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The Wellington Advertiser, Friday, February 26, 2016 PAGE TWENTY THREE

FEBRUARY 2016

CLASSY LANE Rebuilding barn and morale

WINTER TRAGEDY Mount Forest horse owners heartbroken

JACKS-SMITHERS One step closer to Olympics

BEDDING IN THE HORSE STABLE Comparing your options

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Choosing a bedding product will depend on a combination of factors including preference, cost, availability and type of horse housed.

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Ammonia and moulds are irritants and are a large concern of stable management.

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This can be recognized by the increase smell in a barn.

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Winter tragedy leaves horse owners heartbroken

BY OLIVIA RUTT

MOUNT FOREST “Attention Mount Forest firefighters, attention Arthur firefighters, please respond for a fully-involved barn fire,” called a dispatcher on the night of Jan. 14.

As Wellington North firefighters, along with three other fire stations, were being called to Woolhaven Arabians just west of Mount Forest, Doris and Rob Woolner were desperately trying to save 13 horses from their barn.

The Woolners’ barn sat just metres from the house they had recently moved into.

Doris heard a bang like a horse kicking, she recalled a month after the tragedy sitting at a large picture window in her kitchen that overlooks the now empty field.

“It did it again, so (Rob) stood up and opened that sliding door and looked over and saw smoke and he said, ‘the barn’s on fire’,” she told the Advertiser.

Without putting on a coat or boots, both she and her husband rushed to the barn.

Rob ran to the lean-to side of the barn where the smoke was the thickest, while Doris ran into the barn, opening the doors and the stalls, she explained.

A truck driver resting nearby saw a red glow and ran to help. Rob had tried to free the four horses on the lean-to side of the barn, where there

was also a tractor and diesel cans.

“He said he fell twice, and the guy running behind him said ‘you can’t go in there,’ but you got to do what you got to do,” said Doris, tearing up.

“By the time he got the door open there was quiet.

So, it’s too late. The smoke,

“I’m thinking, ‘give me (a mask)’… because I would have gone back in,” Doris said.

Paramedics and firefighters brought the Woolners back into the house. The fire had started in the lean-to side of the barn, but the wind pushed it toward the other side of the barn.

Then I saw the whole thing on this side engulfed in flames. Well then, I just broke down again and just said ‘now they’re gone for sure.’ ...

- DORIS WOOLNER

which was a good thing, got (the horses) first.”

On the other side of the barn, Doris was desperately trying to release the Woolners’ seven horses, along with others boarded there.

Three mares with three foals were rooted to their stalls but one horse did escape.

“They’re not leaving their stalls, only DJ, and I just hollered at him to get out and he did,” she explained.

When the firefighters arrived, the barn was not yet engulfed in flames.

Wellington North Fire Chief Dave Guilbault ordered his firefighter not to go into the barn, but Doris wanted to.

“I was standing there,” Doris said pointing to the spot in front of the picture window, “Then I saw the whole thing on this side engulfed in flames. Well then, I just broke down again and just said ‘now they’re gone for sure.’ But to see that; that whole side of the barn now engulfed in flames, your horses are burning right?”

She added, “It’s not a good sight to see.”

Rob was admitted to the hospital that night for smoke inhalation, but he is doing well now, she explained.

It was not easy for Doris to speak about the horses she lost, like “gentle” Magic,

DORIS WOOLNER WITH PHOTOS OF JAKEERA, LEFT, AND MAGIC “beloved” Jakeera and her party. in a fire is 36 hours later, foal Duke.

“It’s just so abrupt. You she said, because if there’s Doris and Rob lost 12 don’t have a chance to say an issue it will show up a day horses that night, seven of goodbye ... you just saw them and a half later,” said Jones. their own. Three foals less last weekend it’s just hard to “She just did a great job of than a year old and horses say they’re gone,” said Jones. making sure he was going to that she had raised, as well He said DJ is doing fine, be okay.” as the bloodlines that she and he thanks his friend and Doris said she and Rob had worked so hard to create local veterinarian Brianne think constantly about the were lost that night.

