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The Thoroughbred Ladies Club of BC meets the fi rst Tuesday of the month. If you would like to help or join them please call Linda Sentes 604-318-7949, Eleanor Vanden Born 604-534-2879 or Diane Cardinal 604-524-6793.

March 2012

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CTHS DatesMarch 24th, 2012: Early Nominations for Hastings Stake RacesSustaining Fees Due for the CTHS Sales Stakes. It has been a long drought for women drivers

in British Columbia. Not since Sandra Cherry in May 2005 has a woman driver won a race at Fraser Downs. Twenty two year old Kayla Mills put an end to the drought in only her fourth career drive.Mills scored her driving win in the seventh race

for $4,000 claimers. Driving like a seasoned professional, the Langley horsewoman guided 17-1 longshot Joe Millionaire to a six length victory in 1:58 fl at over a sloppy track. Mills and Joe Millionaire, a nine-year-old No Nukes gelding, trained and owned by Thomas Bordeau, left from Post 2 and turned back an early challenge from one of her mentors, David Hudon aboard Im The Money, before opening up daylight on the fi eld. The victory was the fi rst for Joe Millionaire since January of last year.While the victory was Mills' fi rst in pari-mutuel action, she previously enjoyed some success in the bike winning last year's

Powder Puff Pace, a non-wagering race featuring all female drivers.Fraser Downs Mike Munoz also enjoyed some success earning his fi rst training win in the fourth race. Sending out his 11th

starter, the Okanagan Falls resident watched four-year-old Vine Street gelding Dirt Roads Scholar break his maiden with a seven and a quarter length victory in 2:00.1 with Jim Marino driving.

Kayla Mills Scores First Driving Victory

Looking for PhotosHorseRacingBC is looking for old photos of people or horses from the past. Jockeys, trainers and backstretch personnel from BC’s racing history are welcome and will be used in future issues. Each photo will be scanned and returned to it’s owner in the condition it is received.No win-photos please.

BONUS CHEQUESBC Broodmare Bonus cheques are currently being processed. Please ensure 2011 Membership Fees are paid in full in order to receive awarded earnings.

www.horseracingbc.ca March 2012

Congratulations to Lillian Jarvis 90 years young on Feb. 10thHappy 90th birthday to Lillian Jarvis. On February 10th a great gathering of

friends and family came together at the Derby Bar and Grill for an excellent lunch to celebrate Lillian’s 90th. A pioneer in horse racing since 1952 Lillian has been a mother to many on the backstretch, with many people getting a start at her farm with her husband Albert who trained horses at Exhibition Park for over 50 years. Lillian is still very active in the daily operations of the farm. She loves reading the Daily Racing Form, watching races on television and keeping tabs on the many horsemen who still call her Ma.

BCTOBA ReportThe overnight purses and stakes schedule have been made official for the upcoming 71-day season. The

overnight purses will have $7.25 million in available money which is an increase of approximately 8.5 %. A couple of examples are bottom level purses for BC breds will be a very impressive $10,000 while top level maiden races for BC breds are $25,000. The stakes schedule will have 41 races worth $2.475 million. It was agreed by all racing groups that the participation payment program be continued for

2012 and that $300 will be paid to all unplaced starters. A change in the percentage of purse payouts was also agreed upon in order to ensure the 5th place horse receives more than the participation payment of $300 in all categories it was necessary to alter the percentages. 1st place now receives 57%, 2nd - 20%, 3rd - 11%, 4th - 7% and 5th place gets 5%.

Happy Birthday!HARNESS RACING BC DEFINITIONSThe recent Harness Racing BC Board meeting has defined the

following eligibility B.C. Bred/Owned/Sired as:

B.C. BRED…shall be defined as a horse that has been foaled in British Columbia out of a mare owned or leased by a British Columbia resident at the time of foaling. In the case of a mare leased from other than a British Columbia resident, the lease must be for a term of at least two (2) years and a copy of the lease must be filed with Harness Racing BC Society.B.C. OWNED…shall be defined as a horse registered with Standardbred

Canada at the time of nomination to a British Columbia resident with no majority interest owned by a non-resident of British Columbia.B.C. SIRED…shall be defined as sired by a stallion which offered a breeding

service in British Columbia for the entire mating season the qualifying horse was conceived. The stallion must be owned or leased by a British Columbia resident and registered with Harness Racing BC for the mating season above mentioned. If the stallion is leased, a copy of the lease must be filed with Harness Racing BC.B.C. RESIDENT…shall be defined as a person who has maintained a bona

fide principle residence in British Columbia for a period of not less than 200 days immediately preceding the qualifying race, or in the case of a broodmare date of foaling. Only Canadian citizens and those persons with landed immigrant status are included in this interpretation.If the owner is a partnership, stable or corporation and the majority interest

in that partnership, stable or corporation is owned by a person or persons who are not residents of British Columbia as described above, that partnership, stable or corporation will be deemed not to be a British Columbia resident.

