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B it s & Bi kes FREE HorseRacingBC Subscription Can’t find a copy? Anyone wishing to receive this paper on-line can email jimreynolds@uniserve.com and simply ask to be put on a safe and secure mailing list. You will receive the paper in a unique PDF format each month. Looking for Photos We are looking for old photos of people or horses from the past. Jockeys, trainers, backstretch personnel 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. Wando, 2003 Canadian Horse of the Year, Dies Canadian Horse of the Year Wando died Jan. 22 at Schonberg Farm in Ontario at age 14. The farm said the suspected cause of death was a heart attack. A son of Langfuhr bred and raced by Schonberg Farm owner Gustav Schickedanz, Wando was Canada’s Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male after winning the 2003 Canadian Triple Crown. He retired with 11 wins, including eight stakes, from 23 starts and earnings of $2,563,038. THOMAS BOURDEAU
October 6, 1953 - January 19, 2014
Harness racing has lost a friend in long time Owner/Trainer, Thomas Bourdeau passed away on Sunday, January 19, 2014 in Surrey, B.C. at the age of 60 years old. On behalf of all horsemen we offer our deepest condolences to the family and many friends of Tom.
The Thoroughbred Ladies Club of BC, whose charity work and scholarship program has benefited backstretch workers at Hastings Racecourse since 1973, meets the first Tuesday each month. If you would like to join them in their worthwhile efforts or help at the occasional function, please call: Linda Sentes at 604-318-7949 or Barb Williams at 604-542-8951. HorseRacingBC is owned and produced by Jim Reynolds.
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Year of the Horse George Royal * Decidedly D * Travelling Victor * Timber Music * Police Inspector * Supernatural * Rumpole * Ship Leave * Tolita * Palica * Bold Laddie * Count the Green * Fleet Reserve * King Proctor * Haveigotadealforu * Reve Du * Fortinbras * Twanger * Delta Colleen * Avant’s Gold * Senate Appointee * Astro Beauty * Sophie J * Srawberry Morn * Liberty Road * Kid Katabatic * Artic Son * King Jeremy * Fancy As * Elana d’Amour * Mr Prime Minster * Roscoe Pito * Lord Nelson * Spagetti Mouse * True Metropolitan * Dancing Allstar * Monashee * Krazy Koffee * Taylor Said * Herbie D * Teide * Winning Machine *Celtic Dreamin * Halo Steven * Second City * Flamethrowintexan * Cruising Kat * Makors Mark * Wandering * Vernon Invader * Bobbin For Stars * Newdigs * Flying Sauce * Squire Jones * Humptys Hoedown * Jellystone Park * Bolulight * Ever Steady *Regal Intention * Irish Bear * Imperial Choice * Lets Go Blue * Prairie Breaker * Tempo’s Tiger * Social Round * Ensign Eamem * Pole Position * Five Star General * Bucksaw * D.Bs Dream * Auguste * Norland * Koko’s Pal * Decidedly D * Command Module * Mincemeat * Essence of Time * Treasures * Glory * Ahead Tiger * Bright Monarch * Hanko * Feasible * Enchalade * Black Balladier * Colin Baykey * Ky Music * Major Turley * Donn Baykey * Ali Miss * My Lady Love * Quality Quest * Liege * Battered Down * Eddie’s Boy * Cso * AB Jr * Ohsodry * Cisalworth * Pacific Pearl.
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New Stallion Arrives in BC
British Columbia has a new stallion for the 2014 season. Gottcha Gold is by Coronado’s Quest out of the mare Gottcha Last by Pleasant Tap. The ten-year-old stallion entered stud in 2009 and was Florida’s leading freshman sire of Stakes horses that year. A multiple graded stakes winner of $933,570 his speed won him 8 races (2 – 5) including a second place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. Gottcha Gold stands at Steen and Cathy Reggelsen’s Strideaway Thoroughbreds farm for a bargain fee of $2,000 live foal. for all your horse insurance needs
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Crockett Honored Emerald Downs President Ron Crockett was recognized with one of Seattle’s most prestigious awards . Crocket was announced as the 2013 winner of the Paul Allen Sports Citizen Award, given annually to an individual who has made a significant or compelling philanthropic contribution. In addition to saving the state’s Thoroughbred racing industry by building Emerald Downs, Crockett is a longtime benefactor of Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Remembering…
Robert (Bob) Williams August 14, 1928 - January 5, 2014
Emerald Downs Live Racing Begins April 12
A 75 day live racing season Saturday, April 12, through Sunday, September 28th has been announced for 2014 at Emerald Downs. The 2014 season begins with a Saturday Opening Day and the elimination of Friday racing in April. The two-day race weeks in April will assist Director of Racing Bret Anderson at the entry box at a time of the year when the horse population is not yet in full swing. The three days will be added at the end of September, concluding September 28. Friday racing begins May 2 and continues through the rest of the season. Post time remains at 6:45 p.m. Fridays and 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Exceptions are a 1 p.m. start on Saturday, May 3, and a 4:30 p.m. first post on Thursday, July 3. The 2014 stakes schedule, including the 79th running of the Longacres Mile (G3), will be released in February. Emerald Downs opens for training Saturday, February 1, allowing horses over 10 weeks to prepare for the season.
