The Rural Voice, 1987-09, Page 108YOUR PLOWING MATCH STATION
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LIVE from the Match 10:30 - 4 p.m.
— Stop by our display next to Headquarters
and meet our on -air staff.
— Fill out a ballot for great prizes.
— Wednesday, September 16th.
CFOS CFPS will host
Celebrity Plowing Day.
IPM NEWS
HORSES BACK
AT THE MATCH
Horses are back this year at the IPM.
And as Ontario Plowmen's Associa-
tion president Albert Carson notes,
that's a real plus for the match.
"The beginning of the match back in
1913 was all about horse plowing. It has
grown since then to the modern, ad-
vanced technology which the farm show
brings to everyone today, but people
still appreciate the originality and
beauty of the horse plowing. It really is
a fine art that should never be lost."
Last year's match held in Hastings
County was the first time in the IPM's
history that horses were not at the match.
Insurance premiums to cover horses at
the match rose five times the amount of
the previous year's cost, forcing the
OPA to eliminate the popular animals
entirely.
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22 GREY COUNTY PLOWING MATCH EDITION
From left to right, John Fennell, general
manager of the OPA, Albert Carson,
OPA president, Vince Hanson, and
David Elliot, both of the Co-operators.
As a condition in this year's insur-
ance contract to allow horses, however,
the helicopters had to be eliminated.
"The helicopters have a tendency to
frighten the horses. So it was a choice of
one or the other and we naturally chose
the horses," says John Fennell, general
manager of the OPA.
Co-operator's Ontario Division's
vice-president in Guelph, Bill Weafer,
says his company is pleased that it could
provide the OPA with the proper cover-
age to bring horses back. "Horse plow-
ing and horses at the match have always
been a tradition with the IPM. It was
unfortunate to see it lost last year," he
adds.0