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In this week's edition of 'Rewind ' Robert Smith offers up a few short stories about people, perhaps places and things, all from the past of harness racing. As usual a few old pictures are included.

Several months after Karen Hauver retired from a 21-year career with the Ontario Sire Stakes program — a job that precluded her from owning a racehorse — her father suggested that she and her mother join him in ownership of a two-year-old filly pacer that was getting ready to qualify.

Hightstown, NJ — Several months after Karen Hauver retired from a 21-year career with the Ontario Sire Stakes program — a job that precluded her from owning a racehorse — her father suggested that she and her mother join him in ownership of a 2-year-old harness racing filly pacer that was getting ready to qualify.

In the latest edition of Rewind Robert Smith discusses the phenomenon of a dead heat in harness racing; always a rather exciting and often intriguing happening.

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith recalls a special evening held over 60 years ago in 1961 at London's Western Fair Raceway.

For this week's Rewind column Robert Smith has chosen a few short pieces covering the people, the racing action and other items of interest relating to the decade of the 1990's in the monthly feature 'Years Ago.'

In today's Rewind Robert Smith takes a trip back to the decade of the 1970s as he issues the monthly edition of 'Years Ago.'

In the latest Rewind Robert Smith takes readers back to 1970 and recalls that year's Prix D'Ete race at Montreal's Blue Bonnets Raceway

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith takes a "stroll" back in time as he presents his monthly "Years Ago" feature and this time around it is all about the decade of the 1950's.

Longtime harness racing industry participant Jack Jones passed away on May 15, 2023 at Woodstock Hospital at the age of 90.