The drivers and trainers were John Hogan, a legendary driver with more than 4000 wins, James Hardy,last years leading driver and this years current leading driver and a special thanks goes to Brenda Provost, who was nice enough to bring them all over to her barn where the kids,whom were aged from 7 to 15 were able to take photos with the horses and ask Brenda all kinds of questions relating to her horses.

When wewere about to leavethe barn area, Brenda told them that her horse was racing today in the first race and if she won they all could come into the winners circle for a picture with her horse.

You guessed it, so the adults: Mike Gallagher, Janet McBride-Roy, Sheri O`Brien, Peter Rapiejko, Skip Lukey and the kids: Meghan Roy, Elizabeth Tomasz, Rose Duchemin, Hailey O`Brien, Abigail Fowler, Cory Branscomb, Sarah Gallagher, Brittney Remillard, Abby Rapiejko and Lorin Dorsey all went into the winner`s circle and had their picture taken.

When it was all over, I asked all the kids what their impression was of the one hour tour and they all said that they couldn`t wait tobe old enough to help out in the barn area working on the horses.

Under a beautiful seventy five degree day, these kids all had a " beautiful " day.

Bob LIEBERMAN