Robert Smith

In his weekly edition of Rewind Robert Smith takes readers back to the decade of the 1970s as he recalls a number of happenings from that period in time. His short stories touch on several spots acros...

In this week's edition of Rewind, Robert Smith takes a rather nostalgic look back at the year of 1966 and recalls some of the names of the people and the horses that were in action that year on the O...

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith travels back to a much earlier time as he recalls several events at the Blue Bonnets track in Montreal.

This week's Rewind is a bit different from the usual; it's all about horses but with less to do with actual harness racing. Robert has penned a mainly pictorial piece that shows a wide variety of ho...

In this week's 'Rewind,' Robert Smith reflects on the decade of the 1960s, a time of great growth in popularity surrounding all areas of harness racing. A number of performers both human and equine a...

In this week's edition of Rewind, Robert Smith takes a trip back to 1969 and recalls a couple of small town tracks that played an important role in the 'Farm System' of harness racing at that time.

In this week's edition of Rewind, Robert Smith recalls the visit of one of the sport's most famous horses to a small town track in southwestern Ontario.

In this week's Rewind story Robert Smith remembers the great pacing filly Fan Hanover and reviews parts of her phenomenal three-year racing career.

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith takes a look back in time to a special Maple Leaf Trot edition from almost 50 years ago. He also revives some early year history of this great annual event.

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith takes a look back to the decade of the 1950s and surveys some of the action taking place at various tracks and even a few sales results from that period i...

In this week's edition of Rewind, Robert Smith recaps a night of racing from just over 28 years ago at Canada's most Southerly racetrack and also one of its oldest.

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith recalls the career of a truly great U.S. horseman, the late Stanley Dancer. He made countless trips to Canadian tracks and set many records during those...