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Country Boy 123 wins for the 26th time in his illustrious career taking the Distance Series Stakes - leg 2


win.” The $22,520 win-


ner’s share of the purse


Hanover


Chalsee’s earnings to $50,083 from four wins in nine races. *Earlier on the


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Taggart of Oakwood won Trials for the Ontario Bred Derby two weeks ago and installed One Kool Dynasty as the slight 8 to 5 favourite over Hanover HIll Chalsee who was 2 to 1. Both fil- lies broke well in the 300-yard dash with One Kool Dynasty grabbing the lead quickly under jockey Helen Vanek. Hanover HIll Chalsee got


into gear halfway through the race and was up in time to win while One Kool Dynasty held second over last year’s Cham- pion 2-Year-Old Male Eazy Street. The time was 15.707 for an 85 speed index into a strong


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rest of the OMSSU volunteers


horses. So they come out to talk. They want to pet the horses and they are willing to talk longer.” The horses, Fuerth and the


headwind. A daughter of Ontario stal-


lion Make Out Artist from the mare Secret Sugarwoman by Sugarman Perry, Hanover Hill Chalsee has improved rapidly under Kennedy’s training. The 3-year-old filly won her first start of 2020 as an 18 to 1 long- shot, placed in two minor races before winning an allowance race Aug. 12 and her Derby Trial a week later. “She made a believer out of


me today,” said Walton, who bagged three wins on the nine- race card Wednesday. “She’s a filly who has improved with every start. I am so happy for Norm [Picov] and Rick who puts so much time into horses, I’m glad to see them get a stakes


train with the Toronto Police so the horses are well adapted for service work, trained for work- ing with people and crowds and of course, love the attention. Acting fire chief Scott Reid hopes that people will see that the department is working to im- prove fire safety and prevention in the community, “And we


Sept. 2 card multiple champion COUN- TRY BOY 123 rolled to a one- length win in the $21,550 QROOI Distance Series, leg 2 at 400 yards for his fourth straight win


this season. Ridden by Ed Wal- ton, Ruth Barbour’s amazing 7- year-old was coming off a win in the second leg of the Sprint Se- ries and now has 26 victories at eight different distances from 40 races. His career earnings now


stand at $488,902 as the richest Canadian-based Quarter Horse in history. His main goal of the Ajax Downs season is the Oct. 12 Alex Picov Memorial Cham- pionship, a race he has won the last three years. You can keep up to date on news


and watch races live at www.ajaxdowns.com and wager and watch the races by opening an account at Horseplayer Inter- active, www.hpibet.com.


want everyone to enjoy their time here and stay safe and sound. The public enjoy seeing the horses and they seem to enjoy doing it so it is a great way to get the word about fire safety out.” Reprinted from Bancroft This Week - http://www.bancroft- thisweek.com/


dalmatian-like spots, appears in prehistoric cave art throughout Europe, and my heart skipped a beat when the camera panned across the drawings of ancient man hunting all manner of wildlife and then….it stops on the perfectly painted horses we now recognize as Knabstruppers. A handful of people in Den-


mark and Germany have spent decades working hard to bring it back from the edge of extinction,


those who are now key to saving the horse from total extinction. The film has participated in


several international film festi- vals, receiving several awards in- cluding the Equus Film Festival, New York (Dec. 2018) where it won ”Best International Film”; the Equus International Film Festival in Missoula, Montana (March 2019), where it received two awards: “Best Independent” and “Best Historical Film”. It


world can now view the film on- line by logging on to https://vimeo.com/ondemand/the knabstrupperhorse and The Rider congratulates


filmmaker


Scholten for her beautiful cine- matographic essay on a breed we must not allow to disappear.


Glenda J. Fordham For THE RIDER


boosted Hill


The Knabstrupper Horse - hunting for the old genes


I recently viewed the feature


length documentary about the old Danish horse breed, the Knab- strupper and it was the first time I had ever heard of the breed. In fact, there are only about 350 liv- ing Knabstruppers left in the world in the breed’s original form. The Knabstrupper horse, with its unique personality and


saving the horse through pure breeding practices. Filmmaker Irene G. Scholten followed these dedicated caretakers over a five- year period which has resulted in this stunning 87 min. documen- tary which features the breed’s cultural and historic background, told by both descendants of those who actually bred them, and by


won Silver for both “Sound- track” and “Best Documentary Feature” at the International In- dependent Film Awards in 2019, and won the prize for ”Best Inter- national Documentary” at the Equinale Film Festival


in


Neuhof, Germany in September 2019.


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