Page 19 - June 2005 The Game

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The Game, June 2005 19
Frankel Assistant Busy at Woodbine
Brian Lynch is
the Assistant
Trainer for Bobby
Frankel who has 25
horses in training at
Woodbine and 25
horses in training at
Adena Springs
North for owner
Frank Stronach.
Brian had been
training for 15
years in California
before taking on the Assistant position with Frankel last season and was overseeing such horses as Badge of Silver and High Limit before making the move to Woodbine in the spring. Public trainer Justin Nixon, who is in the same barn as Brian, made the move to Woodbine and is training an additional 15 hors- es for Stronach which include the talented grey, Royal Regalia, and 5-year-old High Blitz, who won a stake race at Mountaineer this past win- ter.
Justin is also currently training Huntingthetruth, who won 4 races at Woodbine in 2004 for owner Hugh Blackmore.
Save your used horseshoes!
WEG and LongRun request that you drop your used horseshoes in the 50 gallon drums located at the Ice House. Your donation is appreciated.
Brian Lynch
BirdOverseesSam-SonTraineesatFortErie
Trainer Alan Bird is pictured here with 4-year-old Ascot Knight filly, Image Power owned by Sam-Son Farms. This is the second season that Alan has been overseeing the Sam-Son trainees at Fort Erie. He currently has 8 horses under his care including 5-year-old gelding Quiet Colony; Stonington, who just recorded a bullet work and will be running at Woodbine; and Twenty-one Guns, by Smart Strike, who is a 1/2 sister to Crucible.
Alan has been training since 1983 and previously rubbed horses for fourteen years for trainers Mike Doyle, Roger Attfield and Glen Magnussen.
Did You Know....
That in Blackpool, England, the local council passed a ruling as part of an “employment rights” charter for 200 or so donkeys which are used to give rides to visitors to the beach, stating that the donkeys can’t work from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. without a lunch break. Inspectors will carry out spot checks to make sure the donkeys get a statutory hour-long session with their feed bags - as well as Fridays off.
Did You Know....
That the Frank Stronach owned Magna Entertainment Corp has been granted the license to build a $1 million (US) racetrack complex in Romulus Michigan.
The racetrack is to be called Michigan Downs and will be run under Michigan Racing Inc, a fully owned subsidiary of Magna.
Located off Interstate 94, near Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the track will be built on 85 hectares of land and will have three racing tracks set inside each other, a 170,000 sq ft entertainment pavilion for simulcast racing and 33 barns which will house 1056 horses and three groom’s quarters. There is also plans for a 33,000 sq ft research building on the property.
Construction will begin in 2007 and racing is scheduled to start in 2009.