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A-Mmmmmh-azing turnaround Trainer/owner gets ‘hand-me-down’ horses ready to race By Kristine Salzmann horses and trains five, who can all be Mmmmmh was a “special” horse, seen on the track this season: MmmSandra Roberts recalls. Too smart for mmh, Fantasy Money, Camerlengo, B R Mystic Star and Red Star Chuckles, a his own good, one might say. Others simply said he was danger- friend’s horse. All her horses are “rescues” or ous. Roberts, a horse owner and trainer at “hand-me-downs,” she says. “They’re the horses that Fraser Downs Racetrack for various reasons others and Casino, remembers have given up on.” when she first got Mm“For a horse that These horses would othmmmh in October of last erwise end up on the waityear. was considered list for Greener Pastures, a He was known to stop suddenly on the track, dangerous ... he’s Standardbred horse adopand then to kick at anyone proved that he’s got tion society in Langley, in the hope of eventually who tried to get him going being taken into a new capability. ” again. He would also “see home. ghosts” and get scared for “Greener Pastures does no apparent reason. - Sandra Roberts a wonderful job of placing Mmmmmh had alhorses but they’re limited ready gone through a few as to how many they can trainers before he came take at a time,” Roberts to Roberts, who finds it explains. easier to call him “Mark.” She says she’s lucky her husband Roberts began working at Fraser works outside the industry so she can Downs 12 years ago as a groom, taking care of horses’ day-to-day needs. See MMMMMH / Page 6 She now owns four harness racing
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Trainer and owner Sandra Roberts at The Backstretch at Fraser Downs with Mmmmmh, once considered a ‘dangerous’ horse.
Tattooed moms tackle cancer Tight-knit group of Cloverdale women raise funds for breast cancer research
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The next logical step for such a tight group was to ask Carole Cochran’s graphic designer daughter to create a logo. As a show of solidarity, eight of the women marched into Cloverdale’s Pro Pain Ink to have their “pair of bees” tattooed on their right feet (one could not get the tattoo for medical reasons). The woman met when their now adult children attended Cloverdale Elementary. They would help run the school’s hot dog lunches, and that connection has since led to rituals such as their annual Academy Awards party and weekly Monday coffee nights (yes, every week). When four of their sons turned 30, the women hosted a birthday fundraiser to raise money for the guys’ participation in
The Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer. “It’s an amazing sisterhood,” says Dezall of the friendship that includes Woodward, Cochran, Brenda Stowe, Cynthia Gibbs, Dawn Morrison, Holly George, Kerri McGowan, and Lori Townsend. “They have done so much for me - mentally, emotionally - and we have fun.” Eight years ago was the start of another tradition: participating in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s CIBC Run for the Cure in Vancouver. The women don pink aprons, white Tshirts with their logo given to them by a donor, and pink Gerber daisies for the one or five kilometre walk/run event that See PUB / Page 3
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All of the Parabees except one (who couldn’t for medical reasons) tattooed a “pair of bees” on their feet.
By Kristine Salzmann You’d be hard pressed to find a group of women as close-knit as the Parabees. For at least two decades the nine Cloverdale moms have supported each other through good times and bad: weddings, deaths, children’s milestones, and, not least of all, breast cancer. Two of the moms, Pat Dezall and Cathi Woodward, are breast cancer survivors. Dezall discovered she had cancer in 2000 after a routine mammogram, and Woodward was diagnosed four years later. It was supporting each other through cancer treatment that sparked the group name, one private joke among many.
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