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4 The Game, August 2005 Your Thoroughbred Racing Community Newspaper Trainer Meyer passes away (1927-2005)
Jerome C. Meyer, inducted in Canada’s Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1999, passed away on July 15 after losing a long fought battle with cancer.
Visitation was held on Monday July 18 with the funeral funeral the next day followed by a reception at the fourth floor Woodbine Club at Woodbine Racetrack.
The following is J.C’s Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame biography:
J.C. (Jerry) Meyer (1927-2005)
Hall of Fame Inductee, 1999
Long before they began presenting Sovereign
Awards for leading trainer or champion horses and jockeys, there was a horseman who would have won more than his share of trophies.
Jerry Meyer was Canada's leading trainer - in 1964, 1966 and 1969. He saddled 152 winners in 1969, which placed him fourth amongst all trainers in North America.
From 1961 to 1971 he challenged future Hall of Fame trainers Frank Merrill and Lou Cavalaris along with Andy Smithers for training honors, finishing among the top three trainers each year on the competitive Ontario Jockey Club circuit.
The year after The Jockey Club of Canada inaugurated the Sovereign Awards program, Meyer trained Canada's leading 2-year-old filly, Northernette. She went on to win the Canadian Oaks and was the favorite a week later in the Queen's Plate. She lost by a neck in the mud to Sound Reason but was champion 3-year-old filly of 1977.
Meyer, whose training career began in 1949 and continued into the new millennium, has
enjoyed a distinguished career both in Canada and the United States, training for many of the leading stables on the continent.
He has won more than 2,500 races. His starters, which include more than 100 stakes winners, have earned in excess of $19 million.
A native of Kitchener, Ont. Meyer began his racetrack career in the mid-1940's as a hot walker for "Blodgie" Chris.
Meyer rode briefly as a teenager before gaining his trainer's licence at the age of 20.
Meyer's list of stakes winners during his 56-year career includes Elmendorf Farm's Verbatim, winner of the Gotham Stakes in New York in 1968, Smart n Slick, winner of the Grade 1 Sapling Stakes, Concomitant, Doc's Leader, Fast Gold, Uncle Pokey, Classic Go Go, Manta and High Tribute. His major Canadian-bred winners are Good Old Mort, winner of the Breeders' Stakes and Prince of Wales, Pine Point, Gentleman Conn, Brilliant Sandy, Strategic Command, Great Gabe, High Voltage Sport, Bold Ruckus, Always Mint, In The East, Debra's Victory and Megas Vukefalos. Meyer operated stables in both Canada and the United States for much of his career. At times he had horses running at different tracks on the same afternoon, and literally was "here, there and everywhere."
His main owners in Canada were Ed Seedhouse, Saul Wagman, Ted Smith, Syl Asadoorian, Sam Cosentino, Jim Black and Steve Stavro.
-Information courtesy of Woodbine Entertainment Group, Media Relations
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“Buddy” Carter Passes Away
Trainer George “Buddy” Carter died of cancer, Monday, at Brantford General Hospital, surrounded by family.
Born in 1929 in Dundalk, Ontario, Carter finished among the top three in trainer’s standings on the Ontario circuit six times during a training career that spanned more than six decades.
Perhaps his greatest success as a trainer came with the first horse he ever saddled, Mister Jive, a seven-time stakes winner that earned $175,538. At two, Mister Jive won the 1956 Summer Stakes in track record time and also won the Cowdin Stakes at Belmont Park and the Youthful Stakes at Randall Park.
As a three-year-old, Mister Jive won the Gotham Stakes at Jamaica Racecourse before running seventh in the Kentucky Derby. At four, he won the Auspicious Handicap at Fort Erie and the Eclipse and Highlander Stakes at Woodbine.
In four career Queen’s Plate starts, Carter hit the board twice, finishing second in 1980 with Somelio Man and third in 1970 with Top Call.
The personable conditioner trained Peteski in his lone two- year-old start, before the colt moved on to Roger Attfield’s stable at three, going on to win the Canadian Triple Crown and Molson Million in 1993.
A funeral service was held on July 21 at Beckett-Glaves Family Funeral Centre in Brantford and a special Service was held in the recreation room on the backstretch at Woodbine on July 26 at noon.
-Information courtesy of Woodbine Entertainment Group, Media Relations
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