Canada’s Leading Trainer Draws Eight Post
With His First Ever Little Brown Jug Starter


Delaware, OH--Canadian  Trainer Carl Jamieson,winner of the 2006 Joe O’Brien
Award as Canada’s best horseman, will have a colt racing in Thursday’s Little
Brown Jug for the first time in his career. 

Reserve Forces, who Jamieson co-owns with Ken Henwood of Mississauga,
Ontario, will start from post position eight in the first  division of the $480,000
Jug Classic.

“We certainly didn’t get a good post, but he can be competitive.  We’ll take
a shot and see what happens when the gate folds,” said Jamieson.  One of
Reserve Forces’ main rivals in his elimination is Tell All, who will be driven by
son Jody Jamieson.

Reserve Forces, 20-1 in the morning  line, missed almost three months after
he was scratched from the $1,410,000 North America Cup on June 16.  “He had
finished fourth in his Cup elimination.  But, we had to scratch him when he came
up lame the day of the North America Cup.”

The Brittany Farms’ bred son of Real Desire qualified on August 31 and
finished second, timed in 1:56.3.  He then finished seven in a division of the
Simcoe Stakes on September 8, “but he raced good, and seemed more like his old
self.”

Jamieson also pointed out that Reserve Forces had finished second over
Flamboro Downs’ half-mile track in early May, timed in 1:51.3.

“My colt can leave and it never does much good to take back in the Jug.  I
will let driver (Steve) Condren make that decision.”