2-YEAR-OLD PAYMENTS DUE MAY 15 - Lambeth Media

BREEDERS CROWN No. 24
To race Saturday, October 9, at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs
Elimination heats, if necessary, will be raced Friday, October 1
-$600 -
Entrance Fee: $5,000
FOX STAKE NO. 84
-$450-
Open. To be raced Friday, August 20, at the Indiana State Fair,
Indianapolis, IN
One heat only.
Entrance Fee: $1,200
THE RALPH WILFONG NO. 73
Formerly the Horseman Stake
-$400-
Open. To be raced Friday, August 20, at the Indiana State Fair,
Indianapolis, IN
One heat only.
Entrance Fee: $600
HOOSIER STAKE NO. 74
2-Year-Old Pacing & Trotting Colts & Fillies
-$100-
To be raced Friday, August 20, at the Indiana State Fair,
Indianapolis, IN
Entrance Fee: $200
KENTUCKIANA STALLION MANAGEMENT PACE
2-Year-Old Filly Pace
$200,000 Est. in 2010
-$400-
To race Saturday, September 25, at Indiana Downs
NOTICE: USTA Rule 11, Section 3 provides, “Failure to make any payment
required by the conditions constitutes an automatic withdrawal
from the event.” The Hambletonian Society will construe payment of
nominating and sustaining fees to require that cash or check duly honored
upon presentation to be received at the time specified in USTA Rule
12, Section 4. If a check is not duly honored upon presentation, the horse
becomes ineligible to race, or if it races, to participate in the purse.
2-YEAR-OLD PAYMENTS
DUE MAY 15
PREVIOUS PAYMENTS MUST
HAVE BEEN MADE TO BE ELIGIBLE.
KENTUCKIANA STALLION MANAGEMENT TROT
2-Year-Old Filly Trot
$200,000 Est. in 2010
-$400-
To race Tuesday, August 24, at Indiana Downs
MATRON SERIES 2010
Early Closing Event for 2-year-olds
$915,501 Total 3-Year-Old Purses In 2009
- $500-
To be raced at Dover Downs
2-year-old Colt & Gelding Trot on Saturday, November 13
2-year-old Filly Trot on Saturday, November 13
2-year-old Colt & Gelding Pace on Saturday, November 13
2-year-old Filly Pace on Saturday, November 13
Eliminations, if necessary, for the above races will be conducted
the previous week
Entrance Fee: $1,000
TESTING WAIVER AND CONSENT: As a condition of
participation in the 2010 Breeders Crown, which are private
events owned by the Hambletonian Society, Inc., the owners
of all horses declared to start will grant to the
Hambletonian Society the absolute right and authority to:
1.Conduct one or more physical examinations of their declared
horse at any time prior to the Breeders Crown, regardless of where
it is stabled;
2. Draw blood and collect other specimens one or more times
from the horse for immediate testing;
3. Freeze or otherwise preserve split-samples of the specimens
for future testing and send such samples to a laboratory designated
by the Society and;
4. Require, at the sole discretion of the Hambletonian Society,
the horse to stable on the grounds of the track where the Breeders
Crown is being contested or other designated premises for a reasonable
period of time prior to the Breeders Crown which will be
specified by the Society.
After declaration and until the day of the Breeders Crown, the
detection of evidence of blood doping agents including, but not
limited to, the following: human recombinant erthropoietin, darbepoetin,
Aranesp®, Oxyglobin®, or Hemopure®, in the horse
shall be considered a violation of the conditions of the race and
will result in scratching or disqualification of the horse from the
Breeders Crown and forfeiture of the Starting Fee.
For more information including the complete conditions consult
the USTA Stakes Guide, or contact the Hambletonian Society.
Complete conditions for these races are available in the
USTA Stakes Supplement Guide or call the Hambletonian Society.
Payment forms for early-closing events available from The Hambletonian Society
and in PDF format at www.hambletoniansociety.org.
Make checks payable and send all entries to:
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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO BREEDERS
The Breeders Crown No. 25 Yearling Payment of $100.00
for foals of 2009 is due on May 15, 2010.
This payment makes yearlings by the following stallions eligible to race in the Breeders Crown as
2-year-olds in 2011 and 3-year-olds in 2012, subject to the conditions and payments in those years.
