Page 20 - January 2017 Thoroughbred Highlight

September 2001 issue
Steven and Kathleen Kemp, owners of Ballycroy Trail Training Centre, opened for business in August 2001. Steven and Kathleen are pictured with the two daughters, (then) 4 year-old Michaela and 7 year-old Karly.
The 100 acre Training Centre which featured a new 5/8 mile training track
is located in the
rolling hills of East Caledon, Northwest of Highways 9 and 50.
Trainer Daryl Ezra (right) and Groom Jennifer Aitken with Prospective Gal, the winner of the 2001 Laurie’s Dancer Stakes at Fort Erie Race Track. It was a bittersweet win for Daryl as he dedicated the race to his father Jerry who passed away the week before the race.
Daryl had claimed Prospective Gal at Aqueduct for $16,000 in 2000 which proved to be the turning point in the horse’s career.
Owned by Trackpower Farm and J Simmonds, Prospective Gal broke her maiden at Woodbine and won the Miss Moneypenny Stakes in 2000 after the claim.
Prospective Gal went on to win the Border Cup Stakes in 2002 and changed ownership throughout her time with Daryl before being claimed a few times. She was retired and sold for $40,000 as a broodmare prospect in January 2006.
Trainer Daryl Ezra took over race calling at Fort Erie Race Track in 2011 from Daryl Wells Jr. (who sadly passed away in 2016) while continuing to train horses. Mike Dimoff took over race calling at the border oval the following year.
Training since 1995 some of the top horses he has trained include Fort Erie’s 2003 Horse of the Year Ashagio and multiple Stakes winner Lucky Tec.
Everything, was the winner of the Golden Horseshoe Stakes at Fort Erie Race Track on August 21, 2001. It was The Game day at Fort Erie Race Track and we were pleased to present the Stakes trophy to the winning connections.
Pictured here from left to right:
Winning Trainer Mike Mattine; Yvonne Schwabe and her mother (the late) Dagmar Schwabe, accepting the trophy on behalf of owner Theodore Burnett; Stacie Roberts, Managing Editor of The Game; Jockey Christopher Grif th; Jason Roberts and Steve Roberts of The Game.
Phrase Origins
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth”
Traced back to a letter from Saint Jerome in A.D. 400. It is an injunction to accept a gift in the spirit in which it was given, without looking for aws
or intrinsic value. At the time a horse’s age and therefore its value was determined by it’s teeth.
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