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Eclipses them all: Izvestia may seem a little bored, but jockey Don Seymour and Kinghaven's David Willmot were impressed by colt's romp in Eclipse 'Cap
Eclipses them all: Izvestia may seem a little bored, but jockey Don Seymour and Kinghaven's David Willmot were impressed by colt's romp in Eclipse 'Cap

Eclipses them all: Izvestia may seem a little bored, but jockey Don Seymour and Kinghaven's David Willmot were impressed by colt's romp in Eclipse 'Cap

Date5/21/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Eclipses them all: Izvestia may seem a little bored; but jockey Don Seymour and Kinghaven's David Willmot were impressed by colt's romp in Eclipse 'Cap.
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Steady customers: That's jockey Don Seymour and this year's Kinghaven Farm 3-year-old star Ever Steady, perhaps dreaming of a Queen's Plate win this summer
Steady customers: That's jockey Don Seymour and this year's Kinghaven Farm 3-year-old star Ever Steady, perhaps dreaming of a Queen's Plate win this summer
3/14/1990
Izzy Conquers the fort: Jockey Don Seymour whoops it up at Fort Erie after Izvestia won the Prince of Wales Stakes by 6 1/4 lengths yesterday
Izzy Conquers the fort: Jockey Don Seymour whoops it up at Fort Erie after Izvestia won the Prince of Wales Stakes by 6 1/4 lengths yesterday
7/29/1990
Stamp of approval: Jockey Don Seymour waves his whip in triumph as With Approval hits the finish line an easy 71/2-length winner in the Breeders' Skates yesterday
Stamp of approval: Jockey Don Seymour waves his whip in triumph as With Approval hits the finish line an easy 71/2-length winner in the Breeders' Skates yesterday
8/20/1989
Jockey Mickey Walls walks Izvestia away from the track after the 1990 Canadian Horse of the Year and Triple Crown winner broke a leg during the Rothma(...)
Jockey Mickey Walls walks Izvestia away from the track after the 1990 Canadian Horse of the Year and Triple Crown winner broke a leg during the Rothma(...)
10/20/1991
Jockey Mickey Walls takes Izvestia for a workout before Rothmans International at Woodbine
Jockey Mickey Walls takes Izvestia for a workout before Rothmans International at Woodbine
10/16/1991
Dawn Cox and Don Seymour
Dawn Cox and Don Seymour
7/7/1995
Tragedy strikes: Izvestia (centre) broke his left hind leg as the Rothmans field went past the grandstand for first time yesterday
Tragedy strikes: Izvestia (centre) broke his left hind leg as the Rothmans field went past the grandstand for first time yesterday
10/20/1991
Money in the bank: Betting on Izvestia yesterday was like opening your own bank account, except where else could anyone make 13-per cent on his investment in less than three minutes?
Money in the bank: Betting on Izvestia yesterday was like opening your own bank account, except where else could anyone make 13-per cent on his investment in less than three minutes?
8/19/1990
Lively yearling colt, Centenarian, bought by Chester Everett Pickering this year at the age of 101, gets some exercise with groom Patrick Forshaw at t(...)
Lively yearling colt, Centenarian, bought by Chester Everett Pickering this year at the age of 101, gets some exercise with groom Patrick Forshaw at t(...)
12/8/1982
Big green crowd: The St. Paddy's Day crowd of 14,239 yesterday at Greenwood saw the track record smashed by a 3-year-old colt, Canadian Silver, who co(...)
Big green crowd: The St. Paddy's Day crowd of 14,239 yesterday at Greenwood saw the track record smashed by a 3-year-old colt, Canadian Silver, who co(...)
3/17/1991
Bundled up against last week's biting cold, exercise lady Gaye Lynch, above, prepares to take a Northern Dancer colt, aptly named Sudden Frost, out for a Woodbine warm-up
Bundled up against last week's biting cold, exercise lady Gaye Lynch, above, prepares to take a Northern Dancer colt, aptly named Sudden Frost, out for a Woodbine warm-up
2/8/1989
The horse. With Approval, the gutsy roan colt, might well be dubbed the Cardiac Kid because his victories come by the merest of margins. He won the Qu(...)
The horse. With Approval, the gutsy roan colt, might well be dubbed the Cardiac Kid because his victories come by the merest of margins. He won the Qu(...)
7/9/1989