The Canadian Sportsman
March 05, 2010
“Isn’t it amazing. You’ll spend $60,000, $70,000 on a horse and you’ll worry about your cell phone bill.”
— Diane “Joey” Ingham about her partner Harrry Rutherford’s reluctance to use his cell phone in the United States to find out whether he had the winning bid on Glide By, purchased for $62,000 (he did) at the Meadowlands Mixed Sale (Dave Landry photo).
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January 27, 2010
“Roger Huston said to me this year, ‘Bob, you just give these horses so many chances to keep going.’ I said, ‘I give them three chances.’ He said, ‘You mean three races?’ I said, ‘No, three trainers.’”
— Longtime owner/breeder Bob Key on his reputation for switching trainers
December 04, 2009
How can you tell driver Jody Jamieson and trainer Jeff Gillis have been friends and business partners for a long time? They both can needle each other publicly about their shortcomings.
“Jeff Gillis doesn’t wake up in the morning without analytically thinking about how he’s going to get up.”
— Jody Jamieson in April
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A few months later, when asked in a Post Parade Q & A to "tell me three things about your friend and business partner Jody Jamieson and one of them isn’t true," Gillis replied:
“His first name is Jody, his last name is Jamieson and he is a good hockey player.”
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