Henderson for keeping a night of the fire - and what Of the 12 horses, friend close eye on the horse after they could have done differDerek Jones lost four (his DJ the fire. ently.

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Classy Lane stables rebuilding barn and morale after tragic fire last month

BY JAIME MYSLIK PUSLINCH - It was a morning like any other at Classy Lane Training Centre on Feb. 18.

The steady rhythm of the four beat walk and neighs and nickers sounded throughout the shedrow, horses stood calmly in aisle cross ties giving the occasional stomp as if to say, “can we get a move on?” and groom Cindy Acton was tending to her equine charges before serving them lunch.

But under the surface everything was different.

The horses Acton was caring for were new and the barn she was in was not where she closed out the 2015 season.

Just outside the sliding doors of Barn 2 was an empty space where Barn 1 stood prior to the tragic Jan. 4 fire that destroyed the building, killing 43 horses.

“The hardest part ... when you’re working on a bunch of new [horses] is realizing that the other ones are gone,” Acton said. “One horse that I have, he likes to kick and he’s really not nice and the first thing that comes to my mind is, ‘Oh the one I had before ... he didn’t do that.’

“Or the five that I had before, I knew them so well that anything they did was not in my way because I knew it was coming.”

Acton, 29, is a groom for Ben Wallace, 65, who was training 16 racehorses that perished in the fire, including 10 of his own.

“Every horse is a character and every horse has its idiosyncrasies and we lost a couple of very, very good horses, but that doesn’t diminish any of the prospects that we didn’t quite know,” said Wallace.

“Some horses you have a handle on, you know what their ability is and to what level they’re going to reach, but we lost some young horses and they just seemed ... to be peaking and we’ll never get to really know how decent or how bad they were, but we tend to think some of them were pretty nice horses.”

The fire was called into 911 at around 11pm on Jan. 4 and shortly thereafter there

SIMPLE MARKERS ATTACHED TO TREES PAY TRIBUTE TO THE 43 HORSES LOST AT CLASSY LANE ON JAN. 4. were up to 50 firefighters on the scene. But they couldn’t save the barn, Puslinch fire chief Steve Goode said at the time. The cause is still being investigated.

“I think anybody (that) goes through a tragedy like this is basically just kind of in a bubble for a few days or just in a bit of a vacuum,”

for us, you know this is what we do, we train racehorses and there was never any question - I was going to go back training horses.”

But he said it wasn’t easy.

“You just have to dig deep down and then regroup and reload and hopefully it starts off,” he said. “You know I started with two (horses after

Every horse is a character and every horse has its idiosyncrasies and we lost a couple of very, very good horses, but that doesn’t diminish any of the prospects that we didn’t quite know.

- BEN WALLACE

Wallace said.

“Next to your own family, next to losing sons and daughters and certainly husbands and wives, children of any age or any family members, this is as traumatic as you could get for any sorrow.”

Wallace, a Puslinch resident who’s been training standardbred racehorses for over 45 years, said he never considered leaving the industry after the fire.

“It’s just a natural thing

the fire) and within a month’s period I ended up having 18 or so.

“Hopefully some of them will pick up some of the pieces from the ones we lost.”

Along with Wallace, trainers Roger Mayotte, Chantal Mitchell, Kris Di Cenzo, Dan Lagace and Floyd Amos lost horses in the fire.

“They’re trying to get up running again and I think they are,” Wallace said.

“They are much younger ... than I am and they’ve got

maybe a little tougher road ... given they may not have had the experience I’ve had and then consequently haven’t regrouped to that same extent, but they will.”

All of Wallace’s staff are back working for him now, but it wasn’t an easy decision for Acton.

“I almost quit the day that we started working on new horses,” she said. “It was like it suddenly hit me that I was never going to work on those (horses) again. So it was really tough ... but you just keep coming back.”

Both Wallace and Acton commended the Central Ontario Standardbred Association (COSA) for its support in the days following the fire. The association set up a GoFundMe page that had raised $638,336 by press time (the goal was $500,000).

Wallace said the association provided a seamless transition for the caretakers and staff of all six trainers who lost their horses.

