At the 1990 fair. Show no. 2

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the nineties with your host, Rich McGlinchey. How you doing everybody? Welcome to Sonoma County in the nineties at the 1990 Sonoma County Fair, I'm Rich McGlinchey and I'm Suzanne Grant and we're going to tell you a lot about what's happening at this fair. The second week

of the fair. Right now, we're gonna talk a little bit about racing. The track that you see right in front of you here is the Snowmen County Fair Racetrack. It's a little over 100 years old. It's also a one mile track with shoots at either end

so that the horse can run straight for quite a distance before it actually gets into the turns. Now, during the fair, there will be 13 days of racing, Those 13 days, there will be 13 races each day, there will be appaloosa quarter horses, mostly thoroughbreds, but

occasionally some Arabian races. Now, that's kind of pretty too because if you stop to think about it all the thoroughbreds that exist in the world go back to three Arabian studs and betting is a big thing to hear about you. Are you familiar with the, I

have to admit rich that I'm a complete novice when it comes to knowledge of racing. Is the Sonoma County fair considered big time in the scheme of things. Well, very definitely is. Now as a matter of fact in 1989 last year, the fair average over $2

million dollars a day in wagering and that's really getting into big time. That is big time. I'd like a little percentage of that myself. You have some pics for later. Oh yes, we will have another thing that will be happening here at the county fair as

the racing seminar, which I'll be taking part in and you're all invited to attend because we will be trying to tell you a little bit more about racing here will also be trying to tell you how to pick winners. Well, as fascinating as horse racing is

here. It is certainly not the only activity that's taking place at this magnificent Sonoma County Fair. So dan, what are some of the other things that are going on? Well, like we've said a number of times already, there is something for everyone at this fair exhibits

and displays and rides galore. But music is a very important part of the fair coming up on Monday. We've got Ricky skaggs, that's a page show Tuesday is a free show with Jan and Dean. That's a day at the beach and they're trucking in 75 tons

of sand for that. So bring your sunscreen. We've got the judds on Wednesday, Thursday is kids day and all kids under the age of 12 will be admitted free on Friday. There's a free oldies show with Bobby Freeman, the platters and the coasters Saturday. There's a

blues festival and on Sunday, Chris, lawyer and the hangouts, we're going to take a moment now to take a closer look at some of the other events coming up at the fair. And now let's take a look at the day in the life of

a racehorse. How you doing again? Everybody, we're standing here talking to Don Collins and Don Collins in case you didn't know, it was probably one of the most successful appaloosa trainers in the United States. He's had great

success here at the Sonoma County Fair Racetrack. And Don tell us just off the record, how many times have you won that major handicap? $100,000 call of California Derby and I think I've won it six times six times. You own it almost now, don't you? Well,

it's a good race to win. Oh boy, it sure is, don. We were talking a little while ago about the horses now you have two horses in this upcoming race, the third race here. Tell us briefly what transpires, what happens your horses entered. He's in your

bar and then what happens in the previous to the race? We get a 20 minute call in the barn area. Then we bring the horses to the what they call a receiving barn. And there's identifier to check their tattoos to make sure you have the right

horse. And also assure that checks their feet to make sure they have the correct shoes on the horse. They want to have all the advantage to the public they can, so they make sure everything is done right. Then we go into the silent paddock into the

silent area and put the saddles on the horses and then the riders come out and we give instructions or tell them how to ride the horse in the race according to how we think the race will go and that's then we send them to the racetrack

and pray a little, quite a bit of Don? You have a horse called blowing easy and I blew it easy, I think holds the track record here. I know he holds records all over. He's still running too, isn't he? Yes, blowing easy. 100,000 here. He won

the Derby when he was a three year old. He's seven now and he's still running and I think his total earnings up to about 250,000 and I, he will run here probably this weekend. Don. How many horses do you have in your stable right now? Probably

close to 50 head, 50 head, you must make a lot of trips to this receiving bar and we run every day and several times a day and I know you another thing you make an awful lot of trips to the winner's circle. We like to do

