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Sponsored by: Bob McClure of Rockwood, Ont., is en route to a career-best season in the earnings column, and is the leading money winning driver in Canada. Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 OBrien Awards, which honor Canadas best in harness racing over the past season. There are two finalists in each category, which includes 12 divisional horse categories and five people awards. Horse of the Year will be one of the divisional champions. The winne...

Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 O’Brien Awards, which honour Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season. There are two finalists in each category which includes 12 divisional horse categories and five people awards. Horse of the Year will be one of the divisional champions. The winners will be announced at the Virtual O’Brien Awards Gala on Sunday, January 31 on standardbredcanada.ca. This will mark the 32nd edition of the O’Brien Awards, ...

The impending multi-billion-dollar sale of Great Canadian Gaming Corporation announced last month may have hit a roadblock. Numerous major investors in Great Canadian have voiced opposition against a proposed $3.3 billion sale of the corporation, which owns Standardbred racetracks Flamboro Downs and Georgian Downs in Ontario and Fraser Downs in British Columbia, to affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. CI Global Asset Management, which is the largest shareholder of Great Canadian with 14...

While he was able to keep one of harness racings longest win streaks alive, the Saturday card of harness racing at Century Mile was a bittersweet one in a bittersweet year for Rod Hennessy. The longtime horseman made a rare appearance in the sulky on Saturday, winning the ninth race of the evening card with Ivar. Rod noted that he was "pressed into action" after his son Mike opted for another horse in that race and the Alberta driving colony is short at the moment for a number of reasons. That ...

Standardbred Canada’s 2021 Heart of Harness Racing Calendar is coming to a mailbox near you! This year, due to COVID, and because our SC Field Reps are not working at the tracks, we will be mailing calendars to all of our Canadian members with their January issue of TROT Magazine. SC’s Members & Stakeholder Relations Department was thrilled to receive hundreds of photo submissions for the calendar that showed the true heart of Canadian harness racing. The people involved in the Canadian h...

You know the feeling when you get into a scorching car with the windows closed on one of Edmonton’s rare sweltering afternoons? That’s Alberta harness trainer Chris Lancaster. Hot. Red-hot. Blistering hot. On one big, long roll since the second week of the current harness meet at Century Mile, Lancaster has won with 10 of his last 12 starters. But wait, there’s more. The two horses the harness trainer sent out that didn’t win lost to stablemates: Probert was upset by barn mate Lady Neig...