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Call to the post: Bugler Jim Ahrens calls the horses to the post for yesterday's 129th running of the crown jewel of Canadian thoroughbred racing - The Queen's Plate
Call to the post: Bugler Jim Ahrens calls the horses to the post for yesterday's 129th running of the crown jewel of Canadian thoroughbred racing - The Queen's Plate

Call to the post: Bugler Jim Ahrens calls the horses to the post for yesterday's 129th running of the crown jewel of Canadian thoroughbred racing - The Queen's Plate

Date7/10/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Call to the post: Bugler Jim Ahrens calls the horses to the post for yesterday's 129th running of the crown jewel of Canadian thoroughbred racing - The Queen's Plate.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0095917F
      Hot time at Ragtime: Livent's chief Garth Drabinsky is flanked by Lynnette Perry (left), lyricist Lynn Ahrens and director Frank Galati at the post-performance party
      Hot time at Ragtime: Livent's chief Garth Drabinsky is flanked by Lynnette Perry (left), lyricist Lynn Ahrens and director Frank Galati at the post-performance party
      Bull, Ron
      12/8/1996
      Best intention: Regal Intention, with jockey Jack Lauzon aboard, left the rest of the field in his dust in winning yesterday's 129th Queen's Plate
      Best intention: Regal Intention, with jockey Jack Lauzon aboard, left the rest of the field in his dust in winning yesterday's 129th Queen's Plate
      Griffin, Doug
      7/10/1988
      Parade to the post: Ron Turcotte, the great Canadian jockey who was paralyzed in a racing accident in 1978, dropped by Woodbine yesterday to watch the horses parade to the post
      Parade to the post: Ron Turcotte, the great Canadian jockey who was paralyzed in a racing accident in 1978, dropped by Woodbine yesterday to watch the horses parade to the post
      Bull, Ron
      10/15/1986
      Karl ahrens', old share Hermitage Beg trees
      Karl ahrens', old share Hermitage Beg trees
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      5/28/1929
      Old Detwiler home on Ahrens Street, Kitchener, where Mrs. Detweiler now lives in two rented rooms. Circumstances forced her to sell house in 1942.
      Old Detwiler home on Ahrens Street, Kitchener, where Mrs. Detweiler now lives in two rented rooms. Circumstances forced her to sell house in 1942.
      Detwiler, D. B.
      3/10/1951
      Watching a winner. John Martin keeps tabs on one of his horses during race at Greenwood. Bowling alley operator has successful thoroughbred horse racing stable
      Watching a winner. John Martin keeps tabs on one of his horses during race at Greenwood. Bowling alley operator has successful thoroughbred horse racing stable
      Martin, John
      4/14/1969
      Jockey Jack Lauzon, with his beaming dad Jack, kisses the cup emblematic of winning the Queen's Plate, after riding Regal Intention to victory in the 129th edition of the race yesterday
      Jockey Jack Lauzon, with his beaming dad Jack, kisses the cup emblematic of winning the Queen's Plate, after riding Regal Intention to victory in the 129th edition of the race yesterday
      Goode, Jeff
      7/10/1988
      Alvin McGrath, general-secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance of Canada, received only two worried phone calls the day the province announced it might permit horse racing and betting on Sundays
      Alvin McGrath, general-secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance of Canada, received only two worried phone calls the day the province announced it might permit horse racing and betting on Sundays
      Spremo, Boris
      3/28/1968
      Done In: Former B.C. Attorney-General Bud Smith resigned his post after tapes of his cellular phone calls were made public
      Done In: Former B.C. Attorney-General Bud Smith resigned his post after tapes of his cellular phone calls were made public
      Mahler, John
      10/17/1988
      wins woodbine feat. Yesterday's feature race at the Woodbine was the eighteenth running of the William Mulock Cup handicap for horses foaled in Canada(...)
      wins woodbine feat. Yesterday's feature race at the Woodbine was the eighteenth running of the William Mulock Cup handicap for horses foaled in Canada(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/26/1933
      Great effort! Journey for Lives runner Steve Fonyo, who reader calls an example of courage and willpower, runs down the Danforth en route to Queen's Park yesterday
      Great effort! Journey for Lives runner Steve Fonyo, who reader calls an example of courage and willpower, runs down the Danforth en route to Queen's Park yesterday
      Faught, Ken
      9/6/1984
      Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
      Looking for luck: A pair of serious spectators focus binoculars on the thoroughbreds in the 131st Queen's Plate at Woodbine yesterday
      Spremo, Boris
      7/8/1990