that. Thank you very much for being our guest and a little bit about this good luck in the race today. All right, ladies and gentlemen, now back tomorrow. This exciting 1990s county. Well, hi everybody. You know the theme of this year's Sonoma County Fair is catch

your limit of fun and I've hooked onto the fish lady herself, Gilda Gilda. Thanks for joining us today, You're welcome. Okay, tell us, first of all what it's like walking around four hours at a time in this fish costume. Well, it's pretty fun because I can

be crazy and get paid for it and nobody can recognize me when I take this off. But you are in the entertainment industry. Generally speaking. Yes, I want to be a singer and a dancer when I grow up. Well, that's one way to break into show

business. Now, tell me you are a rainbow trout, is that correct? Yes, I am. I'm for the Sonoma County theme. Catch your limit and I'm the fair fish. Okay, now the question, I think that's been going through everybody's minds is how in the world did you

get this job? Well, I was supposed to write a 25 word essay on why I wanted to be the fair fish and I knew if I got interviewed, I'd get the job. So I sent in this really ugly picture of me kind of like. and I

got the job. So they interviewed me and they said you're perfect and here I am. How many times do you think you've had your picture taken so far? Just in the two days of the fair that we've been here? Oh, at least 100 and 50 times.

I've only been here for about eight hours so far. I bet the kids really love you. But you know, there's lots of exhibits were standing here in front of one of the main exhibits of the catcher limit theme. There's a, a friendly school, the diver here

in the back there is inside this trailer behind me, every kind of possible fishing lure, commercial fishing lure that you could think of. There are live salmon and trout displays, a 30 ft salmon trawler. It's certainly worth spending your time to come on down Gilda. Thank

you so much for spending your precious time with us. Thank you very much. Come on down and see me and thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going back now to Rich McGlinchey County fair racing seminars in the next 45 minutes to an hour. We're

going to try to take some of the mystery out of horse racing for those of you who are not familiar with racing and we're going to try to add a few thoughts to those of you who are veterans. Okay, let's take a look at the racing

program. This is all important. You absolutely have to have a program to be sure you're going to make the right bet. Now, racing program has a lot of information on it, but here's what we think is most important to you. The horses number. The horse's name

is shown here in the black, the horses numbers on the left. It's extremely important that you go by that number because when you go to the window to make a wager, you have to use that number. Don't use the one that's in the newspaper or in

the racing form. Use this number. Also, here is the name of the horse. Here's the amount of weight the horse carries. Here's the horse's jockey. Here is the morning line odds are track handicapper establishes what he thinks the odds will be on each horse that day.

And those odds appear here on the side. Other information that's on there is the owner, the trainer, the horses breeding, that is it sire, and it's damn! And of course, the name of the race and the racing conditions. And as we'll be telling you throughout the

seminar, reading these racing conditions is all important because it separates the contenders from the pretenders. Be sure to buy your program and go by your racing program. It's the only way you can be sure you win when you win. We found our way this time to

the Grace Pavilion where you can see product displays, everything from plants to paintings, to jewelry. And here hammocks we are at the golden hammocks booth and I am speaking with Rebecca. Right? That's right. Rebecca reed. Well, thanks for joining us. Now, you're kind of an expert

on the hammocks. As I understand it. Your boss highly recommended. You tell us about the hammocks. What are they made out of? It's made out of 32 gauge cotton. These are made in Mexico. The chairs. The hammocks are also made of 32 gauge cotton from Fortaleza

Brazil. They are beautiful and really comfy too. Why don't you show us some of the positions you were telling us about? You can you can recline in them, you can you wanna it can be a rocking chair seat, a swing and a recliner. Look at that.

Is that amazing? Now they're pretty hard to fall out of. I mean, but they're very comfortable. You can't fall out because you're totally surrounded. Absolutes surrounded. Now we were talking about the Hammock that's behind us. I don't know if the camera can get that, but it's

it's beautiful. Where was it made? Its handmade. I presume that takes that takes about a year to make it's all hand loomed in Fortaleza Brazil. It's $350. This one right here. The big one up on the wall. that's gorgeous, gorgeous. $110. And it's the same size

as the queen size bed. eight ft by five ft. Same. You know, it's for sleeping. If you go to most countries like brazil or Guatemala, El Salvador, they're all sleeping in hammocks, just like this. How many people do you think you could fit in one of

those three, 3, 4 if you want to have a lot of fun right, for 2.5 years. For 2.5 years in san Diego. I slept in one is a bed. Well, Rebecca, Thanks for joining us again. We're at the Golden Hammocks booth here in the Grace Pavilion.

