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seww rut cu helen mason on horses Maintaining mount in top condition Want to keep your mount in top condition this winter During the next two weeks two local professionals will tell how they add that little bit of extra care during winter mon ths As trainer Brock McCauley finds he must constantly win in order to keep business coming This means keeping his horses in top shape and ready for those early spring shows when its important to make new contacts When trying to keep halter horses fit during cold winter months its vital to have an arena claims McCauley who conducts seminars teaches clinics and shows halter champions from his Bradford Ontario training complex He says its difficult to fit hose without indoor facilities because he feels the ideal winter barn temperature is 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit Kept inside at these temperatures horse can easily chill when worked outside during extremely cold weather McCauley blankets his horses just before their first shed in the spring After that first blanketing he keeps his horses warm so they never grow another hair coat This means you blanket in May for March show he explains DOUBLE BLANKETS When he buys horse late in the season after its already started winter coat McCauley double blankets and hoods the new horse until its almost in sweat The idea is to keep the horse so warm that hell shed his coat early If the horse gets too sticky McCauley removes one of the blankets He doesnt want the horse to rub itchy patches that can result from too much perspiration This would undo the finish McCauleys trying to put on the horse He gives the new horse warm bath every week or so plus rinse after every workout Hell shed within six to eight weeks says McCauley even in the middle of winter But you must keep the horse blanketed to stop from restarting the hair cycle This means maintaining cons tant temperature Because he feels high winter humidity is bad for his horses McCauley heats his barn with propane fuel which absorbs moisture During overcast days he turns on the barn lights so his The mens fortyeight team schedule at the Bar rie Curling Club for top event saw Henry and his rink take Sunny Chalmers rink to win the Consumers Gas Trophy Pictured is 524 The Business Girls first draw finished Friday Henry receiving their trophy from Frank Hersey with George Crump vice Bill Brown second and Bill McLinden as lead Georgian Colleges varsity mens curling team took first spot out of 16 teams in the Sheridan Fourth Annual Bonspiel held at Humber Highlands lat weekend Georgian was undefeated in division play winning three straight games to advance to the final against Mowhawk which Georgian won 83 Georgian defeated Cambrian 122 Centen nial 131 and Humber 64 on route to the final Georgians mens rink consists of skip Paul Harvey vice Dave Patterson second Dave Knox and lead Vaughan Barnes WOMEN THIRD In the womens division Georgian finished third out of eight teams losing only one game Georgian won their first match 93 over their second game 84 to Sheridan and defeated Mohawk 73 in division play In the game to decide third and fourth spots Georgian beat Centennial 83 Betty Geelan skips the Georgian women Darlene Rudd is vice Dawn Nicholls second Niagara dropped Georgian victOrs at college spiel and Cecil OCallaghan lead In the mixed divison Georgians team had difficulty making the shots and finished fifth out of eight teams They won two games and Seneca 84 but Mohawk lost two Georgian defeated Cannadore112 and lost 133 to Humber and 73 to VERY PLEASED We were really quite pleased with the way things turned out said Georgian coach Jim Martin expected the mens team to win because know that we have very strong team this year team has even Sheridan dont the regionals rink while That was the best out womens done inthat event Im looking forward to good things from that the womens team in future bonspiels While bonspiels such as the one held by count colleges overall finish with three taams this category is counted at In the Sheridan bonspiel Georgian would have finished in second spot overall had they been counting this category Eastview overpowering after bad tournament After frustrating weekend in the Blind River basketball tounament Eastview Senior Wildcats took out their frustra horses think their days last from am until or at night The idea is to keep the horses body thinking its early sum mer That way it wont trigger the growth of winter