Lets Leavem wins trot
Lets Leavem left his rivals in the dust in Saturday’s Racing Under Saddle (RUS) trot at Kawartha Downs winning by more than 12 lengths. Sarah Town owns the seven-year-old gelding by Angus Hall and she also rode him in the first appearance by the RUS riders at the Fraserville track this year. Shane Arsenault trains the winner who was recording his sixth victory of the 2017 season. On Kawartha’s previous race card, leading driver Nick Boyd reached the milestone of 100 lifetime wins. He quickly added to that total Saturday with a pair of wins including with Liplock, a two-yearold filly he trains who recorded her first lifetime win. A daughter of Art Major, Liplock was making her fourth career start. The consistent miss had never finished worse than third and earned her first trip to the winner’s circle in 1:57.2. Kiss Me Or Not provided Boyd with his second win as they hauled down pacesetter Oakrock Eldorado to win in 1:54.3. It was a seasonal best for the Mach Three six-year-old daughter owned and trained by Dave Snowden. Next Saturday marks the final race night at Kawartha Downs for the 2017 season and features the Shorelines Drivers’ Championship for the track’s top drivers of the year including Boyd and Rick Webb who recorded a driving triple on Saturday. Post time is 7 p.m. My Life in Hockey by Doug Gilmour, co-written with Dan Robson which goes on sale Oct. 17. “No one ever expected the 134th overall draft pick to become a superstar, but that’s exactly what Doug Gilmour did,” states a press release from the publisher. “During his early years in the NHL, he honed his killer instincts in the faceoff circle and in front of the net, developing the skills that would characterize his illustrious 20-year career.” The Kingston, Ontario native played for seven NHL teams and earned his place in the history books time and again. He scored the Stanley Cup winning goal for the Calgary Flames in 1989 and a few short years later walked away from the franchise after a salary dispute only to be traded within hours to the Toronto Maple Leafs in one of the biggest trade in the league’s history. He broke the Leafs’ franchise record with 127 points in a single season and he led the Leafs to the brink of appearing in their first Stanley Cup final in decades, a dream cut short by one of the most controversial officiating non-calls in hockey history. In 2009, Gilmour was honoured by the Leafs when his jersey was raised to the rafters. Two years later, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In Killer: My Life in Hockey, Gilmour bares all about his on-and-off-theice escapes. “I’m excited to be sharing my story,” stated Gilmour, in the release. “I had the good fortune to be a part of some great organizations and some incredible teams, especially Calgary in 1989 and Toronto in 1993. This is my story, told the way it really happened.”