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Peter Zezel Signs Autographs at Courtice Flea Market The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, August 10,1994 9 Shady Daisy Blossoms on Racetrack WEl-Sr It's always a thrill for kids to meet a hero where he or she works, but sometimes it's more thrilling to have one in your own back yard, so to speak. Joshua Kastropil of Burketon and Michelle Owen of En- msktllen were among the many children and adults who scurried out to see Maple Leaf's centre Peter Zezel at the Courtice Flea Market's Second Anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 7,1994. Blink of an Eye Separates Athlete from Bronze Medal by Brad Kelly Just how close was Bowmanville's Bowmanville's Rob Snoek to winning a medal medal at the recently completed Paralympic Paralympic World Championships held in Berlin, Germany? The blink of an eye. That's all that separated him from from finishing third in the A4 (amputee) 100m race. His fourth place time was l/100ths of a second slower than that of the American who edged him out for the bronze medal. "I thought I had the bronze," said Snoek of his feelings as he crossed the finish line. It wasn't until after a 20-minute delay in posting the times that he learned of his fourth place finish. "It felt like it was ripped right out of my hands," he said of the bronze medal. "I thought I had it. Even Dennis Oehler (the American who finished third) thought 1 beat him." In his two other events, Snoek posted a fourth in the 200 metre, and a seventh in the long jump. In the 200 metre race, he ran a personal best, setting a Canadian record in the process. The new mark is 26.38. A knee injury sustained at the end of the hockey season this year, which plagued him while training for the World Championships, hampered hampered his performance in the long jump. Arthroscopic surgery may be needed to rectify the problem. Looking back on his performance during the week-long competition, Snoek was pleased with his results. The competition has given his confidence confidence level a boost as he continues toward the objective of competing at the Summer Paralympic Games slated slated for Atlanta in 1996. "Before a qualifying race, I'm confident that I will be able to make the final, which is a big jump from Clarington Orioles Eliminate Whitby The first game of the major pce- wee playoffs between Clarington Orioles and Whitby took place on Tuesday, August 2, in a best-of- threc series. George Scharrenwebcr started the. pitching with no hits until the fourth inning. Aaron McSwain pitched the final innings. Paul Schofield, Schofield, Darren Kok, Joe Campa and Judd Woods each hit singles. Despite good fielding efforts, Whitby won the first game 3-2. Game two was held at Soper Creek. Jamie McCarthy pitched a good five innings, allowing only three runs in and picked off the lead runner on second base twice. Aaron McSwain also pitched, with three strikeouts. The Orioles came out hitting with singles by Joe Campa, Paul Schofield, George Scharrenwebcr, Steve DeGraaf, Darren Kok, and Jamie Jamie McCarthy, and a double for Steve Dao. Judd Woods, Greg Elliott, Russ Gaal and Pete DeVries were kept busy in the field, and the Orioles won this exciting game 6-4. The third game in Whitby was held on Saturday and was a real nail-bitcr. by Ted Denny Cowan Pontiac •Buick When to replace your tires... One way to tell when it's time for new tires is to check the tires treadwear indicators, which will appear when your lires have only 2/32 inch (1.6 mm) or less of tread remaining. You need a new tire if: - You can see ihe indicators at three places around the lire. - You can see Ihe fabric or cord showing through the lire's rubber. - The tread or side wall is cracked, cut or snagged deep enough lo see the fabric or cord, - The lire has a bump, bulge or split. - The tire has a puncture, cut or other damage that can't be repaired well because of the location or size of the damage. Buying new tires: Make sure that the new tires arc Ihe same size, load rating, speed rating and construction type (bias, bias- belled or radial) as your original tires. For more information 1 can be reached at Cowan Pontiae-Buiek 905*623-3396.- . . © Barcelona where I didn't know," he said. At the " Summer Paralympic Games of 1992 in Barcelona, Snoek placed fifth in each of the the 100 metre, 200 metre, and long jump events. He also helped the Canadian 4x100 metre relay team to a fourth. At the World Championships, he was one of 18 athletes from Ontario who were part of the Canadian team. The team had close to 50 athletes athletes in total. In total, more than 1,450 athletes from around the world competed. She's named after a delicate, pretty, pretty, summer flower, but the incredible standardbred pacing mare, Shady Daisy, Daisy, is certainly no shrinking violet. In fact, she's more like one of those stubborn weeds you keep yanking yanking out, only to have them grow back bigger and stronger than they were before. before. At least that's how the competition competition would describe her, and for very good reason. Now six years old, an age when most of her contemporaries have headed for the more serene life of nurturing nurturing foals, Daisy continues to dazzle her many fans who have enjoyed watching her exploits over the last four years on the racetrack. The talc of Shady Daisy is one of the many Cinderella stories in harness racing. She was bred and raised by Ron Jackson, who, with his wife, Sue, operate Shady Side Farm in Powell, Ohio. Jackson decided to breed his marc Tika Belle to Falcon Seelster after after watching the latter's incredible 1:51 world record performance on Little Little Brown Jug Day in 1985. On April 27, 1988, a filly dubbed Shady Daisy was the result of that decision. Jackson had consigned Daisy and three other yearlings to the annual Kentucky Standardbred Sale in 1989. Although her stablemates sold well, incredibly Daisy did not even receive one bid when she entered the sales ring. One of the reasons for the lack of interest- was the fact that she sold around 6:00 p.m. on the final Sunday of the auction, and there weren't too many prospective buyers left. Ron and Sue Jackson were a little discouraged about bringing Shady Daisy back to their