coat COOLS INSIDE McCauley works his horses outside in an unheated arena but cools them inside where its warm immediate ly put them to work when take them outside so the horse perspires he explains bring them right back in after wards horses winter workout must be similar to that of crosscountry runner quick warmup and cool down in side In this way the horse avoids chills which will lead to the growth of winter hair McCauley longes his halter hgrses at walk and extended trot in pasterndeep 32 to inches sand At trot the horses uses all four legs McCauley feels this gait gives bet ter muscle tone makes the horse more cupple and brings up the top line He doesnt longe at canter because he feels this does nothing for the horse His horses work with necksweat until they perspire heavily McCauley then brings them into the warm barn and bathes them to prevent scalding Working horses are never allowed to stand idle when they might get chill One chill can start hose back into the hair cycle spr ing chill can have horse growing winter coat during sum mer months McCauley says If this does happen you have to start again with blankets and baths sports shorts night at the Barrie Curling Club with Johanna Homers rink winning over Joy Glassman to take the top event trophy Pictured is Jack Owens Mixed curling playoffs for the first draw ended Friday night at the Barrie Curling Club with Phil Sauves rink winning over Murdie Campbell Pic preseriting the Peacock Petroleum Trophy to Johanna as skip with June Lamb vice Sue Pat chett second and Judy Delaney lead tions on Bradford and thumped them 9426 in Georgian Bay with his teams play in Blind River where they dropped all three game by margins ex ceeding 10 points Friday night after driving through the worst snowstorm Secondary School Association it took us eight and half hours senior basketball game Mon tured is Mel Brass presenting the Brass Glenn Trophy to Phil with Sue Nicholls vice Barry Heisz second and lead Sarah Heisz Fifes three lead Storey Jim Fife scored three goals to lead Storey to 53 win over Shorneys in Huronia Senior hockey league game Moday at Essa Arena Bill Gahey and Peter Bertram scored singles for Storey Chris Wonch Steve OReilly and John Pinder were the Shorney markers Neptunes take49 firsts Barrie Neptune swimmers captured 49 firstplace ribbons and as result finished in first place overall with 264 points at the Huronia Region developmental swim meet at Port Elgin Sunday Laura and Leslie Stephens and Karen St Laurent were the top Neptune swimmers each winning five firstplace rib bons Peter Lom took five firsts in the boy swimming events Thirteen other Neptunes combined to win 29 firsts and several seconds and thirds helped by the coaching of Brian Wiles Oro and Coldwater draw Oro and Coldwater battled to 44 tie in North York Hockey League action Sunday The teams went off the ice after the first period tied at one with Jim Blakstock tallying for Oro and Bob Black replying for Coldwater Coldwater took the lead for the first time with Derek Fox tallying the only marker of the middle frame Oro rang off three stright tallies in the third period to take twogoal lead Bob Mason Marty Fralick and Gary Crawford were the marksmen Coldwater got late goals from Randy George and Jeff Marshall to earn the tie Novices tie Bradford 22 Barrie Lions novices took twogoal lead after two periods of play and then held on for 22 tie with Bradford iii York Simcoe minor hockey league game Monday at Brad ford Gabe Batstone gave Barrie 10 lead with the assist going to Gregg Forde Forde then put Barrie ahead by two assisted by Trevor Shepard But two goals by Bradford Dan Zielke in the third period tied the game up for Bradford Barrie Lions now have record of seven wins two losses and one tie Bantams earn third shutout The Barrie Giffen Farm Equipment Major Bantams earn ed their third shutout in row Sunday blanking Newniarkct 60 Barrie scored three times in the first period twic in the second and once more in the third to support Jim Kanes shutout goaltending Kane made 10 saves while the Barrie shooters fired 29 shots at the Newmarket net Craig French paced the Barrie attack scoring twice with Danny Worrad Steve McLaughlin Art Matheson and BJ Cochrane tallied once each Worrad and Steve Board set up two markers each The Bantams have record of eight wins one loss and one tie and next hit the ice Sunday against Richmond Hill Alouettes coach still fuming MONTREAL CP Head coach Joe Scannella of Moo treal Alouettes has written letter