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With another season about to

begin congratulations go out to the many BC Thoroughbred Award winners and to the owners and breeders who sustain the industry by providing the magnifi cent animals to whom we’re all devoted. Congratulations also to Marlo Dunn for winning top apprentice after a breakthrough season in the irons, and kudos to Richard Hamel for fi nishing as leading rider for the second year in a row. It’s hard not to see

Mr. Hamel as a great ambassador for the sport; his work ethic stands out amongst his peers. Polite, punctual, and always reliable, Hamel not only won more races than any other rider in 2011—88—he also rode more races than any other jockey—433 mounts in total. As the [2011] meet tapered down to the fi nal dates of the year, it was interesting to read the regular updates for leading rider. Even after Hamel gained the lead in races won, it was always mentioned how many more races he’d ridden than his nearest competitor, as if working harder somehow tainted the

accomplishment. In addition to staying

healthy, a feat in itself in this business, Hamel also applied himself with greater focus and consistency over the duration of the meet. This is the combination of talent and determination that deserves to win leading rider titles.Almost every day

Hamel could be seen on the racetrack, working horses, developing two-year-olds, galloping a few here or there to help someone out. Compare this approach

to some of his colleagues, a number of whom I had the privilege of observing over the past year. One of the riders

liked to saunter down the shedrow on the mornings he worked our horses, late more often than not. He seemed to make a point of ignoring the trainer’s friendly good-mornings—some days he wouldn’t even look at her, addressing his comments to the groom in Spanish. After the work he’d say nothing to the trainer and would tell the groom how the horse worked instead. Because the jockey rode the entire barn the trainer shrugged her

shoulders and resigned herself to it—the horses were running and there was nothing she could do about it anyway. Numerous times over the course of the meet this scenario played itself out.Near the end of

the year, the same jock arrived late one morning to work the best two year old in the province, a talented and personable chestnut gelding, “Lucky” was eager to please, a pleasure to gallop, and a people lover. Coming off the gap he would watch for his trainer and prance happily towards her. Ten days out from his

last race of the year, the Ascot, a work was scheduled. Everyone stood around waiting until the jockey fi nally showed up. He greeted the groom in Spanish and never acknowledged the trainer. A moment later the groom legged him up and a pony escorted horse and rider to the track. I fi nished saddling my own horse and followed a few minutes later. I was jogging my

horse up the backstretch when the siren went off. Loose horse! I looked up just in time

to see a chestnut streak with an empty saddle fl y by against the fl ow of traffi c. The jockey picked himself up and brushed off the dirt and started walking back along the outside fence, his face set in a sulky pout. Turned out there’d been a disagreement of sorts. After working fi ve-eighths of a mile, ‘Lucky’ galloped out and wanted to pull up in his usual place halfway down the backstretch. The jockey wanted him to gallop up to where the pony waited closer to the quarter pole. Annoyed the horse didn’t want to go any further, the jockey spiralled his hands and snapped Lucky over the head with the knot in the end of his lines. Lucky responded accordingly. Galloping back down

the middle of the track, ears pricked and tail waving in the air like a banner, you could practically see the grin on his face. It was almost like he appreciated the irony. Sometimes you have

to wait for karma to even up the score and sometimes you just get Lucky.


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Up The CreditOlder Pacing Mare

AnndrovetteOlder Pacing Horse

Foiled Again

TrottersTwo-Year-Old Filly

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People AwardsO’Brien Award of Horsemanship

Keith ClarkArmstrong Breeder of the Year

Warrawee FarmDriver of the Year

Jody JamiesonTrainer of the Year

Jeff Gillis

Horse of the YearSan Pail

Standardbred Canada has released the results of the voting for the 2011 O’Brien Awards. The ceremony took place Saturday, January 28 at the Delta Meadowvale in Mississauga, Ont.

