What can you do with a hundred dollar bill? Buy an inflatable car bed? A few bottles of champagne? Tickets to see The Guess Who? An entire box full of used CDs at a garage sale? (Maybe two boxes.) A couple of steaks? The way things are going, a few pieces of lettuce? Or you can pocket the dough and name a trotter “Ahundreddollarbill” and hope for the best. And if you … [Read more...] about The Trotting Classic Comes Down to a $100 Bill
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Desperate Man Bursts out of the Shadows
Arthur, Ont., is a town of 2,450 people. Humble and charming. You can buy a truck there, visit the goat dairy, get uplifted at the York Soaring Association, treat yourself to organic food. Gasoline prices are the best there. There used to be a restaurant in Arthur called Post Time, with photos of all sorts of racehorses on the walls. Sadly, it’s gone now, but not the spirit … [Read more...] about Desperate Man Bursts out of the Shadows
The Exodus
Trainer/driver Anthony MacDonald says he grossly underestimated the costs of fleeing a pandemic at home to ply his livelihood in the United States a few weeks ago. The costs cut deeply. It was all so complicated, too. Yet the cost of staying in Ontario during lockdown was higher. “I know everybody keeps saying: ‘Just ride it out. Stay in your house,’” he said … [Read more...] about The Exodus