to Canadian Football League commissioner Jake Gaudaur to plea for better in terpretation of the leagues clipping rule Scannella made the plea after viewing ilms of this year Grey Cup game in which controversial clipping call on punt return late in the game was key factor in the Alouet tes179 defeat against Edmonton Eskimos Field jud Maury Mulhern ruled that Montreals Gerry Dattilio be clipped Pete Lavorato and it nullified an 85 yard runback by Keith Baker No way said Scannella He Mulberni blew It Ive looked at the coaches film dont know how many times backwards forwards in slow motion and every time see Dattilio making legal block Hackto back Webb rink ladies champions By ROBERT PREECE OUHS and AHS were not in short supply last week at the Barrie Curling Club as the first schedule playoffs continued throughout the week am sure all of you that came out to watch will admit there was some great curling Several of the games in all playoff sections went down to the last rock of the last end Un fortunately as iii all sports so meone has to win and someone has to lose LADIES Lilly Webbs rink of Clara Butler Carole Stewart and Trish Metcalf took first place and were awarded the Bertram Brothers Trophy Lillys rink defeated Carol Hines to capture the top trophy in the Ladies Section The Christies IGA Trophy was awarded to Jean laskey and her rink Joan McKenzie vice Hope Armstrongsecond and Judi Beanlead Jeans team defeated Karen Brown and her rink to take the trophy in the consolation round MIXED LRLING It was close game but the Brass and Glenn Trophy went to Phil Sauve and his team mates Sue Nicholls Barry and Sarah Heisz as they defeated Murdie Cariipbellvskip Fern Campbellvice Ron Dietrich second and Barb Dietrichlead am sure Phil and his team would like to thank Jean Cruriip Hargreaves takes men BOB PIERCE new columnist for sparing for Sue Nicholls in the two playoff games Sue had bit of conflict as her business girls team also made itintotlie playoffs BUSINESS GIRLS Johanna Hamers June Lamb Sue Patchett and Judy Delaney had to struggle from behind to defeat Joy Glasman and her teammates to win first spot and the Peacock Petroleum Trophy Carol Martin Sue Nicholls Alice Jow and Marj Lougheed curled well but were defeated by Susan Carrollskip Sue Smockunrvicc Anne Winters second and Donna McKenzie in the Consolation Event The Moldex trophy was awarded to Susan Carroll and her rink Girls dont forget your wine and cheese party on Thursday December 13 at 730 pm IIIGII SCIIOOL WINNERS Congratulations to Mark Hudellskip Mike Culyervice Grace Delinesecond and Jim Davislead as they defeated Gord Fry and his rink to win the Cavalier Trophy Curling with Gord was Beth Jagges Terry Sinclair and Jeff Procee special mention to Kelly Dunlop who helped Gord out by sparing in the final game MENS It was tied in the last end with one rock to come un fortunately it slid through the circles meaning an extra end The 11th end turned out to be the end Bill Hargraves needed to defeat Mel Brock for the Labatts Trophy in nailbiting game Curling with Bill were Mas Murakami Paul Hargraves and David Frayne Mels teammates were Peter McGowan Keith Smith and Alan Baker The Consumers Gas Trophy was won by Henry George Crump Bill Brown and Bill McLinden defeated Sonny Chalmers rink to win the trophy The FW Woolworth Trophy went to Willard Kinzie Doug Goodhand Warren Wilgar and Rotary Peewees runnersup in Silver Stick tournament Barrie Rotaty Club major peewees finished as runnersup in the Silver Stick regional playdowns at Brampton last weekend winning two games and losing one Barrie took Oakville into overtime in their first game before bowing out 32 after 548 of overtime Craig Perry and David Crockford were the Bar rie scorers Crockford put Bar rie into overtime when he scored the tying goal with only ports calendar Tl END lltlt KEY 513 pm Thornhiil at Rome oop Midgets York Simcoe Minor hockey league DunlopArvna 815 pm Barrie Bell Canada Minor Midgets at Thornhill YSMHL pm Barrie Tim Horton lnd Iinor midgets at Keswick SIHL pm Barrie Ciyitan Minor bantams at Aurora YSMHI WEDNESDH Basketball 230 pm Bradford at North iBSAA boys Midget Junior Senior mm SULCA Distrivt ProvinCial Playdovirs Barne Curling Club 58 seconds left in the game In their next match Barrie handily disposed of Chinguacousy 51 Darryl OBrien and Mike Dubois led the Barrie attack with two goals each Crockford had single Steve Laurin tended net for Barrie stopping six Chinguacousy shots Barrie had 21 shots on the