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They had a beautiful farm
I won't speak to the former two, but Cat is still around and is involved in the business. When he first retired about 10 years ago, of course he was working for Tom and John Cancelliere. Steve left the business. Not sure what he was doing, but someone said he became a wine expert and was buying and selling wine. I can't confirm or deny that, it was just what someone told me. Unfortunately, Steve suffered a tragedy as his son, Michael, died about 10 years ago. He was in his early 30's.
Ross Croghan
Sad story about Ross. About 5 years ago, Ross had what was supposed to be a simple back procedure. Something went wrong, and that begin a series of complications, sickness, etc. When this happened, he was out of action for a long time, and he lost all his horses. I think he went from 30 or so to one. From that initial procedure, Ross has now had something like eight surgeries, multiple skin graphs, and various infections that ran through his body. He got very sick and is still going through a very tough time. Ross is a good guy, always helped anyone who needed it, and is a great horseman. Back in the day, he was a very good driver, and was competitive with the best of them too!
Dan Garnett was spoiled by his long time trainer, who took his worst yearlings and made a lot of them into great horses. Gernatt sold his best yearlings every year and put into training the ones who wouldn’t bring any money in the sales ring. These Adioo Bobs were successful against much better ny sires because of his longtime trainer, whose name slips my mind. I just remember the guy from Ben white raceway. He used to pal around with John Simpson sr. Hanover even named a horse after the guy. If anyone recalls his name, refresh my memory. He died relatively young