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The complexion of the 2022 Maple Leaf Trot has changed dramatically with the news that morning line favourite Alrajah One IT has been scratched from the event and will not race for the remainder of the year.

Francis Richard ignored the warning sign - literally - when he bid $7,000 for trotter Fashion Frenzie as a yearling, and has been richly rewarded for it.

In just six weeks, many of the best trotters in the world will convene at MGM Yonkers Raceway for the 2022 Yonkers International Trot. The $1 million race, an invitation-only event, is starting to take shape.

Fresh off a win in last week’s Open at Woodbine Mohawk Park, seven-year-old mare Atlanta returns to the Ontario oval Saturday for her fourth lifetime appearance in the Maple Leaf Trot. Atlanta won the prestigious event for older trotters in 2020 and was second in 2019.

The field is set for the 2022 Canadian Pacing Derby following a pair of $40,000 eliminations on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Friday evening’s (Aug. 26) card at Woodbine Mohawk Park saw a small preview of next Saturday’s Maple Leaf Trot, as six of the entrants battled in a $50,000 Open Trot.

Each week, a familiar Woodbine Mohawk Park horseperson will step into the spotlight to answer a handful of fun, offbeat questions, while giving readers a unique perspective into their personality on and off the racetrack.

With the first weekend of May in the books, many of harness racing's top performers from 2021 have started to return to the racetrack for the upcoming stakes season or hit the racetrack in racing action.

Canada's reigning two-time Older Trotting Horse of the Year Perfetto is the sixth horse to join the 2022 Elitloppet line-up, with his connections receiving and accepting an official invitation to Sweden’s top invitational trotting event, which will take place on May 29 at Solvalla Racetrack.

The unanimous choice by voters as the 2021 Keith Waples Driver of the Year, a confident James MacDonald was overcome with joy as he celebrated his first O'Brien Award-winning season with friends and family last weekend.