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QUOTE OF WEEK Clare Macdonald ina close finish against Gilles Barrieau.

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WOMEN IN SPORTS: Harness Racing i Ll 4 : 5» oF

Harness Racing has long been knownas ‘‘the sport of ~~ kings’’ but it also has some queens. It is typically a male dominated sport with women occupying ‘‘behind the scenes’’ positions, ranging fromcleaning stalls to jOgging horses. The number of female drivers in the maritimes was unavailable fromthe USTA but Kevin " Boomer’’ Gallant from the CDP says ‘there is no more than five, that he could think of’.

One of these queens is Clare Macdonald, Ladys

Driving Champion two years in a row in Summerside

and now Canada’s second fastest female driver going

amile in 1:57.4 with the senational three year old Mark Macdonald (6), Joe Kennedy, Clare Macdonald, kKilkerran Engle. Other than Emmons Mackay, Clare Haley MAcdonald (1)

is the only other person to ever drive Kilkerran Engle.

When asked how she felt being asked to drive oar Kilkerran Engle she answered ‘honoured, it was one | Ma” s of the races I enjoyed most.’ The race she did enjoy 9s

most was in Truo against world class driver Billy O'Donnel.

Clare Macdonald recieved her licence when she was sixteen and had always been in the harness racing business through her family. When she started driv- ing she says ‘I was not treated differently, but I think was because I’ve always been around the horses’.

tare now runs the West River Stock Farm which has tween 15 to 20 horses. They breed, train, and race le horses out of the farm. Clare cando everything atis required to run her farm even shoeing her own Orses. If this doesn’t keep her busy enough she is a1800 the mother of three/ 2 boys ages 12 and 6 and One girlage |,

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