April 2, 2016 - Midwest/Canada: Cool Cole Man

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John Burness calmly handles the challenges at Ontario's Colebrook Farms

by Lenny Shulman

On an early March morning that has seen a foot of snow cover his corner of Ontario, Colebrook Farms owner John Burness can’t talk on the phone. He’s too busy manning a truck and plowing out the place. Later in the month he’ll be driving a horse trailer back and forth between Uxbridge, 45 minutes northeast of Woodbine Racetrack, and Florida, bringing north a few dozen of his horses that have been undertaking winter training in Ocala, Fla.

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