Sonoma County Fair, 1987-1989

everybody. Welcome to the mechanic tonight at the 1995 as you just call there is now. By the way, you might want to know a few things about starts on the 24 ends are sick. The hours are 10 in the morning. Cost. $5 for Don't. 13 older,

$2 for those 7 to 12. Six under. No. You want to see a lot of you six year old that Trump's a question. Part of the program for me, Ellen. Interviews, real stars. First of all, one of the nicest people I work with. Certainly one of

most talented police. Alexander. Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be co hosting the fair show again with you this year. And may I introduce our to other co host, Dana to Rico and Alison Sanford. Thank you, Lisa. You know, Lee says that there is so

much to do with the fair that every year I miss out on something. Well, this year I decided that I am not gonna miss anything. I'm going to do it all. I'm going to see it all. I'm gonna hear it all. And best of all, I'm

going to taste it all. So I've got a really busy day ahead of May about you, Dana. Oh, I'm going to be very busy. We are going to go behind the scenes of the racetrack, and I'm going to be interviewing Steve Spect, a horse trainer. And

we're going to learn all about getting the horse up and running at the fair. Great. Uh, what's more, I want to say how pleasure to be working. How would it really? Well, rich, you know, there are so many ways to participate in the fair, and Dave

Cox and you all know is Post Newsweek cables. Host of Game of the Week has found one very interesting artist. Let's do it now. Thank you very much. I'm in the HomeArts building and I'm with Jimmy McGee. And we're in front of the cannery where you

have a couple of entries. That did very well. Won't you tell us how many years you've been involved with a fair and why you do it? Okay, I would gather. Have been doing it about 2022 years started because I came to the fair, looked at things

and thought she I could do that and started entering all this year. I was lucky. My pickled peppers got a first and I got 1/3 on my canned paper cuts. And I usually do pretty well, but I do it because it's fun. I enjoy doing it.

It's a fun thing. It makes you feel part of your hometown fair, and it's sort of, you know, people say, Guess what I saw at the fair? You saw your canned goods or whatever, and that's about it. When you, ah, go to enter every year, do

you pick something different that you have an inner before the inter kind of the same things? Year after year? Uh, generally, at the county fair, I enter almost the same things because you're a little more limited. It's the beginning of the season. And if you want

to do things fresh in canning or jams the supply of mean you know apple sauce has to be last year's. So uh, no. I guess I do about the same things there. Pickles got first place and I talking to you a little bit before the, um

you said you kind of knew they were good. You had a feeling they might take first place this year. Well, I don't know about first place, but I thought they do well when anything in the top three is considered well. And, uh, you also get a

pair pass for entering. So you're also a winter the minute you bring your things in, not just for entering, but for bringing your exhibiting. And they give you a pass so you can come back and see what you did. You also involved with the Four H

Club. Don't you go ahead and give us a little plug for that, aren't you? Kind I like that. That's That's my second. That's my kids. I've been for each a long time, almost 25 years. My kids are out of the program. I do the county citizenship

program, and I'm extremely proud of our young people because we did a exhibit over here at Finley and we got a first. And Finley sort of shows that four h is not what everybody thinks it is. It being all livestock and perhaps just the cooking. There's

a lot of crafts and a lot of need things the kids do when they're great all the way from Little Lady. Bt ones up to 19. Oh, great. It sounds like you have a lot of great involvement with the fair. And you did pretty well this

year. First and third. The April cots also did very well and make you feel good to be a part of the fair. Yes, yes. It makes it your fair. And that's, you know, fun. All right, well, that's it. From the HomeArts building. Ah, congratulations on your

award this year. And we look forward to seeing you again soon. Thank you. Thank you, David. That was a very interesting exhibit. Big because I'm here with the exhibit supervisor, Sheila Quince, and she'll tell us what is in those exhibit building. Well, the Garrett building is

where we display all of the adult arts and crafts quilts, the cooking, sewing, the needle art. It's a wonderful display of local residents. I work right next to it is easy craft building and in that building or all of the fine arts photography, pottery, sculpture, of

course. Across the street is Finley Hall. And that's where all of the youth exhibits are. Wonderful display of kids talents. Things are great. You also want to mention the showcase now the showcase is in its second year, and it's a restaurant located at the base of

the racing grandstand. Every other day we will feature a different chef from a local restaurant, and it's a great alternative for fair dining, and we encourage everybody to come and check out the showcase restaurant. Of course, another element of the fair is all of the exhibits

