For 50 years, Don Anness has been quietly breeding and training horses in a remote hamlet just north of Minnesota, halfway
between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg. Thanks to some competitive homebreds like pacer Red Bugler coming south to race, Anness has put the tiny town of Emo — with its standardbred horseman population of one — on the map.
Story by Kimberly Fisher / Photography by David Lipnowski
