Robert Smith

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith recalls the year 1975 when Greenwood Raceway celebrated its 100th Birthday. He continues the year by year reminiscence of the years leading up to 1975. A number of o...

This week's edition of Rewind takes a 'Years Ago' trip back to the decade of the 1950's. A collage of old pictures recall many of the personalities of the day. It is interesting to note that most of...

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith takes a nostalgic look back to 30 years ago which was 1986. He revives a potpourri of names, faces and happenings from that year and includes numerous pic...

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith recalls the time when small town racetracks were commonplace, existing in almost every community across the land. He is asking for reader's input in identifying tho...

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith recalls the year 1975 when Greenwood Raceway celebrated its 100th Birthday. A number of old and interesting photographs are displayed showing the many people who are...

In this week's edition of Rewind coinciding with Hambletonian weekend, Robert Smith recalls a great Hambo victory by a filly named Helicopter in 1953. This marked the first time in the race's then 27-...

In this week's edition of Rewind, Robert Smith takes a look back at some of the events, personalities and happenings from the decade of the 1940s. It's all part of the ongoing monthly feature Years Ag...

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith recalls the glory days of harness racing in Montreal and remembers one of the great horsemen of that era and also one of his principal owners. Together th...

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith turns the calendar back to 1975 when Greenwood Raceway -- sometimes referred to as "The Downtown Track" -- celebrated its 100th Birthday. He traces the track's found...

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith presents the second edition of an ongoing series recalling the start up and some first year highlights of the Ontario Sires Stakes program that started back in 1974....

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith recalls a number of events and personalities from the decade of the 1930s in the ongoing monthly feature Years Ago.

In this week's Rewind as Canada Day approaches, Robert Smith recalls when harness racing on Dominion Day as the July first National holiday was formerly known, was a major happening. His recollection...