and what all those four h and F A kids have done to get ready for the fair. Right? We know she'll earlier this we had an opportunity to visit with. Some four H members have been busy getting their animals ready for this year's Let's see what

they had to say. Money and drying would kill up. I do market lamps. Hi, my name's Lauren King, and I'm also doing market lands and I have a hammer and a cross. My name's Tony Peguero. I have a Suffolk market lamp, and I'm gonna show it

at the Centers birth. I am Michael Hoffman in I'm doing. I'm also doing market cheap and I'll be showing about. The center was Affair of one is £102 Miller's um 101 110. Hi. My name is Marcin Innis. And at the Centers affair, I will be showing

a ham and the Suffolk. Hi. My name is Robert McClelland and I will be showing at Santa Rosa Fair. Uh, cross and a hamp. I am. My name is Suzie Johnson, and I'm 17 years old and I've been doing this for eight years. Hi. My name

is Paul it, Lord. Oh, and I have sheep. And I've been doing this for five years and I'm 13. My name's Rebecca Paige Liro. I was 17 and I've been doing this for about eight or nine years. My name's Jenna McLelland, and I'm 15 and I've

been doing this, but for about seven years. My name is Melissa to DuPont. Set it. And I've been doing market lambs for eight years. When I was little, my brother and my sister did it and some just kind of carrying on the family family tradition about

sheet. A lot of kids in my class and I got to school with they always They did forage, and it said is really interesting and everything. So I decide. I give I give it a try. I think it would be good for somebody to do this,

because if you only have to have the Lambs for 60 days, I think and you just gotta feed him and raise him for that period of time and then you sell him and usually make pretty good money off of it. So it's a good profit. And

if you enjoy being around animals, it's good. I live on a sheep ranch and I feel it's very rewarding to get a chance to be able to show my sheep at the fair after I've been working with them all year. I like animals that I like

working with. Um and, um, I think it's a really fun thing to Dio and you learn a lot. I actually live on a beef ranch, and selling the lambs at the market at the fair helps me support my beef animals. So then I can use that

money for college also, but also to get more because toe increase my hurt. Doing market lambs helps me to learn about like another species of animals, and it also helps for my college education and with money for my dairy cattle, too. We also learned a lot

of confidence in yourself showing she because you know that you can do anything once you've learned how to handle it and show it for so long. The single hardest thing about raising the lamb is making sure that they grow right and that they get fed enough

and that they're shown right every morning. You gotta feed, you have to do chores. I mean, it may seem like a lot of work, but in the longer and kind of fun, and a lot of us enjoy doing it, and it keeps us away from getting

out of trouble. He's someone it has to be. It has to be something that you like doing and want to do. You know, you can't You can't have a mom or Dad say you have to do this because otherwise is just like, you know, you have

to get up every morning and want to go out there and feed him and work at it. The lamb costs 130 somewhere in there, and then you have to pay for the grain is about $10 a sack. You probably use about three sacks. That's 30 bucks

and then basically whatever else you need. Hey, like a bale of hay and then straw for the fair that covers the majority of it at the Sara's affair that you can only have to market animals would ever breathe. Or it could be one market steer in

one market. Lamb are to market lambs to market steers or, like a market swine or anything that you sell. You can only sell to animals at the fair. Probably saved a good 90% of it for a college in. I'll put the rest for spending. We'll take

the money and some of it goes into the college fun and the rest I used by cows, freedom and make more money. I'm not really sure what I want to do. I'm kind of leaning towards a There's a school down south that trains animals for the

movies, and I'm kind of wanting to do that. And also I do want to continue my hold Herford beef herd. Um, just to raise them and breathe them and have a big herd. Take it from my dad. I kind of like to be a vet and

work with animals still, because I really enjoy it, I want to go into medical school. I don't really know what I want to be it. I I wanna stay with animals and still be around about mill. Yet what I do, I'm interested in wanted things like,

um, like being an engineer in something or maybe owning my own business. But I'm not really into. I don't really know what I'm what I want to do yet, boy rich, it looks like a lot more workers into raising these animals than most of us realize.

