Thanks for visiting Running Horse.
Kim and Rhonda Shoemaker are very proud to be involved in breeding and training two of rare and endangered horse breeds.
It is a pleasure to ride the smooth gliding Akhal-Teke and be able to complete at any type of sport with a natural lean horse that take minimum time to condition and are so unique. Their coats have a metatic sheen that is natural. The Ojibway Ponies are also fantastic little horse, they are 12 to 13.3 hand high they are good for and adult or child, riding, driving, logging etc.
At Running Horse we are discovering the versitality of the Akhal-Teke, with very little conditioning the horse is ready to perform at mostly any type of sport. We are just starting to see the offspring of the Stallions at the Ranch and we are very pleased with the temperments and the athletic ability.
Training the rare horses at Running Horse is a full time commitment but hitting 240 acres of trails with the smooth gliding Akhal-Teke in the company of the Ojibway Ponies that love to wind through the woods is worth the work.
Akhal-Teke broodmares, Darka and Piroshka 
Nez Perce Thunder Akhal-Teke Stallion
Welcome to our Ranch.
Running Horse is an unique ranch nestled in Northwestern Ontario. Offering trails for all seasons winding through the deep north woods and peaceful meadows. If the rider is feeling a need for adventure, it deosn't take long to make it up the north trail to the cabin. There you can unsaddle and try some Kayaking or Canoeing on Miscampbell Creek or Wawsa Lake. Thoughout the ride keep your camera close and get shot a of many wonderful varieties of Canadian wildlife. Running Horse breeds, trains and rides rare endangered Akhal-Tekes and Lac La Croix Ojibway horses. Hope you can take time to enjoy the website and see what this one of a kind Ranch and the unique horses has to offer. Its great that you stopped by!
The Ojibway Horse
Ojibway Stallions at Running Horse are,Menomen, Makadaya, Tatonka, Gitchi Nodin, Manitou.
The Lac La Croix Ojibway Pony is horse of the Ojibway Nation used by the people in Northwestern Ontario and Northern Minnesota. Named the Lac La Croix ponies because the last four remaining mare were taken of the island of Lac La Croix and brought to Minnesota to breed with a small spanish mustang to save the breed. Were not just a pony used by only the people on Lac La Croix but by many Ojibway people throughout the villages in Northwesteren Ontario. It is an Ojibway horse selectively breed by the Ojibway People with the origin Northwestern Ontario and Ojibway relatives in Minnesota. The Lac La Croix Ojibway ponies was used in the Rainy River District for many purposes and played a very special role in the lives of many Native people in our area.They came very close to extinction and now are very extremely critically endangerd. Numbers are around eighty in the world.
The ponies were used for travel, to hunt, haul, log, drive and ride etc.(see peom reflecting the use of the ponies) through out the district and also into Minnesota, where alot of our relatives came from. Selectively bred by the Ojibway People pre-confederation. In the l970's the Lac La Croix Ojibway Pony was reduced to four. Now the numbers are around 90 in the world now. AT RHR we are managing to maintain a small herd over twenty, but the breed is still critically endangered.
At one time there was no roads and the little ponies of the area provided a way to travel from village to village, to log, haul supplies, trap and hunt. The stories of uses of the ponies range from Lac La Croix, Lake of the Woods, Northwest Bay, Stanjikoming, Seine River, Red Gut, Quetico, White Earth, Nett Lake etc.
Unknown to most people in Canada.The Ojibway horse have a long history with alot of Ojibway people. As far back as many Ojibway people were concerned the ponies had always been there, at least as far back as memory and oral tradition tell the horses have always been here. The horses had a historical connection with many Ojibway people that enjoyed them and used them for survival.
The AKHAL-TEKE Stallion
Nez Perce Thunder- is a great grandson of Absent who was dubbed the "Horse of the World" winning the individual olymipic gold medal in dressage, more than any other horse and an individual olymipic bronze and helped the Soviets win a team gold medal in Mexico. Thunder has extreme athletic ablility, exhibiting a cat's elasticity. Nez Thunder is amazingly beautiful in the sunlight with his golden-metallic sheen with an iridescent coat. Riding an Akhal-Teke is like RIDING NO OTHER, (wars were started to obtain ownership of these horses) they are as smooth but most important they are exceptional sport horses. Not only do you receive a smooth ride you can compete successfully, in jumping, dressage, three day eventing, endurance, ranch work and reining, barrel racing etc. No wonder why the Turkmanistan people hid there prized horse in there villages for so long!
At Running Horse Ranch the horses and nature calms the soul. Riding on miles and miles of PRIVATE, QUIET timbered trails. At Running Horse Ranch you can ride miles of winding trails nestled in the thick woods adventuring out to meadows with Spruce Tamarak, aspen Jack, red and white pine that take you to Wasa Lake. A natural way that our ansestors would have experienced we enjoy riding them even during all seasons but you will have to share with the Northern Wildlife) The trails are the home of Moose (Moonz), Deer (waawaashkeshi), Owl (gookookko'oo), Eagle (migizi) Fox (waagosh), Wolves (ma'iingan), Bear (makwa), grouse (bine),Squirrel(Adjitamo) etc.