Brian Swatuk (9 July 1949Profile
at horse-canada.com, retrieved 20 December 2014 – 13 December 2014) was a

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. He won several Canadian classics, most notably the

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in 1979, and the

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in 1987. Swatuk died from cancer on 13 December 2014 in an

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hospice. He was 65.

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