An RCMP Canadian sunset ceremony takes place at the RCMP Musical Ride Stables.  |  Karen Joyner/RCMP photo

Much goes into making a police horse

The RCMP has been breeding its own horses for more than a century and has high standards for what the Musical Ride requires


Glacier FarmMedia – It’s an image quintessential to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police — a rider in a red coat and black belt, calf-high brown boots, broad-brimmed hat, mounted on a black horse. That visual has been around for well over a century, dating back to when the organization was still known as the North […] Read more