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Admirals Express 17 Aug 2013 | 05:08 am
You could set your watch by Admirals Express and many, many of his fans did, every Saturday night for more than a decade. Just as hockey fans in Canada have an internal alarm clock that buzzes on Sat...
Celias Counsel 17 Aug 2013 | 05:08 am
Celias Counsel was one of the most outstanding trotters campaigned by Roweland Farms of Newton Robinson, Ontario. A foal of 1946, she was somewhat of an anomaly as her sire, Chief Counsel, was best k...
Samuel Johnston 17 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
Samuel Johnston, businessman, contractor and horseman, was credited with saving harness racing in Fort Erie, Ontario when its future in Bertie Township was threatened by a fellow citizen who deemed ho...
Hidden Treasure 17 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
Hidden Treasure’s burden in the early part of his exceptional career was that he was foaled in 1957, the same year as one of Canada’s greatest thoroughbreds – Victoria Park. Like Sham, who chased Sec...
William Rowe 17 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
Being honoured as a builder is as good a category as any for a man who did it all and did so modestly. But in truth, William Rowe was too many things to categorize him properly — chief among them a su...
Carl Jamieson 17 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
His son has called it ‘The Legend of Carl Jamieson’. Driver Jody Jamieson used the phrase as a catch-all to describe the phenomenon that is his well-respected father, after the pair combined to win t...
Secretariat 17 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
Forty years ago, October 28, 1973, an incredible thoroughbred nicknamed “Big Red” ran the last race of his awesome career in near darkness on a cold rainy afternoon at Woodbine. Secretariat, the horse...
Eternal Camnation 17 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
That Eternal Camnation cast a particularly powerful spell over Canadians despite coming out of Ohio and having no Canadian connections doesn’t surprise her trainer and part-owner Jeff Miller nine year...
John Sikura Jr. 17 Aug 2013 | 05:05 am
A teenage emigrant with his name pinned to his overcoat and a $10 bill in his pocket was the scene when John Sikura Jr., and his family arrived in Toronto after fleeing from war torn Europe in 1950. S...
Niatross 17 Aug 2013 | 05:05 am
Legendary does not begin to describe Niatross, a horse many consider to be the greatest standardbred in history. Trained and driven by Ontario native Clint Galbraith (who was inducted into the Canadi...
