Future Star Award

"It's a little bit more of a smaller pond but you can make a name for yourself, and you have a little bit more of an opportunity out there. There's a bit more pressure here in Ontario...you can hone y...

Four and a half years ago, Dave Kelly had precisely one horse -- a four-year-old mare named Carro Hoodoo who didn’t exactly come with any lofty aspirations. “I bought her for $1,300...and that include...

"It's overwhelming, we're very excited and it sort of caps off an excellent year we had this past year. We hope to do it again in the near future."

Chris Lancaster, the 2018 O'Brien Awards Future Star winner, only looks to shine brighter across Western Canada as he enters his second year of full-time training.

"Considering I didn't win a race until June, it turned out to be an incredible year. Everything just clicked in August."

Expect to see more of 2016 Future Star Award winner Louis-Philippe Roy in 2017 as the up-and-coming driver has modified plans from those previously revealed.

The 2016 O'Brien Award Gala marks the fourth year for the Future Star Award and this year’s nominees, Brett MacDonald, 20, of Embrun, Ont., and Louis-Philippe Roy, 27, of Mont-Joli, Que., are no stran...

Two trainers that know a thing or two about winning multiple O'Brien Awards have chimed in on their background with this year's Future Star Award finalists.

"I feel like I already won. I'm already a nominee, I was really surprised....it's a good start to 2015, I'd say."

Even if Tyler Borth doesn't become the second recipient of the Future Star O'Brien Award, he will always have a unique piece of harness racing trivia attached to his name.

In the second part of Future Star features, Trot Radio profiles the first-time finalists in the newest O'Brien Award category.

In the first of two features, Trot Radio profiles the first-time O'Brien Award finalists in the Future Star category.