That's certainly true. We've seen that in our exhibit so far. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to take a break after, which will come back with more of this fascinating 1995 Sonoma County fair. Big

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ability a chance. Welcome back to this tradition of Sonoma County, the 19 that's in 1995 Sonoma County Fair. We're sitting here with Jane Bingo, the events supervisor. That's not to correct title, but we'll get correct one of these days. Danny tell us some of the main

things that happened in 1995 this year for the farewell, providing some two week attractions that last the whole run, an affair so everybody can share in them. And I'm excited about them. We've got Joni Bartels, who's one of the top Children's performers in the country. We've

got a science show called Imagination Gallery. Hands on science exhibits. We've got lions and tigers here the whole two weeks, you name it. It's happening in there this year. I'm excited. I heard about a spectacular laser light show. Can you tell us a bit about that?

Oh, this is great. You know, in the past, we've had fireworks and people have missed them since we've given them up because of the horses. And this year, T and T is bringing in a laser light show. It's spectacular. There's inflatable screen that they put about

on the infield of the racetrack, and it rises five stories in the air and they project the lasers onto the screen. And the show will be every night for the 1st 6 nights of the fair. So I recommend you all get out here. It just looks

wonderful. Amazing. As you can see, there are more things and you can ever list of the fair. But Alison's gonna give it a try. Yeah, look at this. Doesn't break that's securely on a gas electric. She's

one of our I'm crazy. So it goes on her head just like that. Boy, am I going to spend a lot of time here. This is the Miller Genuine Draft Park stage. I'm here. The ruminate er's caffeine

cams, country jams sold a psycho to Noma Mountain Ban. Daily racing seminars were held here. Motor do psychical for cool cats Punch banana fish in the ghost wing. Focus the fair. I'm gonna have to come back every day. I don't find arts in the EEC craft

building are wonderful. And over here I saw all these great adult crafts in the garret building. Whatever you do, don't miss the junior arts and crafts in the Finley Hall. It's wonderful, Thank you. And here I am at the barnyard stage is a great place for

kids because they've got scarecrow building and bubblegum blowing contest and grocery bagging and longest weeds and family look alike Contest potato peeling, pie eating, you shoes joke telling Lego building, mummy wrapping, sidewalk art, whistling animal imitations, jumper, talent and singing, of which I have neither of

the last two. So I'm on to someplace else. Here's where they do the livestock judging goats, cows, poultry, horses, rabbits, lands, hogs, llamas, sheep chief dogs, sheep shearing. These kids are just great. Don't miss it. Here I am in the Charest Beck Arena, where Friday and

Saturday the 28th in the 29th is the PRC. A rodeo. And then Sunday I've got to be here for Farmers Day on July 30th. Monday, the 31st is Brandy, and on Tuesday, the first I am definitely gonna be up much closer to see the tractors And

then the last day of the fair. Sunday, August 6 Zq Panya Hey, this is the place to come. Thanks on Alison, and you're right there. Certainly, there's a lot to do out here. There's actually an awful lot to do for kids. So

what's going leisure? Leading some of these kids and see some of these activities that are scheduled, especially for their Hi, I'm here at one of the most popular places at the Sonoma County Fair, the Exxon kids area, where every day is a different theme day. So

you want to bring the kids down to enjoy some great activities. Today has built something and you can see behind me the kids busily working with Legos and blocks, having a great time. Bring the kids down because you can enjoy other spectacular theme days like Pirates

of the Russian River, Christmas in the Summer, Dinosaur Day, Knights and Castles and the list goes on to fun place to be also very big treat. This year at the Sonoma County Fair, Joni barred ALS Award winning Children's singer. She'll be performing here every day. You

want to bring the kids down for that? A real treats. In fact, I think the show is about to start. Let's go there now and watch. Wait. My name is Joni Bartell, and I've got a collection of Children's music. All the magic series then But, you

know, the Magic series. Do you old friends here and I'm gonna make some new friends. Okay? This is what we're gonna do. I need you to help me. I'm gonna take these two. We're gonna turn around. You're gonna come back here with me. Now, I want

you to follow me and do everything that I do, okay? And just to show how truly, truly are we're gonna see if we can tickle everybody's funny bone. You might have to hold that on. We're gonna see if you can tickle everybody's funny bone. Very silly

song. It pick up your nose. Okay. Great. Big pickle. Everybody's funny bone with a very silly song about one of my favorite things to eat. Wait in the morning with my I Hi. You want to know? Get your head. And here here you're Yeah,

why we're back at the kids carnival. And, of course, if you're a kid, this is the fun place to be wandering around. I found a couple of new friends. Hi. What's your name? Isaiah's. Hi, Isaiah. What is the most fun ride you've been on today? The

bumper cars, Bumper cars. Have you had anything good to eat today at the fair Soda, some soda. Good deal. What's your name and don't you? Antonio? What rights have you been on today? A lot of a lot of rides. If you had to tell the kids

at home to come down to the carnival And what rights to get on? What? What would that be? Um, the bumper cards for cars. That's great. Well, you heard it. You heard it here. If you want to come down to the bare and have a great

time with your kids, the kids carnival is the place to be. I've been wandering around, and as you can see, I found some more friends who want to tell me about their day at the fair. What's your name. Hi, Tracy. What have you been doing today?

