Several years ago, Chris Coyle was raising a young female trotter for Sarah and John Swart Jr. at his Olive Branch Farm. Coyle told them more than once they had a nice-looking filly and he had high hopes for her.
John, who turned 96 in May, used to own Windswept Farm in Virginia, not far from where the couple resides across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., and “Windswept” is frequently included in the names of the couple’s horses.
The nice-looking filly was christened Pride Of Windswept.
It turned out to be an inspired choice.
Pride Of Windswept, now three, has won 13 of 15 career races and never finished worse than second on her way to banking $134,975.
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Sarnia’s “Tommy” soldier has been shipped off for repairs.
Volunteers with AlumaSafway and Mammoet helped Monday as a crane removed the 1922-erected statue of a Canadian “Tommy” soldier in full uniform from the First World War. The statue will have a cast rifle replace the one taken from the monument some time over the past 20 months.
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“It took us a little longer than we wanted to find the actual rifle” to make a replacement cast, said Ron Realesmith, vice-president with the restoration effort-leading Sarnia Historical Society, about the project that began after it was noticed in early April the rifle was missing. “We had to find a true replica of it, so it took a lot of searching to find that.”
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It s not every day sports memorabilia collectors have the chance to purchase an autographed and unworn pair of the GOAT s signature shoe, but one bidder took advantage of the opportunity on Wednesday.
An unprecedented pair of Player Sample Nike Air Jordan 1 sneakers that Michael Jordan signed during his rookie season sold for $204,545 through RR Auction on Wednesday.
Jordan signed the right sneaker tongue in black felt tip, and the fact that the left shoe is size 13 and the right one is size 13½ helps authenticate them. Such sizes were exclusively made for Jordan and not sold to the public because his right shoe was slightly bigger during his playing career.