FOR SALE: USED RCMP HORSES

   Toronto Sun:  This fall, the RCMP Foundation is hosting its largest-ever horse auction, featuring steeds from the Musical Ride breeding program who didn’t, for various reasons, make the Musical Ride team or who have finished their service term and are moving on to new pastures.

   It’s been three years since the last auction — the event normally takes place on a biannual basis — so this time around, they have nearly double the 20 horses the foundation is used to auctioning off, explained its president, Sylvie Madely.
   So they’ve split the almost 40-horse cohort roughly in two, with one half going to a foundation-first online auction running from Aug. 24 to Sept. 23, and the other half being auctioned live, as has traditionally occurred, on Oct. 13.