“None of those caretakers lost a pay cheque [and] what they lost in the fire as far as belongings was paid for,” he explained.

COSA president Bill O’Donnell said the association is helping out everybody involved in the fire

- trainers, caretakers and owners alike. The seven caretakers, “are taken care of for awhile and the trainers the same way,” he said.

O’Donnell also said the horses are being appraised and the association will look at how it can further help those affected.

Acton said she was really appreciative of a snowsuit donation.

“That was one of the things that caretakers lost that’s really hard to

replace,” she said. “For us we only make so much money each week and to replace things like that would take us a long time.”

O’Donnell also said equipment manufacturers donated race bikes, jog carts, harnesses and bridles to trainers, and other suppliers offered discounts on needed equipment.

COSA also provided trainers with funds for each horse to rebuild their equipment supply.

Although business at Classy Lane is moving forward, there is a huge void in the farm’s landscape where Barn 1 once stood. The ground itself looks unremarkable, however, under a layer of snow and straw lies the next phase in the farm’s development: Barn 6.

“I’m glad they’re building a new barn but I don’t know what it’s going to be like to work in that barn,” Acton said. “I’m sure once the structure starts to come into shape it will start to feel better, but it’s still going to be tough.

“It’s going to be eerie for sure, working in there.”

Right now the six trainers affected by the fire are scattered throughout the remaining barns, with some housed in a summer barn.

Facility owner Jamie Millier said those trainers will have the first option to settle

in the new barn.

“I’m sure they will go back in, but some of them might not want to just because of sentimental reasons,” he said.

Though the new Barn 6 is being built on the same site as Barn 1 it will be completely different. It’s going to be smaller, Millier said, with 44 stalls to match the other facility barns (Barn 1 had 46).

Millier said officials are also looking at advanced fire prevention options.

“We’re looking right now at sprinklers in the office and storage areas where there’s any electrical, you know, fridges or heaters or anything like that,” he said.

In the Jan. 4 fire those auxiliary areas weren’t as badly damaged as the main barn.

“You’ve seen the pictures of the barn

“There was no real complete top-of-the-line facility that had all the amenities that is needed and there were a couple in New Jersey and I went down and had a look at them and talked to a couple of trainers and they said, ‘yeah if you build a good spot there’s a need for it,’” he said.

“So that’s what I did.”

Though the farm is rebuilding and new horses are coming and going, the 43 horses that lost their lives will not be forgotten.

To the east of the new Barn 6 there will be a permanent memorial to honour the animals that perished.

Millier’s wife, and facility co-owner, Barb, explained, “There’s going to be two monuments with the horses’ names on them in the garden but also on the back of one monument you’ll see a piece of tin that says Barn 1 and some horse shoes, that’s the original piece of tin that we saved off the barn burned.

“We can’t do (it) until spring but as soon as the weather breaks we are doing it.”

Greer Design Group designed the memorial and collected donations for labour and material, Barb explained.

“So in between them and Standardbred Canada, they’re pretty much going to be doing it for us, which is just wonderful,” Barb said.

Barn 6 is scheduled to open at the beginning of May. “Everyone’s trying to get back to their normal life and their normal way and a lot of the healing was done with the support that they got from the people not only in our community but from all over - actually all over the world.”

Millier said.

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“We’re also putting automatic door closers on all the offices and storage rooms,” Millier said. “Of course so that they stay closed, so if a fire is in there then it contains it for that much longer.”

He also said the farm is working to implement an alarm system that won’t be impacted by the dust and everyday happenings in a barn and will still alert everyone of potential fires.

After the deadly Jan. 4 fire, Millier said he initially considered not rebuilding.

“Really the main reason I decided to do it is because I built that farm from scratch myself and without that barn there it just wasn’t what I built,” he said.

“So that was more the reason than anything, is just to sort of get some peace for myself that I don’t walk out there and see a reminder that 43 horses died.”

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Cindy Acton wins outstanding groom award

BY JAIME MYSLIK PUSLINCH – Cindy Acton, a groom working at Classy Lane Training Centre in Puslinch, received the first ever outstanding groom award at the 2015 O’Brien Awards.