A J'S TYCOON
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ALLSTAR HALL
AMERICAN IDEAL
AMERICAN MIKE
AMERICAN WINNER
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ANDOVER HALL
ANGUS HALL
ARMBRO DEUCE
ART MAJOR
ARTISCAPE
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AS PROMISED
ASHLEE’S BIG GUY
B J'S MAC
B J'S SUPER STAR
BADLANDS HANOVER
BETTOR'S DELIGHT
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C J'S SECRET
C R COMMANDO
C R EXCALIBUR
C R RENEGADE
CAMBEST
CAMCRACKER
CAMLUCK
CAMOTION
CAM'S CARD SHARK
CANTAB HALL
CASH HALL
CHARLEY BARLEY
CHIP CHIP HOORAY
CHIVA'S MERIT
CHOCOLATIER
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CREDIT WINNER
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Stallion Nominations For Breeders Crown No. 25
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SAGEBRUSH
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WESTERN CYCLONE
WESTERN IDEAL
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WINDSONG'S LEGACY
YANKEE CRUISER
YANKEE GLIDE
YANKEE SKYSCAPER
The above list is subject to omissions and corrections.
Foals of 2009 by the above stallions will be eligible to the open division (for 3-year-olds and older) of the Breeders Crown in
2012 and to the Breeders Crown open division in subsequent years upon payment of the advertised fees for the specific
year’s open event. Owners of eligible 3-year-olds will have the option of entering either or both the 3-year-old and the open
event by making the 3-year-old payment due February 15, 2012. Conditions for Breeders Crown No. 25 are available from
The Hambletonian Society website: www.hambletonian.org or in the 2010 U.S.T.A. Stakes/Futurities Nomination Booklet.
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alking Their
Own Path
Steve and Marilyn Gillard have discovered a way to
make it in the horse racing game with a nice niche for
themselves and a passion for their horses. By Harold Howe
When Steve Gillard’s father first visited
Canada during World War II for flight
training he vowed to some day return
because of the lack of class system and the
feeling that anything was possible. Some
60 years later his son has proven his father
to be correct.
Steve is in the horse business. He’s not
a big name player yet has managed to
carve out a niche for himself doing it his
way. Call Me Yours is a five-year-old homebred
pacing mare that he sent to New
York for the winter. While she may not
have run the table, she still managed to
bank $75,000 through April giving her just
over $300,000 lifetime. Any trainer will
take a barn full of that type.
Century Hill Farm is an idyllic piece of
land located just west of the tiny hamlet
of Hickson and minutes north of Woodstock,
Ontario. Twenty-four years ago
Gillard and his wife Marilyn bought the 80
acre former dairy farm and over the last
two decades have put their own stamp on
the place. It’s never been overrun with
horses and it shows which is part of the
master plan.
It is a remarkable accomplishment for
an English sailor turned fireman turned
horseman.
“My father finally made it back to
Canada in 1956 when I was four and half
years old. It came after marriage and
three kids but he got here which is what
he always wanted,” recalls the now 58
year-old Gillard.
“We had family in Kitchener so this is
how we came to this part of Canada. My
father always held down a couple jobs. He
was a musician and part of a band that
might play 250 nights a year to raise the
family. He was a busy guy.”
Son Steve was anything but busy
when it came to school.
“I was a horrible student on purpose.
My biggest effort would be to be first into
class so I could get a seat by the window.
When I turned 17 my father signed his
approval to have me join the Canadian
navy. That was the best thing that happened
to me.”
After six years in the armed forces he
felt he’d achieved all he could but with no
regrets.
“The navy taught me discipline and it
allowed me to get away from home and
find myself. I was in accounting which
meant arranging food and parts for four
ships (1,400 people) because when you’re
at sea you have to have everything you
would need,” he explains.
“But once you are at sea what do you
do then? They decided I should be a fire
fighter on the flight deck so I more or less

WALKING THEIR OWN PATH
fell into that career path. After six years I
just could not see myself in a sailor suit
until I was 35.”
The Kitchener-Waterloo Record
newspaper had a policy of mailing its
Wednesday and Saturday editions to the
local boys who were part of the Canadian
militia. That was where 23 year-old Steve
saw that a new fire hall was opening and
27 men were needed.
“I had some background to me then
and thought that I had a good chance to
get hired and did. I was there 23 years and
do not have a bad word to say about my
experiences. I reached the position of station
captain and really had a charmed
working life.”
