Rideau's Resident Character | Standardbred Canada
Emil ‘Mimi’ Toth has competed at Rideau Carleton Raceway for nearly the last five decades, making himself a popular fixture as a trainer-driver at the Ottawa oval. “My dad was in the business there. He started when we were 12 or 13; me, my brother and my sister,” Toth said to Rideau Carleton’s Graeme Mitchell. “He had a horse called Trot Trot Charlie, a trotter… he was old time. Me and my brother got into it, then I got a job with Robert Charron. He needed a guy to clean stalls, so I was looking around [at] how to — you know, you watch what you’re looking at there...I just w...
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