Going on there? What's been your most favorite ride? Swing. Big swing. How fun. What's your name? What's your favorite ride? The turtles. My favorite ride to what's your name? Book? Hi, Brooke. What has been the most fun thing you've done today? Well, as you can see,

as I continue walking around the kids carnival, I find more friends. I met two more. This is Naomi. And this is Amanda there from Sonoma. And they're having a great time at the fair today. Naomi, what has been the most fun ride you've been on that

dragon work? The Dragon one. Have you been, uh, walking around the rest of the fair today too? Having a good time? Yeah. Good. Have you had any really fun stuff to eat today? At the fair? Kind of. What have you had to eat today? Well, I've

had a hamburger and some lemonade. That's about all that sounds great. Listen, is there anyone at home that you want to say hi to and tell him to come on down to the fair? No. How about you, Amanda? We'll hide ad and remember. Come on, down

to the fair and bring your kids to the kids carnival while we're waiting for research in return for the kid Julia, let's check in again with Dave Cox back at the exhibit area. All right, thank you very much. I'm in the annex to the Hall of

Flowers, and I'm with Maryland Kyoto, who has entered over 40 floral entries this year. Why don't you tell us a little bit about the work that goes into that? The work begins basically in spring early spring with seating, zinnias and baby's breath and dahlias and daisies

and a few other flowers. That's when the work begins. And actually the work of making the arrangements is absolutely fun. It's a time consuming because you have toe have to wonder what the judges are looking for because they're not real specific. They give you in the

premium book. They give you an idea of what they want and a height it has to be within 24 inches to six inches for the medium size that some. It's all relatively specific. So then then you just have to figure out what you want to go,

and then you go out and pick the flowers and do them and bring them here between seven and 8 30 Bring them here and now they're judging so we can get in to see them. So you brought your flowers in this morning and they're actually judging

them right now. So a little bit nervous about that we can't even talk about if you want or not. But is that part of it hoping the winner is just the fun of putting it together? Well, a little bit about Yeah, it's fun to win. I

like those blues, but and seconds were OK, too. But it's more fun just trying to figure out how to please the judges and to try to try to fit into the category of what they want, because they're pretty specific when they say what kind of a

design they want. Like this morning, I did one that was called It's called Restless, and it says show motion and, um, rhythm. And I'm like, What is motion and rhythm when it comes to floral arrangement? Because I'm not a professional that I do this twice a

year. This is harvest fare, so I used asparagus fern to give kind of Ah, motion and rhythm And then some zinnias to do, like a white and red zinnias. So now we'll see what the judges like that are they? But I was out of my mind.

Well, we wish you good luck. I hope it works out. You also do home arts, and I want to tell us about those entries. I like to take black and white photographs. So I've taken entered several here, and they did. Okay. And I did. One pennant

growing of way went to New York a couple of years ago, and my daughter sent me a printout computer print out that said, I love New York. So I did a lot of pen and ink drawing on it and entered It. Took second, which is But

you mentioned this is just a hobby for you. How does it make you feel to be able to display your stuff in front of the whole county? Um nice. Nice fun. Like doing something that supports the community Center. Rose is a really beautiful place to live.

Born array. San Francisco. So thistle is heaven. All right, well, thank you very much, Maryland. Great job. And we wish you luck. We don't know yet if you want or not. But we hope you did well. And I'm sure you did. Alright, Maryland Kyoji with me

here at the next to the Hall of Flowers. Thanks again, Mr Appear. How'd everything go? It went great rich. But I'll tell you, I'm glad there's a second part to this show because there is so much more going on out here at the fair, we're gonna

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Call 1 800 8544 a. C s. Now for the Discovery Shop nearest you. Welcome second part of our Sonoma County in the nineties at the 1995 Sonoma County program. We got a lot of other things to show. You think you're gonna be fascinated by? We see

the flower show a little bit more about horse racing. In fact, there are a number of things that I know you're gonna like. Lisa, how about you? What are one of your favorite things? You're just there, Rich. One of my absolute favorite things about the fair

is the flower show. Alex Torres had an opportunity to spend some time there, so let's go now to the spirit of the Northwest without Hey, this is Alex Torres for Snowmen County in the nineties, here at the Flower Show at the Snowmen County Fair, where just

checking out the theme this year, which is the Pacific West. And believe me, they have done enough right this year. As you can see, this place is amazing. So we decided to do is go behind the scenes and see how they created such a wonderful work.

