Article content“It was the spring of the year, and they were trying to get ready to start, and there was no money,” said Copley. “They were all negative in the meeting and Frank MacInnis, the track manager, said we would have it going. There was a horseman from Margaree, and he put $1,000 on the table. A $1,000 was a pile of money at the time and that was Albert Ethridge.”