After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed. Coates ...

Gerald J. Coates, 71, of the Town of Tonawanda, a retired state trooper and Navy veteran, died Friday (May 31, 2002) in Kenmore Mercy Hospital, under Hospice Buffalo care, after a long illness. The ...