Bill O'donnell

Ontario Sires Stakes Purses Increase For Grassroots Series

February 04, 2025

To kick off its second half century, the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program will expand to six Grassroots Series opportunities in 2025 with purses for each division increasing to $25,000.

Woodbine, COSA Reach New Three-Year Agreement

Woodbine Entertainment and the Central Ontario Standardbred Association (COSA) jointly announced on Tuesday, April 23 the agreement of a new three-year deal that includes capital investments in each y...

An historic image of Sackville Downs

Hall Of Fame Horsemen To Commemorate Sackville Downs

Two Nova Scotia native sons who are both Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame members will be returning to their home province to be part of Truro Raceway’s Remembering Sackville Downs Day being planned...

Doug Brown, John Rallis and Bill O'Donnell

Chatting With A 'Decent' Pair Of Drivers

February 06, 2024

One of the silver linings that came from the winter storm that snowed in those attending the 2023 O'Brien Awards in Prince Edward Island this past weekend was literally running into people with time o...

A harness racing fan testing the Drive To Win VR Harness Racing Experience on Industry Day

Galvin Alliance Announces VR Driving Experience

August 09, 2023

On Wednesday, Aug. 9, the Bill Galvin Racing Alliance (BGRA) announced the launch of the “Drive To Win” VR (Virtual Reality) Harness Driving Experience, sponsored by the Central Ontario Standardbred A...

Bill O'Donnell, Prakas and Nihilator

SC Rewind: The O'Donnell "Magic" Show

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith takes readers back about 38 years ago to 1985 as he recalls a very big day of racing at the Meadowlands track which was then in just its tenth year of exi...

SC Rewind: The Start Of 'Magic'

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith looks back some 40 years to recall a milestone event in harness racing history. That year, which was 1981, a then 33-year-old Canadian born horseman became the firs...

The Best Two-Year-Old I've Driven

TROT reached out to many of the sport’s leading reinsmen and asked them not only to share who the best two-year-old that they had ever driven was, but also if they could remember when it became appare...

COSA Directors Elected

On Monday (May 3, 2021) the Central Ontario Standardbred Association’s auditing firm, KPMG, revealed the 2021 election results.

‘Alumni Show’ Interviews O'Donnell

September 10, 2020

The most recent edition of the Harness Racing Alumni Show is now available for listening.

Lawson, O'Donnell On Reopening

On Wednesday night's (May 6) edition of COSA TV, Jim Lawson of the Woodbine Entertainment Group indicated optimism toward a return to live racing across Ontario in the near future and outlined some of...

Lawson, O'Donnell On COSA TV

As optimism begins to grow for the return of live harness racing in the province of Ontario, the Woodbine Entertainment Group’s CEO Jim Lawson along with COSA President Bill O’Donnell will discuss the...

A Night With The Legends

On Wednesday evening (April 1), Greg Blanchard hosted another roundtable discussion interview with three of harness racing’s most accoladed and most respected driving legends - John Campbell, Bill O’D...