Boulder Bluff Clydesdales

Charity Martin Thevenot grew up near Strathclair, Manitoba, helping her parents, Blaine and Trinda Martin, on their third-generation farm, Boulder Bluff Clydesdales. She and her sister Britney Martin started showing orphaned foals, flipping bales, caring for miniature horses and bringing their parent’s field meals as young girls. Charity has always dreamt of taking over the farm and is now making that a reality.

Charity and her husband, Eric Thevenot, took the reinsand moved onto the original homestead in 2022. They will be the fourth generation of Martins to have the honour of operating Boulder Bluff Clydesdales, and they hope to see their children, Tucker (4) and Sawyer (1), become the fifth. “I hope [my kids continue this], I don’t want them to feel they have to, but I hope they feel like they want to stay in some part of it. I really hope somebody wants to keep the horses going,” says Charity.

Britney and her husband, Tyler Thevenot, currently live in Minnedosa, Manitoba, and have a small farm with horses, goats, and chickens. Britney still shows horses with Boulder Bluff Farms, and Charity enjoys having her sister part of the farm in some capacity.

Charity works full-time running the family farm alongside her parents. Although Eric works off the farm as a mechanic at a local farm equipment dealership, he is very involved with the farm’s operation. He has integrated 100 beef cows and grain land for feed into the farm.

Carrying on the farm traditions and the Boulder Bluff Clydesdales breeding program are the most important things to Charity. “It was definitely the horses that inspired me to want to take over and be more involved with the farm and the breeding program that my dad, grandfather, and great-grandfather worked on,” she states. Each year, Boulder Bluff Clydesdales breed around 40-50 mares, selling their bloodline all over North America: even as far as Scotland and England.

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