Determination Stable News Today

Trainer Luc Blais's first impression of the first foal of his former champion Emoticon Hanover was guarded.

Ghostly Casper opened the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold season by winning the first of two $101,300 divisions for three-year-old trotting colts as the road to the $2.4 million Ontario Sires Stakes Super Finals began tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

A decade after millionaire trotter Intimidate brought him to national prominence and the training job for big-budget Determination Stable, Luc Blais has become a fixture at the O'Brien Awards

Have drive, will travel could be Samuel Fillion's motto.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced Canadian harness driver Bob McClure to become a road warrior.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced Canadian harness driver Bob McClure to become a road warrior.The Rockwood, Ont., resident left Friday for The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J., where hell race . . .

A star-studded group of Standardbreds qualifying at The Meadowlands on Saturday (April 17) was joined by Canadas reigning driver of the year, Bob McClure. McClure told Dan Ralph of the Canadian Press that he was asked to drive stateside by Team Determination and trainer Luc Blais, and hell be vaccinated for COVID-19 within five hours of entering the U.S. “It wasn’t an option to just shut down because they have grand circuit horses that are going to compete with the American-breds all summer...

Not many people can head into this weekends O’Brien Awards knowing they have an award secured, but trainer Luc Blais is in that rare position. The Quebec native, who has become the man in charge training Serge Godin’s Determination Stable, conditions both nominees for Two-Year-Old Trotting Male of the Year—Macho Martini and On A Streak. Blais also trains nominee for Two-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year Donna Soprano, but can sit on the edge of his seat as that filly competes for the ti...