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03-29-2022, 12:56 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 40
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Eugene Melnyk
Eugene Melnyk, Senators owner, dies at 62
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03-29-2022, 09:00 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New York
Posts: 481
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Owned so many good horses.
Vividly remember Strong Hope holding off Empire Maker in the Jim Dandy .
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03-29-2022, 01:09 PM
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@TimeformUSfigs
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Moore, OK
Posts: 46,828
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Man, 62, way too soon. I remember he got a liver transplant several years ago.
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03-29-2022, 01:19 PM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
Posts: 88,646
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https://www.drf.com/news/sovereign-a...melnyk-dead-62
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Melnyk is known for campaigning Eclipse Award champion sprinter Speightstown, who wrapped up his championship campaign with a victory in the 2004 Breeders' Cup Sprint. He is now a perennial leading sire at WinStar Farm. Among Melnyk's other top runners was 2007 Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill, who swept the Canadian Triple Tiara.
Melnyk's other Sovereign Award champions include Grade 1 winner Lukes Alley, and Archers Bay, Leigh Court, Marchfield, and Roxy Gap.
Flower Alley carried Melnyk's colors to victory in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes and three other graded stakes, then went on to become a classic sire with 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another. Melnyk's other Grade 1 winners included Bishop Court Hill, Harmony Lodge, Host, Marley Vale, Pool Land, and Tweedside.
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03-29-2022, 01:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Near Lexington, KY
Posts: 3,246
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R.I.P.
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03-29-2022, 01:49 PM
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clean money
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Maryland
Posts: 23,559
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Much respect. One of the all time greats in Canadian racing. Impacted the entire sport.
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