Alberta Super Final News Today

It’s quite the scene. 'Every day after harness trainer Scott McGinn finishes work, he goes home to Stony Plain, Alta. and jogs his one-horse stable star, G TS Skyla, around a six-foot wide path that surrounds a neighbour’s barley field.

As the Alberta racing meet wraps up on Saturday, Feb. 4 before a scheduled five-week winter break, the province’s 2022 leading money-winning trainer, Nathan Sobey, will be noticeably absent.

The 2022 season was as good as gold for Silver Label. 

When driver Brandon Campbell jumps back in the race bike for the start of the 2023 harness racing season in Western Canada this weekend, he will do so with a new record on his resume.

Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season.

Eliminations for the Western Canada Pacing Derby are set for this Saturday, Nov. 26 at Century Mile. Fourteen of the top three-year-old pacing colts and geldings in Western Canada will face off in a pair of $13,500 eliminations to determine the field for the $110,000 (est.) final, which will be contested on Saturday, Dec. 3.

Three-year-old pacing filly Divine Art took her double-digit win streak to Century Mile and tacked on another victory facing older mares as the winter meet kicked off at the Edmonton, Alta. oval on Friday night (Nov. 18).

The 2022 Alberta Sires Stakes season wrapped up on Saturday afternoon (Oct. 15) at Century Downs with four $75,000 Super Finals plus $15,000 consolations for the province's pacing stars.

Can it happen again? Can lightning really strike twice? The connections of Codename Cigar Box are certainly hoping so.

Cal Expo Harness Jake Cutting has literally flown off the gate at this harness racing meeting with the equivalent of at :26 and change opening quarter, scoring with 17 of his first 51 drives. The Calgary native has displayed the cool of someone far beyond his 19 years and is making quite an impression. “My mom and dad, my aunt and uncle, my sister and her boyfriend and my grandparents on my mom’s side have all been involved with the sport,” Cutting related. “From as far back as I can re...