It's always a good place to come and just walk around. There's even foods here. There's, there's a great cinnamon roll place down near the entrance. We're gonna take a moment now to listen to some music by local jasmine bob Lucas while we're standing here at the

Redwood Theater where several hours of live music is about to get underway. Now, live music is certainly nothing new for the Sonoma County Fair. But what is new this year is the first annual Best of Sonoma County Musicians showcase everyone performing here this afternoon is a

winner of a Sonoma County 1990 art award here with me is mr bob luke bob Lucas and Friends and his, superb vocalist Miss Lois Tanner. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you for asking us, Suzanne, Pleasure to be here. Now I understand you have a

new album entitled elegant jazz. What can you tell us about that? Well, it's comprised of all original compositions, some of my songs that I've written over the years. They're is one original by a man named Richard Koci who's a close friend, but lyrics on two of

the songs are done by the Lady right here with us Miss Lois Tanner. So we are not only a musical performing collaboration but also lyricist and musical composer. Well, I've certainly enjoyed listening to the album that you gave me this weekend. I highly recommend you folks

go out and pick up a copy. You also have an album out, don't you? Yes, I do. And of course bob is on the album. It's called Everything Old is New Again and they're all songs, old songs that we just kind of updated for people that

wanted to hear a new, refreshing, refreshing approach to something. Somebody else who's performing on your album is Richie Cole. He's also a recipient of a 1990 art Award in the Pop division. What songs is he playing on? He's playing on a thing called This has to

be the worst pun in the business, Suzanne, it's called Safe Sax and he's also playing on samba de Luca, which Richard Karachi wrote our guests on the album and performing on several of the other ones like, oh, I guess one of the boston nova's on there.

It's hard for me to remember. But you know, you're doing such a great job of plugging the album. I have a couple of quarters here, one for Lewis album and went for mine. Thank you my son and I thank you will find some video games to

blow these on. I'm sure it was a lot of fun doing these are our first major albums and we're kind of excited about them and we had people like Richie cole of that caliber who is an internationally known jazz artist and we're very fortunate to have

drawn from the best of Sonoma County jazz musicians to include on the album and also out of the Bay Area in general. Real exciting project for us. We got another one coming up in october of all original music. So we write a lot of our own

material. We'll be doing several numbers here. Today I understand that there is one song on the album and I believe you're the vocalist on this one that's very close to your heart getting a lot of attention in the jazz world. Yes, I'll let lois tell you

about that one. Tell us about it. Well, basically, I know I kid everybody. I say I know 4327 songs and this one became my favorite about three years ago when bob played it for me the first time. It's a tribute to the late judy garland and

bob wrote both the music and the lyrics and it's goodbye judy. It's absolutely wonderful song and I think I enjoy singing that more than any other song I sing and I think we will be doing that today, won't we bob? Yeah, I think it's on the

slate for today. It's a wonderful song. Well, I certainly look forward to that. Both of you. Thank you for being with us today. I wish we had more time. I want to spend just a minute talking about who else is going to be here for the

best of Sonoma County Musicians showcase. Don't forget it's the first annual, so hopeful we're going to be doing this every year at the fair scheduled for today of course, bob Lucas and friends. They also tied in the new age and jazz category with Crystal wind. We

have broken ties in the rock division. Michael Barkley blues band of course was the winner of a blues award, the Hertz rent a band, a wonderful country band and Richie Colin friends finishing off the show today. Well that's it for the red with theater. I'm Suzanne

Grant and we will be back after this short break with more of the Sonoma County fair. Hi, this is Arnold Palmer. I've taken some risks with my golf game that maybe I shouldn't have. There are some kids I know that are at risk. Also these are

