With more than 50 years of training experience under his belt, 72-year-old Ed Peconi recently found himself on the sidelines watching.

When Shotgun Preacher was just a weanling, a kick from a mate left him with a severely damaged shoulder. It looked like he would need to be euthanized.

Il a gagné 200 courses et peut-être plus en 21 années consécutives (1979-1999), des bourses d’une valeur de plus de 1 M $ en 25 saisons de suite (1980-2004).

For most of the 80’s and 90’s, and through the turn of the century, Doug Brown sat at, or near the top of the heap, of all Canadian drivers.

We used to go to Roosevelt every weekend and there would be 30,000 people in the crowd. There was nothing like it.”

“In the wintertime, at Greenwood, they’d race on Saturday afternoons, and the place was always packed. It was amazing. On Boxing Day they’d often get more than 10,000 people - now those were the days!”