Randy Waples

Heavy Dude E and driver Randy Waples winning at the Legends Day Trot

Waples Wins Legends Day Trot

The 12th edition of Legends Day at Clinton Raceway wrapped up with the sun shining for the featured finale as Randy Waples defeated a field of fellow Hall of Fame drivers in rein to Heavy Dude E.

Taurasi winning at Woodbine Mohawk Park

Taurasi Tightens, Waples Returns In Mohawk Qualifiers

With a number of Woodbine Mohawk Park's current upper echelon competitors entered in series action on Saturday, March 16, top class terror Taurasi found himself without a place this weekend.

Chris Christoforou

Christoforou On Career Calling And HOF Candidacy

"I was probably four or five years old and we had a circular carpet in the living room and I was racing my little cars and I'd line them up like a horse race and I'd move them, you know, this one's se...

2022 O'Brien Awards hosts Ken Middleton and Randy Waples

2022 O'Brien Awards Hosts Announced

January 22, 2023

Standardbred Canada (SC) is pleased to announce that Ken Middleton and Randy Waples will co-host the 2022 O’Brien Awards Gala on Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Hilton Mississauga / Meadowvale Hotel in Missis...

Randy Waples

Waples Joins Woodbine Broadcast Full-Time

December 12, 2022

Woodbine Entertainment announced on Monday, Dec. 12 the addition of Hall of Fame driver Randy Waples as a full-time on-air Racing Analyst.

2020 & 2021 Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Standardbred Inductees

Canadian Horse Racing Hall Of Fame Welcomes Classes Of 2020 & 2021

August 03, 2022

On Wednesday (Aug. 3), the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame formally inducted its 16 newest members in a long-awaited event to recognize the CHRHF classes named in 2020 and 2021.

Paul MacDonell with Breeders Crown winner Lifetime Dream

MacDonell, Waples Honoured To Join Legends Day

Driver Paul MacDonell may be making his first appearance at Legends Day on June 12, but he has been at Clinton Raceway in spirit for all previous 10 editions. A giant photo of him driving Lifetime Dre...

Race Rewind: San Pail, You Da Man!

October 28, 2021

Ten years ago, San Pail captivated harness racing fans on his way to winning one of the most iconic Breeders Crown races when he defeated the world's best trotters to cement himself as one of Canada's...

Can You Reach The Level Of Your Heroes?

"Look at Wayne Gretzky: every time they told him he was the greatest he’d deny it and say that his hero, Gordie Howe, was the greatest. I just don’t think you can be above your heroes"....read on / co...

The Best Two-Year-Old I've Driven

TROT reached out to many of the sport’s leading reinsmen and asked them not only to share who the best two-year-old that they had ever driven was, but also if they could remember when it became appare...

Waples Reflects On Hall Of Fame Nod

"I don’t think there will ever be a day when I shut it down unless I simply can’t do it. But right now, I enjoy looking after horses...stuff that I couldn’t really do before because I couldn’t be ther...

Reaction From The Class Of 2021

Trot Insider has gathered reaction from the 2021 Standardbred inductees into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame

Canadian Horse Racing Hall Of Fame Announces Class Of 2021

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame is pleased to name three people and three horses to be inducted as the Hall’s Class of 2021.