Bob was born in Coronation, Alberta on August 14, 1928. His family moved to Richmond in 1932. He graduated from Richmond High School in 1946. He then lived in Vancouver for a few years and spent the rest of his life in Langley. Bob’s business career began with the TD Bank, and ended as a self-employed mortgage broker. His life long interests were hunting, fishing, golfing and some flying. His real passion however was thoroughbred horse racing and his horses won a number of stakes races at major tracks across the country and in the US. He also served as president of the BC CTHS.
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Thoroughbred Therapy…by Marcy Emery Most anyone involved in the racing game will readily admit that the horses which make it all possible have made an impact on their lives. Pressed further, they might be willing to specify if that change was for better or for worse and the answers to that question could vary wildly, depending on the day. The only constant in horse racing is naturally and necessarily the horses. Opinions and perceptions don’t break from the gates and run the races, horses do. And horses do change people. Equine assisted therapy is not a new field and it is certainly not a static one either. Therapeutic riding programs have been around for decades and many organizations and institutions offer interaction with horses as a means to improving the physical and mental health of humans. Of course, the typical vision of the type of horse best suited to this work whether for riding or simple interaction would be a sturdy larger pony or smaller horse with a heart of gold, nerves of steel and very few “complications.” On a quiet acreage in Abbotsford a pair of young Thoroughbreds who would not be considered typical therapy horse material are gainfully employed comforting trauma victims and acting as ambassadors for their breed and background. ‘Jim’ (Ask Me To, an unraced 2005 gelding bred by Peter Redekop) and ‘Chance’ (Hit N Miss, a 2009 filly with one win in her three
starts bred by Cathy Keogh and Dave Elder) are part of a herd of horses that are the heart of Cristina Rennie’s Equine Facilitated Counselling program at her Shamrock Counselling Services practice. Rennie is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with Certification Board of Equine Industry Professionals designation and is also the Chair of the Ethics Committee for the National Association for Equine Facilitated Wellness. In short, she takes the equine component of her counselling practice very seriously. A lifelong rider, Rennie’s afterwork passion happens to be Three-Day Eventing and her co-counsellors Jim and Chance both partner her in this pursuit. And Cristina Rennie really does consider her horses partners, both in her practice and on the field. When asked about her rather unconventional choice in therapy horses, Rennie suggests that looking past labels and assumptions is as important to working with horses as it is to counselling people. To illustrate this she recounts the tale of Jim’s arrival to her barn and practice. “I had taken a small 14.2 horse, more of a pony really, to be my first real therapy horse. Not long afterwards this pony bit me so hard in the middle of my back that the bruise lasted for weeks! I knew then that this was not going to be a safe horse for me or my clients.” A trade was arranged – the grouchy pony for a 16.2 Thor-
oughbred gelding who was skinny and high-strung but had good ground manners, an attentive nature and also possessed the potential to take Rennie back into competitive riding. Clients at Shamrock are victims of trauma and abuse but each comes into therapy with their own story, as do the horses they have the opportunity to interact with in Hit N Miss a.k.a.‘Chance’ and rider Cristina Rennie performing in a 2-Phase counselling. Jim Event, Campbell Valley Park. didn’t make it to the clients at Shamrock between the humans *Cristina Rennie has races and had to find alternate story involved though much also created the nonovercome some of his lines in difficult life was communicated profit Sundance Solace fears and anxieties to circumstances.” between all parties. Society which helps make his way in the Clients also get to Jim’s attentive presindividuals and famiworld of eventing; experience the transence and his innate lies with limited Chance raced but was formative power of equine ability to just be resources access retired with tendon in the moment allowed Equine Facilitated strain – her trainer saw being in the presence the young woman to Counselling. For more her potential and chose of horses. A young woman with a love for find a safe space to information, please not to risk her soundhorses and a great deal release and to make a visit https://www. ness by carrying on of fear about expressconnection with anfacebook.com/Sunwith running her. ing her trauma benefit- other being who could danceSolaceSociety. Cristina Rennie sees ted greatly from a share some of her how her clients contherapy session conburden without the nect and find hope for ducted in the pasture need for words and their own futures in with Jim according to without judgement. these stories noting Rennie. Few words Well done, Jim, well that “narratives are were exchanged done. important. They help
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