Up And Ready

2021 O'Brien Awards

2021 O'Brien Award Winners Announced

February 06, 2022

Standardbred Canada announced the winners of the 2021 O’Brien Awards, which honour Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season, during a Virtual Gala videostreamed on standardbredcanada.ca on...

John Bax

Chasing Champions

February 05, 2022

Chasing O’Brien Award trophies never gets old for veteran horseman John Bax, who has a pair of 2021 trotting finalists in Duly Resolved and recently retired Up And Ready.

Libfeld/Katz Increases Broodmare Band

December 22, 2021

The Libfeld/Katz Breeding Partnership has announced the addition of six talented and impeccably bred three-year-old fillies to its broodmare roster.

McNair Sweeps SBOA Stakes

November 14, 2021

Driver Doug McNair found himself in the winner's circle of both stakes events on Saturday (Nov. 13) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, winning the $144,825 SBOA Three-Year-Old Filly Trot with Up And Ready and t...

Up And Ready Rips In Super Final Finale

October 16, 2021

An aggressive steer from driver Doug McNair eventually landed Up And Ready into the pocket, from which she then pounced and powered to a 1:55.1 victory in taking the $225,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Supe...

Bax Has A Way With Stubborn Belles

February 28, 2021

"I don’t know how this type finds its way to me. I like to work with better-mannered horses but here they are. On the racetrack doing her work, she is no problem at all. But in the barn, putting on he...

First Gold Wins For Freshman Fillies

August 01, 2020

A trio of fresh faces graced the winner’s circle at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday, July 31 as the two-year-old trotting fillies competed in leg two of their Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series campaign.

Up And Ready Tops Third Session

October 03, 2019

The third session of the 2019 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale was held Thursday evening at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion in Lexington, KY, and it was a daughter of the Ontario-based sire, Kadabra, checki...