Fifteen years ago, just a few months after I took my job here at TROT, our Communications Department also hired a new Website News Editor....read on / continuer à lire

Quebec horseman Gaston Landry passed away on Saturday, Sept. 25 at Arthabaska Hotel-Dieu Hospital at the age of 88....read on

“We were not surprised to learn 60 per cent of the horses in our 490-horse retrospective study had larger measurements on the left side of their withers,” said Dr. Katrina Merkies, researcher and associate professor at the University of Guelph....read on

Horses racing on the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit in its Fair Sire Stakes program do so for three reasons. Two of them are obvious: to earn the purse money offered at each stop and to try to accumulate enough points to earn their way into their respective $25,000 Fair Championships, which will be held on a 4 p.m. card at The Meadows on Friday, Oct. 8....read on

Mrs Suhwiggins and Dontpokethedragon captured their respective $8,100 Opens during Monday’s 12-race card at Century Downs, and they did so for the productive tandem of driver Brandon Campbell and trainer Michael Campbell....read on

Tobins Brownie was the only favourite to stand up to the test in Gold division action of the PEI Colt Stakes Monday evening at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway....read on

Longtime respected horseman Mike Campbell of Hanwell, N.B. passed away on Saturday, Sept. 25 at the Doctor Everett Chalmers Hospital. He was 73....read on

If harness racing had a buy-in event like the Mohawk Million with the same format for a different category of horses, which division would you most like to see have a million-dollar buy-in event?....read on

Grand River Raceway would like to inform horsepeople that Thursday, Oct. 7 will be the last training day of the season....read on

Driver Jason Brewer scored his 4,000th lifetime victory on Monday evening at Hollywood Dayton Raceway. The 43-year-old reinsman went start to finish in front with the trotter Delilah Seelster in the 10th race, topping Mission Voyage and Big Bad Caviar....read on

The win streak is now four in a row and counting for Heinkin Bythebay, who was impressive in his Monday assignment at Harrington Raceway....read on

The Somebeachsomewhere sophomore colt Kauai King (no relation to the 1966 Kentucky Derby winner) had to dodge an early breaker and then worked hard to get the lead from his outside post, but once on top would not be supplanted in winning the $13,000 featured pace in 1:54.1 at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Monday afternoon (Sept. 27)....read on

Muscling Vegas was the sale topper at the second Ontario Select Yearling Sale, which took place at Winbak Farm of Canada on Sunday, Sept. 26....read on

The September to remember at Woodbine Mohawk Park reached its crescendo on Saturday (Sept. 25) with Canada's richest night of harness racing featuring more than $3 million in purses up for grabs, headlined by the $1,000,000 Mohawk Million for two-year-old trotters....read on

Stash It Away secured his second Atlantic Sires Stakes victory while divisional leader Fern Hill General faltered in the first turn as the regular season wrapped up for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 26) at Inverness Raceway....read on

It was Dragon Time again in the Open Handicap Pace featured at Marquis Downs on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 26) as the Trevor Williams trainee continued his winning ways through the meet's first three weekends....read on

American Risk ($2.50) was a repeat winner in the top class at Truro Raceway, leading all the way in sloppy conditions on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 26) for the George Rennison stable....read on

Trainer Valerie Grondin won both $15,710 Maine Standardbred Breeders Stakes (MSBS) for three-year-old pacing fillies on opening day of the 149th Cumberland (ME) Fair on Sunday, Sept. 26....read on

On Saturday (Sept. 25), the Alberta Standardbred Horse Association (ASHA) held its 2021 Yearling Sale at Century Downs Racetrack and Casino....read on

The Saturday (Sept. 25) card of harness racing at Northside Downs featured stakes action on the trot and pace, with Nova Scotia Stakes on the trot in non-betting events and the best two-year-old fillies in the Atlantic Sires Stakes on the pace....read on

In this week's Rewind, Robert Smith takes readers on somewhat of a nostalgic trip to recall the lengthy history behind the Wallacetown, Ontario fall fair and fairgrounds....read on

Harness racing driver and trainer Winston Lineweaver passed away Friday (Sept. 24). Hew as 79.

He was born in Conicville, Va., and at the time of his death lived in Mauertown, Va. Mr. Lineweaver competed at the nearby Shenandoah County Fair harness meet for decades and at the Shenandoah Downs pari-mutuel meet since it began in 2016....read on

The Rockin Image four-year-old gelding The Candyman Can was claimed for $50,000, a record at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, out of one the two $18,000 featured claiming handicap pacing events on Saturday (Sept. 25)....read on

With the stated goal of becoming the premier Sire Stakes program in North America, the Kentucky Sire Stakes Advisory Panel voted on Friday (Sept. 24) to recommend major changes across the board to the Kentucky Sire Stakes program for Kentucky Bred horses....read on

Dabarndawgswatchin picked up her second Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series victory in the sole $157,200 three-year-old pacing filly division at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday, Sept. 24 and heads into the post-season on a two-race win streak....read on

"She’s fairly small, just decently-bred, and trained and owned by lesser-known participants, but when she steps on the track none of that matters to her. You’re going to have to look her in the eye and have more heart and talent than she does to beat her — on most occasions that doesn’t happen"....read on / continuer a lire

Lous Pearlman nosed out favoured elimination winner Perfect Sting in a photo finish to take the $397,080 final of the 76th Little Brown Jug on Thursday, Sept. 23 at Delaware County Fairgrounds....read on

When Dovescry ($2.80) might be the sharpest trotting mare in North America right now, and her score in the $116,500 Miss Versatility Final as part of the 2021 Little Brown Jug undercard on Thursday (Sept. 24) at the Delaware County Fairgrounds did nothing to lend evidence to the contrary....read on

Apollo Global Management, Inc. announced on Wednesday, Sept. 22 that an affiliate of certain funds it manages has completed its acquisition of Great Canadian Gaming Corporation and seasoned gaming executive Anthony “Tony” Rodio has been named Chief Executive Officer of Great Canadian, effective immediately....read on

The Ontario Standardbred Adoption Society (OSAS) has postponed its 23rd annual golf tournament until next Wednesday, Sept. 29....read on

Reports from Sweden indicate that 2021 Hambletonian winner Captain Corey has been injured and will not race again this season....read on

When a young Mark MacDonald moved a few cheap horses from PEI to Ontario's Windsor Raceway, many that knew him probably thought he was nuts. Two O’Brien Awards, many major stakes titles, and $103 million in driving purses later, they’ve probably changed their minds....read on / continuer à lire

The 2021 enrollment forms for the Quebec Mare Residency Program are now available....read on

Did you know that the foal registration deadline is December 31 of the foaling year BUT you can save money by applying early?...read on

Standardbred Canada’s FREE Self-Serve online entry program is available for trainers to enter horses to race and quality, and it’s available 24-7! Racetracks across the country are requesting that trainers use Self-Serve....read on