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General Category => General Harness Racing Discussion => Topic started by: Wilderness on May 19, 2012, 05:45:52 AM
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Break over. Back to the grind.
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MYst001 Horse and driver?
Albatross (Harry Harvey)
from Aug 1975 Hoof Beats
1970 Fox Stake Winner Albatross driven by Harry Harvey
http://www.mi-harness.net/hof/0a0.html#Albatross
http://www.mi-harness.net/hof/0h0.html#HHarvey
MYst002 Gent and Location?
Gaston Valiquette at Syracuse Grandstand
from Aug 1975 Hoof Beats
Gaston Valiquette surveys the new 15,000 seat grandstand at the New York State Fairgrounds. (Photo by Steve Woiler)
MYst003 Couple?
June and Tim Rooney
from Aug 1975 Hoof Beats
Several of the Rooneys attended the HTA's annual banquet this year at Boca Raton, Florida. From left,
Tim and his wife June;
MYst004 Horse and driver?
Osbornes Bret (Tom Brinkerhoff) by Bret Hanover
from Mar 1976 Hoof Beats
from 1974 USTA Handbook:
BRINKERHOFF, Thomas H. BIRTHPLACE: Wooster, Ohio
Wooster, Ohio BIRTHDATE: 9-12-37
From a harness racing family, his dad raced horses all of his life, Tom Brinkerhoff attended Wooster (Ohio) High, where he participated in intramural boxing. He had little time for anything other than working with the family stable, and left school after the 10th grade to go into racing on a full-time basis.
Tom drove his first race at the Wooster Fair in 1955, and a year later posted his first win when he raced Meadow Guy at Grandview. Career highlights include winning 10 straight with the trotter Nancy Tucker in 1962. He won 1970 driving titles at Northfield Park and Grandview at Northfield Park.
Married the former Dorothy Coblentz, of Wooster, in 1952. The couple have two children and reside in Wooster, where Tom trains a 15-20 head stable for competition in the Cleveland area, where he is one of the top drivers at Northfield Park and the Ohio fair circuit. In 1973 Tom ranked among top "five" race winners at the Grandview and Painesville meetings at Northfield.
In 1974 Brinkerhoff will train and drive horses owned by Jerry Osborne of Mentor, Ohio including the "Ohio Horse of the Year" Osborne Creed.
MYst005 Horse and driver?
Seatrain (Ben Webster) by MEADOW SKIPPER
WEBSTER, Bernard F. (Ben) BIRTHPLACE: Rochester, N.Y.
Old Bethpage, N.Y. BIRTHDATE: 11-8-39
A third generation horseman, Ben Webster attended Hilton High School, where he lettered in basketball. Raised on a farm, his grandfather and father had horses and he just followed along in their footsteps. Worked two seasons as groom for John Schroeder, Earl Caldwell and John Baker, and second trainer for his father before opening his own public stable at age 19.
Ben married the former Sandra Bennett of Lancaster, New York in 1961, and they have three children. Mark Lawrence and Daryl. He drove his first race at Hemlock, New York Fair at the age of 16. He won his first race in 1958 at Ponce De Leon Raceway.
Fastest race driven was 1:58.3 with Marshmallow in 1971. Ben started his career racing the upper New York raceways but in recent years moved his operation to the Metropolitan New York ovals. His hobbies are bowling and hunting.
In 1973 Ben was very active as a catch-driver, winning Grand Circuit and New York Sires Stakes with such well known horses as Walter Be Good, Iris Barmin, Jaunty Barmin, Bestman Hanover and Jorobes R. J. He was the driving star the prestigious Goshen, N.Y. Grand Circuit week.
Webster and Rapone Honered
http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolutenm/templates/article.aspx?articleid=44537&zoneid=63
from Usta Website
Jug winner Seatrain dead at 33
Monday, May 09, 2005
Seatrain, upset winner of the 1975 Little Brown Jug, died on Saturday, according to a report from Bob Heyden of the Meadowlands. The 33-year-old Meadow Skipper gelding was retired at the Rockin' T Equine Rescue in Maine.
Seatrain defeated such stars as Nero and Whata Baron in becoming the first gelding ever to win the Little Brown Jug. He took his career mark of 1:55 at age 13 at the Meadowlands.