John Pentland

Super Final Champ Cheesy Smile Back In OSS Action

Cheesy Smile will try for her second consecutive stakes win as sophomore pacing fillies take centre stage on Friday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park with more than $205,000 in total purses split across t...

2022 Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final winners

Updates On Ontario Super Final Champions

It might not feel like it, but according to the calendar, spring started this week, which means stakes season is right around the corner. And last year’s Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Super Final champio...

2022 O'Brien Award finalist Cheesy Smile and trainer John Pentland

A Season Worth Smiling About

January 31, 2023

Cheesy Smile certainly gave her connections something to smile about, ending her debut season as one of the top two-year-old pacing fillies in the country.

Cheesy Smile winning at Woodbine Mohawk Park

Cheesy Smile Trying To Finish Strong For Fun Ownership Group

October 05, 2022

Owning a racehorse is a lot of fun. Owning a stakes-winning racehorse is even more fun. Trainer John Pentland and the ownership group of Cheesy Smile definitely fall into the latter as they’ve been en...

Stonebridge Helios

Trot N.A. Cup Spring Book: #3

With the scheduled date of the 2022 Pepsi North America Cup less than two months away, Trot Insider will profile some of the race's top contenders as horses ready to compete for one of Canadian harnes...

Lauras Love winning the Simcoe Stakes

Lauras Love Retired

The connections of O'Brien Award winner Lauras Love have announced the five-year-old pacing mare has been retired from racing.

Collage of 2021 O'Brien Award finalist Stonebridge Helios

Pentland And His Ray Of Light

January 22, 2022

Stonebridge Helios was a horse that John Pentland never expected to train. Fast forward less than a year, and he's now a horse that the longtime conditioner eagerly anticipated returning to his stable...

A Lot To Love About Lauras Love

February 06, 2021

"She's really gutsy, she just lays it on the line every start and she's so determined to get to the wire."

Pentland's Prudent Patience Pays Off

January 07, 2021

Business as usual for trainer John Pentland grew into a pleasant surprise and, with matured management, culminated into a nomination for the highest honour a Standardbred in Canada can receive.

Decisive Debut For Powerful Chris

John Pentland's Powerful Chris ($12.60) lived up to her name on Tuesday evening (July 10) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, unleashing a powerful push to the fore up the backstretch en route to an eight and th...

Where Were Thou, Talbot Romeo?

As a number of harness racing's top four-year-olds pepper the Saturday program at Woodbine Mohawk Park for the Graduate Series, one four-year-old that's shown promise of talent will race on the underc...

Precocious Pacers To Western Fair

October 27, 2008

Western Fair Raceway fans are in for a treat on Friday night as the London oval welcomes the province's top two-year-old pacing fillies and pacing colts for a slate of Gold eliminations.

Second Start Back For Chancey Lady

September 17, 2008

Chancey Lady will be looking to defend her Gold final title at Mohawk Racetrack on Saturday night, but trainer John Pentland says the three-year-old pacing filly might still be a week or two short of