O'brien Awards

Standardbred Canada (SC) invites members and associations to make submissions for the 2024 O’Brien Award of Horsemanship.

Standardbred Canada (SC) is excited to announce that the 36th annual O’Brien Awards will be held on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, at the Hilton Mississauga/Meadowvale in Mississauga, Ont.

At the Black Book Yearling Sale in 2006, Ken Sucee bought back an Art Major filly by the name of Arts Diva, on behalf of her co-breeder, Dr. David Legge, for $20,000. Then, over the next five years, K...

It's rare enough to train an O'Brien Award winner. Factor in winning Horse of the Year, even tougher. More than one Horse of the Year? Exceedingly rare. But now Mark Steacy has achieved something no o...

"It was really nice to be on stage with my dad and just be apart of this awesome event, and it was just even a privilege to be nominated for such an outstanding award."

"It's a great honour being respected by your peers. A lot of hard work is involved in this, a great staff behind us too, you know, it's not just me. We've got a good bunch of grooms and second trainer...

Standardbred Canada has released the breakdown of the voting for the 35th O'Brien Awards.

Fourteen years after Sportswriter won the O'Brien Award for two-year-old pacing colts in 2009, Casie Coleman has another O'Brien Award winner in that division with Legendary Hanover.

"It's a tremendous honour. This is three times we've got this. It's rare in the big scheme to win that thing three times and she's been special."

"It has its ups and downs for sure. All of us as breeders, we'll come out of [the sales] feeling good some days and other days, we're like, wow, it's just like were hitting ourselves with a hammer... ...

"It's just a wow moment for me. It's probably one of the best moments I've ever had in my life in harness racing."