2015 O’Brien Finalists Announced December 21, 2015 On Monday, December 21, Standardbred Canada announced the finalists for the 2015 O’Brien Awards, which honour Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season.
Participants Honoured With Awards December 21, 2015 Hanover Shoe Farms President and CEO James W. Simpson, trainer Jimmy Takter, driver David Miller, and owner George Teague Jr. were voted year-end honours by the U.S. Harness Writers Association, the o...
A Winner Against All Odds December 20, 2015 "I have a Saint Therese medal I carry in my pocket when he races...Every time I had it he won and then I couldn’t find it for the two starts he was second in. I found it and had it with me for his las...
Wiggle It Jiggleit Best In The U.S. December 17, 2015 The United States Harness Writers Association announced on Thursday, December 17 that Wiggle It Jiggleit is the Dan Patch Awards’ Horse of the Year recipient.
Dan Patch Pacers Unveiled December 16, 2015 Harness racing’s richest pacer of the year, three-year-old gelding Wiggle It Jiggleit, and fastest pacer of the year, six-year-old horse State Treasurer, were among the six pacers named divisional cha...
Dan Patch Trotters Unveiled December 15, 2015 Bee A Magician, Mission Brief, and Pinkman added to their respective Dan Patch Award totals Tuesday (December 15) when divisional honours for trotters were announced by the U.S. Harness Writers Associ...
Williams Wins Award, Not ‘Pharoah’ December 14, 2015 American Pharoah won Thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown. He also won the Sports Illustrated web poll for the publication’s Sportsman of the Year Award. It was announced on Monday (Dec. 14) that the hi...
Trainer On 2015’s Winningest Horse December 14, 2015 “We might have trained him once this year. He doesn’t require much work that way. He’s racing almost every seven days. He’s stayed sound.”
Trio Honoured With Awards December 14, 2015 United States Trotting Association Executive Vice President Mike Tanner has been awarded the Dominic Frinzi Person of the Year Award by Harness Horseman International.
Matinee Project Doles Out Awards December 11, 2015 Sixteen-year-old driver Austin Sorrie was awarded Driver of the Year honours on Wednesday, December 9 at Charlottetown Driving Park, as the Matinee Racetrack Development Project’s annual banquet and a...
Southwind Is NJ Breeder Of The Year December 11, 2015 The Breeders Committee of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey has announced that Southwind Farms in Pennington has been selected as the New Jersey Breeder of the Year for ...
Service To Industry Award For Tubin December 10, 2015 The upstate New York chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association has announced that Bruce Tubin, the director of the Western New York Harness Horsemen’s Association, will receive the Serv...