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together. Soon the neighbors had their neighborhood back. That's what happens when people and police work together, write this down and I'll show you how you can help take a bite out of crime. Certainly one of the more exciting things at the fair. All the rides, we

have rides of all types. I'm gonna step back and ask some of the people what they thought of the roller coaster. Come on. Hi, what's your name? Amy Amy. What did you think of the roller coaster? It was fun. It was fun about it. Um The

heels, the hills. Yeah. And how you jumped out of your seat now. How does your stomach feel right now? Um Weird. Okay, Amy, Thank you very much. Hi, what's your name, lisa lisa. What did you think about the roller coaster? It was fun. What do you

like about the roller coaster? Um, it's exciting. What's exciting about going down the hills and everything. I like to know what you think right before you go on the roller coaster. What kind of sensation do you like to feel scared? Just feeling scared. Well, good. Thank

you lisa. Hi, what's your name? My name is Ruth, ruth. What do you like about the roller coaster when you're going down the hills? Your stomach gets tied in knots. That's what you like. All right, well, thank you. Hello? What's your name? Katy, Katy. What do

you like about the roller coaster here at the fair? It's exciting. What's exciting about it? You know, going down when you're going up and then you're ready to go down. Your stomach just goes Katie. Did you get the thrill that you're hoping for? Yeah. Alright. Thank

you, Katie. That's it for the roller coaster ride. We're going to move on to some other rides and see what they think. Okay, let's go. We're here at the ride called the casino. This is one ride that I might go on myself. Let's see what other

people think. What's your name? Amber Amber. What do you think of this ride? It made me dizzy. Do you want to go on again? Okay, thank you. Hi, what's your name? Melissa melissa. What did you think about the ride to Casino? I'm going to get sick.

You're going to get sick. Well, maybe you better go then. You're not going to go on again, I guess, Huh? So you can get real sick. That's sick. Okay. Thank you. Okay. That was the ride called the casino. We're gonna move on. There's lots of other

rides. We're approaching the ride called the kamikaze quite frankly, I think they're nuts. But let's go see what they think. All right here. Hey, what's your name? Omar Omar, What did you think of the kamikaze? It's bad. Let me tell you. Alright. What's wrong about it?

Bad, bad. Okay, thank you. All right, Kamikaze. What did you think about it? I let my Thompson's up there. Hey, what's your name? Chris, chris, chris, you're gonna go again. Alright, chris, good luck to you by kamikaze, plenty of excitement around here. We're gonna go one

more. Check it out. Come up with certainly the most refreshing right here at the fair of the bumper boats. Now, this is another one I can handle. Let's see what the other people think? Hey, what's your name? You just get off the bumper boats? What did

you think you got cooled off? All right, Tim. Thank you. What's your name? What do you think of the bumper boats? What do you like about it? What else besides getting wet? I don't know. They're just fun. Okay, well you have fun. Huh? I'm here at

the sheep barn now with a couple of special guests who are getting ready to enter into the market lamb competition. This is jennifer Snell and you belong to the two rock four H club, is that correct? Yes. Now tell me a little bit about your lamb

here. He was in competition yesterday. How old is he? How long have you had him? What do the judges look for? Um, he's about eight or nine months old and he's specific and I've had him for two months and that's about how long they want you

to have them to fatten them up for competition. They look for muscle along the back of the lamb and for choice meats for um, you know, for, for, okay. Um, now you're, you're going into competition again today and they're gonna be looking at you, right? Yes.

They judge on how you show the lamb and how you represent it and, and pretty much, you know, show off your lamb, but they're looking at you now, when I was here yesterday, a couple of the lambs, they definitely weren't too happy about their situation here.

