The Hastings backstretch neighborhood is in mourning this week, following information of the premature passing of this 12 months’s main proprietor, Dairen Edwards, who has died out of the blue on the age of simply 59.
Beneath the course of Dairen, his daughter Makayla and coach Steve Henson, Willow Creek Farms has grown quickly into a robust pressure at Hastings and additional afield. Willow Creek’s colors have been carried to victory in 32 races this season at Hastings and past; a complete that was additional boosted by a number of high-profile horses owned in partnership — together with this 12 months’s main juvenile at Hastings, Mount Doom.
Willow Creek completed the season at Hastings with 26 native wins, making the proprietor/breeder operation Vancouver’s main proprietor numerically for the second consecutive season.
A eager hunter and fisherman, Dairen was the proprietor of SRL Industries Ltd, a profitable manufacturing firm, producing high-quality merchandise to be used within the development sector.
The fast progress and success of Willow Creek, achieved in lower than a decade, put Dairen on the coronary heart of the racing and breeding sector in British Columbia and led to him taking a extra lively position within the business. He took over as President of the native division of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (CTHS) upon the passing of Dave Bennington and was a conciliatory determine, all the time out there to speak concerning the points going through the native business and, based on HBPA President David Milburn, dedicated to doing every thing he may to see racing reach Western Canada.
Milburn mentioned: “Dairen was an necessary a part of the Hastings’ neighborhood and, as President of the CTHS, he was a constructive pressure for change and really a lot a unifying affect inside our business. His passing is a big blow to us all.”
“On behalf of the HBPA, its members and everybody related with racing at Hastings, we wish to lengthen our very deepest sympathies to Dairen’s spouse Tia, his daughter Makayla, son Jacob and to their prolonged households.”
Dairen’s pursuits additionally prolonged to Standardbred racing and he would have been at Fraser Downs this week to see two younger horses, owned in partnership by Willow Creek, land two helpful Stakes occasions.
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