Sioux Lookout youth a winner in RCMP’s 2025 Name the Foal contest

Tim Brody - Editor

A Sioux Lookout youth is one of the winners of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) 2025 Name the Foal contest.
The RCMP invited Canadian kids 14-years-old and younger to participated in the annual contest.
The RCMP received more than 1,600 entries from individual kids and more than 100 entries from schools.
Names needed to start with the letter “B” and be a maximum of 12 letters.
The RCMP shared that, “This year, the winning names were given to nine new foals born recently at the RCMP’s horse breeding farm in Pakenham, Ontario. In alphabetical order, the full list of winning entries is:
1.    Badge - Sam, age 10, Port Hood, Nova Scotia
2.    Baffin - Kai, age 7, Iqaluit, Nunavut
3.    Balmoral - Chosen by Musical Ride staff
4.    Beckett - Paisley, age 4, Burton, New Brunswick
5.    Bellamy - Kindergarten class of Dorchester Consolidated School, New Brunswick (school class winner)
6.    Binesi - Joshua, age 12, Cantley, Quebec
7.    Bison - Forrest, age 12, Sioux Lookout, Ontario
8.    Boreal - Keegan, age 6, Lloydminster, Alberta
9.    Bravo - Megan, age 7, Ottawa, Ontario”
The RCMP noted that contest winners will receive a 2025 Musical Ride horseshoe, a picture of the horse they named, and a certificate signed by RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme.
“The RCMP has been breeding its own horses for more than 80 years. In addition to being one of the largest licensed Hanoverian horse breeders in the country, the breeding program is internationally recognized for producing some of the finest Hanoverians in Canada,” the RCMP shared.