Robert Smith

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith recalls the eventful decade of the 1950's when Canadian harness racing was making great strides in the Province of Quebec, especially Montreal.

In this week's Rewind, Robert Smith recalls a rather rare happening on New Years Day 1975. The members of a famous Quebec racing family gathered to put on a memorable show for the racing patrons at C...

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith recalls the days of long ago when harness racing on ice was a popular winter pastime. His reminiscence is mainly pictorial in nature, showing the various vehicles an...

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith remembers a number of events, personalities and little stories from the decade of the 1940s as part of the ongoing Years Ago feature which appears each month.

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith adopts an "O'Brien Awards" theme. His piece presents a short reminiscence about the late Joe O'Brien and also includes some vintage photos from award nights long bef...

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith concludes the two-part remembrance of the 1985 Rothman's Summer Series held at Greenwood Raceway in Toronto.

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith recalls the Rothmans Stakes from July 1985 held at Toronto's Greenwood Raceway.

This week's Rewind, the first of 2017, takes a very long look back at some of the names, events and happenings from the decade of the 1930's.

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith wraps up 2016 with a series of short recollections of events and personalities from the year 1969. A number of old photographs help to recreate this period in time n...

In this week's Rewind, Robert Smith offers a Christmas Greeting to readers and also reminisces a bit about Christmases past along with a few old photos associated with this festive time of year.

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith takes a look back to a time when the sport's best young horses continued racing past the age of three. This era saw many great races staged between older horses.

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith revives some names, faces and events from the decade of the 1980's in the monthly feature Years Ago.