Forbidden Trade Trounces Foes October 12, 2019 Hambletonian winner Forbidden Trade raced patiently through the mile and trotted past his competition in the stretch to take the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Super Final for three-year-old trotting colt...
Ontario Stars To Step Forward Saturday October 10, 2019 “If you could see it and just buy it, the person with the deepest pockets would always have the best horses, but because of that intangible that we cannot see — whether that horse has that drive, desi...
Trotting Talent On Display At Mohawk September 27, 2019 Ontario’s top three-year-old trotters wrapped up their Gold Series regular season at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday evening and division stars Bright Eyes M and Forbidden Trade padded their division...
Stage Set For $2 Million Saturday September 10, 2019 Forbidden Trade and Green Manalishi S headline a field of nine for this Saturday’s $605,000 Canadian Trotting Classic at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Forbidden Trade's Familiar Tune Up September 10, 2019 Just days before the 2019 Hambletonian, Forbidden Trade tuned up during a Woodbine Mohawk Park qualifying session and finished second in his race. This year’s Hambo champ is now just days away from Sa...
McClure On Forbidden Trade, Yonkers Trot August 27, 2019 With the Hambletonian Stakes already on his list of accomplishments, Forbidden Trade will try for the second jewel in the Trotting Triple Crown when he faces seven foes in Saturday’s (Aug. 31) $500,00...
Posts Drawn For Yonkers Trot, Messenger August 26, 2019 Post positions have been drawn for Yonkers Raceway’s pair of $500,000 Triple Crown events, set for the Saturday night.
Forbidden Trade To Yonkers Trot August 20, 2019 On Tuesday (Aug. 20), Yonkers Raceway announced that, contrary to its Monday release, Hambletonian winner Forbidden Trade has been entered to contest the Yonkers Trot, and will be part of the eight-ho...
Hambo Champ Enjoys Home Cookin' August 13, 2019 Hambletonian champion Forbidden Trade returned to Ontario Sires Stakes action at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Monday evening and pushed his lifetime earnings over $1 million with his second Gold Series win...
Blais, McClure Reflect On Hambo Win August 06, 2019 Prior to Saturday (Aug. 3) afternoon, Luc Blais’ fondest memories of a Hambletonian were from a race 24 years earlier, when Tagliabue won America’s Trotting Classic at The Meadowlands. By Saturday eve...
Forbidden Trade Wins 2019 Hambletonian August 03, 2019 Canadian-based Forbidden Trade, driven by Elora, Ont.'s Bob McClure, trained by Campbellville, Ont.'s Luc Blais and owned by Determination of Montreal, Que., upset favoured Greenshoe en route to victo...
McClure High On Forbidden Trade August 02, 2019 "I think every race he’s had, he’s improved and couldn’t be going into the Hambo any better."