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Legends Day Trivia Answers…

Q1: At 61, John Campbell became the oldest driver to win the Jugette when he piloted this horse to victory in 2016:

L A Delight for trainer Bob McIntosh. It was Campbell’s record fifth Jugette victory.

Q2: Steve Condren and this horse (at 45-1) defeated Kentucky Spur in the 1989 North America Cup for Tom Artandi:

Goalie Jeff. He went on to win the 1989 O’Brien Award and Dan Patch Award for Three-Year-Old Pacing Colt of the Year.

Q3: This driver had back-to-back wins in the Little Brown Jug in the '80s with Nihilator and Barberry Spur:

Bill O'Donnell won with Nihilator in 1985; he would become the first Standardbred to earn $3M. O’Donnell won the next year with Barberry Spur.

Q4: He was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2020. His most famous mount was inducted in 2009:

Paul MacDonell. He piloted Somebeachsomewhere in all 21 career starts (and 20 wins).

Q5: Who is the oldest of these three?

Ron Waples is the oldest (born in 1944). O’Donnell was born in 1948, Jamieson in 1950.

1. Ron Waples

2. Bill O'Donnell

3. Carl Jamieson

Q6: John Campbell's middle name:

Duncan - after his grandfather Duncan Campbell who was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall Of Fame in 1983.

Q7: He drove Goodtimes to his 2-year-old maiden win in 1993:

Dave Wall. It was Goodtimes’ third career start in an Ontario Sires Stakes event at Western Fair Raceway where he won by three lengths in 2:04.1. Wall would pilot the Hall Of Famer throughout most of his 244 starts and 50 wins to earnings of $2.2M.

Q8: Chris Christoforou’s first Breeders Crown victory was in 1993 with this horse:

Earl. Christoforou was 21 and became the second youngest driver to win a Breeders Crown. They teamed up for 35 victories and over $984,000 in earnings in 1992 and 1993.   

Q9: Who has more wins – Randy Waples or Ron Waples?

Ron Waples with 6,924 wins. Randy Waples has 6,645. Father knows best.

Q10: Sylvain Filion and his uncle Herve both won the World Driving Championship. What are the correct years in which they accomplished this feat?

1999 and 1970. Herve won the inaugural edition in 1970. Canada didn’t have another winning representative again until Sylvain’s victory in 1999.

Q11: Carl Jamieson is a native of his province:

Nova Scotia. He moved to Ontario in the mid-80s. He had immediate success in the Ontario Sires Stakes program and collected his first O’Brien Award in 2006 in the Horsemanship division.

Q12: Trevor Ritchie won the 1987 Meadowlands Pace with this horse:

Frugal Gourmet for trainer and fellow Hall Of Famer Blair Burgess.

Q13: Who has more driving wins?

Wally Hennessey (11,667). Campbell has 11,058. Hennessey has the most wins of all of today’s feature drivers and special guests.

Q14: For 25 consecutive years from 1980 through 2004, Doug Brown accomplished this:

$1M or more in purse earnings each year. (He missed the ‘100 wins or more each year’ marker by one solitary win, recording 99 in 2002. Otherwise, he won between 126 to 314 races every year from 1977 through 2004.)

Q15: BONUS: This monument in Clinton, just a short walk from the racetrack, represents the small town’s contribution to the war effort, starting in 1941. The monument is a:

Radar antenna. In a top-secret mission, government officials chose Clinton as the location for the first radar training school in North America. By war’s end, 2,323 Americans and 6,500 Canadians graduated from Clinton’s Royal Canadian Air Force Radar and Communication School.

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