2011 O’Brien Award Winners

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As the month of February is drawing to a rainy close, the emergence of the younger generation at Fraser Downs is a bright spot. At the top of that list is one of our new Female drivers, Kayla Mills. Kayla scored her first driving victory aboard Joe Millionaire by open lengths and had her proud mom Diane shouting her praise. That same night Mike Munoz had his first training win with Dirt Roads Scholar.We should also soon

see two more young drivers in Mark Abbott, and Chris Linford. While Mark has almost completed his qualifying drives, Chris has gone his rated mile and is now looking towards his qualifying drives.To move away from

our younger set, a belated happy 70th to a familiar face on the backstretch in Jimmy Gagnon. Also celebrating a birthday was Heather Burke.Hopefully, spring and

some sunnier weather will be upon us soon.

Backstretch Banterby Donna Scrammage


March Racing Calendar Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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6 7 8 9 1054

13 14 15 16 171211

20 21 22 23 241918

2625

Muriel FornwoldFinal

$20,000

Sugar Gagnon Final

$20,000

Clarence Sugar Gagnon

Elimination$7,500

AnnouncementsHRBC’s Annual General Meeting will be held on April 2nd.

Harness Racing BC Annual Awards Banquet to be held on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at Newlands Golf and Country Club. Tickets available at the Harness Racing BC offi ce.

Fridays: 7.00 p.m.Sundays: 1:15 p.m.

Post Time

27 28

Muriel Fornwold Elimination

$7,500

Penny BathElimination

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Wendal Smith Stake

Marion YoungStake

29 30 31Keith LintonElimination

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Fact Sheet: Economic Benefi ts from Ontario’s Horse Racing IndustryIn the late 1990’s and throughout

the past decade, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (now the OLG) entered into a revenue sharing agreement with racetrack operators and host municipalities in Ontario to allow the placement of slot machines at racetracks.The racetracks provided the

OLG with access to their existing facilities, saving the government the massive expense of building their own facilities and having to gain the approval of municipalities and the public to build gambling venues in their back yards. This agreement was not entered into lightly by the horse racing industry. After more than two years of economic review and negotiation, both the horse racing industry and the Ontario government’s Management Board of Cabinet agreed that a 20% share of the slots revenue could offset the loss

of horse racing’s wagering dollar and customer base to sustain the horse racing industry. This revenue share would also help to offset the cost of operating and maintaining the buildings and properties in which the OLG’s government operated slots are housed.For more than 10 years, the Slots at

Racetracks Program has been a highly successful partnership which has allowed the horse racing industry to sustain itself and continue providing many economic benefi ts to the rural and municipal economies, while earning the provincial government more than $1.3 billion dollars in revenue every year.Impact of the Horse Racing Industry

by the numbers:• $261 million dollars in revenue

for the province of Ontario exclusive of slot revenue• Horse Racing Industry spends

more than $2 billion dollars per year in Ontario, with more than 80% of that money being spent in rural

Ontario.• Estimated 60,000 jobs are

attributed to the horse racing and breeding industry.• $1.5 billion dollars in wages and

salaries are sustained annually by the total expenditures of the horse racing industry.• Where the OLG’s resort casinos

have lost millions of dollars, the Slots at Racetracks Program have returned billions of dollars in revenue. ‘Talk about value for money’.The OLG revenue sharing program

has offset the negative fi nancial impact slots at racetracks would otherwise have on the racing industry’s bottom line. The ever increasing competition imposed by the slots and other expanded gaming would further erode the wagering dollar to the point that the industry’s survival would be at serious risk. The government is looking to reduce the horse racing industry’s revenue share at a time when they are looking to expand their own gaming operations

in direct competition with horse racing. In addition, if the proposed changes to the Criminal Code are implemented, the province will be allowed to operate sports betting, once again in direct competition with the horse racing industry.Out of the more than 60,000 jobs

that would be at risk, many of those employed have worked in the industry all their lives, some are even second and third generation racetrack workers who would be unlikely to fi nd jobs in other industries.By preserving the existing program,

the government would continue to collect $1.5 billion dollars annually from the race horse industry (through OLG’s share of slot revenue and non slot revenue paid to the government) while ensuring Ontario’s horse racing industry remains economically sound for those rural communities and the 60,000 families that rely on the race horse industry for employment.For more information contact

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Recently I was talking to my good friend Tak Inouye who won the Queens Plate on Whistling Sea in 1965. We were talking about some of the great horses and great riders we had seen, and as usual with me the name Chris Rogers came to the fore. I had known and admired Chris in the ‘60’s and we argued about how many Queens Plates he had won. Tak said maybe one, I said four. We were both wrong, it was three, Epic in 1949, McGill in 1950, and Collisteo in 1954.Like our own Alan

