A special Tuesday (Jan. 26) edition of COSA TV featured driver Austin Sorrie discussing his career as a driver ahead of the 2020 O’Brien Awards, for which he has received a nomination for Rising Star of the Year. The 21-year-old native of Montague, P.E.I. began driving horses from an early age and had his sights fully set on harness racing. “My father had horses and right from day one I’d be skipping school to go the barn; just be faking sick to go to the barn,” Sorrie said. “I always used to beat the bed posts off the bed all the time with the whips every time I came home. I went to the track just to collect whips, that’s all I went for.”