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Quality Over Quantity: The Story of Krazy Koffee
The Game, December 2008 7 “My pockets aren’t deep, and I like to devote as
By Peter Valing
an interest in the ponies. What he cannot grasp is the size of today’s purses. Whenever I win, he always asks: ‘How much of this do you keep?’”
The Railside Ranch is located about 100km outside of Vancouver in the picturesque Fraser Valley. It
is a family farm that Butch Goertzen bought when
he was nineteen. In the four decades since, Butch
Two decades ago, Butch bought his rst thoroughbred. He didn’t race it. He
much time as possible to each horse that I breed.” The horses he’s bred, he’s raced at Hastings. He won his rst race in 1986 with Johnnyscash.
has developed the hundred-acre property into a prosperous pig farm. He lives there with his wife, Renata, their three children and an expanding brood of grandchildren. Such a scenario would suf ce
loves “big, beautiful animals”, and the horse served as a sort of peacock, a wandering symbol of grace on the Goertzen grounds. Things became more serious when the farmer joined a horse owner syndicate. “Softecho won his rst race,” he explained. “I quit the syndicate and bought myself a broodmare. Anybody could make money on horse racing, I thought.”
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We Extend our Best Wishes for a Joyous Holiday Season and Prosperous New Year !
Thank you for a Terrific Season.
We are looking forward to a Successful 2008!
Steve & Sharon Attard
to keep many a man happy, but there’s more. In a barn behind the main house resides a horse that has recently made Butch happy beyond all expectation. The colt’s name is Krazy Koffee, and among the races he won this year was the BC Derby.
Butch is a solid man with big hands and a hearty laugh. He has the ability of making one feel truly welcome. The foyer through which we
walked and the kitchen in which we
He began to breed thoroughbreds, mainly as a hobby, and never more than one per year.
talked bespoke of a love of nature and warmth. The walls were hung with hunting trophies and photographs of various family excursions taken on motorcycle, horseback and raft. The smell of coffee permeated the air.
2008 COLT by TRAJECTORY
Half Brother to:
“CHOREOGRAPHY”
STAKES PLACED WINNER OF OVER $400,000 Out of a mare by, SPECTACULAR BID
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Butch was born in the prairies into farming stock of Dutch origin. He grew up in the elds, which at that time his father still ploughed using a horse. “My father is a real horse man,” Butch
rema
rked. “He knows the animal inside out. At ninety-two he continues to take
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Wishing all of our friends in the horseracing industry a
erry
hristmas
Wendover
and a Happy & Healthy New Year! from Paul & Melanie O’Sullivan
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