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TALKING HORSES
BOB BROADSTOCK
Strong up North - An Active Advocate
of Quarter Horse Racing in Ontario
BY CYNTHIA MCFARLAND
TRACK Magazine Correspondent
There’s something undeniable about a horse. Once you have
the passion, you’ll do whatever you can to keep it in your life.
Bob Broadstock’s introduction to horses came not through
racing, but on the back of a versatile Paint named Brandy. “I was
into
trail
riding, gaming,
jumping--I did just about
everything on her you could
do with one horse,” recalls
Broadstock, president
of
the Quarter Racing Owners
of Ontario Inc. (QROOI)
since 2007, who was raised
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
and moved to the Ajax area as
a teenager.
Broadstock was in high
school when he had his
Paint mare and worked off
the boarding bill by putting
in hours at the stable every
weekend. The boarding
stable happened to buy their
shavings from a trainer by the
name of Joe Tavares at the
former Picov Downs racetrack
(now Ajax Downs Racetrack).
In 1987, when
Tavares
eventually offered Broadstock
a job as a groom and exercise
rider,
the
teenager
happily
accepted and thus began his
introduction to the world of
racing, a fascination which
has never wavered. Broadstock worked for Tavares for eight years
before getting his own trainer’s license.
It was while working in Tavares’ barn that he accompanied the
Bob Broadstock
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eight foals, seven of which are winners, and have combined total
earnings over $275,000. Her most successful runners include The
Choochinator (SI 101, $159,511) and Juno Dancing (SI 97, $71,443).
Sadly, the mare had to be put down due to foaling complications in
2012. Broadstock owned several of her produce and still has one
of her daughters and two of her sons, both geldings (including The
Choochinator), who were
“iron horses” at the track,
each with over 100 starts to
their credit.
Broadstock
and his
wife Marie, who was
also raised with riding
horses, reside in a farm in
Scugog Township, Ontario.
handles
training and their horses run
under his wife’s. They race
primarily in Ontario, but
over the years have also run
in Oklahoma and Louisiana.
The Broadstocks have ten
horses they will be racing
next year, along with four
mares in foal for 2018, two
weanlings of 2017 and two
yearlings.
Their son Carson, 9,
recently got his own taste
of “horse fever,” having
fallen for one of the farm’s
homebred weanlings by
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out of their mare Katies
Award, by Winners Award.
trainer to a sale at Heritage Place in Oklahoma City where Tavares
bought a racing Quarter Horse mare named Cha Cha Choo Choo
(by Duck Dance TB).
“I was in love with that mare from day one and eventually bought
her from Joe when she was done racing in 1997 and made her a
broodmare,” says Broadstock. Cha Cha Choo Choo was the dam of
232
“Carson has chores with the horses and he’s shown a lot of interest
in this filly, which he named Princess Leia, so when she’s ready to
race, she will run in his name,” says Broadstock.
Among the best racehorses campaigned by Broadstock Racing
is All Wacked Out, a 2007 mare by Eyesa Special, who is a multiple
stakes winner and track record holder at Ajax Downs. From 52
starts, the mare had 15 wins, three seconds and eight thirds with
earnings of $217,339. Now a broodmare for the Broadstocks, her
first foal, a colt by El Night Shift, will go to the races in 2018.
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