So we went back in time and behind the scenes. And here's what we found out. I think they actually started at the end of last year. They started designed waxing a year ago. They start planning what they're going to do. And as far as I could

tell, two weeks ago they had no plant life plants in here, and they had a lot of just would a view that crops up in the last two weeks. They did a lot of work. Oh, the waterfalls across a project. How did it happen? How did

you do it? Well, we had basically had a general contractor come in and set up the framing for it. And then we had another guy come in and pot moppet toe waterproof it and that that part was done by someone else. I did all the plumbing

and said all the pumps. Okay, So what are you doing right here? Side of the lake plastered over. And what? Sealed up with water? Water? Well, it's really keep all the water in. Anything bad happened doing this never. This is the way I like to end

Friday with a nice functioning waterfall with minimal problem. Well, you heard it. We are the waterfall master up here doing this thing. I am What is detective make a waterfall? A lot of hard work and a lot of thought. A lot of creativity. What's it feel

like when it finally works? Great. I feel like you actually did. I worked for the last seven years with the former designer jacket to pray, building some of the sets and working on the show. And when she decided to pursue a career and sculpture fair asked

me if I would take it over, and I was delighted to do so. So tell me a little bit about your vision here. What made you create this this way? What's it all about? As the title suggests, it's about the spirit of the mirth rest the

various sad areas and elements that comprise that from the coast up into the Cascade Mountains, myriad different types of water features waterfalls, uh, the beauty of the city of Victoria. So we've got a variety of different areas that all kind of come under that same category,

and I thought it would give different nurseries a chance to show off different styles of gardening, not have it all be. You know, the same same style. Everything that's within the perimeter of their garden is their creation. I create the surrounding some of the main features,

like the lighthouse and the waterfall in the pond and that sort of thing, and then give them at a particular square footage of foil on a broader. And then everything within that is up to them. I think that's what's made this year. So is the incredible

creativity of the 12 professional exhibitors. They are really, you know, did a spectacular job bringing lots of color and excitement in here in this garden that you see right behind you designed by Bob tandem. Uh, you know, typical of the type of thing you might see

in the city of Victoria. Very neatly manicured lawns, beautiful specimen plants on a very enchanting little path that leads down to the waterfall. Um, you know, on the other side, Dan Posey has created a more rustic, um, wildlife wilderness area with lots of redwoods, water features

and, you know, kind of, uh, more naturalistic seeming. So we have, ah, balance that way. What were there any major problems associated any of these things here to do? Ah, no. We better all share of leaking legs. Everything went perfectly. Everything worked way. We're getting scared

because everything was going so smoothly, you know, then blowing up pumps were like, What is going to happen? You know, mechanisms that worked fine for two weeks and then stopped yesterday. We gave ourselves plenty of window time for contingency problems, and everything was fine. You know,

I that everybody comes and ensures the spirit on Earth. I need a vacation. I think this is Place is good is last year. This is absolutely beautiful. Okay, thank you very much. The natural settings are you from the Pacific Northwest yourself, and I think this is

a representation of just exactly the way it is. But you don't see also many beautiful things of all in the same place. That's really good. It's a great place to escape to from the fair. There's a lot of fun, but when you need to break, this

is a great place to go. Yeah, our water. I think it's beautiful. Who's this with you? My son Sam. Show them the type moves I see. Yes. How would you do next? We're going to go out and do some rides. It's not just a flower show.

It's It's the Northwest. This is everything you would find in the Northwest. Just about well, there you have a rich. That's it. The making of the Pacific Northwest Noma County Fair back to you. 1995 County Fair Flower Show.

Really China. Greg Duncan. He's very proud of the job. If you get to the fear goes Flowers of the Northwest. Now my co host Lisa has gone out to visit with more kids, and we're gonna see more of those activities that are just for their. It

seems no one enjoys the fair more than kids. A big reason for that is all the activities that have been planned, especially four kids, things like the hayrides, the petting zoo and the daily parade with Barnaby. One very special treat is the Lion Stand wildlife showcase.

