THE BEAT GOES ON FOR DAZ LIN DAWN IN $50,000 EMERALD DOWNS HANDICAP Vancouver, B.C. (June 25/17) – There wasn’t much dazzling about Daz Lin Dawn’s $2.20 payoff for a winning ticket Sunday afternoon at Hastings Racecourse. But it clearly didn’t bother part owner and trainer Nancy Betts to see the star of her stable…
DetailsVancouver, B.C. (June 24/17) – At the conclusion of last year Phil Hall ranked seventh overall in the final trainers standings at Hastings Racecourse. After 66 starts, he had made an honest but modest 17 trips to the winner’s circle. Today, after just 17 race dates into the 2017 season, Hall has been part of…
DetailsBy Greg Douglas – Dr. Sport SCENE & HEARD: David Lopez has been riding horses professionally for the past two decades. “If there is one thing I have learned,” the 35-year-old native of Peru says, “when things are going well, you simply work harder. It’s an up-and-down business. You can’t fall asleep.” Lopez accepted…
DetailsBy Greg Douglas – Dr. Sport SCENE & HEARD: Eric Dudley worked a beat for the New Westminster Police Department as a constable, acting sergeant and acting corporal over a span of 29 years that he fondly remembers began on May 1, 1967. “I was a police officer in England for three and a…
DetailsBy Greg Douglas – Dr. Sport SCENE & HEARD: So much has been said and written about Alumni Day at the Races this Father’s Day afternoon, it was almost overlooked that there are so many father-and-son working relationships right here at Hastings. And to the best of our research, one father-daughter combination with…
DetailsSCENE & HEARD: John Ulmer was a member of the BC Lions’ 1985 team that was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame after dominating the CFL throughout the season and capping it all with a Grey Cup victory. Ulmer played in the Canadian Football League from ’85-89 with the Leos and Ottawa Rough…
DetailsNothing is more disheartening in this racing business than having to witness an accident involving a jockey and his horse during the heat of battle. Nothing is more concerning than hearing the wailing of a siren as attendants rush to the aid of the fallen. We all experienced that nauseating feeling last Sunday at Hastings…
DetailsBy Greg Douglas – Dr. Sport SCENE & HEARD: Jeffery Burningham tried to get to see fellow jockey Jose Asencio at Vancouver General Hospital this past Monday morning. “By the time I got there,” Burningham says, “they had already taken him to surgery.” Burningham, 45 in a couple of weeks, had a message…
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