Blair Burgess, Mach Three, Eugene Melnyk, Curtis Stock and Quiet Resolve among CHRHF Class of 2017.
The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the 2017 Inductees.
Congratulations to Curtis Stock who has just been announced as a 2017 inductee into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame on the Thoroughbred Communicator ballot!Blair Burgess, Mach Three, Eugene Melnyk, Curtis Stock and Quiet Resolve are among the CHRHF Class of 2017.
The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the 2017 Inductees. In this, the 250th Anniversary Year of Horse Racing in Canada, a total of 10 horses and people have been elected from a very strong list of candidates.
Representing Thoroughbreds in the Class of 2017 are Builder Eugene Melnyk
, Trainer Harold Barroby
, and Communicator Curtis Stock
as well as horses Quiet Resolve
, and South Ocean
.
Originally from London, Ont., Curtis Stock’s affection for the horses, jockeys, trainers and horse people in general is reflected in his writing, He began to follow racing in Calgary during his high-school days and gained valuable experience covering racing there while attending university. That soon led to an opportunity in Toronto, working with honoured Canadian Horse Hall of Fame member Bruce Walker in the Ontario Jockey Club Publicity Department. Stock would later return to Alberta and take over publicity, marketing, and advertising at Northlands Park in Edmonton, later moving to the Edmonton Journal where he covered racing for 32 years and also plied his craft for the Daily Racing Form for 20 years. His reporting has resonated with the judges in Sovereign Award voting. His record run of Sovereigns started in 1985 and in 1993, he swept both Feature Story and Newspaper categories Stock was the recipient of back-to-back Sovereign Awards for Outstanding Feature Story in 1993-94 and took home an unprecedented eighth Sovereign Award for Outstanding Newspaper Story in Canada. Most recently Stock was the recipient of the 2015 Sovereign Award in the Outstanding Writing Category. His story, “Love of Horses”, appeared earlier that year in the Edmonton Journal. It was his 11th Sovereign Award overall; a record total. He has received this most-coveted award at least once in each of the past five decades, an achievement unmatched.
Click on the following link for more information>> Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame 2017 Inductees
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