“It was pretty awesome being nominated and it was even more thrilling to win it,” Acton, 29, said.

Each year the O’Brien Awards honour Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season, and on Feb. 13 the caretakers were also recognized.

“I was so nervous ... but when they called me up I was definitely excited and happy and thrilled,” she said.

Acton said she was as excited that the award existed as she was for the win.

“Anyone could have won it and I would have been happy about it because it was the first time they’ve done that and it really should be continued every year for caretakers because ... grooms don’t get a whole lot of recognition,” she said.

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation sponsored the award.

Acton began working with horses when she was

13.

Once she completed college Acton became a fulltime groom and moved to the U.S. to work for Lindy Farms for three and a half years.

When her work visa expired she returned to Canada with the goal of landing a job at Classy Lane.

“I love this farm, I love the facility so I was like ‘I want to get a job working here,’” Acton said.

“Whichever trainer I can work for would be good.”

Acton knew Puslinch trainer Ben Wallace had a larger stable so she approached him, asking for

Moreau wins top trainer award PUSLINCH – Richard Moreau, 51, won Canada’s trainer of the year for the third time in a row at Standardbred Canada’s 2015 O’Brien Awards on Feb. 13.

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“He said I’ll let you know on Friday so I turned around and started walking towards this barn to go and see another trainer and I didn’t make it halfway across and he said, ‘can you start Friday?’’’ she said with a laugh.

“I’ve been with him for five and half years now.”

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The Wellington Advertiser, Friday, February 26, 2016 PAGE TWENTY SEVEN

Classy Lane stables rebuilding barn and morale after tragic fire last month

BY JAIME MYSLIK PUSLINCH - It was a morning like any other at Classy Lane Training Centre on Feb. 18.

The steady rhythm of the four beat walk and neighs and nickers sounded throughout the shedrow, horses stood calmly in aisle cross ties giving the occasional stomp as if to say, “can we get a move on?” and groom Cindy Acton was tending to her equine charges before serving them lunch.

But under the surface everything was different.

The horses Acton was caring for were new and the barn she was in was not where she closed out the 2015 season.

Just outside the sliding doors of Barn 2 was an empty space where Barn 1 stood prior to the tragic Jan. 4 fire that destroyed the building, killing 43 horses.

“The hardest part ... when you’re working on a bunch of new [horses] is realizing that the other ones are gone,” Acton said. “One horse that I have, he likes to kick and he’s really not nice and the first thing that comes to my mind is, ‘Oh the one I had before ... he didn’t do that.’

“Or the five that I had before, I knew them so well that anything they did was not in my way because I knew it was coming.”

Acton, 29, is a groom for Ben Wallace, 65, who was training 16 racehorses that perished in the fire, including 10 of his own.

“Every horse is a character and every horse has its idiosyncrasies and we lost a couple of very, very good horses, but that doesn’t diminish any of the prospects that we didn’t quite know,” said Wallace.

“Some horses you have a handle on, you know what their ability is and to what level they’re going to reach, but we lost some young horses and they just seemed ... to be peaking and we’ll never get to really know how decent or how bad they were, but we tend to think some of them were pretty nice horses.”

The fire was called into 911 at around 11pm on Jan. 4 and shortly thereafter there

SIMPLE MARKERS ATTACHED TO TREES PAY TRIBUTE TO THE 43 HORSES LOST AT CLASSY LANE ON JAN. 4. were up to 50 firefighters on the scene. But they couldn’t save the barn, Puslinch fire chief Steve Goode said at the time. The cause is still being investigated.

“I think anybody (that) goes through a tragedy like this is basically just kind of in a bubble for a few days or just in a bit of a vacuum,”

for us, you know this is what we do, we train racehorses and there was never any question - I was going to go back training horses.”

But he said it wasn’t easy.

“You just have to dig deep down and then regroup and reload and hopefully it starts off,” he said. “You know I started with two (horses after

Every horse is a character and every horse has its idiosyncrasies and we lost a couple of very, very good horses, but that doesn’t diminish any of the prospects that we didn’t quite know.

- BEN WALLACE

Wallace said.