Cuthbertson Chris Rogers was born in Hamilton, Ontario (on October 6, 1924 and died October 29, 1976) there must be something in the water there to produce two such great riders. The following is taken from the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and reprinted with thier kind permission. There are jockeys who

have won more races than Chris Rogers but there are not many who were better. He rode 2,043 winners in his career, but that does not begin to tell you how good he was. Riding great Eddie Arcaro often said the native of Hamilton, Ont. was one of the most complete riders he had ridden against or watched.During a 35-year riding

career, Rogers had a knack of "stealing" races on long-shots. He was one of the best at setting a false pace; relaxing his horse while playing possum, then digging

into his mount to win a photo fi nish. “As I always told the boys, you can win more races in the fi nal twenty yards than at the eighth pole," he'd say. While he had the best horse in the King's Plate at Woodbine in 1949, Epic, E. P. Taylor's fi rst of many Plate winners, opposing owners or trainers credited him with Plate "thefts" when he outfoxed foes in 1950 and 1954. "We had the best horse, but the other horse had the best rider," said Double Blue Stable's owner Joe Holbeck, when Rogers' mount, McGill, beat his horse, Sir Strome, by a head. Four years later, riding 11-1 long-shot Collisteo, he won by a head over, Queen's Own. "He made a bum of our boy. It was one of the big rides of his life," said Taylor's trainer, Pete McCann.

Rogers, however, wasn't always successful in lulling foes. He was aboard 47-1 outsider Lincoln Road in the 1958 Kentucky Derby, setting a well-judged pace while saving ground much of the way, but unable to withstand Tim Tam's surge in the fi nal yards. It was much the same in the Preakness Stakes, leading but unable to hold off Tim Tam at the wire. Rogers was 17 when he won his fi rst race, aboard A.J.(Art) Halliwell's Bon Marche, on July 14, 1941,at Fort

Erie. Halliwell, who owned Rogers contract, leased him to trainer Paul Kelly in the fall of 1941 and Rogers went to Florida that winter. He returned to Ontario in the spring of 1942 then went to New York, where he was an immediate success, fi nishing second to Arcaro in the jockey's standings at the old Jamaica track. He soon became a regular at major U.S. tracks.Rogers' career had it ups

and downs, mainly because of an alcohol problem which prevented him from reaching the heights a man of his talent should have. After joining Alcoholics Anonymous he was enjoying a successful comeback, which in itself was a truly amazing story. In the fall of 1976 he won the important Grey Stakes on Dan Krever's Do Lishus. Rogers had also won the Grey in 1950 with Argyle and 1969 with Dance to Market. He was having one of his better years, having won 54 races that season. However, Rogers was taking treatment for lung cancer. It was inoperable. Shortly after his September win in the Grey, Rogers suffered a broken leg and died at age 52 of lung cancer on October 29. In 1977 The Jockey Club of Canada awarded Rogers a Sovereign Award of Merit and in 1988 his son, Robert, accepted the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award on behalf of his late father. The award honours a jockey's contribution to Canadian racing.


The Great Chris Rogers… Canadian Racing Hall of Fame Inductee, 1977

Career wins 2,043Major racing wins,

honours and awardsCup and Saucer Stakes (1943, 1949), Jockey Club Cup Handicap

(1944), Victoria Stakes (1944, 1950, 1969), Durham Cup Stakes

(1945), Plate Trial Stakes (1945, 1949), Jamaica Handicap (1949), Grey

Stakes (1950, 1969, 1976), Widener Handicap

(1950), Vandal Stakes (1957), Colin Stakes (1957), Jersey Derby

(1958), Flamingo Stakes (1959), Lamplighter

Handicap (1960),Display Stakes (1961)

Seaway Stakes (1962, 1969), Natalma Stakes

(1969)Princess Elizabeth

Stakes (1969), Shady Well Stakes (1969),

Swynford Stakes (1970), Selene Stakes (1970), Col. R.S. McLaughlin

Handicap (1974), Clarendon Stakes (1976)Canadian Classic Wins:

Queen’s Plate (1949, 1950, 1954)

Racing awardsSovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey

(1976)Avelino Gomez Memorial

Award (1988)Honours

Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1977)Signifi cant horses

Epic, Piet, Kingarvie, Puss’n Boots,Lincoln Road, Fanfreluche

Epic, Piet, Kingarvie, Puss’n Boots,Lincoln Road, Fanfreluche

Chris Rogers aboard E. P. Taylor’s Epic

reproduced courtesy of the Ontario Jockey Club

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