Mark Etsell

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...

“Her mother was quite the race mare. It means something special to be training her filly; she’s the first one we’ve liked out of her.”

2012 was a year of highs and lows in the harness racing world. For trainer Mark Etsell’s star sophomore colt, the racing season followed the same pattern of peaks and valleys.

Wednesday’s fourth race at Grand River Raceway is of particular interest to Wellesley, Ont. resident Bruce Newton, and not only because his two-year-old trotting colt The Golden Child will be making h...