Calgary Herald from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 55

THE CALGARY HERALD Oct. 1 4, 1 980 C7 Skip Richard comes of age Sky may be limit for red-hot Hansen r' v1 a I However, considering she had a makeshift lineup, Hart was pleased with runner-up status, worth $3,000. She had longtime sidekick Ellen Nally at third and newcomers Sheila Cahoon and Sandy Turner at lead and second, respectively. Regular lead Sharon McLean was a spectator, nursing a foot injury. 'It took 101 phone calls to get this rink together," laughed Hart.

The consolation final, featuring Calgary rinks, was also lopsided and also ended at 9-5 with Sandra Knights beating Nelda Harker after spotting the latter three in the first end. Knights, who won $2,000 with third Wanda McMurdo, second Kathy Sym-borski and lead Kathy Campbell, was jinxed last season when she lost qualifying finals in each of the three events at Autumn Gold and the hard luck carried through the season. It was the second straight year that Harker finished fourth (worth $1,500) but this time she did it with a splint on her knee due to ligament damage incurred a summer biking accident. Harker called the shots while vice-slap Karen McKenzie threw skip stones. HOGLINES: Upsets were commonplace in the four-day, 32-rink spiel with name rinks such as world champion Marj Mitchell of Regina Alberta champion Barb Davis of Lethbridge and former Canadian champions Cathy Pidzar-ko of Winnipeg and Myma McQuarrie of Lethbridge all failing to qualify for Monday's eight-rink playoff Last year's winner, Crystal Brunas, did not defend her title as her family's home in Gray, was destoyed by fire recently 1978 champion Dorenda Schoenhals played third for MacNiven.

Final Rod Haynes and ridden by Rick Hedge) proved best It is doubtful Hansen ever won an easier race than with Happy Home-maker. The winning margin was six lengths, wire-to-wire, and the saddles-mith never even bad to cluck to the fleet filly. Tm hoping- the season never ends now," Hansen joked. When it does, be will holiday briefly at his Le-wiston. Utah, family borne, then rejoin Brock's stable at Santa Anita in prepara-, tion for another Alberta season.

SHORT TALES: Barbara Rausch's two-year-old Deglo. also trained by Brock, won Monday's added, one and l16th mile Ascot Graduation Stake in Vancouver The track is closed today as 1.000 cubic yards of sand being added Management" treated back-stretch personnel to a Thanksgiving dinner in that area's cafeteria Today's mixed sale at Spruce Meadows, which started at 11 a.m, is offering 249 thoroughbreds. By Gyle Konotopetz (Herald staff writer) Let it be known that Kerrylynn Richard, a composed 24- year-old redhead from Kelowna has officially arrived as a slap. And, if her performance in the third annual Autumn Gold women's spiel on the weekend was any indication, she's at the T- head to stay. With well-seasoned third and longtime skip Marion Radcliffe providing the stability, Richard's Kelowna quartet breezed to a 9-5 victory over Calgary's Joan Hart in Monday's final at the Calgary Club.

The championship was worth $4,500 to the winning rink and, to Richard, it was worth it's weight in gold as testimony of her competence at calling the shots. "She's quite capable," Radcliffe pronounced of her protege who learned the art of skipping when the two played together with positions reversed. "This proved that we've got the right combination. Right now, this rink (also including lead Jan aw dry and. second Mar-lene Wilcox) is as good as any I've been on." Radcliffe, British Columbia's skip in the Canadian Lassie in 1974 and 1975, is quite content playing in Richard's shadow.

Tve had lots of years at the top. Now, it's her turn." '1 enjoy skipping if we're winning, grinned Richard, a mother of two who began skipping last year after three years as third for Radcliffe. In the fined, Richard was far superior to Hart, outshining her more experienced counterpart 74-44 in terms of percentage on treacherous ice. The Kelownan was near perfect in the first five ends when she took a 6-1 lead. She escaped a fifth-end jam with a raise double takeout en route to her eighth win against two losses.

"We ran out of steam," said Hart, who was vying to become the first Autumn Gold champion from the host province. RON HANSEN 200 wins again added Akarnina Stake (six furlongs, for two-year-old fillies), it was "about their 16th" major win. On Monday, they repeated with Danzoe Stable's Fonder in the $15,000 added Thanksgiving Stake (one and .1 8th miles, three-year-olds and up). In Sunday's featured $10,000 added Alberta Oaks (one and 1 16th miles, three-year-old fillies), Hansen finished third aboard Dick Armstrong-trained Joyful Jubilee. In this one, Tom Kitching's On The Roll (trained by By Doug Abraham (Herald staff writer) How high is up for jock- -ey Ron Hansen? Nobody knows for sure, not even the 20-year-old sensation himself, but Stampede Park fans will be the ones to find out first hand.

