From left, Marshall Mayor Connie Latimer was on hand Saturday, June 7, when John Baker, regional vice president of government relations for Harrah's Entertainment Inc., handed Patty Rebuck, Horseman Against Cancer event organizer, a $1,500 check to benefit The American Cancer Society and Fitzgibbon's Hospital Community Cancer Center. In the background, Whisperide clinicians break a four-year-old Clydesdale to ride. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

A Whisperide clinician rides the Clydesdale around the pen after saddle breaking him in one day. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

Above left: Many members of the community came to the event to watch a four-year-old Clydesdale horse saddle broke and ridden for the first time by Wheat. The horse had extensive ground work done so he was much easier to break then the Tobiano mare. He only jumped around a bit when Wheat pulled the cinch tight. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

Attendees to the event were given wagon rides for a donation to go towards The American Cancer Association and Fitzgibbon's Hospital Community Cancer Center. Oakwood Clydesdales, Burr Oak Belgians and Clearcreek Percherons provided the wagon rides. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

The Saline Animal League brought out kittens and dogs to the event in hopes they might be adopted. This young lady had a time playing with the dogs, especially since the wind made them feel like they were flying. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

Clancy "hot shoes" a horse. He places the horse shoe in a forge to heat it up, he then places the hot shoe on the bottom of the horse's hoof to make a mark that allows him to see how even it lies. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

Clancy hammers the nails into the hoof at the proper angle. He will then bend them over and break them off so the horse will not hook himself with the sharp nails. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

Wes Clancy of Quarter Circle Horseshoeing is making a hoof pick out of half a horse shoe. The shoe is heated so the metal softens and can be more precisely shaped with a hammer. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

Wheat calms the horse as another clinician gets aboard. Whisperide is committed to enhancing the way horses are trained and ridden through a process of persuasion, patience, kindness, respect and trust. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]

Rick Wheat, inventor of the Noavel Headstall and and clinician for Whisperide, works with a Tobiano horse that was not even halter broken when he started working with her. Here she is disagreeing with a command that Wheat is trying to teach her. (Rachel Harper/Democrat-News) [Order this photo]