Racing Under Saddle

This past Saturday, Hanover Raceway featured a race under saddle as part of its all-trot card. The race was part of an increasingly popular trend for tracks in Canada and the U.S. to card exhibition r...

A rare spectacle occurred Sunday, June 24 in St-Hugues when a field of five lined up behind the starting gate and contested a pacing-under-saddle event over the rural Quebec bullring.

Followers of standardbred racing like nothing better than seeing fleet-footed equines don a saddle, take a rider on their backs and go for a whirl.