When Val Topp and David Bell first brought Ojibway Signal to the track as an unraced two-year-old they soon found the big fellow was going to be a work in progress.

“He’s was very good looking as a two-year-old, but he was really nervous and a bad stall walker,” said Topp. “He was kind of a high maintenance guy.”

‘OJ’ also proved to be an intelligent and keen student who quickly settled down, completed a successful racing career and just a few months into his retirement, is now an easy-going riding companion for Topp.

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