Years out of his horse races, the former jockey was addicted to painkillers, lacked money to pay his bills and was desperately looking for a way to turn things around. She would get some help, a man in prison for treating drugs, someone she wanted to buy if that could give her hope.
"I had the best intentions and I had a chance," she said, "and made the wrong way."
Gulas needed money. The only currency she owned was the pills that were the answer in a race battle to find relief from the many falcons they had suffered throughout her racing career.
And a friend, a man who had sold him a car and whose dog had adopted him when he went to prison, a man who had spoken again and who was in prison had an idea. He could hang it with someone looking for prescribed medication.
It would be a one-off deal, the runner known as Longshot Laurie convinced himself. That would be the beginning of his return.
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Laura Lynn Gulas was born in Welland on February 16, 1969 and had four years that she wanted to be a jockey without knowing how this would happen. At the age of 15, she began working at Fort Erie Racetrack as trainer Brian Dore and then moved to Toronto to enroll in a horse program.
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