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“Big Red – the mostest horse”  The legend of this great racehorse has been told for nearly 80 years. by Margaret Bennett Decades before bid horses like the show jumper, Big Ben, and the racehorse, Secretariat, became famous, there was

For owner-breeder Gus Schickedanz, WOODCARVER’S romp in the Queen’s Plate is a well-deserved victory. by Jennifer Morrison-Learn For 20 years, Gus Schickedanz has been breeding high quality Thoroughbreds on his Schonberg Farm in Nobleton, Ontario. In those 20 years, the

Pinafore Park beat the boys in this year’s Breeders’ Stakes (GIC), the third jewel of Canada’s Triple Crown, to give part owner and breeder Bob Anderson a second thrill in a span of four days in August. Anderson had sold

Like a fine wine, Deputy INXS continues to get better with age. The remarkable gelded son of Silver Deputy had a career season in 1998 at the age of seven, winning six of eleven starts and finishing in the top

Beverly Buck had a year in 1998 that all horse trainers dream about experiencing once in their careers.  Sending out winners at a 22 per cent clip, with only a handful of runners in the barn, Buck trained a remarkable

She’s often referred to as an iron horse but Santa Amelia was also versatile and at times, brilliantly fast, in her three seasons of racing for her owner and breeder George Strawbridge Jr. and trainer Mac Benson. The grey/roan five-year-old

Ernie Samuel’s Sam-Son Farms topped all owners on the earnings list at Woodbine for the fourth time in the 1990′s last year. Samuel’s horses banked over $1.4 million in purses. The star of the show was undoubtedly Chief Bearhart, who

By Jennifer Morrison-Learn Five months after she broke her maiden as a 22 to 1 longshot in her first career start, Fantasy Lake was crowned Canada’s Sovereign Award winning two-year-old filly, following in the hoofsteps of such great distaffers as

Beverly Buck thought she had bought herself a nice show horse when she dished out $5,100 for a two-year-old colt at the 1997 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale of yearlings. It wasn’t that Buck was looking for a show horse, but,

By Jennifer Morrison-Learn Some of the most colourful moments during the past decade of racing at Woodbine racetrack have come by way of owner and breeder Bob McBain and his partners in Kirby Canada Farm. McBain and longtime partners Annemarie