Chinguacousy net Barrie then met Belleville in their final match and won 62 Dubois was instrumental in the win again this time posting hattrick Bruce Barker scored two goals for Barrie and Adam Wroebel had one goal crown Ernie Reed They defeated Dave Steeles rink Two better teams could not have been matched for the In dustrial and Home Carpeting Trophy This was new trophy this year and Mel Brass and his teammates will be the first to have their names engraved on it They defeated Larry Hart and his rink in an extra end Curling with Mel were Dennis Decarie Ted Robinson and Tom Merrett Curling with Larry were Walter Hitch Howard Burbridge and Clair Mills SPECIAL DAY The clubs Special Day the MiniMixed Spiel was lot of fun and all that attended had great time The top three win ners were Murdie Campbell Mel Brock and Ed Skin ner With relatively small tur nout 10 of the 16 teams playing received prizes CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VS CFB BORDEN The first half of the annual Chamber vs CFB Borden spiel was held December For the first time in the past couple of years the Chamber of Com merce teams will be going to CFB Borden on January 16 with substantial lead Seven teams from the Chamber and CFB play against each other on total point basis While in Barrie the Barrie teams treat their fellow curlers from Borden to dinner and the reverse happens when the teams meet at Borden The Chamber of Commerce Trophy goes to the total point winner and the Colonels Cup to the runnersup COMING EVENTS One on One December 14 and December 17 through to December 22 Harry Armstrong Spiel on December 15 during the day and Friends and Neighbors Jitney at 730 pm and 900 pm Cost for the Jitney is one dollar S0LCA Ladies District Playdowns December 10 through to December 13 Com petitive Business Girls playdowns for the Tankards will wind down Sunday December 16 with the two winn ing teams representing the Bar rie Curling Club Last but best of all the Mixed Turkey itney December 11 12 and 13 Sign up at 630 Cost is $150 per night with two four endgames day atEastview Paul Hopper led the Eastview tem with 33 points Greg Taylor added 20 We had bad weekend in Blind River said Eastview coach Larry Deneau We lost all three games and played badly The boys just wanted to prove they could play well and it was unfortunate that Brad ford was the team they used to prove it We didnt make many mistakes against them Deneau was disappointed to get there could understand the poor performance against Sudbury Lockerby said Dun can Sudbury is great team and played super defence against us They went on to win the tournament But for Satur days games have no explana tion CLOSEST GAME Eastview played their closest game against WWC Eaket Saturday losing by 10 points Eastview played with Eaket until the final few minutes of the game when they fell apart Midgets overwhelm Richmond Hill 90 The Barrie Slessor and Periard Major Midgets ran roughshod over Richmond Hill Sunday taking an easy 94 viclt tory in YorkSimcoe Hockey Lague action Barrie fired 42 shots at the Richmond Hill net while Mark Flewelling was forced to make 18 stops to earn the shutout Greg Bertram as the offen sive star for Barrie scoring Bantams The Barrie United Rubber Worker major bantams won the Consolation championship at the Bramalea Silver Stick tour namentSunday Barrie defeated Belleville in the Consolation final Kevin Roulston led the team to the win scoring two goals Sean Kirkpatrick and Mike Rocchio added singles and Danny Knoll Stephen Cadogan David Hogben and Doug Archie each had an assist On route to the consolation final Barrie dropped their first game of the tournament 43 to atSHverSfick twice and setting up two others Jini Foulis and Keith Penna had to goals and an assist each John Monague scored once while setting three others and Tom Gapp and Grent Mac Donald had goal and an assist each The win improves Barries record to 13 wins against only three losses victors Waterloo Hogben Jim Harris and Stephen Mayer ere the Bar rie scorers Roulston Rocchio and Gary Bertram had assists It took until overtime but Barrie outlasted Galt 21 in the second game of the tourney Hogben scored the winning overtime goal while Barry Hughes scored Barries first goal Stephen Mayer drew the assist on Hughes goal The next YorkSimcoe league game for the Barrie United Rubber workers is Saturday in Aurora Our next game was against Elliot Lake said Deaneau used all my second stringers by that time was just in terested in getting some