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The Thoroughbred Ladies Club of BC, whose charity work and scholarship program has benefited backstretch workers at Hastings Racecourse since 1973, meets the first Tuesday each month. If you would like to join them in their worthwhile efforts or help at the occasional function, please call: Linda Sentes 604-318-7949 Barb Williams at 604-542-8951.

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Looking for PhotosWe are looking for old photos of people or horses from the past; jockeys, trainers, backstretch per-sonnel are all welcome and will be used in future issues.Each photo will be scanned and returned to it’s owner in the con-dition it is received.No win-photos please.

Future Derby Winner?

Summer Racing in Oregon Summer racing in Oregon began-with the three-day Eastern Or-egon Livestock Show in Union June 6-8 with three days of rac-ing.It was followed by Grants Pass Downs nine-day meet, June 14-15, 21-22, 28-29 and July 4-6, at the Josephine County Fair-grounds.The Crooked River Roundup,

held at the Crook County Fair-grounds in Prineville, ranconsec-utively for four days from July 9-12.In August, the Tillamook Coun-

ty Fair will also hold four days of racing, August 6-9, at the fairgrounds situated just off the state’s northern coast line.The Harney County Fair, locat-

ed in Burns, will host three days of racing September 5-7.

Canada’s Queen’s Plate!

Lexie Lou charmed many racing fans and produced countless new ones with her win at the 155th edition of the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine on Sunday.A total of

$9,079,520 million was wagered on the 13-race card, the second highest handle recorded in Queen’s Plate history. A record

$3,074,410, includ-ing $653,423 on the Jackpot Hi-5, was bet on the Queen’s Plate race itself.Horseplayers were

treated to a strong race card, topped off by a large, quality 15-horse field in the Queen’s Plate. All would agree

that Lexie Lou, the lone filly in the race, was truly outstand-ing in winning the historic record-

breaking event.With no turnstiles

(admission and parking are free) Woodbine estimated place the Queen’s Plate crowd at ap-proximately 30,000.WEG was also

pleased to donate $1 for every program and grandstand ticket sold to Re-think Breast Cancer. “Our social media

also showed record numbers across all

metrics, includ-ing Queen’s Plate ‘day-of’ Twitter and Facebook impres-sions, which were over double last year’s numbers.”The Queen’s Plate

is the first jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown. The next race is set for Tuesday, July 29 at Fort Erie, with the final gem of the three-race series, the Breeders’ Stakes, on

turf, set for Sunday, August 17 at Wood-bine. Lexie Lou paid $8.20, $4.50 and $3.30, combining with Ami’s Holiday ($9.70, $5.80) for a $63.90 (14-15) exactor. A 14-15-4 (Asserting Bear, $6) triactor was worth $387.40, while a $1 Superfecta [14-15-4-6 (We Miss Artie)] paid $695.80.

Through the month of August there will be seven more B.C. Horse Racing Hall of Fame members acknowledged with races named in their honour: Cline Hoggard, Sam Krasner, Alan May and Red Rock Farm on Aug. 3; Dave Forster on August 4; Sam Randall and W.H. (Bud) Macdonald Aug. 22.

Hall of Fame Members Acknowledged

50 Years After Northern Dancer’s Historic Win His Descendent Lexie Lou Wins North America’s Oldest Stakes Race

www.horseracingbc.ca July 2014Issue #63

In the Golden Days of horseracing hats were requisite. Take a look at any crowd photo from the 1800's through the 1960's and it is a sea of hats—fe-doras, pork pies and the occasional bowler for the men and wide brimmed hats for the ladies. Then about the early to mid-sixties hats fell out of vogue and faded from the racetrack scene. But in these early days of the new century hats are making a big comeback. Watch the Ken-tucky Derby and triple crown races, look around the Hast-ings grandstand on any

week-end—hats are coming back into style. They're chic, trendy and popular again. Fe-doras seem to be most

popular with the men (and some women) while wide-brimmed straw hats are still fa-voured by the ladies. The actor Nicholas

Campbell (DaVinci's Inquest) set the tone a few years ago when he wore a fedora to the races every week-end. Soon others followed and wearing a classic hat to the races was once again cool.

But hats, like grocer-ies don't just magically appear on shelves, they

are construct-ed by skilled craftsmen. Following the trend to one of it's sources brings us to Mon-

treal where Magill Hat Manufacturing, under the direction of father and son Marvin and Jarred Shostak, have

been making fine gen-tlemen's hats for over 60 years. Quality hats, not Chinese knock-offs but made from good felt by skilled tradesmen. The making

of a hat starts with the felt and Magill imports the finest rabbit felt from Europe — felt is a non-woven fabric formed by treating the fibers with heat and steam pressure. It is available in different weights or thicknesses and is a primary fabric

used in making hats.The felt is shipped

flat or in the form of a cone and the first step in the manufacture of a hat is to shape the cone. This is done with a machine that steams and presses the hat into the desired shape.

