Millers Scout & Buddy Gilmour, Toughkenamon, Freedom Fella, Albus and Justin Passing. Millers Scout, who finished second to the great Cam Fella during his 28-race win streak more times than any other, passed away on Saturday at the age of 31.
The son of Tarport Effrat-Keystone Saphire earned more than $1.1-million in his racing career and spent the last few years of his retirement at the farm of Phil and Judy Sizer in Stirling, Ont.
Trot Magazine featured Millers Scout's story in its April 2007 issue.
Millers Scout met up with Cam Fella in his seven-year-old campaign, when Cam Fella was four. Though he never doubted his horse's abilities, Cam Fella's driver/trainer Pat Crowe says Millers Scout and driver Buddy Gilmore always made it interesting.
"Buddy would always leave with the old horse and once he made the front, I'd pull Cam and move up and take over the lead. We'd sit that way until just before the head of the stretch when Buddy would pull and come at me. He just never got past me, though one night at The Meadowlands he did come down the inside and gave me a little cause for concern."
In total, Millers Scout finished second to Cam Fella seven times.
He was retired in 1985 with $1,162,061 in earnings and a record of 209-47-40-32. Millers Scout entered his second career as a stallion in 1986 and stood until 1990. He produced 74 foals, of which 42 raced for total earnings of almost $675,000.
Millers Scout stayed with Gilmour at his farm in Lucan, Ont., but when that farm was sold about four years ago, the horse was boarded at Sizer's farm, where he passed away.
He was dearly loved and cared for by Judy Sizer, who fed the horse warm mash three times a day after he lost most of his teeth, and saw to it that he received the daily affection he so loved with brushings and pets.
"You could do anything with him," Gilmour said of Millers Scout. "That's how good a horse he was. He was a perfect, perfect, perfect horse."
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