Rod Hennessy

Sophomores were intended to get the headlines on Saturday, July 13 at Century Downs but Shark Week wanted to make a statement in his return to action on the undercard.

The duo of driver Mike and trainer Rod Hennessy captured plenty of Preferred pacing events at Century Downs in 2023 thanks to Horse of the Year Shark Week. With that star still to find a place to race...

Rod Hennessy. Doug Stout. Shelly Arsenault. Shark Week. Scott McGinn… On and on goes the list of harness racing’s best from last year who were recently honoured just as a new season began this past we...

The best of Alberta's 2023 harness racing season were honoured at the annual Alberta Standardbred Horse Association (ASHA) Awards during a night of glitz and glam on Saturday, March 9 at the Best West...

There is a good chance Shark Week will be honoured — and rightfully so — for his stellar campaign at this coming weekend's Alberta Standardbred Horse Association (ASHA) Awards, celebrating harness rac...

Two weeks ago, on Oct. 14 at Century Mile, Byby Baby Byby and Outlawguns N Roses put on such a monumental performance in the Alberta Sires Stakes Starburst leg that it prompted Byby Baby Byby’s traine...

Easy. First, Side Piece in Saturday night’s $134,300 Century Casino Filly Pace. Then, two races later, Blue Star Mercury in the $110,710 Western Canada Pacing Derby -- both humiliating their opponents...

The stage is set. Favourite Over The Horizon and longshot King Kong slayer Blue Star Mercury both won this past Saturday’s Western Canada Pacing Derby eliminations to advance to this Saturday’s presti...

Planets aligned as Century Mile hosted the Western Canada Pacing Derby eliminations, each worth a $14,000 purse prize, on Saturday (Oct. 14) evening with Blue Star Mercury and Over The Horizon winning...

A densely packed card of 11 races marked the Saturday (Sept. 23) afternoon hosted at Century Mile with the Alberta Sires Stakes (ABSS) headlining the action. Amid the stakes action, Shark Week broke t...

When Shark Week became the first Standardbred in history to win sub-1:50 on Western Canadian soil, people celebrated the feat nationwide. The truth is, however, that there is much more to this story t...

Team Hennessy’s star pacer Shark Week uncorked another dynamite effort to take the $14,000 Preferred Pace, his fifth straight win, on Sunday (June 18) at Century Downs – a day where driver Mike Hennes...