Hansen rode his 208th Alberta seasonal winner on holiday Monday, among a total of eight weekend victories and with 23 days remaining in the meet, would appear a good bet to hit 250. Hansen, the only rider to have ever won 200 races in one year in western Canada, thus broke that target for the second time. He set the former mark, 202. in 1978 as Canada's champion apprentice rider, when he also added another 14 victories in Toronto. He was Canada's win-ningest jockey again in 1979 with 188, all in and now appears a cinch for his third consecutive title.

He has also won three races in Manitoba this year. Strangely, Hansen had been blanked through both Thurdsay and Friday cards. Temporarily stalled through 23 straight losing efforts despite a 23 per cent winning percentage, he admitted to having felt the pressure. "I thought. 'Oh no.

I'm going to get hurt or something, and there goes the the young man. worldwise beyond his years, recalled Monday. He needn't have fretted. Back-to-back hat-trick performances Saturday and Sunday turned the trick, and it was probably fitting that the record 203rd tally came aboard a member from trainer Ron Brock's stable Happy Homemaker. Riding first call for Brock, the twosome have dominated 1980 stake events, and when Gulliver Stable's Happy Homemaker captured the $7,500 jiwis i tV 310 110 102 9 001 003 010 5 Kerrvtvnn Richard, Kelowna Joan Hart, Calgary Consolation Sandra Knighrs, Calgary Nelda Harker, Calgary 020 202 012 9 300 010 100 5 Furthern racing news, Page D22 Semi-finals Richard 8, Nelda Harker (Calgary) Hart 10, Sandra Kntgrtts (Catgary) Quarter-Finals Richard 7, Marnle McNiven (Saskatoon) Hart 8, Rowena Forsyth (Calgary) Harker 11, Louise Charko (Calgary) Knights 11, Brenda Elder (Saskatoon) 0.

Herald photo by Garth Prftchard KERRYLYNN RICHARD PONDERS OPTIONS en route to Autumn Gold title Transactions Trautman enjoys his Indian Summer BASEBALL American Ufue Milwaukee Brewers Dame Harry Warner third base coach. National Usfut Chicago Cubs announce manager Joe Amalhtano has agreed to return lor the 1981 season. BASKETBALL National Association Portland Trail Btazecs sign guard Kervia Ransey. FOOTBALL Canadian Uafut Saskatchewan Roughriders sign running back Reggie Tayior to I4day thai HOCKEY National Leafue Edmonton Oilers acquire defence man )ohn Hughes tram Vancouver Canucks. Los Angeles Kings send left winger John Paul Kelly to Houston of the Octroi League; name derencemao Brad SeNrood player-assistant coach at Houston.

Toronto Maple Leafs send goahendei Vincent Tremblay to New Brunswick of the American League. SOCCER North American League Los Angeles Aztecs announce that coach Rinus Micfaels has left the team to otn C. Cologne of West Germany. Seattle Sounders announce that coach Alan Hurton has signed a three-year Contract. in its fifth yecrr together and, ironically, is the only rink from the original Super League that has maintained the same personnel.

Early in the week, warm temperatures threatened the ice and had organizers worried about whether they could complete the event. All 24 sheets on the second floor were knocked out of service, causing untold havoc. came in the fourth end, when Trautman stole three. He added another three-ender in the sixth and, though Sokolosky rallied, Trautman was one-up coming home and did not give the former a chance to get back in the game. Trautman advanced to the final by defeating George Fink, while Sokolosky eliminated the veteran Ed Lukowich from Medicine Hat.

However, Trautman said the problems worked themselves out as the week progressed and he, for one, felt the ice was remarkably good considering the circumstances. "It was nice and keen," he said. "It was a little tricky on the centre line, so it was hard for anybody who got behind to come back. Fortunately, we were up pretty good all week." The big blow in the final By Eric Duhatschek (Heratd staff writer) Practice, they say, makes perfect. Or, at least, that's what they have said in the past.

After winning the Indian Summer men's bonspiel Sunday in convincing fashion. Bob Trautman is ready to dispute the validity of that particular truism. Trautman, a farmer from Beiseker, finished the har- vest a week ago Monday, exactly 24 hours before he and his rink were scheduled to begin the opening draw of the bonspiel. Not only did Trautman's team win then, it swept undefeated through the 'A' side into Sunday's final and then beat Wayne Sokolosky 8-6 to capture first place in the season's annual ice-breaking spiel. Along with lead Marv Knight, second Ken Lunde and third Ken Steel Trautman handled the tricky ice at the Big Four better than his more illustrious opponents.

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