With temperatures hovering just about zero as the sun came up for the first day of spring training on Easter Sunday, neither the horses or their trainers seemed to mind the cold much.
“It could be worse,” said trainer Gary Chudobiak as he fed carrots to his horse. “There could have been a foot of snow out there, so I’m not complaining.”
Trainer Gary Chudobiak feeds a carrot to Quick Reload, one of the horses who shipped into the backstretch over Easter Weekend. (James Culic/Fort Erie Race Track)
A veteran trainer in the Fort Erie Race Track’s backstretch, Chudobiak had just one horse, Quick Reload, out for training when the historic border oval dusted off the dirt track for training on April 9, but he expects to have five more by the time opening day rolls around in May.