They'll be perf forming twice daily and three times on the weekends. You can also see these wonderful animals located in their pen just outside of the Finley Center on the line. Let's take a look at the show. Lions and tigers are natural enemies. The same source?

Yeah, a while, too. Is that your forest of it? There? There's still a handful. You gotta climb. Talk. And there those lines still compete with Bengal tiger before the same source. And there they remained. National enemy. How you guys having a good time today at the

fair? Liz. So what's been your favorite right? So far? Dragon one NZ. Jagan. What's the most scariest ride you guys have been on? What do you tell your friends at home to come down to ride? Yeah, I get it. Get a wrist bracelets, a good value,

the $12 then you could write on all the rides, right? We're standing in front of the common cause, and I gotta tell you, I'm getting the willies. Just standing here looking at it. But I found two girls who were going to go on this. Right Next.

What do you think? You do it. You're going to get sick. Shouldn't that looks scary to me that you think it'll be scary? Yeah. Yeah, that's the thrill of it. My guys having a good time at the fair. What's been your favorite ride so far today?

You guys get it has been a very busy guy. And he still out looking at these arts and crafts exhibits. There's so many of them and they're so wonderful. Let's join day. Hi, I'm in Family Hall and we're in front of the junior exhibits. And right

now with me is Bethany Grove. And she's done very well this year in sewing. Why don't you tell us a little bit about when it went into making this best of show? Um, well, my vest and skirt that I got best of show on. I won

the fabric at a making yourself with Will contest, and earlier in the year I broke my foot. So I had three weeks to make it, and it's done really well. It's one. A lot of awards. That's great. You also had a couple of other vests entered

that did well. Are they the same type of designs or different? Um, well, my other vests that I entered I used for demonstration on, um, make using different trims, toe change, the look of a vest. And so I made all those from a demonstration. How long

have you been sowing in? Is this something that you might want to consider for a career is just a hobby. Um, I think it's just a hobby. I have been sewing for three years, so you seem to have fun with it. You're gonna continue to enter,

uh, the next few years. Yeah. I'm gonna continue selling what? You tell us what school you go to and what other activities you're involved in. Um, I'm going Teoh Slater junior high this year and to be 1/7 grader. And I'm involved in ice skating, and that

takes up a lot of my time. Make a lot of my stuff that I wear on my skating. I saw it all, so I also play soccer. How does sewing rate does it? Your favorite hobby already like sports and stuff Also, um, I don't know it's

about even. I think I might like ice came home more. They seem to have fun as it make you feel good to see your stuff entered in the fair and know that people enjoy it. Yes. Why do you do it? What? Ah, what prompted you to

get into sewing in and enter into the fair? My mom used to sell in four h, and so I kind of took it from her, and I really like it. All right, Bethany. Well, thank you very much. You've done a great job here, and it's been

a lot of fun talking with you. All right? Bethany Grove here at the junior exhibit. Great job. Best of show in the sewing category. No. What happens when you combine the world's finest German homes with rare Canadian malted barley and that cool, clear waters of a

shimmering spring? How about big trouble? Welcome back. Anyone who knows Rich McGlinchey knows that one of his favorite spots of the fair is at the racetrack. Let's join him now at the head of the home stretch. We're sitting here with Russell Bays, the champion jockey of

the United States for the past three years in a row. Russ has had over 400 winners a year for three years, and you're kind of on scheduled under 400 issue, aren't you? It looks like we might make it. You got about 2 40 I think you

told me. I know. In 100 60.5 year to do what you probably do it. Another thing is very interesting. Rust Base is rapidly approaching 5000 winners. Now he has about 10 winners to go. When he came there side of rows of this year, expect to get

those 10 here. Because in the past, he's one about how many you're out here and win about 2022 thoroughbred races here. Yeah, so actually, he make over 5000. And that's very interesting, because there's only 14 other jockeys in the United States racing who have had over

