Page 4 - January 2017 Thoroughbred Highlight

Own a Thoroughbred Racehorse for $250 a year - Racing Clubs Gaining Popularity in BC & Alberta
Now coming into its third year, The Hastings Racing Club enjoyed early successes and are now offering more opportunities to join in on the fun of owning a Thoroughbred racehorse without the nancial risk.
Visit Hastings Racing Club for more information and be sure to check out the media coverage from the rst year.
The Alberta Thoroughbred Race Club will be back in 2017, and are thrilled to report that a couple of their members from 2016 purchased a yearling
at the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Alberta Division) sale last September. HBPA of Alberta Director Curtis Landry is nalizing the details for the club. For more information go to Alberta Thoroughbred Racing Club and be sure to Check out this story in the Edmonton Sun
Clothe - “I needed
clothes, and you gave me
something to wear.”
At the Race Track
Chaplaincy of Canada,
located at Woodbine
Race Track, our vision is “Matt25/365: Feed, Clothe, Visit, Counsel, Care”. We base this on the story in
the gospel of Matthew that ends with the warning “Whatever you do for the least of these, you do to me”. We take that to heart.
Layering is a way of combating the weather by wearing many layers of clothes and adding or subtracting to accommodate the changes in the climate of your body. I think racetrack workers invented layering, especially in spring training! I have seen people start their day bundled up to the point where you can barely recognize them and yet after a couple of mucked stalls, walked horses or laps around the training track people warm up and start to peel off the bulky clothes that warmed them in the rst place. Racetrack workers often have several sets of clothes for one day- work in the morning, running in the afternoon or evening, or feeding in the afternoon.
That makes for a lot of laundry! After exercise horses get washed, weather permitting, and that means the groom and/or hot walkers feet can get wet. Worst case scenario? If it happens to rain that morning, everyone get soaked and you can’t get home in time
The Infrastructure of the
OTTB Horse Show and How it has Changed the Perception of the Breed
By Stacie Clark,
TAA Executive
Director - I’m well
aware as I start to
write this edition
of the TAA blog
that I will be dating
myself, but with no
other way to write this, here goes....“Back in the day” the Off the Track Thoroughbred was often seen as a champion in the show world. “Back in the day” riders on Thoroughbreds included Olympic riders Michael Matz, Jim Elder and Jimmy Day, to name a few. These energetic characters were well known for their athletic ability to ride Thoroughbreds to the top of the show jumping world. Indeed another popular American Hall of Fame equestrian-turned-racehorse trainer was Rodney Jenkins, aka “The Red Rider” with his famous Thoroughbred Idle Dice.
Read Stacie Clark’s entire post & watch the video
to change, especially if you have on in the rst. Because racetrack workers go through so many sets of clothes and let’s face it, this is not haute couture, they need
something fast and free. This is where we come in. Many chaplaincies have clothing depots and we’re no different. We constantly get donations that are sorted by our volunteers and hung up on racks in Woodbine’s Jake Howard Center. People can browse through for work or whatever meets their fancy. Sometimes people ask for speci c items and we try our best to set them aside. My favourite memory is
of one groom who got caught in a downpour in the morning and didn’t have a change of clothes. He came in soaked to the bone and found a pair of pants, a shirt and jacket, shoes and even a brand new pair of socks we had kicking around- then promptly and proudly had his picture taken in the rst! I’m not sure if he got groom of the week but he certainly looked the part.
Do you have good working clothes that you don’t need anymore? Drop them off at resources like the Jake Howard Center at the race track you work
at. One person’s cast off can be another person’s treasure.
You can contact Chaplain Shawn Kennedy at: 905-713-4783 or chaplainshawn@hotmail.com
Thoroughbred Highlight - Page 4 - January 2017