Graeme Mitchell News Today

A Kirkcaldy hotel has offered its support after couple's were left devastated when the Gilvenbank in Glenrothes cancelled weddings suddenly.

The Strathspey Fiddlers will pay a special tribute to celebrate the life of much-loved musician Robbie Shepherd, who passed away in August.

Graeme Mitchell, whose boundless enthusiasm for harness racing enlivened racetracks in Ontario and Quebec for almost five decades, died Tuesday, Oct. 3 at his home in Ottawa, just months after being diagnosed with colon cancer.

Graeme Mitchell has spent almost his entire life involved in one facet or another of Standardbred racing. From handicapper, to journalist, to racing analyst,

The opening night of Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots semi-finals on Thursday, Sept. 21 at Woodbine Mohawk Park featured the province's two-year-olds vying for spots in next weekend's lucrative finals, and the photo finish camera was put to work often with a number of close and tight finishes.

T H Mcmurry (Mcwicked) secured a spot in the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots semi-final with a dominating win in the final leg for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Thursday (Sep. 7) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The gelding put his nose in front at the quarter in :27 and dictated the pace through middle splits

While the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots series highlighted the Thursday (Sept. 7) card at Woodbine Mohawk Park as the feature races for the evening, Frenchy Hanover stole the show in a $17,000 condition trot as the three-year-old filly gave Sandi Lawrence her first career training win.

T H McMurry led all freshman pacers on the Monday (Aug. 28) evening card at Woodbine Mohawk Park and posted the fastest time of all of the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions with a win in 1:51.2.

Last week Ontario’s top two-year-old male pacers were at Woodbine Mohawk Park for two $100,000-plus Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold divisions. That’s business as usual at Ontario’s premier racetrack, but for Jeff Taylor, the evening was anything but typical.

T H Mcmurry and Chain Gang each recorded their first career victories in the two divisions of the $103,100 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series, the first leg for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings, contested on Monday (July 10) evening at Woodbine Mohawk Park.