“Next to your own family, next to losing sons and daughters and certainly husbands and wives, children of any age or any family members, this is as traumatic as you could get for any sorrow.”

Wallace, a Puslinch resident who’s been training standardbred racehorses for over 45 years, said he never considered leaving the industry after the fire.

“It’s just a natural thing

the fire) and within a month’s period I ended up having 18 or so.

“Hopefully some of them will pick up some of the pieces from the ones we lost.”

Along with Wallace, trainers Roger Mayotte, Chantal Mitchell, Kris Di Cenzo, Dan Lagace and Floyd Amos lost horses in the fire.

“They’re trying to get up running again and I think they are,” Wallace said.

“They are much younger ... than I am and they’ve got

maybe a little tougher road ... given they may not have had the experience I’ve had and then consequently haven’t regrouped to that same extent, but they will.”

All of Wallace’s staff are back working for him now, but it wasn’t an easy decision for Acton.

“I almost quit the day that we started working on new horses,” she said. “It was like it suddenly hit me that I was never going to work on those (horses) again. So it was really tough ... but you just keep coming back.”

Both Wallace and Acton commended the Central Ontario Standardbred Association (COSA) for its support in the days following the fire. The association set up a GoFundMe page that had raised $638,336 by press time (the goal was $500,000).

Wallace said the association provided a seamless transition for the caretakers and staff of all six trainers who lost their horses.

“None of those caretakers lost a pay cheque [and] what they lost in the fire as far as belongings was paid for,” he explained.

COSA president Bill O’Donnell said the association is helping out everybody involved in the fire

- trainers, caretakers and owners alike. The seven caretakers, “are taken care of for awhile and the trainers the same way,” he said.

O’Donnell also said the horses are being appraised and the association will look at how it can further help those affected.

Acton said she was really appreciative of a snowsuit donation.

“That was one of the things that caretakers lost that’s really hard to

replace,” she said. “For us we only make so much money each week and to replace things like that would take us a long time.”

O’Donnell also said equipment manufacturers donated race bikes, jog carts, harnesses and bridles to trainers, and other suppliers offered discounts on needed equipment.

COSA also provided trainers with funds for each horse to rebuild their equipment supply.

Although business at Classy Lane is moving forward, there is a huge void in the farm’s landscape where Barn 1 once stood. The ground itself looks unremarkable, however, under a layer of snow and straw lies the next phase in the farm’s development: Barn 6.

“I’m glad they’re building a new barn but I don’t know what it’s going to be like to work in that barn,” Acton said. “I’m sure once the structure starts to come into shape it will start to feel better, but it’s still going to be tough.

“It’s going to be eerie for sure, working in there.”

Right now the six trainers affected by the fire are scattered throughout the remaining barns, with some housed in a summer barn.

Facility owner Jamie Millier said those trainers will have the first option to settle

in the new barn.

“I’m sure they will go back in, but some of them might not want to just because of sentimental reasons,” he said.

Though the new Barn 6 is being built on the same site as Barn 1 it will be completely different. It’s going to be smaller, Millier said, with 44 stalls to match the other facility barns (Barn 1 had 46).

Millier said officials are also looking at advanced fire prevention options.

“We’re looking right now at sprinklers in the office and storage areas where there’s any electrical, you know, fridges or heaters or anything like that,” he said.

In the Jan. 4 fire those auxiliary areas weren’t as badly damaged as the main barn.

“You’ve seen the pictures of the barn

“There was no real complete top-of-the-line facility that had all the amenities that is needed and there were a couple in New Jersey and I went down and had a look at them and talked to a couple of trainers and they said, ‘yeah if you build a good spot there’s a need for it,’” he said.

“So that’s what I did.”

Though the farm is rebuilding and new horses are coming and going, the 43 horses that lost their lives will not be forgotten.

To the east of the new Barn 6 there will be a permanent memorial to honour the animals that perished.

Millier’s wife, and facility co-owner, Barb, explained, “There’s going to be two monuments with the horses’ names on them in the garden but also on the back of one monument you’ll see a piece of tin that says Barn 1 and some horse shoes, that’s the original piece of tin that we saved off the barn burned.