In 1999, at the age of 47, he chucked
it all in for the horses.
“The pension fund for the firemen
had grown too large and the government
served notice that if it was not utilized it
would be taxed. So the fund administrators
lowered the retirement factor to 75
(age plus years of service) and I took it,” he
explains.
“Lots of people worried about what I
was doing far more than I did. I think some
worried about me making the mortgage
payments on this farm more than I did.
May 2010 • The Harness Edge
The star of the Gillard stable recently has been the five-year-old mare Call Me
Yours, a daughter of their stallion Your Nemesis. She has $301,251 earned lifetime
and just returned from a successful stint in New York earlier this year.
They could not understand me choosing
the horses over the department but that
was where I wanted to be.”
The lure of horses is an all too familiar
story in the racing game but Steve was
unique in that he did not grow up in that
culture. The man to blame for it all was
Roger Hogan of Cornwall, Prince Edward
Island, who was a shipmate in his navy
days.
“When I was 12 I was first exposed to
horses but it was western type horses. I got
a chance to be at a farm doing all the
grunt work of cleaning stalls but liked the
social part of it. This was right up until I
joined the navy.
“Roger loved horse racing as many
Prince Edward Islanders do. Every chance
he got he was off to the track with me tagging
along. My first time at the track was
at Sackville Downs when we were stationed
in Halifax.
“I remember a light went on that
night because they were actually compet-
ing for money rather than ribbons. The
purses were only $200 to $300 but I got
thinking that maybe one could get
involved and have the horses pay the way.
That set me to dreaming and scheming.”
Over those years in the navy wherever
they were, Roger and Steve would
seek out a local racetrack and that
included Blue Bonnets Raceway, Truro
Raceway and of course Charlottetown
Driving Park for the Gold Cup & Saucer
week.
“In the Maritimes everyone seemed
so passionate about racing and it was easy
to get caught up in it. But even then my
interest was more in the breeding. I
wanted to know why some horses were
better than others.”
It was around this time (1974) that he
met his wife Marilyn.
“Amazingly, she was from Kitchener
vacationing in Halifax, her tough luck,” he
quips.
When Steve left the service he and
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For Foals of 2008 2009
Little Brown Jug ® & Jugette ® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$50 Nomination
Old Oaken Bucket & Buckette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25 Nomination
Arnold C. Green Memorial Standardbred Series (4) . . .$25 Nomination
Two-Year-Old Events To To Be Raced Grand Circuit Week 2010 2011
Arnold Standardbred C. Green Colt Pace Memorial (Sponsored Standardbred by Arnold C. Green Colt Memorial) Pace . . . .$80,000 . $80,000 Est.
Arnold Standardbred C. Green Colt Trot Memorial (Sponsored Standardbred by Arnold C. Green Colt Memorial) Trot . . . . .$70,000 . $70,000 Est.
Arnold Standardbred C. Green Filly Pace Memorial (Sponsored Standardbred by Arnold C. Green Filly Memorial) Pace . . . .$60,000 . $60,000 Est.
Arnold Standardbred C. Green Filly Trot Memorial (Sponsored Standardbred by Arnold C. Green Filly Memorial) Trot . . . . .$60,000 . $60,000 Est.
Three-Year-Old Events To Be Raced Grand Circuit Week 2011 2012
The Little Brown Jug ® 3-Year-Old Colt Pace . . . . . . .$700,000 Est.
The Jugette ® 3-Year-Old Filly Pace . . . . . . . . . . . . .$400,000 Est.
The Old Oaken Bucket 3-Year-Old Colt Trot . . . . . .$125,000 Est.
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Marilyn and Steve Gillard with Your Nemesis.
Marilyn relocated to Kitchener where they
bought a house, a move he came to soon
regret.
“After 10 months I was mad at myself
for not thinking it through better. I knew
I wanted to raise my own horses but didn’t
have the smarts to get started with a farm.
Finally, it sunk in and somehow we managed
to convince a banker to fess up with
the money to buy a 22 acre property near
Bright. Then we got him to give us the
money to build a new barn which was
amazing because in 1976 I was making the
grand total of $9,000 a year as a fireman.
I guess the bank must have thought we
were okay because they kept giving it to
us.”
Through word of mouth Steve and
Marilyn, who is every bit as keen on the
horses as her husband, began to board
horses for Ontario horsemen Cliff Sheppard
and Lyle MacArthur.
