Page 10 - January 2017 Thoroughbred Highlight

April 2001 issue
Former Woodbine broadcaster Stephan Millar (photo right) is back on the backstretch at Woodbine embarking on a new career as Jockey Agent for 2001.
Steve grew up in King City, Ontario and after spending the summer galloping horses for Woodbine Director Bob Anderson, he chose to do a feature project on the remodeling and new turf course
at Woodbine Racetrack for the Ryerson Radio & Television Arts University program he was taking at the time.
Upon his graduation in 1994 he wanted to be a broadcaster at the Ontario Jockey Club and “bugged and bugged” the television department manager until they hired him.
Steve took over the book for Jockey Jake Barton in August 2001.
Today Stephen is a lead presenter on At the Races for Sky Sports in London, England covering English, Irish and American racing.
Watch Steven Millar preview the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Check out this video interview with Jockey Jake
Barton
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Jake Barton began riding horses when he was 16 and started his career as a Jockey in Utah in 1985 after noticing the horse racing track near where he was practicing racing motorbikes. “I happened to look over while the races were going on and I’d never seen a horse race. It looked interesting.”
From Utah he rode in New Mexico and California “Probably my favourite moment of all was when I was a bug and I walked into the jocks room in California and there was Laf t Pincay, Shoemaker and Sandy Hawley.”
Jockey Agent Roger Oleksiw, “Roger the Dodger” wanted Jake to ride in Winnipeg. “He used to call me at one in the morning, two in the morning, three in the morning and ve or six times a day. So I nally agreed to ride for him........I rode ve horses (in Canada) and won a couple of them but it wasn’t until later, after meeting Roger’s daughter Cheryl, that I decided to stay.”
Jake and Cheryl eventually married.
Jake’s career took off in Canada and he soon started riding in Vancouver in the summer and California in the winter.
Jake moved his tack to Woodbine in November 2000 and shifted to the Fort Erie Race Track jockey colony in 2003 before moving back to Hastings Racecourse September 2004. He then rode at Northlands and Stampede Park in Alberta from 2006 to 2009 all the while winter riding at various racetracks across the United States.
Today the 49 year-old is still competing at Turf Paradise where he was the 4th leading money rider in 2016. He also ranked 18th at Albuquerque and 21st at Emerald Downs last year.
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