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Bath # time The reward for racing on a muddy track in the rain is a hot bath afterwards. This horse is held with chains from the ceiling and has been hosed down. At first, clouds of steam rose from his back. To get all the mud off; the trainer has to apply a little elbow grease. Staff photo ee og bef i "yr" Jones and Taylor Horse racinga great tradition with two local residents Fifty years ago Midland's Reeve, Herb Taylor harness raced his standardbred horses on a Pen acuk in Penetanguishene. The track was crude by today's standards, the purses were not as high, and paying $240,000 for a horse was unheard of Today Herb's son, Ken Taylor, has decided to keep up the family tradition. Five years ago, at the age of 60, Ken Taylor got back into standardbred racing himself Ken says "as a kid I used to drive my father's horses and clean out the stables. He adds, "racing seems to stick in your blood." Bill Jones, another Midland area man, would agree with Ken--once you have racing in you, it is hard to get rid of it Bill got interested in horses back in the days when horse drawn carts delivered the milk. Bill says it was always in teresting to see 'which of the dairies had the nicest and the fastest horse." Bill has a standardbred horse that is 22 years old Lady Isobel J started as a 2-year-old and raced for 12 years before she had to be taken off the track because of insurance regulations. Bill says in Civitans win close one Midland's Junior Civitans Major Bantams gained a narrow victory over Orillia in their Georgian Bay Minor Hockey League exhibition game in Orillia Sunday, as they scored a goal in the last 19 seconds of play to win 4-3 Pat Brodeur scored three goals for the Junior Civitans including the winner in a game that Saw 18 minor penalties handed out. Orillia was assessed 13 of those penalties and yet managed to stay with Midland until the end of the game Midland's first goal was scored by Pat Brodeur from Guy Forget followed by John Wright's tying goal from Cousin Dave Wright and Pat Belanger In the third period Pat 3rodeur combined with Todd Clarke to make the score 3-2 before Orillia came back to tie Brodeur scored the winner from Clarke at 19:41 of the third period Clarke was awarded a penalty shot late in the first period when an Orillia player fell on the puck in the crease and prevented Clarke from tipping it in for a goal Clarke missed and hit the post after beating the Orillia goal tender Coach Bob Colbourne was pleased with the last minute win but com- mented on the chippy play that characterized the game "It was the first game of the season," he said, "the play was very sloppy, but then it's always like that at the first of the season." Goal tender Brian Moore' turned back several shots by the Orillia offense and gave few rebounds to earn praise from coach Colbourne all those years '"'we were only out of the money with her four times."' Bill has 2 brood mares and a colt right now. The colt is Lady Isobel J's son He had his debut on the track this summer Ken had three horses until a little while ago. Since he likes to go south for the winter, he has sold one and has another one up for sale. The third one died of a viral infection What exactly is a standardbred horse? According to Ken Taylor a standardbred can be either a pacer or trotter Most people are not aware that there is a distinction between the two Back in the days when Herb Taylor was racing, a trotter was almost unheard of. It is only within the last ten years, that racing trotters have come into the foreground Trotters Trotters run on a "diagonal pattern'"' According to Taylor this means that their front left leg and their back right leg come forward at the same time. On the other hand, pacers legs move in a lateral pattern with their front left leg and their back left leg coming forward at the same time According to Taylor it is natural for a horse to trot. However, it is dif- ficult to keep a trotter from breaking out of its trot. A pacer by com- parison can be made to pace with leather straps called "hobbles". The hobbles will not allow the horse to run any other way than in a lateral pattern. If the horse tries to break out of the lateral pattern, he'll fall Pacers and trotters race in separate races since pacers are faster by about one second. Pacers are also easier to drive since they will automatically pace Trotters are difficult to drive since the driver must keep the horse trotting. 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He says he is too old--a lot older than his friend Bill Jones. Taylor has a driver for his horses. The driver gets $10 a race and 10 percent of the purse if the horse should place Taylor says "I'd rather let someone younger Prefinished hogany panel in utility grade NF2. drive."' Although Bill Jones thinks that driving is pretty safe business, some other drivers may not agree. Bill Rowe, used to drive trotters. However, a bad crash left him partially paralyzed on the left side and ended his career. However, he still talks fondly of his racing days. Getting a license to drive is necessary before a driver is ever allowed on the track. Bill Jones says drivers must ap- prentice for six to eight months. They also must have one of the older, more experienced drivers sign for them to say "'that they have worked with horses and are capable of driving." Jones says you could easily have a license within a year. But having a licensed driver and a trained horse does not give an owner an automatic pass onto the track. Before a _ horse ma- ever gets near a track to actually race, it must qualify. Ken Taylor says this means the horse must go as fast or faster than a qualifying time that track officials lay down. Once the horse has qualified, according to Taylor, does not mean that he'll never have to qualify again. If the horse breaks stride during his first race he has to go back and qualify again. Then, even if he races perfectly for dozens of races, it just takes two races in a row in which the horse breaks stride, to send him back to step one--to qualify once again. Types of races Once the horse is at the track ready to race, the owner has to decide what type of races to run it in. Ken Taylor ran his horse Agile Annie in a "claiming race'? on Wednesday night. Most of the races at the track are "claiming races." quality patterns. 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Taylor says that last year, over 3-million in purse money was given away in stakes races. A stake race is the only race that there is an entry fee for and horses can be entered anywhere from six weeks to a year in advance. The most recent stake race at the Barrie Raceway was on Saturday Oct. 16 and it was for 3-year-old fillies only. In all races the horses' names are thrown into a hat. Eight horses' names are drawn and get post positions in the order they are drawn. Bill Jones says the Barrie Raceway is not the only place for Midland people to race, but it has BILE RIT CANH & CARRY oci vA A# 1 panel with 'V' CARNIVAL ELM JUBILEE OAK PECAN Q X) AX g 4 Coy CY 12 x 12" White Ceiling Tile groove. Woodgrain overlay pattern in different colours. 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