Klondike Hay foils racetrack odds makers.
There's nothing like a little home-grown feed to bring out the best in a horse. In the summer of 1968, Whitehorse hotelman Cal Miller's horse Scarlet Question, racing at Vancouver's Ex Park, was not really paying for his feed.
So, friends of Miller's thought some Klondike Hay might do the trick and placed a bale on a CP Air Boeing 737.
You guessed it - Scarlet Question won its next race. Of course hay shipments continued and Miller's stable experienced a series of victories. They were scratching their heads at Ex Park.
Breakfast of champions, 'Klondike Hay', air shipped from Whitehorse to Vancouver. Horse owner Cal Miller, poses with a hay shipment and stewardesses Gay Meredith (left), Wanda Anderson (centre) and Shirley Rickey (right).
Photo from the Whitehorse Star
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