5000 winners. Rush, you've been writing quite a few years. But where did you start writing? I started writing Yakima. Washington. Yeah. Come on. Actually, what went wrong? My first horse was Appaloosa. I wrote a wall of all of Washington. We don't really and then you. Then

you went over where rose Seattle. What was like, Yeah, that was written. I think you wrote a pair of several years. I summers at long acres for about five years. Then you came to California? Yeah. I've been down here a couple of trips, short trips and

come down to stay in 1979. Okay. I know you were the leading jockey in the area for a number of years. I don't know, 78 years. Then you went south with all the heaviest compensation. I think in the world you were down there for how long

we stay down there. Three years, three years. Then he came back up to Northern California and immediately reasserted himself. It's a champion. Yep. Uh, you're married? Yes. Your name? Jammie? Yeah. For your four kids? Yes. Trinity is 15. Brandy's 13. Cassie is Ken and Gable. His

fight? Well, I have to feel you would be approaching that. Well, it's nice. You know, it would be nice when I get behind me. Uh, there. They're all making a big deal about this, but, you know, it's and it's gonna be a nice feather in my

cap, but, you know, I mean, after it's over, I'll just have to block there and try to win the next race to have an expiration. And then the next thing. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, we're talking to Russell Base and I said before, he's the champion jockey

for the United States for the past three years in a row. He's here in Santa Rosa. You know, Leo Grocer once said, Nice guys finish last. But let me tell you one thing. This is one really nice guy and he doesn't think that thanks. Every year

during our Cinema County Fair show, I try to describe the excitement of a day at the races. I tried to tell you about the beauty of the horses, the color, the pageantry. I try to describe the excitement of the horses and jockeys locked in battles of

feeding. Endurance is a pound down that homestretch. You know, one of the things I always mentioned is how important racing is to the snow. McCarry fair. You know, the fair gets a small percentage of each dollar that's wagered here. That money, you may or may not

know, goes to pay for everything else. All the other entertainment at the county fair. So you can see courses and horse racing are very important. But how does it all come about? Doesn't just happen. You have to have horses and we get those from our local

breeders of thoroughbred. But then you have to have those special men and women who trained the horses to rate. And that's why at this moment we're gonna join Dana to Rico over in the stable area of Snow Mechanic fairgrounds with her very special guest. We're here

at the back stretch, part of the racetrack most people never see. And with me today, I have Steve Specht, one of the best horse trainers in the state of California. Steve, how do you like being here? I love it here. This is home. San Rosa just

bought a house, uh, in town here. And it's nice to come here for the summer. It's very nice, relaxed, Good race track. Nice little barn area. It's almost like being a having a working vacation being here. I bet it's like a working vacation. Every day. I've

looked your barn over and these horses are absolutely beautiful. Now tell me, how many horses are you running this year? Racetrack. Do you know I have 18 horses here. Hopefully, I can run them all at least once. It during the fair meeting. Uh, there's a couple

that might not start because there young two year olds that might not be ready to run at before the fares over with here. But last year, I pretty much got every horse started at least once here, and had a good, very good meeting here last year.

How old are the horses when you start racing them well, No, no thoroughbred start race until they're two years old, Are January 1st They all turn in your older. They might not necessarily be complete two years of age at the time that race, but all horses

change age on January 1st. Do you race the horse a single horse every day, or is there a time period in between? Where you don't run them is their arrest. What are the regulation? Well, there's no regulations. It's just kind of depends upon the horse. It

depends upon ah, their temperament. Some horses can take more racing and others some we have toe raise him a little lighter a little less often if you just have to kind of figure it out, you know, force for horse or everyone's different. No. Two horses are

exactly the same in the weight training. Since every horse is different. How do you put a certain jockey on a certain horse? I've always wondered about that. And is there any effort, or is there anything put into that effort in trying to marry up a certain

jockey to a certain personality on a horse? Well, you try to the better. Writers usually can adjust to whatever type horse it is if you tell a writer that a certain horse made a lot of Philly's don't like a lot of stick and you tell a

writer that, and you know, they pretty much pay attention to what you tell him. You try to ride the riders that are good enough to make the adjustment on their own and realize that if they're hitting the horrify horses running, the best that they can and

they're they're hitting them and they're not responding to put the stick away. You know, there's some you know, there's some writers that just can't seem to get it, but the majority of them are pretty good. They're pretty. They know if a horse is giving them all

that they can, they're attentive to the animal response, right? I guess that's what makes a good jockey ones that the writers that you have to give the least amount of instructions to are the better riders because they've been doing it. You know, like Jackie, like Russell

