The burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers is difficult to understand for those not directly affected. For Nicole Bourgeois-Stocker, it was her everyday reality. So, after two years on the front lines, she returned to her first love, working with Standardbreds.
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.