In this week's Rewind Robert Smith has assembled the monthly feature 'Years Ago' and this time it focuses on people and events from the decade of the 1980's.
A few excerpts from UPI Sports described some of the events.
The only losing favourite Topnotcher with Doug Brown driving, gave way grudgingly just before the wire after a gutsy late battle with 69-1 shot Bays Fella driven by fellow Canadian Paul MacDonell in the aged pacing divisions for colts and geldings. (Note the win payoff of $140.60 stood as the highest in Breeders Crown history for some 18 years.)
Beach Towel with Ray Remmen driving became the first harness horse to crash the $2 million mark for a season in his win in the three-year-old colts and geldings division.
Canadian invader No Sex Please, accustomed to being accompanied by two people named Ron Waples had to make a last minute adjustment. Ron Jr. failed to make his flight to Florida when a broken water main at his Ontario farm delayed his departure. Ron Sr. was equal to the challenge and piloted the trusty trotter to victory in the aged division. His mile in 1:55 shaved two-fifths of a second off the existing