Bays. Uh, he is a hard writer and and will use plenty of stick on a horse. But he's smart enough and riding long enough to know that when a horse is not responding, he'll stop. Doesn't ah, horse. A racehorse would have it in their heart. It's

in their heart to run, and they enjoy it. That's why they're successful in there, there, all right, it does that have anything to do with? Well, the heart is the main ingredient. There's a whole lot of there's a combination of a lot of different things. They

got have the physical ability. First of all, that can't uh, if they just don't have the ability. It doesn't matter how much heart they have, but it has to be a combination of a lot of so There are several ingredients into the makeup of the racehorse

to be successful and along with the trainer, tell me about the diet and the groom main. And what you do after the horse has just run. Ah, race. Well, after a racehorse usually cools out for approximately an hour on the walking machine and, uh, in your

water him off slowly until they're completely relaxed and, uh, water off. Well, when you can't let a horse just when it come back after race or really thirsting if if you let him have all the water that they want, they might drink too much, cause themselves

to college on de. So you water him up slowly, let him have maybe half a dozen swallows at a time and then, you know, a few more rounds around the walker, and so then they don't overdo it cause themselves the cramp up in What about the

diet? What type of a diet goes into a horse before the race of the regulations? O. R. There's a lot of different things that we put in the fee. There's We feed a couple different vitamin supplements ever. There's a 1,000,000 of among the market. I have

a couple that I prefer myself. Other trainers use different things, but basically you got a It's odes and in dinner have a mixture of sweet feed, which has corn, barley, uh, molasses mixed in it and then is pretty much the same feed for every horses. It's

just the amounts that you change on for certain horses. There's bigger horses that eat Maurin smaller horsey lesson. So just perforce I know that you have one favorite horse here today and he's brought in 100 and $10,000 for you. Uh, he's on the walker behind a

site believer. Waas No, he isn't back in a stall right now. Back in the cell. Tell me about bad horse. Where did he come from? How long has he been in training and about his history and his name? His name's Captain video I claimed in last

December, uh, claimed means you purchase purchased amount of a race. It was a claiming race. It was 20,000 claimer and he had started once in his life and had finished fourth. I took him the second time out of his life for $20,000 tag and he finished

third that day. He's turned into a pretty good horse. He wanted his last year. 81. A pleasant and handicap and only wanted by a nose. But that's kind of his style to he just he's not the type to ever run off and when easily. Just unless

he just really in with a bad group of forces. But if he's just seemed to do what he has to, and so far he's done very well this year. E one of, ah organ Derby. And he was third in the Calif, uh, Golden State Derby at

Bay Meadows. I was $150,000 raising the horse that won the race jumper and was fourth in the Kentucky Derby. So he had stiff competition. Yeah. Listen pretty good, horse. Well, Steve, thank you for coming out here today, and, uh, I hope you do. Really? Well, I'll

be rooting for you in the box office. Uh, and so I hope you bet on a couple winners. Well, I hope that the winners turned out to be your courses. Thanks, Dana. Be very empty. You know, a lot of folks at 10 on account of their

horst rations and even wager on them and they don't know what they're doing. so no, The county Fair Board of Directors side created an annual seminar to familiarize people with racing, perhaps help him pick a few winners. If you plan to attend the races to 1995

there, be sure to attend the seminar. They're held in 10 30 to 11 30 every day at the Park ST And now let's meet the host of the seven are Danny Homes. How you doing? Danny Goodrich? How are you? Much pleasure. Listen, Danny, before we get

into the seminar quickly, I understand you're a former horse owner and the author of a bestselling book on How to pick winners. Thank you. Yes, The name of the book is 10 Steps to Winning, and during the fair, I will be autographing copies of the books

for the public. Great, Danny, how long have you been doing this seminar? Seminars I've been doing for about five years now, Rich, why do you do this? Thief Fair Board has decided that the handicappers on the public in general should have a better idea about racing

prior to the time that they attend the races. So it's more or less an educational process for the public Now what goes on in one of the well, the seminar smoking up basically into three parts way. Have a free racing handbook that way. Hand out so

that the public has a chance to understand how all the various wagers take place during the day. Uh, then we have a special guest. Come on every day from the world of horse racing. And, of course, this year are special. Special Guest is going to be

the winningest jockey in the United States. Mr. Russell Bays. He's a great writer. He is the best in Northern California and the best in the nation right now. At the end of the seminar, my co host, Bob Emerson, give us the selections of the day and

try to keep the people with some winners before they go home. And you do. Thank you very much. Well, about does it time to say so long For now. This is Dana in the winner's circle of the race track By and Rich meet me in the

box office with some money. My rant. I want to co hostesses at least Alexander Dana to Rico and Alison Sanford. I especially want to thank you, ladies. and gentlemen for being our guest for our to visit to his home account there. I think it's a wonderful

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