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Post Parade Redux
Back To Post Parade ReduxSeptember 30, 2009
The best from our Post Parade Q & A feature
Past Posts
Favourite answers from past Post Parades
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Ron Pierce (above, Aug. 5, 2004):
What’s your fondest memory of racing in Macau?
“My most exciting experience was being in a typhoon. I’ve never seen it rain so hard in my life. You could see them coming from miles away from across the South China Sea. It looked like a waterfall coming at you. It was just unbelievable. It would stop as fast as it started and then get steamy and hot.”
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Chris Roberts (above, Jan. 22, 2009):
When was the last time you cried?
“As a dedicated Leafs fan, I cry a little every day.”
What are your favourite rejected names for Georgian Downs’ new $500,000
stakes race - the Upper Canada Cup?
“The Muskoka Mile. The Clash of the Great Lakes. The Sunrise Stakes. And, if you can believe it, Curtis MacDonald suggested ‘The Meadowlands Pace’ three times.”
What’s the worst job you ever had?
“Corn detasseling. It’s a sick right-of-passage ritual that kids from Dresden have to go through. Minimum wage... start at dawn... walk through sopping wet corn fields for 14 hours. Need I say more?”
Be honest. On a scale of 1 to 10, how jealous are you of Chuck Keeling’s hair?
“Between you and my female office staff, I’m getting a complex. Yes, yes, Chuck’s so dreamy. 10.”
Chuck Keeling (above, March 26, 2009):
Chris Roberts admitted he was jealous of your hair. Is there anything that makes you jealous of Chris?
“His perfectly aligned goatee, his sense of flair with fashion, his witty humour, his sexy car, the admiration women have for him. I guess, everything Chris represents.”
Tell me three things about yourself and one of them can’t be true.
“I love to wakeboard, listen to heavy metal and drink light beer.”
Besides you, of course, who is the world’s best “Chuck”?
“Chucky, the doll from the horror movie series. Gotta love a doll that wields a knife.”
The Commish
Everyone gets the “If you were the Commissioner of all of harness racing...” question. Here’s the best responses.
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Peter Heffering (above, March 31, 2005):
“Implement a North American license for owners. Secondly, amalgamate the USTA and Standardbred Canada. The industry is too small to have two bodies doing basically the same thing.”
Bill O’Donnell (April 15, 2004):
“Stop suspending trainers, drivers and owners and replace the suspensions with fines and I’d make them hurt. Then, I’d progress them. Money is what really sends a message, not days.”
Mark Ford (May 13, 2004):
“Clean up some of the bad eggs in the industry on both ends — on the backstretch and among the regulators.”
Handicapping Challenge
Post Parade subjects set the odds when asked the “chances the following will occur in the next 10 years”
One or more small Ontario tracks will close
Hugh Mitchell (Nov. 27, 2008) — ”50-1.”
Kelly Spencer (Jan. 5, 2009) — “10-1”
Chris Roberts (Jan. 22, 2009) — “1-9”
Anthony Haughan (March 5, 2009) — “2-1. I hope I’m wrong.”
Chuck Keeling (March 26, 2009) — “1-1”
Darryl MacArthur (April 16, 2009) — “1-1”
Lou Liebenau (May 14, 2009) — “20-1”
Hec Clouthier (Feb. 12, 2009) — “3-1”
Jack Darling (June 18, 2009) — “2-1”
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