Robert Smith

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith recalls the career of the late Alix "Spider" Winger, a very accomplished horseman of a bygone era.

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith takes a slightly different path as he recalls the once popular practice of sending and receiving postcards in the mail.

This week's edition of Rewind is the regular monthly feature known as 'Picture Parade'. This time the theme is tied to a very special day on the annual calendar which occurs this year on Sunday, May 1...

This week's Rewind Robert Smith offers the monthly feature called 'Years Ago'. This time all of his short stories and old photos are based in the decade of the 1980's, thus about 40 - 45 years ago.

In this week's edition of 'Rewind ' Robert Smith offers up a few short stories about people, perhaps places and things, all from the past of harness racing. As usual a few old pictures are included.

For this week's Rewind, Robert Smith offers up the monthly feature 'Picture Parade.' This time he centres his photo collection around a special group of individuals that all share something very much ...

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith takes readers back in time to 1974, an even 50 years ago. He recalls the magical year of a horse named Derbys Gent.

This week's Rewind is the regular monthly feature 'Years Ago' and this time around it's all about the happenings from about 50 years ago, hence the 1970's.

In the latest edition of Rewind, Robert Smith discusses the recent closing of one of the sport's oldest and longest existing racetracks.

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith offers up the monthly feature 'Picture Parade'. A bevy of old pictures from various parts of the country make up this week's column.

For this week's Rewind Robert Smith takes readers back in time as he recreates a day at the races;  the way it used to be.  A number of great old photographs help to tell the story of what it was like...

In this week's edition of Rewind,  Robert Smith delves back in time to recall a perhaps now forgotten paper document that for many years played an important role in each and every day of harness racin...