They made a break for freedom. Has this guy ever done that on you? Now? He's pretty calm. You know, you work with him the last couple of weeks, you have him at home and they tend to calm down. Some lambs are a lot more energetic than

others and they tend to be a lot feistier, but he was pretty good. Well I understand that you're a tough competitor that you've done very well this year and in years past two, you're a big winner. Yes, I got reserve champion market lamb this year and

that was really nice. I like, that sounds like our friend here wants to talk. Have you got anything to say? Say something for us to sniff the microphone a bit. Okay, well that's it for the sheep judging area, jennifer Snell of two rock four H club,

thanks for joining us. And now I understand Rich McGlinchey has an interesting guest for us. Hey Suzanne, that was a really cute little lamb. Say, you know, a lot of people do not know anything about the fiscal end of the Sonoma County Fair and of course

it's one of the most important parts of the fair. The gentleman with us right now Roger Hayes is the controller for the Sonoma County fair and is the most knowledgeable person of all about where we stand that way. Roger What about the fair itself now, how

much is the budget for a fair like this? Are 1990, budget rich is $9.8 million. $9.8 million. That's big. That is very big right now. Where do we get that kind of money to operate for? Because I know the fair does not get tax dollars. So

where do we get the money? About 80% of our revenues rich come from the two weeks of the fair. That's roughly over over $7 million come from. Just these two weeks of the fair right now. So much for that? Seven million we have what you say?

9.5 million. Where do we get the other 2.5 million. Well, we rent the facility out year round that accounts for a little over a million. And we also have a year round watch and wager facility and that generates another 800,000 or so. We also have some

interest earnings that watch and wager facility has really been an asset to the fairs all over, hasn't it? Yes, it has. It's allowed us to do a number of capital improvements on the ground like this page we're standing on and the renovations of the Grace Pavilion

this year we had a $1.5 million capital budget and I think it's proven itself very effective. It certainly has Roger. And one thing I've heard already at this fair, the entire 1st 10 days of it, The place looks beautiful. It's much cleaner. It seems like they

think that it ever has been before. So that's where some of this money goes. Right. Absolutely. Well, that's what I'm talking about the new pavement, the painting of the Great Pavilion restroom improvements and so forth. Roger. I hope this is the most successful fair ever. Thanks

for coming over and visiting. It's been a pleasure. Alright. And now back to Suzanne Grant at Uncle Sam's Petting Farm. Well, hello again, Here we are at Uncle Sam's Petting Farm where you're sure to find a friend. I think this place is a definite must for

families with young kids, especially those who might not get a chance to see farm animals up so close this year on display, if you will, we have three different of goats. I'm in here with the Kashmir goats, they have beef calves, there are pigs, there's a

llama from the Petaluma Petaluma ranch across the way. We even have the unusual Jacob sheep with their set of four horns. I find them pretty amazing. They're out here every year. But there are other things to see here in terms of animal exhibits besides Uncle Sam's

Petting Farm. Well, Suzanne, as we conclude our second show from the Sonoma County Fair, it's kind of nice to be in a real comfortable seat, isn't it? Sure is good to sit down and I'd like the folks

to know where we are sitting. We are perched high atop the remote trailer that belongs to none other than KFT Y T. V 50 at the home of the North Bay's News hour and they're gonna be broadcasting live every day of the fair from seven until

eight. We certainly do. Thank them. It's very kind of finish our show in this lovely setting. You know, Suzanne, I have really enjoyed our visit to 1994 I hope you have to. It's been great rich and I'm really looking forward to coming back next year to

the 55th annual Sonoma County Fair. I'm glad you said that because it gives me a chance to say that, you know, my father brought me to the first of the new fares in 1936 as a little kid and I've had the good fortune of making every

one of them except for three years when I was in the Armed Services. I think it's a marvelous fair. It's a special time of the year for special people and I just more in love with it every year. And you know if you want to come

out to the fair, there are a few things that you should know. The admission for 13 and older is $4 and it's a good bargain. There's a lot of wonderful entertainment here for youngsters. 7 to 13 is $1 if you're six or under or a military

person in uniform. The admission is always free. You know the Sonoma County Fair is a wonderful fair. It's a special time of year for special people and I sincerely think that this is the best one they've ever had. It's great rich. I can't say anything beyond

that. Okay, and ladies and gentlemen, we've had a wonderful time being with you. I hope you've enjoyed it half as much as we have and we'll see you at the 1991 fair also