Page 10 - The Game September 2006

10 The Game, September 2006 Your Thoroughbred Racing Community Newspaper
Run The Table Wows The Crowd!
Sally Stavro is surrounded by her daughters as they accept the Hall of Fame Induction Ring from presenter Glenn Sikura for her late husband and their father, Steve Stavro.
U.S. Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day (right), who rode many horses for Jim, presented Trainer Jim Day (left) with his Hall of Fame Induction Ring.
Standardbred Inductee, Run the Table, was lead into the hall to accept his induction into the Hall of Fame.
Ask anyone who was there and they will give you the same answer. Run The Table stole the show last night at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
The 22-year-old winner of $1,171,053 on the track, and sire of winners of more than $87 million, was one of the standard- breds inducted last night. But unlike the other equine inductees, Run The Table decided to make a personal appearance.
"He was awesome. He's such an amazing horse. It was a very special night for him and for us," reports his owner Jack McNiven who worked very hard to orga- nize Run The Table’s presence at the induction ceremony.
Run The Table was in a stall outside the Mississauga Convention Centre, were he was in his glory amongst the sold out crowd who fed him carrots and had their picture taken with him.
"He just loved it because he loves being around people," McNiven said.
McNiven said they did a trial run before the ceremony, which went fine, but everyone thought that the big crowd would make him uneasy.
"He was perfect. I knew it wouldn't bother him. I knew the people would be a steadying influence," he said. "He was not stressed at all. You'd think it was his regular routine."
In fact, the only thing that concerned McNiven was all the carrots!
"He had about six bags of carrots, which I was a little bit worried about - because it would be like the same a person eating six bags of chocolate - but he was fine."
McNiven said they finally got Run The Table back to his stall at about 3 a.m., but that didn't seem to bother him either, and today it's back to business as usual in the paddock.
Run The Table was a major stakes
winner in all three years of his racing career but his notoriety was as a formidable stallion in the 1990s at Jack and Don McNiven‚s Killean Acres of Ingersoll, Ont. One of his great wins on the track was his upset of the great Jate Lobell. Run The Table’s offspring earned more than $86 million in purse money and including 268 winners of $100,000 or more. His offspring include Jays Table, Rabbi of Racing, Run To The Bank, Elegant Killean, Ryancoke, Heatherjeankillean and Cathedra, the dam of millionaires Cabrini Hanover and Cathedra Dot Com.
The class of 2006 featured 11 new members in total, including four Standardbreds and two Thoroughbreds along with trainers James E. Day and David C. Cross Jr., and driver/trainers Doug Brown and Jacques Hebert.
The Standardbred horse inductees enjoyed outstanding careers on the race- track as well as in the breeding shed and include Armbro Emerson, As Promised and Run The Table along with the brilliant racing filly Armbro Feather.
The exceptional Thoroughbred stallion Bold Ruckus and the filly Lauries Dancer, a multiple graded stakes winner in the U.S. and Canada’s Horse of the Year in 1971, are the two Thoroughbred inductees.
The two 16-member Election Committees voted all except Armbro Emerson and David C. Cross Jr., who were elected by the 12-member Veterans‚ Committee. Successful inductees needed a minimum of 75 percent of the balloting.
For ten years in a row Bold Ruckus was Canada’s leading sire while standing at Park Stud in Caledon, Ont. He was owned and raced by Gerald E. Going of Alberta. Bold Ruckus sired 62 stakes winners, including champions Bold Ruritana, King Ruckus, King Corrie, all millionaires, plus
Kiridashi, Beau Genius and Krz Ruckus. Carrying
on his bloodlines is Bold Executive. He also sired the dams of 54 stakes winners.
One of Northern Dancer’s great daughters, Lauries Dancer competed against the best fillies in North America in 1971, a year in which she won the Alabama Stakes, the Delaware Oaks, Canadian Oaks, Bison City and Star Shoot Stakes. She was owned by Mrs. Arthur Stollery and bred by her husband‚s Angus Glen Farm of Unionville, Ont.
Besides Dance Smartly, who won Canada’s Triple Crown, James E. Day saddled Queen’s Plate winner Regal
Intention, Eclipse Award winner Sky Classic and five Horse of the Year champions; Dauphin Fabuleux, Imperial Choice, Ruling Angel, Peaks And Valleys and Dance Smartly. Day won more than 1,100 races and was Canada’s leading trainer four times.
David C. Cross Jr., who was born in Vancouver and was a jockey before saddling his first winner in 1957, achieved national acclaim with Sunny’s Halo. Canada’s champion two-year-old, the Canuck-bred colt won the 1983 Derby. He later won the $1 Million Super Derby in
Louisiana. Classic Cat, a multiple stakes winner, earned more than $1 million for Cross. Other stakes winners included Dianes Halo, Quintana, Decent Davey, Big Destiny and Snow Game.
Stavro, who passed away at age 78 this past April, was at one time the majority owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors and until 2000 owned the innovative Knob Hill Farms chain of food stores. He owned a relatively small but highly successful racing and breeding operation that produced numerous cham- pions for Knob Hill Stable. In 1992 Stavro won two Sovereign Awards as Canada’s leading owner and breeder. His horses earned six Sovereign Awards. Thornfield and Benburb each were voted Canada’s Horse of the Year. Stavro got into racing in 1967. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Jockey Club, The Jockey Club of Canada and was an Honorary Director of Woodbine Entertainment Group.
For more information or pictures of the inductees please contact Anna MacLeod at (905) 858-3060 ext. 213.
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