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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
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In this week s edition of Rewind Robert Smith recalls a very important date in the history of Canadian harness racing. It was 60 years ago that nighttime racing finally came to the Province of Ontario. On the evening of May 17, 1961 with a post time of 8:00 p.m., it all happened at Western Fair Raceway in London, Ontario. A few recollections of the times and some old photographs help to recall this very special moment in our sport s history.
(Photo by Claus Andersen courtesy of Canadian Sportsman)
For many years, in fact for several decades, everyone involved with harness racing in Ontario longed for racing under the lights to make its way to the Province. It seemed like every other area where the sport was conducted it had already arrived. In 1940 nighttime racing debuted at two New York State tracks; first at Roosevelt and a short time later that fall at Batavia. The next year Saratoga joined in as
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In this week s edition of Rewind Robert Smith profiles the career of one of Canada s greatest horsemen of the 20th century. That gentleman was the late John Chapman, a member of one of the best known families in the sport a half century ago. He is a member of both the Canadian and U.S. Hall of Fame.
A little over 40 years ago, on May 2, 1980 the sport of harness racing lost one of its finest citizens with the untimely passing of Johnny Chapman; he was just 51 at the time. Chappie as he was known to all was stricken with a heart attack just before leaving his home for Roosevelt Raceway. His career, which began in the decade of the 1940 s back at Dufferin Park right near his home in Toronto, led him to many of the top events the sport had to offer. He was known as an elite horseman and acquitted himself well in everything he did.
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