Next comes pounc-ing or sanding the felt until it is smooth and

free of loose hair. then on to the brim trim-mer before the drying process.The machines that

do these tasks look to be last century old but as Jarrod explains the machinery ranges

from about 50 to 75 years old, but it definitely has that well used patina. Maybe what they say is

true, that the qual-ity produced by older machines is superior to that of today's 'Made in China' technology. They do turn out good hats.Next the brim flange

(around the edge of the brim) and the sweat

band are sized and added. These tasks are performed by a hand-

ful of long-time employees who are really arti-sans, making hats at Magill's most of their adult lives.Finally the

labels are applied and the hat is ready to ship.Ed. note. This is, of

course, a simplified version of how a hat is made. The skill and

artistry that goes in to the making of a good

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We have the best selection of hats for men and women for every occasion.Wear a hat to the track, it will not only look very stylish, it might bring you luck

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Remembering…

Bev Miles and Peter Stephen

Bev Miles passed in late June after having been sick for a long time. Cancer killed her, and it is standard under such circumstances to write that someone died after a long, courageous battle with the disease. In Bev’s case, that would be an understatement. She fought for years, having had several recurrences, yet managed to get back to the track after all of them, save for the last.Bev was one of those reliable, competent people that make it possible for a backstretch to operate. She walked horses, started grooming, and acquired the skills necessary to become an assistant trainer and, eventually, a trainer with her own barn. She trained from 2006-2008 prior to getting sick. She was a dues-paid member of our community and a racetracker through and through.The trainer Peter Stephen won a lot of races when Bev worked in his barn and during the time she was his assistant trainer, he had some very good seasons. Unfortunately, he left this world a short time before Bev, fol-lowing a life that saw him train and race at 12 different tracks in Western Canada and the US for 30 years, although most of his career was at Hast-ings (Exhibition Park), and his greatest successes were there.He left the racetrack in 2006 after a career that produced 394 wins from 2,545 starts and another 704 places while winning over $3.5 million dollars. He trained 9 stakes-winners and won 12 stakes with them. My Man Friday, who won the Alberta Derby at Stampede and the Klondike at Exhibition in 1976, was his first stakes winner. Columbia Moon, who won the Speed Handicap in 2005, was his last. In between came Emotional Hit, Peggy’s Valentine, Work Visa, Sparklin Kat, Leloup (who won the S.W. Randall Plate), Mark of Diablo and the three-time stakes winning sprinter, Columbia King.Bev Miles was with Peter for many years and many of those horses. They both worked hard and a number of our visual memories of Peter Stephen will have him crawling around underneath a horse because he did spend a lot of time there, as did Bev. Few if any of us can remember them with a coffee cup at the gap.When Peter Stephen left the track after the 2006 season our local racing community lost touch with him. Now we have lost Bev Miles. There are many people at the track these days that never knew them, but there are still a lot of us who were there when they were. That time, and those times, form a large part of who many of us are and what we did with sig-nificant portions of our lives. We do not want to forget that, and we should not forget them. courtesy Richard Yates HBPABC


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In a conversation trac-ing the arc of a life in horses spanning six decades, Marion MacHaffie’s anecdotes and recollections pour out like lemonade on a hot day. Names, dates and characters human and equine are re-membered crisply and without a hint of sour-ness. There’s still a lot of zing and zest left in this business of horses and Marion MacHaffie handily squeezes it out and readily shares the refreshment. After a false start aboard an auction pony at the PNE Horse Show in the early 60’s, Marion’s father was so embarrassed he promptly bought her a proper show horse- what the kids today call an Off-Track Thoroughbred- and she was off to the races in the Hunter/Jumpers. The tutelage of the legendary Pam Arthur molded young Marion into a rider with the skill, finesse and attention to detail it took to be successful in the show ring and in the life equine. Before long, Marion was run-ning her own stable in

Ladner.A neighbour there would introduce her to the world of rac-ing and once bitten, the show horse girl, ever-loyal to the Thor-oughbreds, would fall almost entirely under its spell in short order. Groom’s licence in ’71, gallop licence the next year, proper study and attention to detail leading to a trainer’s licence in ’78. All this while running a stable, showing horses and keeping a day-job as a schoolteacher. Getting on horses and getting to really know them would make Marion MacHaffie’s little lemonade stand a grand profit. Her eye led her to a particularly good batch of lemons in a $500 Bastogne filly called Candy’s Fine who won first out, with the offer of a free breeding to Bastogne attached. This in turn brought the offer of a sibling colt for $1000 with the breeder Mike Wolansky keeping a third share. The colt was Hurricane Benny, Canadian Derby win-ner of 1990. It was then-husband and

trainer Rob Van Over-schot’s idea to run Benny in the big race and Marion didn’t disagree with the plan. There was, at the end of that day, enough lemonade to buy a house. There have been many more lovely and notable horses since then, all of them treated with that same care and attention to detail that makes for suc-cess. Marion and Al MacHaffie started out on their farm in Al-dergrove with ideas of breeding but quickly got realistic. And it’s worked. They’ve had a foal of their own here and there and taken in horses for rest and rehab. It’s a team ef-fort and they make a beautiful pair. Rob and Vicky Gilker, Craig MacPherson and Sam Shead all use the Gem-inimac Thoroughbred farm as their first port of call for horses need-ing a bit of downtime

or extra care. As Vicky Gilker notes, “Marion treats all the boarders as though they were her own. We’ve never gone wrong with her.”An interesting by-product of the old lemonade stand would be the QH known as Puck. As one of four QH babies brought onto the farm to keep the lonely TB foals company, Puck has turned out, under the instruction of Travis

Rempel and Cayley Johnson, to be an excellent cow horse and the best-broke horse Marion MacH-affie has ever ridden. He’s proved a valuable buddy to the young TB’s in training and is working simultane-ously to keep Marion interested in riding. Not a small job, for sure.It’s all lemonade when you look at it the right way and Marion

MacHaffie doesn’t have any other way of looking. Positive, stud-ied and always moving forward, Marion is an example of getting it done and staying above. It ain’t all easy but you’ll never hear her complain about any of it. The lady is a lesson in grace and power, just like the horses she loves so much.

Women At the Races… Marion MacHaffie…by Marcy Emery

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