers. Well, we brought in some experts who will be hosting
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  presentations. We have a career Exploration Forum, We'll have scavenger hunts and so
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  that's a new feature. And then we also are this year again proud to
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  be bringing back the Top ten Challenge, so that's really you know they get.
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  We have ten competitors cowboys cowgirls coming to compete on Sunday for the coveted
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  title of Midwest Horse Fair Top Hands. So that'll be happening on Sunday.
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  Oh and then last thing I'm proud that we're doing on Sunday is we have
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  our first We are going to be celebrating our military and our veterans with free
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  admission on Sunday, So if they show a valid ID, they'll get to
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  a free admission to the fair on Sunday. Oh, that is absolutely fantastic
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  to hear and of course all the details Midwest Horsefair dot com. That's Midwest
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  Horsefair dot com. Tickets available online you mentioned as well, Terry Blanez.
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  They have tickets available at area locations. Again, you can get all the
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  details Midwest Horsefair dot com running April nineteenth through the twenty first at the Alliant
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  Energy Center. And again that website Midwest Horsefair dot com. Midwest Horsefair dot
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  com. Terry, It's all always great chatting with you. We'll we'll be
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  talking at about seven days. I'll see you at the horse fair. That's
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  awesome. Thanks for having us. And we've got a chance for you if
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  you've been listening and want to go to the horse fair. We've got two
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  pairs of day passes and a four pack of rodeo tickets for Friday night's event.
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  Call her number one right now you will win the rodeo four pass and
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  call her number two and three you will win a pair of day passes.
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  Telephone number six so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight
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  three two one thirteen ten. Again, more information available at Midwest Horsefair dot
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  com. Dan O'donald comes your way next right here on thirteen ten Wybi