MC’s competitive hunter/jumper program — for riders who’ve climbed the ladder, lease or own a horse, and are ready to compete for real. Coached by Kim Rawn herself — an Equestrian Canada certified coach with 45+ years in the sport — it’s the top rung at MC: rated Alberta-circuit shows, provincial shows at every level, and travelling outside the province or the country when you’re ready for it. Real seasons, and real results that land on the Wall of Fame. If the Novice Rider Circuit is where you take your first step into the ring, this is where the climb gets serious — the barn you don’t grow out of.
The Show Team is Kim Rawn’s competitive hunter/jumper program — for riders who are past their first ribbons and ready to campaign a horse through a real show season. It’s a step up from the Novice Rider Circuit, and it helps to know the difference. The Circuit is the entry point: lesson-program riders, no horse of their own, first shows built to be welcoming. The Show Team is the rung (or two) above it — rated Alberta-circuit shows, provincial shows at every level, and, when you’re ready for it, shows outside the province and outside the country. Kim doesn’t stop at the local circuit: MC riders have campaigned as far afield as Thermal (California) and Florida.
You get here by leasing or owning a horse and committing to the work. Your coach travels with you, your goals get bigger, and the results start to matter. It’s the same barn, the same coaches — just higher up the climb.
The Show Team is for riders who want to compete seriously — teens and adults alike, because ambition doesn’t have an age limit. You don’t need to arrive with a horse already leased or bought; the horse is part of what Kim helps you sort, whether that’s a half-lease on one of our lesson horses or finding one to bring in. Most riders don’t start here anyway; they arrive here. A camp or a first lesson becomes a weekly habit, a first show on the Novice Rider Circuit lights the fire, a half-lease turns into a horse of your own — and one day the next step is the Show Team.
If you’re looking up at this from a lesson or a lease and wondering whether it’s for you: it is. Making the team isn’t a closed door or a clique — it’s a real goal you ride toward, and the whole barn is built to get you there, horse included.
Plenty of riders reach this point straight from the lesson program — loving it, ready for more, but without a horse to lease or call their own. That’s not the end of the road; it’s the start of a conversation. There are two doors in, and Kim will help you find the right one.
Either way, it starts the same — a conversation with Kim about what’s right for you.
Competing well takes more than entries and a good horse. Here’s what comes with the team.
The Wall of Fame is where a show season becomes something you can point at — the championships, the year-end awards, the placings a rider and horse earned together after a winter of work. The horses here have carried our riders into the ring over the years: Lady Antebellum, Rheo Static, Arcade Fire, Silvado and Go Shorty.
Season results and year-end awards are added here as our riders earn them — the latest are always up on the barn wall.
Read the full story on our About page.
There’s no online form — joining the Show Team starts with a conversation with Kim about your horse, your riding, and where you want to go. She’ll talk through the right horse for you — a half-lease on one of our lesson horses, or finding one to bring in — the shows that fit your level, and what a season looks like from here. Whether you’re coming up through lessons here, riding on a lease, or moving over from another barn, that’s the conversation — and it’s worth having before the season starts, so there’s time to get the right horse under you.
Questions about the Show Team or leasing? Email showteam@mcequestrian.com or call the barn at (403) 932-3341 — it’s a landline, so please call rather than text. We try to respond within 24 hours.
You don’t need a season planned out, and you don’t need a horse of your own yet. The next step is the same either way: tell Kim you want in. She’ll help you find the horse, pick the shows, and build the season — and coach you every step of the way.