“We can’t do (it) until spring but as soon as the weather breaks we are doing it.”

Greer Design Group designed the memorial and collected donations for labour and material, Barb explained.

“So in between them and Standardbred Canada, they’re pretty much going to be doing it for us, which is just wonderful,” Barb said.

Barn 6 is scheduled to open at the beginning of May. “Everyone’s trying to get back to their normal life and their normal way and a lot of the healing was done with the support that they got from the people not only in our community but from all over - actually all over the world.”

Millier said.

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“We’re also putting automatic door closers on all the offices and storage rooms,” Millier said. “Of course so that they stay closed, so if a fire is in there then it contains it for that much longer.”

He also said the farm is working to implement an alarm system that won’t be impacted by the dust and everyday happenings in a barn and will still alert everyone of potential fires.

After the deadly Jan. 4 fire, Millier said he initially considered not rebuilding.

“Really the main reason I decided to do it is because I built that farm from scratch myself and without that barn there it just wasn’t what I built,” he said.

“So that was more the reason than anything, is just to sort of get some peace for myself that I don’t walk out there and see a reminder that 43 horses died.”

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“It was pretty awesome being nominated and it was even more thrilling to win it,” Acton, 29, said.

Each year the O’Brien Awards honour Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season, and on Feb. 13 the caretakers were also recognized.

“I was so nervous ... but when they called me up I was definitely excited and happy and thrilled,” she said.

Acton said she was as excited that the award existed as she was for the win.

“Anyone could have won it and I would have been happy about it because it was the first time they’ve done that and it really should be continued every year for caretakers because ... grooms don’t get a whole lot of recognition,” she said.

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When her work visa expired she returned to Canada with the goal of landing a job at Classy Lane.

“I love this farm, I love the facility so I was like ‘I want to get a job working here,’” Acton said.

“Whichever trainer I can work for would be good.”

Acton knew Puslinch trainer Ben Wallace had a larger stable so she approached him, asking for

Moreau wins top trainer award PUSLINCH – Richard Moreau, 51, won Canada’s trainer of the year for the third time in a row at Standardbred Canada’s 2015 O’Brien Awards on Feb. 13.

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“I’ve been with him for five and half years now.”

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Equine Guelph focuses on reducing risk through education

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Gayle Ecker, director of Equine Guelph, encourages two key points to reduce fire risks on farm: if possible, store all straw and hay in a separate building and check all electricals. Horse barns can put more demand on an

existing electrical system in barns converted from other uses, with increased lighting, heated water buckets and heated tack rooms.

A fire safety checklist on the Equine Guelph website can help farm owners when checking their barns for possible fire hazards.

Ecker encourages farm owners to meet with their local fire prevention officer to walk through their property and look for fire risks.

“Their role is to help you reduce the risk,” she said.

Ecker made changes to her own barn after asking a fire

prevention officer for assistance. Now all the wiring is in conduits protecting it from moisture and is not enclosed within the walls. She also added more outlets throughout the barn, each with its own breaker switch to reduce extension cords. In addition, she changed the structure of the barn to include a paddock at the back if she needs to move animals to a safe area.

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Equine Guelph and Mike King of Intercity Insurance have partnered up at the Can-Am Equine Expo, in Markham in early April, to present a Fire Safety and Prevention initiative. Along with live demonstrations and special guest speakers at Can-Am, there will be two areas available to answer fire safety questions and pick up resource material. One area will be in the EquiMania!

Display and the other will be located within a main CanAm building, which will be staffed by fire prevention personnel, Intercity Insurance and include information resources from Equine Guelph.

Planning is underway for demonstrations from the local fire department and expert, Robert Webb will be conducting an important lecture on fire safety. As a retired chief of fire prevention, for Toronto Fire Services and retired fire safety manager for Woodbine Entertainment

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Equine Guelph has provided a training course in animal behaviour, teaching first responders and veterinarians how to move and handle animals and safely rescue them in an emergency situation.

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The course provided a good foundation and raised awareness with first responders, Ecker said.

