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Now in a transitional period in his long and lucrative career, Randy Waples spoke on a two-part series with COSA TV on his time in the race bike, the horses he s driven and his reaction to receiving one of the highest honours in Canadian harness racing. It was like another surprise, Waples said of his nomination into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. It was surprise number two or number three, whatever it was.
Randy Waples enters the Hall with the 2021 class, which includes breeder Jim Bullock, broodmare Great Memories, thoroughbred builder Vicki Pappas, champion thoroughbred miler Heart To Heart and thoroughbred veteran Not Too Shy. Once he learned of his induction, the excitement for Waples was long-lasting.
March 14, 2021
Commandant of Midshipmen John Cashman
Maine Maritime Academy held its change of command ceremony in March welcoming a new group of students into critical leadership roles. This annual ceremony honors the symbolic and physical transfer of authority and responsibilities between two classes of student leaders; graduating first class midshipmen pass their leadership positions to second class midshipmen who will guide the regiment through next spring.
Incoming class of 2022 wedge and company commanders include Regimental Adjutant: Midshipman 2/C Patrick Whittam, Marine Transportation Operations, Lewes.
“We have no doubt that they will excel in meeting their responsibilities and in providing critical guidance and support for their peers over the course of the next year,” Commandant of Midshipmen John Cashman said.
Since starting his stable in 2014, Marcus Melander’s stock has taken off, aided by many talented trotters including his recently retired champion Gimpanzee alongside other horses waiting in the wings to return to the racetrack in 2021.
Gimpanzee, a now five-year-old son of Chapter Seven-Steamy Windows, wrapped his racing career with a 1:51.3 victory in the $500,000 Breeders Crown final before transitioning into his life as a stud, standing in Kentucky as part of moves by breeders to revitalize the burgeoning breeding program in the state.
“He was sharp all from the start, and all through the season,” Melander told
Trot Insider. “He was just an amazing racehorse. He was so easy on himself, always been a very sound horse of course. Nathalie [Norlander] had been taking great care of him over these last four years. The horse himself, he’s got great conformation; he stands good and all that. That’s very important, too. Then of course our training and everything, it worked
Hans Enggren, well known in recent years as the owner of Yonkers International Trot winner Resolve and also the co-owner of 1985 Hambletonian winner Prakas, has passed. He was 91.
A native of Sweden, Mr. Enggren settled in the Gettysburg, Pa., area and was a successful breeder under the banner of Meadowbranch Farm, building a broodmare band that included the great trotting females Peace Corps, Davidia Hanover and Delmonica Hanover. He passionately lobbied the United States Trotting Association to approve the registration of horses conceived by the interstate transportation of semen, testifying that he worried every time he put a mare and her young foal on a trailer so the mare could be bred.