Robert Smith

In the latest edition of Rewind Robert Smith takes a look back at the career of the great U.S. horseman Levi Harner.  He was a highly accomplished trainer and driver for many years.

This week's Rewind is the monthly feature "Picture Parade" and this time around takes on the central theme of Father's Day, observed this year on Sunday, June 18.

In this week's Rewind, Robert Smith centers the story around his findings from an old horse supply catalogue from over 100 years ago.

The latest weekly Rewind column is the monthly edition of 'Years Ago' and this time all of the topics and old photos are from the decade of the 1940's.

In today's Rewind,  Robert Smith further recalls one of harness racing's longest serving families and delves into their many accomplishments from the past century.

This week's Rewind is another monthly edition of 'Picture Parade'.  The theme of this offering is intended to coincide with not only the start up of the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes season which begins t...

In today's Rewind,  Robert Smith recalls one of harness racing's longest serving families and delves into their many accomplishments from the past century.

This week's Rewind is the regular monthly feature 'Years Ago' and this month it's a trip back to the 1930's as Robert Smith delves pretty deep into the archives for a few old short stories about the p...

In this week's edition of Rewind Robert Smith remembers the year of 1973,  an even 50 years ago.  It was a great season for harness racing across the map and a year that saw a lot of special happening...

This week's edition of Rewind is quite closely related to a previous column.  Back in October 2022, Robert Smith recalled a special race held at Exhibition Park in Belleville to honour a beloved horse...

This week's edition of Rewind travels back to the year 1957 and recalls racing at Toronto's Old Woodbine track, the forerunner to Greenwood.