“She was the best and somebody asked me about it after the race at the Meadowlands and all I could think to say was, ‘If he was the pilot of a 747 jet we’d all be dead.’”

In 1975, Charles Juravinski built a racetrack in a farmer’s field. Flamboro Downs soon grew to be a multi-million dollar enterprise, and today his love of horse racing thunders on. Meet the renowned philanthropist himself on his Dundas, Ontario estate by clicking on the following link to his June Trot feature: Charlie.