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30 The Game, November 2005 Your Thoroughbred Racing Community Newspaper
TYLER WALKER - CONT. FROM PG 13
Tyler beams when he talks about galloping. "I couldn't ask for a better place to be or a better guy to teach me. Canmor is great and the farm is so beautiful.”
Tyler’s father is very happy for his son and echos the sentiments of his son, "You couldn't ask for a better guy to get experience from and you couldn't ask for a better farm than Canmor. They're both first class", said the elder Walker.
Dion is also delighted that Tyler’s dream has finally started. "It's all he ever
talks about. This is all he's ever wanted", said Dion.
This fall Walker hopes to be breaking babies with Loseth at the Canmor Farm while he continues his lessons in galloping.
“Next year I'm dedicated to Chris and I'm looking forward to it", said Tyler.
Although Loseth will be losing a groom he doesn't seem to mind because as he says "It's harder to find a qualified person who can gallop than it is to find a groom."
Good Luck in your lessons Tyler!
BEVERLY WICK - CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21
Some days, there's so many tracks, even the computer can get confused.
"When you have more than six tracks, you have to use the event number, which is on the horse number section of the keyboard. For example Hawthorne was event six on Friday, but on Saturday it was event 7, " she tells me a bit too fast for me to comprehend, "and Keeneland was on the event button 6, but if you accidentally went to event six, thinking it was Hawthorne, people could get the wrong tickets."
When Woodbine first experimented with a second track being pumped in, it wasn't, says Wick, the smoothest of circumstances.
"When we first started selling different tracks, we would have Woodbine on one side and Fort Erie on the other side and the bettors would be running back and forth."
31 years at the same job requires a certain mental substance and Wick applies a mature attitude to her daily grind.
"I'm pretty happy," she says in her quiet understated way, "If you go to work, mind your own business and do your job, then it's ok. I try to be pleasant with everyone. If they don't know how to bet, that doesn't bother me, especially the newcomers - if they win 50 cents they get so excited."
Three decades ago, the Mutuels Department got by with one Mutuel Manager per shift. Wick says she's seen at least six of those come and go and now the line of command is more complicated.
"Now we have a new system. There's a wagering operations manager, there's mutual managers that look after the tellers and then above all of them we have a director of mutuels."
It's always fun when someone makes a big score. Wick remembers one regular several years ago hit a big win-4 and his ticket was worth over $20,000.
"He took it all in cash," she says, a touch of awe in her voice.
Wick says she really never knows where she'll be stationed, but that's very much her own choice. With her impressive seniority, she has earned the right to pick days and shifts that she prefers and she usually elects to take the shifts that give her the most hours per week. So one day she'll be in Hoofbeats (in the Slots), the next day it's the Finish Line Bar.
"I just hope it's never two-east!" she shivers making two-east sound like Siberia in January.
If you do happen to find yourself at her window, you might want to wish her a happy birthday. Wick was born in November, 1955, so this is the year she hits 50.
And about the title of this story -The Woman of a Million Wagers -well let's do some math. Wick processes about 2000 individual bets per shift. She works 5 days a week, as many as 230 days a year. That's 10,000 bets per week, which is more than 400,000 each year she works and she's been doing it for 31 years.
Hey, she's actually the The Woman of Ten Million Wagers.
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• Partners Laurie and Jack Wolf, Paul Saylor and John Martins, owners of 2004 Breeders’ Cup Distaff, Kentucky Oaks winner and Champion three-year- old filly, Ashado, will be offering her for sale during the 2005 Keeneland Mixed Sale in November. Being sold under Taylor Made Sales Agency, the partnership plans to donate a portion of the proceeds of the sale to Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA). TCA is the largest umbrella non-profit organization of the thoroughbred industry whose sole mission is to raise money for distribution to over 100 organizations involved with thorough- bred rescue, retirement, rehabilitation, research, education, backstretch, and jockey therapeutic riding programs. TCA is volunteer driven which allows them to distribute 93 cents of every dollar raised.
• Gr.1 Haskell and Gr.2 Dwyer Stakes winner, Roman Ruler, will stand at Hill ‘N’ Dale in Kentucky upon his retirement.
• Distorted Humor (Forty Niner--Danzig’s Beauty, by Danzig), the sire of 3-year-old Champion and Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, Funny Cide, will stand at Win Star Farm for an increased stud fee of $150,000 in 2006. With 30 stakes winners to date, the stallion’s progeny earnings have grown in excess of $18 million.
• Recent Atto Mile winner, Leroidesanimaux (BRZ), will enter stud at Stonewall Farm Stallions in Kentucky upon the completion of his racing career. • 2005 Kentucky Derby runner up, Closing Argument, has been retired from racing and will stand stud for $10,000, live foal, at Sequel Stallions in Ocala, Florida in 2006. Closing Argument retires with a record of 9-3-3-2 and
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• Multiple Group 1 winner, Powerscourt (GB) (Sadler’s Wells--Rainbow
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