Page 30 - May 2005 The Game

Your Thoroughbred Racing Community Newspaper The Game, May 2005 31
~ Opening Day Woodbine Racetrack - April 16, 2005 ~
The Jim & Alice Sapara owned, Maryfield, trained by Josie Carroll (left), ridden by Patrick Husbands, was the winner of the first race of the 2005 season at Woodbine. Also in the photo is Assistant trainer Lori Allen and groom Dean Adams.
Melissa DeGannes (left), wife of trainer Greg DeGannes with their daughter Ava and Sara Jones, wife of jockey Jono Jones, with their daughter Indy, enjoy the races on opening day.
Paul O’Sullivan and Amanda Erwin keep Champion Wando walking while trainer Mike Keogh tightens the saddle in the walking ring before the Jacque Cartier Stakes.
Jockey Todd Kabel gives the “thumbs up” after winning
the first stakes event of the 2005 season, the Jacques Cartier Stakes aboard Ministers Wild Cat who is being lead to the winners enclosure by trainer Scott Fairlie.
Todd recorded a second stakes win the following weekend aboard Lemon Maid in the Star Shoot Stakes for trainer Malcolm Pierce and owner Pin Oak Stable.
Trainer Kwong Lam is currently training 5 horses for owner Bruno Schickedanz in 2005.
Photo Right - Lead Outrider Wes Adams and Outrider Natalie McMullin make their way to the walking ring at Woodbine.
Photo Right - There was a close battle down the stretch in the Jacques Cartier Stakes between eventual winner Ministers Wild Cat and the Reade Baker trained Judith’s Wild Rush, seen here on post parade with jockey Slade Callaghan on board.
Woodbine Entertainment Group’s Chairman & CEO, David Willmot in the walking ring before the Jacque Cartier Stakes
Photo left - Tyler Gaskin, jock’s agent for Patrick Husbands, was not posing for this picture!
Woodbine Outrider, Natalie McMullin, stops with pony Chief to say hello to the young race fans at Woodbine.