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Pag* 34 Oft--tlTim Prmm Madta Group, Inc. 1964 Fair Quid* Contests &. competitors v More to horse racing than simply placing a bet By Sam Natrop r/Frat Prtn MwSa Horse racing requires more then Just tawing the ponies, Nancy Leonard, Clerk of the Course for the fair's harness racing is responsible for handling the surprising amount of paperwork with the sport. to The conception most people have of a horse race is the following: • Park your car. • Check the racing form. • Place your bet. • Pray for your horse to win, and sometimes. . . • Collect your winnings. But there's much more behind-the- scenes action at a horse race and the McHenry County Fair's harness rac­ ing feature is no different. Nancy Leonard, whose title is Clerk of the Course, is one of those people who goes unnoticed by most people not directly involved in the race. Her job, simple as it may sound, is to write. But it's what die writes, where she writes it and how accurate she is in her writing that makes Nancy Leonard's specialty just that -- a specialty. So much a specialty that she has to be licensed to do it. - Leonard's job as the Clerk of the Course for harness racing at the McHenry County Fair is multi-fold. She must fill out entry forms for each horse in each race, and also to record information from each race onto a form called a Judge's Sheet. The data from the Judge's Sheet is then transferred to the Eligibility Sheet, which the horse's owner must present to each clerk at each race. The Eligibility Sheet -- an ex­ tremely important document -- is analogous to a bank statement where all the transactions (races) are recorded. The Judge's Sheet, then, would be the deposit or withdrawal slip -- a separate record of each in­ dividual transaction. "It's a lot of work. There's a lot of time involved," Leonard said. "There's also a lot of pressure involv- continued to p«q« 35 I I SI EXPERIENCE (*1 Y«or» of Exp*ri«iic*) 0 SERVICE (Factory Trained Mechanics) 0 PRODUCT in tho Industry) 0PMCES "THE HOUSE THAT SERVICE BUILT" GEORGE P. FREUND, 4102 W. CRYSTAL LAKE ROAD McHENRY (t1S)M5-MM f . '