John Carey vividly remembers the day he brought the mare Gladiator Queen to his T.C. Westmeath Stud in Shelburne, ON. In fact, the grey daughter of leading Canadian stallion Great Gladiator, who stood at stud at Carey’s farm, was returning to the place she was born.
“She had been retired from racing and I had just come up my driveway and right behind me drove in Dr. Mike Colterjohn,” said Carey, referring to the noted manager of the very successful Gardiner Farms.
“He barely looked at her, but he said to me, ‘she should do the job’.”