Mark Etsell

Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2023 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season.

An all-around horseman with a career that most would envy, the only thing that had been missing from Mark Etsell’s resume was a bonafide superstar. Then, in the fall of 2020, he managed to make his wa...

"She never throws a bad one in and always shows up. No matter what her condition is...She loves her work, and gets really angry when she doesn't work."

On the heels of his first million-dollar season, veteran trainer Mark Etsell can add another first to his resume at the 2022 O'Brien Awards courtesy stable star Adare Castle.

Ontario Racing’s Standardbred Improvement Program Committee announced on Thursday (Sept. 22) a $720,000 total increase to the purses for the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Super Finals and Grassroots ...

The average price for a yearling at the 2020 Harrisburg Sale was $38,215. Adare Castle was a $10,000 purchase for trainer Mark Etsell and his fellow owners. That $10,000 yearling has turned into the b...

Reigning Ontario Sires Stakes divisional champion Adare Castle will be looking for more Gold this evening (Monday, June 6) when she arrives at Woodbine Mohawk Park to take on seven others in the seaso...

The best of her Ontario Sires Stakes division as a two-year-old, Adare Castle has started her road back to a divisional title defense for 2022. And according to her connections, her focus and her appe...

One of Ontario's most respected horsemen for many decades, Mark Etsell has reached a new plateau as a finalist for one of Canadian's harness racing's most prestigious individual titles — the O'Brien A...

Bob McClure spoke very fondly of Hanover Raceway on Saturday (August 28) and his opinion of the half-mile oval definitely wasn't tarnished after his five-win performance, highlighted by his first vict...

Adare Castle nearly slipped through the fingers of trainer and co-owner Mark Etsell. That filly is part of a stable that is propelling the longtime conditioner and developer to his best year yet, and ...

Ontario’s talented two-year-old trotting fillies are headed to Hanover Raceway on Saturday, Aug. 14 for the third Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots leg of their campaign and trainer Mark Etsell is hopin...