Two Keremeos women got a few interesting looks and inquiries when they traded their cars for horses on a ride into town and the grocery store. Sabrina Fedorak, owner at Morning Star Ranch, said she and a friend decided to take the horses to Buy-Low Foods for training purposes Sunday, March 21.
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March 21, 2022 - 9:00 PM
Two Keremeos women got a few interesting looks and inquiries when they traded their cars for horses on a ride into town and the grocery store.
Sabrina Fedorak, owner at Morning Star Ranch, said she and a friend decided to take the horses to Buy-Low Foods for training purposes Sunday, March 21.
“Riding them into town gives them an opportunity to be able to see traffic and people and dogs and orchards, kind of scary things, it’s a really good exposure to them,” she said.
They ride their horses along the old KVR rail trail into town.
“We hopped down to Buy-Low and of course people just love it. I left her on the side of the street while basically crowds just flocked to the two horses. I went inside, picked up a couple of tasty danishes from the bakery and then we took the horses down to city park and let them graze while we ate,” she said.
“People love to see horses ride down Main Street.”
The horses are roughly three times as expensive as a vehicle, so the decision to ride into town wasn’t made because of current gas prices, she said. “The horse costs more than my truck.”
In the last several years, she said horse prices have dramatically increased.
“I’ve never seen horses sell like this, you put up a good horse for sale they’re gone in a day, it’s kind of like the housing market,” Fedorak said, adding she isn’t entirely sure why horses are in such demand.
“People are buying toys, Skidoos and RVs and for some reason horses have hit that novelty too,” she said. “It’s very odd to me, to be honest.”
As a farming community, the city has never given them any flack, Fedorak said. “It’s not like the horses are destroying anything and we’re respectful of where we go, we stay on the road or the sidewalk.”
There was no one available to take a media request at the Village of Keremeos, March 21.
Horses, and those on horseback, are entitled to use B.C. highways, according to the B.C. Motor Vehicle Act.
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