Page 12 - January 2017 Thoroughbred Highlight

May 2001 issue
May 2001 - Artist Debbie Goldring is pictured here with her riding companion Cool Brittany, an unraced Thoroughbred who was owned by Karen and Bernard McCormack.
Cool Brittany has been the subject for many of Debbie’s canvases.
Debbie has made a career as an artist since 1988 and has created portraits of horses such as Big Ben and Dance Smartly. She also created a centennial
Debbie Goldring Promo for 2017
art collection for Fort Erie Race Track’s 100th Anniversary.
Sadly on November 24, 2016 at age 26, due to issues of old age, Debbie said a nal goodbye to Cool Brittany, her companion of 16 years.
Debbie has had continued success as a commissioned artist and for more information on her current works visit Debbie Goldring Fine Art online debbiegoldring.com
Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, Patrick Husbands, Woodbine’s top jockey in 2000 became a Canadian Citizen in November of that year.
In 1994 it was brothers Anthony and Simon that nally convinced Patrick to move to Canada to ride at Woodbine. Patrick has since become one of Woodbine’s all-time most successful jockeys recording more than 3080 wins since his arrival at the track.
He has won the Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey a record eight times (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2014) and was inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame in 2005 and received the Avelino Gomez Award in 2014.
Barbados Gold Cup with the Ken and Sarah Ramsey owned Major Marvel at the Garrison Savannah as well as the two other feature races that
day, the rst jockey to ever have done so. It was an amazing feat as Patrick was coming back that year after breaking his right leg in two places in late Spring 2013 at Woodbine.
His rst Gold Cup win was aboard Vardar in 1990, he became the youngest rider to win the Gold
Cup, his other victories were Sharp Impact in 2006, and Sterwins in 2010 who was bred and owned by Barbados native Eugene Melnyk.
This year’s Sandy Lane Barbados Gold Cup race is scheduled for
Also in 2014 Patrick won his 4th Sandy Lane
Saturday, March 4, 2017
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