“That aside I am one of those guys
who has to fail at something before I get
the message and the horse business was
the same. Everyone told me that I did not
want to be standing a Tar Heel stallion but
I knew better. That’s how I came to get
Bergstein Hanover who I came to love but
he was not stallion material. However, it
was part of the learning curve and that led
to getting involved with Greystone Al.”
This was a son of Dallas Almahurst
bred and raised by Jim and Jean Caddey of
nearby Embro, Ontario. Twenty-six years
ago he was a big player on the Ontario
Sires Stakes scene for trainer Wayne
Langille and when he could no longer race
Gillard got the chance to stand the horse.
“That was a good experience for me
because he had a bit of popularity for
awhile. I think one year he served 59
mares. He had a couple stakes winners out
of his first crop and we bred Midnight
Motion from him and she was an OSS winner.
There is nothing quite as satisfying as
seeing a horse that you bred and raised go
on to win a stakes event.”
By now the Gillards had sold their
Bright farm and moved to their present
location. They had investigated the property
one year earlier but the asking price
turned them away, for a while.
“We loved the setting being on a hill
looking down into the valley but more
importantly it’s great for the horses. I’m

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WALKING THEIR OWN PATH
very convinced that it plays a role in their
physical development.”
Gillard’s next venture involved the
Willow Wiper stallion Gypsys Hellion
p,4,1:55.1f ($358,690). He stood the horse
for five years at the farm.
“I didn’t know a lot about the horse
other than he had left a nice sort of horse
in Gypper Lee (p,2,1:56f $320,250) from a
shedrow breeding at Greenwood Raceway.
So I called the owners and managed
to lease him for five years. And I did all
right from that deal too. I got two breedings
a year.”
There were several notables from
that arrangement for Gillard. Rhiannon O
Rhye p,3,1:57h ($257,545) won approxi-
mately $145,000 before being sold to New
Jersey interests. Ten Red p,3,1:53.4
($68,826) and Pure Hellion p,1:57.1
($52,903) were two more that he developed
for sale and then there was Your
Nemesis.
“Hellion never bred a large number
of mares and he obviously was not a commercial
horse but he suited my purposes. I
had Ten Red and Pure Hellion from that
first crop and knew I could not sell them at
auction unless I wanted to give them
away so I decided to train them myself,”
says Steve.
“I rented a couple stalls at Woodstock
Raceway even though there was plenty I
did not know but I was comfortable with
that. Years before I’d trained horses on the
road so I felt I could handle it, I didn’t have
any problems because I’m very patient.
“It took eight months to get them
ready and if it was time to go in 2:15 I
would go in 2:20 never pushing them to
where they felt stressed. I’m convinced so
much of racing and raising horses is psy-
chological.”
Then in the spring of 2000 his big
break came with Your Nemesis. He was
another by Gypsys Hellion and almost
immediately Gillard knew he really had
something.
“He was the perfect horse. From day
one he had it all and there was never any
bump in the night through the entire time
we owned him and that is pretty amazing.
He will always be special to us.
“We qualified him once and that got
the interest of Norm Clements (of Cam
Fella fame) who wanted to see him qualify
once more. So we did but by then there
were other people keen so we bumped
the price and Clements and company
“It would be good business to sell her but we’ve
already turned down a number of offers. I think she is
a keeper because it’s not about the money for us. We
both have a real passion for the horses.” Steve Gillard
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bought him.
“We hated to sell but with two kids in
university and both of us taking early
retirement it would have been foolhardy
not to sell. Still it was very difficult to see
him loading into someone else’s trailer on
Monday morning for a Friday night race.”
But fate played a role in reuniting the
Gillards and Your Nemesis.
By the fall of 2003 the racing days
were over for Your Nemeis who had
earned $427,000. Steve saw that the horse
had not raced since May so put a call
through to the owner.
“I had two racehorses to sell and
asked if he was interested. He checked
them out and said he was. We reached a
deal and then I said he had to send Your
Nemesis back to me as part of it. He
agreed and that’s how we got him.
“When he arrived I took him to Dr.
Dan MacMaster at Mohawk Racetrack to
go over him to see how he was. He came
back and said the horse was absolutely
perfect except for the one bad ankle
which eventually will be a real problem for
him, but now he's living the life of Reilly.
