Profiles

Life to the Max

If you get the chance to talk to Max Gibb you can’t help but get caught up in his excitement, his passion, his joie de vivre.

Turning Heads

His breeding career started as a lark, but Head Chopper is proving to be the real deal with two stakes winners from four racing-aged foals in 2014 to earn more action in 2015.

Old World Work Ethic

John Carey is a hands-on, eighth generation Irish horseman that has made an impact in Ontario’s breeding industry thanks to his T.C. Westmeath Stud Farm and Old Forester, Canada’s leading freshman sire in three of the last five years.

Star of the Show

Hillstar won a bizarre edition of Pattison Canadian International after favoured Brown Panther tore off down the E.P. Taylor turf course before the start, dropping rider Richard Kingscote.

Reinvesting in a Downturn

Steve and Kathleen Kemp's Ballycroy Training Centre is beginning to reap the rewards of investing in better mares when the horse racing industry was in a down cycle.