They offered the course for two years in a row and hope to continue offering the program as funding becomes available. The course includes three options: a one-day workshop focuses on general awareness, a two-day workshop includes hands-on opportunities and a threeday workshop expands to the operational level and includ-

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Future courses to be held at the Ontario Veterinary College are also under discussion.

Teaching about animal behaviour is so vital, Ecker explains. Participants learn how to reduce risk for the animals and humans by understanding the animals’ possible reactions. One of the most important lessons, don’t cause more injury to an animal, she adds.

A ‘rescue’ model horse allows workshop participants an opportunity to apply their newly learned skills to move a horse from a trailer or a ditch.

They learn how to protect a horse’s eyes and head, how to sedate a horse safely, and use a glide and strapping to safely move large animals out of harm’s way.

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Continued from page 25 “You just beat yourself up thinking maybe we should have gone out at nine to check … (but) unless the horse kicked, we wouldn’t have opened the door, then we might not have gotten DJ out. I don’t know, you just keep beating yourself up,” she said.

She said she wishes she could have saved all the horses.

“We could have lost our lives, which I don’t know, when you’re saving these guys, if we could have got all of them out, maybe it would have been alright, if they were all saved and maybe I lost mine,” she said, looking down at the photos her horses.

Days after the fire, the insurance investigator discovered a rat had chewed a contractor’s extension cord used for heating the water buckets in the lean-to side of the barn.

“It’s not anything from the wiring, just from a stupid extension cord and a stupid rat,” said Doris.

She explained further that through her conversations with the investigators, she discovered the mild winter may be causing an increase in the rat population.

Doris said she now feels lost.

“Moving here, this was our perfect window because you could put the horses out,

we see deer, we could watch the horses, that’s why I needed the barn to be built right away…

“My thing was to go out and do chores in the morning, and for 30 years, now you’re lost,” she explained.

Doris said she needs to keep herself busy, especially during the times she would be in the barn. She helps drive Mennonite builders working on rebuilding the structure.

The friend, who wished not to be named, called Doris in early February to say she wanted to give Deedee back.

“That’s amazing. Rob and I were so blown away,” said Doris.

The Arabian Horsemen’s Distress Fund is helping the Woolners with $30,000 to cover what fire insurance doesn’t. The Arabian Horse Association of Eastern Canada has also set up a trust

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Other things have helped her and her husband, such as the notes they have received in the mailbox.

“We had people leave little notes in our mailbox, that was just, I mean we’ve only been here a year… it’s just amazing,” said Doris.

One note included an offer to house the surviving horse in a converted garage, others wanted to donate time and lend support to the couple.

To Doris’ surprise, a friend of the family is donating a horse named Deedee back to the Woolners. Doris helped foal DeeDee, which is of the same bloodline as Jakeera, and sold her to their friend six years ago.

fund to help (TD Bank, on Main Street in Milton, #30442 004 6406038).

Locally, rider and friend Alice Draper is organizing a fundraiser clinic on April 9 at Cornertstone Stables in Erin to support Doris and Rob. The clinic will include a sidesaddle demonstration and training by Lois Beecroft, equine massage therapy by Lorna Bell, confident horsemanship workshop by Anne Gage and gymnastics to improve horse movement workshop by Janet Henderson.

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The Wellington Advertiser, Friday, February 26, 2016 PAGE TWENTY NINE

Holly Jacks-Smithers one step closer to Olympics in Rio

BY KELLY COUNSELL HILLSBURGH - Last

year, the Wellington Advertiser followed local equestrian Holly Jacks-Smithers and her horse More Inspiration as they set their sights on qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Since then, the pair has advanced consistently.

Jacks-Smithers was one of the three members of the Canadian Eventing Team to cross the finish line of the challenging CICO 3* Aachen cross-country course last

Smithers.

“There is still more to do before we are officially named to the Canadian Olympic Team, but the members of the Elite Squad will be given added support to help us get there.”

Equine Canada’s High Performance Program also includes a National Squad whose eight members are hopefuls for future Team Canada competitions.

The program has been developed to corral Canada’s most dedicated and talented

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Canada successfully completed the German leg of the FEI (Fédération Equestre Internationale) Nations Cup Eventing Series as a team for the first time ever, finishing seventh overall.