farm, but their daughter, Tamela Bauslaugh, and her husband, veterinarian Dr. Louis Bauslaugh, Bauslaugh, were very happy about the turn of events. They had both taken to Daisy, but felt they couldn't afford to buy her. They eventually worked out a deal where Ron and daughter Tami would be 'partners on Daisy, with Tami and Lou taking on the training duties of the filly. That proved to be a major undertaking. Daisy was a real handful when it came to learning the ropes of the racing game. She had all kinds of tricks up her sleeve and compounded her behavioral problems with an irrational irrational fear of white birds and tractors. In an attempt to distract her from these objects, Bauslaugh fashioned a unique piece of equipment for his problem pacer. He took a shadow roll, which goes over a horse's nose to prevent prevent them from jumping at shadows, and added several white plastic ties which extended upwards. The reasoning reasoning behind the contraption was to distract distract her vision and camouflage moving moving objects, especially those pesky birds. The unusual invention certainly made fans and horsemen look twice when they first saw it, but their laughter laughter soon stopped when they saw how the marc behind the equipment could pace. The filly enjoyed a fairly successful successful rookie season, earning over $100,000, a mark of 1:54.4, and a few stakes victories. Her three-year-old campaign was highlighted by an incredible 1:51 clocking at The Red Mile. The time represented a world record for mares of any age, despite the fact that the track was rated two seconds slow. She captured many stakes races that season, season, defeated the best of her class and many of the best older marcs, and earned in excess of $450,000. However, it has been as an aged mare that Shady Daisy has really seemed to excel. Her ability has sometimes sometimes limited her racing opportunities against fellow mares, so she has spent the better part of the past three years battling the best free-for-all pacing horses and geldings in North Amcnca.. She has certainly held her own 1 against the male competition, which includes the names of some of the best pacers in recent history like Artsplacc, Cambest, Odds Against, Staying Together, Together, Silver Almahurst, and Arrive' at Five. When she did have a chance to race against her fellow distaffers, she usually dominated them. At the conclusion of her four-year- old season in 1992, she had won $417,000, taken the Breeders Crown trophy, and earned Aged Pacing Marc of the Year honors in both Canada and the United States. She started her next season off the right way by going over the million: dollar mark in earnings in January of that season. As a sign of her true grit, she raced during every month of 1993, took on all comers, and earned over half a million dollars. She was again named the absolute best pacing marc, in North America. And she's back this year. But now the iron mare is racing against mostly younger foes, who may have an advantage advantage with youth and fewer races under their harnesses. But few have the incredible grit and determination that have made Shady Daisy one of the best horses to ever look through a bridle. Regardless of how funny looking looking it may be. Worid Challenge Returns to Mospor The Toronto Star Wheels Weekend Weekend at Mosport Park, set for August 19-21, will be one of the track's biggest events this summer. There will be seven races held, each with huge fields of cars taking on Mosport's challenging 2.459 mile road course. The SCCA World Challenge is the feature event of the weekend, and is a one-hour sprint race that will likely see over 50 cars taking the green flag in an all-out manufacturer manufacturer war on pavement in this three class race-within-a race format. Along with the World Challenge, there will be two very exciting Michelin Enduroseries races that will see upwards of 25 to 30 entries, also in three classes, including Grand Sports, Sports, and Touring. The Esso Protec/BF Goodrich Formula 1600 Series has been fielding fielding good numbers all year and the George Scharrenwebcr pitched six innings and kept Whitby down to two runs. Despite singles by Steve DeGraaf, Paul Schofield, Steve Dao, and a double and a triple by Aaron McSwain, the Orioles only scored two runs as well, so the game was tied at the end of the seventh. seventh. Aaron McSwain pitched the final innings. Neither team scored in the eighth, with Steve DeGraaf making the only hit in the ninth. Aaron McSwain singled to centre, George Scharrenwebcr hit a sacrifice bunt, which scored a run for the Orioles. However, Whitby also scored a run and the game was still tied. In the tenth, Judd Woods hit a single, and with two sacrifice bunts by Darren Kok and Steve DeGraaf, he managed to get home. Whitby had last bat and the first player walked. However, a great double play at first and second, and a strikeout strikeout kept them from scoring, and Clarington won the game 4-3. The next series started on Sunday against Ajax. Steve Dao pitched the entire game. However, because of numerous injuries and only two hits, Ajax won the first game 4-0. Mosport race will be no exception, with some 30 to 35 open-wheel machines machines set to go nose-to-tail in their very competitive series. Not to be forgotten is the SCCA Spec Racer and SCCA American Continental Championship Series that will also see some 25 to 30 cars each. And, an ever-spectacular, spine- tingling event, Motorcycle Sidecars are back by popular demand after putting on a great show at last year's Victoria Day Sprints event. This time around, we will see close to a dozen of these daredevil driver and rider teams do their thing. And for the stock car enthusiasts, there will be more action at Mosport International Speedway, when the four weekly divisions, including Street Stock, Late Model Sportsman, Sportsman, Thundercars, and Late Models, go at it right next door to Mosport Park on Saturday, August 20. B S ■ Ebe ton Council's Tie Vote Kills Mosport Concert Deal - Mayor Says, *We ll See You in Court.'-- IV.:'cuIn# CLrr-ÿK* »<lt* ' U'en U CJi/1 O'* 41 j, IT" '" " CViUrting Iryjl *• prettn «in WjKVjrt .'ir'.ilî' J'J Hits and l*ivvvs Yellow's Out. 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