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Now at nine months of age, she’s a staple in the Firlotte’s successful standardbred stable in Mohawk, Ontario.
“She gets into everything. She steals people’s cigarettes, drinks coffee and eats donuts,” Stu added. Jo Ann said it would appear that baby Tigger is too young to read the Surgeon General’s warnings!
“We got her a tub, well it’s actually just the lid to a trash can, but we fill it up with water, and she plays for hours. My wife bought her some toy blocks and she and the coon play for hours. I was hoping that she would use her little [tub] to wash her food, but she still uses that cat’s water dish. The cat isn’t really happy about finding soggy donuts in her water dish every day,” Stu confessed with a soft giggle.
The Firlotte’s story is one of love and success. They have been married for more than 30 years. Stu was a semi-pro hockey player in the American Hockey League and Jo Ann was “the most lovely creature that I had ever laid eyes on. And she still is,” Stu professed.
One year after their marriage, Stu came home and announced that he was giving up his life on the ice to become a horse trainer. That seemed a funny idea, as he had literally never touched a horse in his 22 years.
Jo Ann gave her unflappable support and they have become one of the most successful training operations in North America. They are the last stable to win the pacing Triple Crown, and on the night that my feature “made air” on ESPN-2, they captured Canada’s brightest jewel, the Canadian Pacing Derby.
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