Recently, Jacks-Smithers and her horse, also known as “Morris”, were nominated to the Canadian Eventing Elite Squad. A component of Equine Canada’s new High Performance Program, the Elite Squad is composed of five members who have preference in the Olympic selection process.

All aspire to ride for Canada in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August.

“Equine Canada (EC) has definitely raised the bar. Last year, I didn’t think Morris and I would qualify but we met the targets,” said Jacks-

equestrian athletes, providing support and targets to help them succeed in international competition such as the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 2018 World Equestrian Games, and the 2020 Summer Olympics.

“These select groups are provided with a secure and motivating environment in which they can train, share information and centralize processes,” said Ozzie Sawicki, a Canadian chartered professional coach, and an advisor to the Eventing High Performance Program.

There has been a huge effort to improve Equine Canada’s selection process, beyond looking at accumulated competition scores. The program has developed measures for variables to account for things like the competition venue and consistency in

performance.

The program is also looking at international best practices and now includes fitness scoring and fitness training for the rider, as well as mental training to help the rider focus and deal with stress.

Training camps will follow a logical progression, and individual coaches will be encouraged to communicate with the squad’s head coach, Clayton Fredericks.

“Being on the Canadian Eventing Elite Squad also allows me to bring other horses that I am training to the preferred coaching clinics, which is a bonus,” said Jacks-Smithers.

She has managed to pursue her dream of representing Canada in international competition by making a business out of training horses and coaching students. She is the sole owner of Morris, so the cost to train and compete on him are all her own.

To help finance her effort to get to the 2016 Olympics, Jacks-Smithers held a fundraiser at Woodbine racetrack last fall.

“There was an outpouring of support for the silent auction, which I really appreciated,” she said. More than 120 supporters attended the fundraising dinner.

“Where there is a will, there is a way. If you don’t fixate too much on the financial barrier, things have a way of coming together.”

Jacks-Smithers said she is encouraged by the cultural shift in equestrian sport development.

“Equine Canada’s High Performance Program is growing and building. It’s going to be great,” she said.

As a stepping stone, Equine Canada has developed the NoBoundaries program to provide a pathway and recognition for young riders that are the future stars of eventing.

NoBoundaries provides an annual Event series in Canada and the United

States, connects with experienced spotters at key events, provides coaching and integrated information resources, and coordinates an athlete and coach education seminar series.

The Equine Canada strategy builds on provincial programs developed by organizations like the Ontario Horse Trials Association and the Ontario Equestrian Federation.

For young riders who hope to follow in Jacks-Smithers’ footsteps and compete on a Canadian Equestrian Team, she recommends they take

the opportunity to ride every horse they can.

A professional or a winning amateur has to have ridden many different horses under different conditions to really excel, so getting a broad range of horse experience is a start, she explained.

She added that to learn the industry from the inside out, riders need to immerse themselves as a working student, and in Wellington County opportunities for working students abound.

“The biggest investment in the sport of eventing is dedication,” said Margie Godson,

of Myrddin Equestrian Centre in Hillsburgh.

Myrddin has a fully integrated working student program which provides lessons, coaching, mentoring, accommodation, and in some cases wages in exchange for labour.

Jacks-Smithers has worked hard for her success and has never owned a horse worth more than $2,000.

“Some people work their way up the ranks on expensive horses that pave their way, but on the whole, equestrian sport development begins with the working student,” she said.

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More than 900 people attended the Business Excellence Awards gala at Bingeman’s in Kitchener on Feb. 18.

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Grand River Raceway’s fellow nominees were the Block Three Brewing Company, City of Kitchener Special Events, Impact Events Group Inc., Janet Lynn’s Bistro and Manulife LPGA Classic. The sponsor of the award is the Waterloo Tourism Marketing Corporation.

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Loyal guests of Grand River Raceway were acknowledged as avid supporters of the operation, through thick and thin, and instrumental in all of its success.

“Our staff on the frontlines are truly the face of Grand River Raceway,” said marketing manager Kelly Spencer.

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