court time for the players who hadnt played much Nevertheless Deneau felt that playing in the Blind River tourney was beneficial Anytime you get that much playing time in short period its beneficial said Deneau There was some really good competition eight teams mostly from Subury and Sault St Marie both strong basket ball centres Eastview won all three levels of games against Bradford yesterday The midgets led by Jamie Sheppard with 12 points won 4334 The juniors won by over 30 points Comaneci leaves for home FORT WORTH Tex AP Nadia Comaneci the Roma nian gymnast who made headlines by not winning world gymnastic championshi because of an infected le hand left for home Monday The 1976 Olympic champion withdrew from the 1979 world gymnastics championships here because of what doctors described as an infected hair follicle that required surgery She left All Saints Episcopal Hospital before dawn to catch the team flight back to Europe despite advice from US doc tors that she stay in the hospital for few more days to let the injury heal During this years competi tion she scored 995 on the beam to help give her team the gold medal However that team award was the only medal she received Doctors who operated on her hand Saturday said she was im proving but it could be months before she can compete again Doctors speculated the infec tion might have been caused by an ingrown hair Hornets Shut out Angus Rangers pad their lead The Simcoe Hornets defied the law of averages and scored three shorthanded goals enroute to 34 shutout over Angus Unilock in Sundays ac tion in the Simcoe Broomball League The win vaulted the Hornets alone into third spot In other games Robertos Ivy Rangers padded their first place lead to four points with an important 71 win over second place Molsons while the Mechanical Cable Blazers mov ed into fourth place with 20 shutout over Alliston Sports The Hornets John Brown proved to be more than effec tive penalty killer scoring two of his teams three shorthanded goals Brown opened the scor ing early in the first period with an unassisted shorthanded goal while teammate Tim Lee was off for interference Then early in the second perid Brown struck with another Shorthanded effort on an assist from Pat Martin while Bill Bell was inthe penalty box Keith Lusk then completed the unusual feat by scoring an unassisted Shorthanded goal midwy through the second period while Don Ummels serv ed an interference penalty Gary Smith recorded his fourth shutout of the season tops in the league along with Robertos Earl Elliott Hornets are now just two points behind second place Molsons Hustlers streak alive take North Toronto The Clifton Hotel Hustlers kept up their winning ways tak ing three straight matches from Toronto North in Senior volleyball action Monday night The Hustlers cruised to the victory in straight sets 157 157 154 The three wins gives the Hustlers record of nine wins and six losses which puts them in third place in the eight team league At one point this season the Hustlers held dismal record of one win against six losses Hustler playercoach Debbie Emms said her team got great frontcourt play from Maryanne Stepulaitis while Pat Wislon put in strong per formance returning services The Hustlers are back in ac tion in Toronto Sunday when they play against the Orillia Road Runners and Slavakian Road Club Meanwhile Robertos and Molsons battled closely until Robertos blew the game open with five goals in the last 10 minutes Dwight Bennett and Alan Elliott gave Robertos 20 lead by the end of the first period on power play efforts But Molsons Ken Saunders scored on breakaway from Brian Eyers midway through the second period Robertos salted the game away in the last 10 minutes with goals from Bennett and Elliott again as well as two from Ran dy Hiles and single by Dave Schandlen Bill McLinden drew three assists in the game Robertas Elliott has now jumped four points ahead of teammate John Marshall in the coring race The win leaves Robertos with seven straight wins so far this season The Blazers moved alone into fourth place in their penalty filled win over Alliston Sports Kevin Kirkpatrick opened the scoring from Pete Thorson mid way through the opening frame on the powerplay Then with eight minutes remaining John Moore upped the score again from Thorson Rick Marshall chalked up his second shutout of the year while his Blazer teammates ran up total of fortyeight minutes in penalties For Alliston it was their seventh consecutive loss this year vrl