Obituary

John Stewart, 84, a sports reporter/copy editor with the Columbus Citizen-Journal and Dispatch for 32 years of a 44-year career in journalism, passed away on March 2.

Trot Insider has learned that John Donald D.D. MacDonald died peacefully with family at his side on Friday, March 3 in Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital. He was 77.

The harness racing community lost one its most beloved members on Sunday, February 26 with the sudden death of Lloyd H. Gilmour, 71.

Horse racing columnist and author Jay Cronley, who penned the novel which would later be turned into racing classic ‘Let It Ride’ starring Richard Dreyfuss, has passed away at the age of 73.

Longtime Quebec trainer Normand Masse, whose biggest horse was the 1988 pacing powerhouse Armbro Hunch, has passed away at the age of 70.

The international sport horse community lost one of its legends on Friday with the passing of Dr. John R. Steele, DVM, who also spent a great deal of time in the Standardbred industry.

Trot Insider has learned that longtime Port Hood horse owner and breeder Donald Bernard Gillis, 78, passed away on Saturday, February 25 after a courageous battle with cancer.

Carol Bodkin, 71, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 23 at Health Sciences North in Sudbury, Ont. after a courageous battle with cancer.

Well known and popular groom Paul 'Pauly' Suksiri passed away recently after a courageous battle with cancer.

Charles W. ‘Bill’ Smith, 78, of Gambier, Ohio, passed away on Sunday (February 19).

Rollie C. Wilson, 96, of Galion, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at Magnolia Terrace in Galion where he had been a resident for the past three years.

Peter Lyons, a regular trainer and owner at Kawartha Downs during the 1970s and ‘80s, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, Ont. on February 11. He was...