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The full card of harness racing from Saturday (August 20) at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park, culminating with the 2022 $100,000 Atlantic Lottery Gold Cup and Saucer, is available here.

The 63rd edition of the Gold Cup and Saucer will parade under the light after midnight Saturday evening at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park as the crowning moment of Old Home Week 2022. 

On Saturday, June 18, seven starters will battle for the right to be a Walter Dale Memorial champion at Exhibition Park Raceway. Made famous in New Brunswick's capital city of Fredericton, the $6,000 invitational has attracted a stellar field.

It was a well-deserved victory for Well Did, who throttled his rivals by open lengths in the opening leg of the Gary "Shack" Smith Memorial Series on Saturday (May 28) at Exhibition Park Raceway.

Horse Racing New Brunswick (HRNB) will lift the curtain on the much anticipated return of harness racing for the 2022 season on Saturday, May 14. 

After a year at stud and on the racetrack primarily in New Brunswick in 2021, stakes winning pacer Blood Money will set up shop in a new province with a new trainer in 2022.

Harness racing returns to New Brunswick on Saturday afternoon (May 8), as Exhibition Park Raceway, in Saint John, will raise the curtain on its 18-day 2021 meeting. The five-race program is highlighted by a $1,600 winners-over pace, carded as the finale. Black-type performer Blood Money brings impressive credentials into his New Brunswick debut, and will start from the outside post in the field of five with Mitchell Downey at the helm for trainer Ellen Stevenson. The son of Sweet Lou won the 20...

Dr. Mitchell Downey had to pinch himself when he was able to obtain regally-bred stakes-winning pacer Blood Money from the Standardbred Horse Sales Companys 2020 Mixed Sale. When it came time to review the catalogue, he turned the page down on Blood Money but he didnt think he would actually get to own him. "I really had my heart set on bidding on a horse later in the sale (than Blood Money)." explained Dr. Downey. "Turned out that horse ended up being out of the sale". Having bid on two othe...