Breeder Profile: Empire Equestrian
Lindsay Ward • November 14, 2018
Empire Equestrian offers an array of services to the Thoroughbred Industry
Published in the October/November 2018 Canadian Thoroughbred magazine
The former Empire Meadows Thoroughbred Park in Adrossan, AB was purchased by Martin and Lori Neyka in 2011 and re-named Empire Equestrian to reflect the wide variety of services it would offer the equine community.
Lori wasn’t involved with horses until she was about 30 and decided to end her government job to immerse herself full time in the equine world. She then went to work for Dallas Shewchuk as barn help at Empire Meadows Equestrian Park and jokes that she “cried every time she went by them [horses] and couldn’t ride them!”
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