Dean Hoffman

In one of my blog entries on the Standardbred Canada preview of its new web site, I wrote about the Little Brown Jug and quoted my late friend Norman Woolworth. Few people knew as much about harness r...

With Jug Fever starting to build after the release of yesterday's draw, two of Standardbred Canada's bloggers - Dean Hoffman and Kelly Spencer - have posted comments leading up to Thursday's classic p

The oddsmakers called it right: they said that the Swedish Derby would come down to a race between favoured Sahara Dynamite and rival Wellino Boko, two sons of Express Ride.

With fewer and fewer heat races being contested in harness racing today, Hall Of Famer and new Standardbred Canada blogger Dean Hoffman questions whether or not heat racing still has a place in our in...

They race forever and become real favorites of the public. They might be slower than Standardbred trotters, but they certainly develop a fan following.

I may have seen the past and future of free-for-all trotting in North America within about 30 minutes yesterday.

Trotters by Muscles Yankee flexed their muscles recently in the Dutch Classics for three-year-olds.

Standardbreds in Slovenia – who'd have thunk it?

The Swedes traditionally don't place much emphasis on early ability in their trotters. They prefer to let their bones, bodies, and minds mature. Their goal is to have a sound, useful horse that can pe...