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Barn Notes: Saturday, July 03, 2010
In Today’s Notes:
· One Last Dance for Black Tie Affair
· Boy Scouts of
· Team Block, Michael Baze, Nick Canani Get June Awards
ONE LAST DANCE FOR BLACK TIE AFFAIR
It’s over at last for Black Tie Affair. Dee Poulos, widow of Black Tie Affair’s trainer Ernie Poulos got the phone call from Michael Blowen of Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Facility in
Ironically, in the end it was laminitis that got Black Tie Affair, not the cancer he’d had for years that was actually improving with the experimental medication he was being given.
“He was eating well and enjoying himself all day Wednesday,” Poulos said, “but took a turn for the worse during the night. Obviously, at 24-years-old, it was his time, and there was nothing else to do, but I still am getting used to the finality of it. Even when we had to say goodbye to him when he went to
“I guess part of the grief I’m feeling now is because while Black Tie Affair was alive he was my last living connection to Ernie and the life we had together, and of course he was the horse that changed Ernie’s and my life together forever,” Poulos said. “After he won the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Black Tie Affair became the people’s horse. He was
“I’m very grateful that my sister (Dianna Caramico) and I went down to Old Friends to see him last month,” said Poulos. “It was really a spur of the moment kind of thing that we even went. We had no reservations or any thing like that. We just wanted to see him and say hello.
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“We didn’t verbalize about it at the time, but I think both of us had the feeling it might be the last time we might get to see the old boy,” Poulos said. “ I didn’t want to say goodbye, but I think he did. His eyes kind of told us it was his time.
“But one other thing we are very grateful for is how well Black Tie Affair got to spend the last year of his life,” Poulos concluded. “He almost made it to a full year at Old Friends, and for all that time he just got to be a horse. There were no demands made on him. He got to enjoy life with a bunch of people who really loved him and took care of him. Some horses never get to do that.”
BOY SCOUTS OF
The Northwest Suburban Council for the Boy Scouts of America will celebrate the Fourth of July with a daylong outing at
More than 30 suburban communities will take part in the celebration, which will include a parade, special exhibits, video tributes and the presence of retired Army Sgt. 1st Class Sammy Davis, a Medal of Honor recipient.
More than 400 Scouts will participate in the event, as will WLS-TV’s Paul Meincke, himself a former Scouter.
TEAM BLOCK, MICHAEL BAZE NICK CANANI GET JUNE AWARDS
Team Block, Michael Baze and Nick Canani were named
Team Block’s green and yellow blocks silks were posed in the winner’s circle five times from 19 starters while Baze rode 19 winners from 86 mounts during that time and Canani saddled 12 winners from 25 starters.
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