He’s very kind and likes people. Throughout
his life he’s made a number of people
look pretty smart.
“You might say he was destined to
come back to us but getting him was not
entirely for sentimental reasons. Because
he was so perfect as a racehorse we
believed and still believe that he is a sire
worthy of covering mares. The pedigree
may not spell that out but based on what
has happened so far he’s looking okay.”
Your Nemeis has done remarkably
well. He has left just six foals all of which
have raced and all but one have raced for
Gillard. These include Its About Motion
p,4,1:52.3s ($137,374), Ocean Of Motion
p,3,1:56h ($58,798) and of course Call Me
Yours p, 4, 1:51.4s ($301,251).
“He is not a commercial sire but his
numbers are pretty good. I believe so
much of it is the way we raise and develop
these horses because these are not the
most fashionable bloodlines we are working
with and that doesn’t interest me. I’m
not rushing to the mailbox to see if a yearling
catalogue has arrived.
“I may go to a sale out of curiosity but
it really doesn’t hold a lot of interest for
me. When I go I see some yearlings that
look like three-year-olds and I don’t like
their body language. It’s not for me,” he
explains.
“There are some key points we work
with here. We want May foals born outside
on good grass and we have quality
grass here. The mares are all good milkers
so there is no excuse there. As I said before
running up and down these hills is great
for bone development; I like seeing them
burning up the pastures. We try to keep
them as close to nature as we can with a
little help.
“We wean later than most people do
but then put them back into the herd environment
after the mothers have established
they are not feeding them any
longer. We supplement with minerals and
kelp. I’m a great believer in kelp and we
don’t overfeed. I like to see a little rib
rather than fat yearlings and to the best of
my knowledge we have never had a horse
with an OCD on the farm.
“They are out all day and in at night
during the winter. We develop a working

elationship with these horses. I start driving
the yearlings the first week of October
and there never is any great wrestling
match to get them going which is the way
it should be.”
As this magazine was being completed
Call Me Yours was on her way back
home from Mark Ford’s training center
near Middletown, New York. She’d
achieved what her owner had hoped for
and maybe a little more.
As a two-year-old she showed much
promise in four starts before breaking a
coffin bone. Gillard nursed her back to
health for a sophomore campaign but she
found it tough going.
“She was one of those inbetweeners.
She was better than a Grassrooter in
Ontario but everything had to go her way
to do well in the Gold.”
Strangely, she was one that did not
get sold. Instead Gillard kept her and
raced her with a cautious approach at four
in 2009.
“I was very careful with her because I
was looking long term which is odd for
me. I was concerned she’d get beaten up
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in the transition year so I just raced her 21
times with an eye to this year. I felt she had
the potential to be an open class mare in
time.”
Gillard was convinced her strength
was on the half-mile track which led to the
decision to send her to Yonkers Raceway
and Mark Ford’s barn.
“I know some would question my
decision to send her there versus keeping
her at Woodbine but that big track does
not step her up like it does some horses.
She’s best on the half-miler.”
In her 12 appearances in New York
she missed only two cheques.
“The plan always was to pull the pin
after the Matchmaker Series and get her
home on the best grass of the year. So
she’ll be out May, June and part of July to
recover before I start preparing her for the
Forest City Pace at Western Fair Raceway
this fall. Then she might go back to Mark
Ford for the winter meet at Yonkers again.
“It would be good business to sell her
but we’ve already turned down a number
of offers. I think she is a keeper because it’s
not about the money for us. We both have
a real passion for the horses.”
It’s clear in spending time with Steve
Gillard that he steps to his own drummer
and is not greatly concerned about what
others may think.
“We don’t dream commercial. Neither
of us come from money but we’ve
become self-sufficient. We breed two
mares a year and train whatever comes
from those matings. As someone once told
me people need to be tougher than the
horses to survive the business,” says Steve.
“Everything has been done on our
own including the building of the track
here. Carl Jamieson told me how to do it
and then I bought an older grader and it’s
worked out great. Our young horses are
pointed to the baby races at Mohawk in
June and if the right money comes along
horses get sold. But for the most part
we’re a bit on an island on our own.
“The work is endless and I give Marilyn
credit for working harder than me but
that’s the way it is in the horse business. At
no time do I miss the fire hall even though
I never had a bad day there. This still beats
it.”
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