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     Mohawk but I like racing in Sydney, 
     
     Inverness, Saint John, Truro, Charlotte- 
     
     town and Summerside. I love going to 
     
     Woodstock; it is the number one place on 
     
     the tour for me right now, the McCain 
     
     Memorial. I hope that the grassroots 
     
     level doesn‘t change.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     What did he like most about horse rac— 
     
     ing? Ian answered, “I just like being a 
     
     part of the industry and rubbing shoul— 
     
     ders with all the good people involved 
     
     with it. I like driving, especially in the 
     
     big races. I think that sometimes we go 
     
     a little overboard in the competitiveness 
     
     of the game. I like the fact that our 
     
     provincial government is treating it as an 
     
     important industry. 
     
     much about life and people from horse- 
     
     men like Donald Rankin, Lester Chappell, 
     
     Mike MacDonald and others. I don‘t like 
     
     the way some people abuse and treat 
     
     horses in terms of racing them for that 
     
     last dollar and not thinking of the health 
     
     of the horse in any way, shape or form. 
     
     I don’t like some of the practices like 
     
     milk—shaking that some people carry on 
     
     in that regard as well. Nobody asks me 
     
     to do one because they know I will not 
     
     do one. I have ethics and don‘t do it. 
     
     The people that do these things are com— 
     
     petitive in the wrong way.“ 
     
    
   
   
    
     I have learned so 
     
    
   
   
    
     This gentleman spent about 41 of his 54 
     
     years with horses. He developed a pro- 
     
     fessional career from them and earned a 
     
     good living from horses. He also devel— 
     
     oped a hobby and satisfying outlet with 
     
     horses starting each day with jogging at 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Dr. Ian Moore 
     
    
   
   
    
     6:00 am. and racing once a week. He 
     
     loved and appreciated horses for their 
     
     true magnificence and toughness. Each 
     
     horse has a true genetic potential and 
     
     proper management of that horse will 
     
     permit you to achieve it. In his practice, 
     
     he did see a lot of horses that weren’t 
     
     cared for as they should have been and 
     
     he found that distressing. He thought 
     
     that a well-managed horse should be 
     
     properly fed, conditioned, trained, shod, 
     
     cared for and equipped. You can give 
     
     them all the drugs in the world but you 
     
     are not going to change their true genet— 
     
     ic potential and that is what he strived for 
     
     with every horse that he had. You are 
     
     not going to make them go any faster 
     
     than that. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This driver/trainer had a number of pos— 
     
     By the 
     
     same token, the tragic deaths of The 
     
     Paperma/eer and Mchtzfy affected and 
     
     contributed to his philosophy on life. He 
     
     explained, “They were very tragic deaths 
     
     and affected my whole being, my work 
     
     life and my family. The Paperma/eerls 
     
     death affected me for quite a while. I still 
     
     have moments thinking about MCGenfy's 
     
     death. I think about that horse and what 
     
     could have been and what should have 
     
     been. About the same time my partner 
     
     Jerry Hayward died, I read something on 
     
     the internet from an 85—year—old woman 
     
     which said that life is not the party that 
     
     we all hoped it would be so while we 
     
     are here we might as well enjoy the 
     
     dance. That is what I try to do with my 
     
     life and my horses. I always want the 
     
    
   
   
    
     itive experiences in this game. 
     
    
   
   
    
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