Rod Hennessy

With the eliminations for the second Alberta Sires Stakes event of the season now in the books, the top three-year-old pacing fillies and colts are now set to do battle at Century Downs Racetrack and ...

This Saturday, Century Downs Racetrack and Casino will showcase the top three-year-old pacers in the province for the first of back-to-back weekends.

This year’s Mid-Summer Classic day features a stakes-filled program set for Sunday, August 7 at Century Downs Racetrack and Casino.

"Anytime you can get a Hall of Fame driver in your sulky you can’t go wrong. In fact [he] told me after the race she was a very special filly and was very impressed with her.”

Two-year-old pacing fillies and colts will get their first taste of stakes action at Century Downs Racetrack and Casino this weekend in the Emerald Filly Stakes and the inaugural Century Bets stakes.

"[He] was definitely impressive last week doing what he wants to do which is to go straight to the front. I believe it’s the first time in his racing career that no horse could close any ground on him...

"He has turned out to be a solid horse who will work right down to the wire. He was immature as a two-year-old but has come a long way."

"We decided to leave her down east for three starts and she made us enough money that we almost got our total investment back. The idea was to bring back a nice horse to take a run at the stake races ...

The Champions of Alberta were celebrated at Friday’s 2016 Alberta Standardbred Horse Association's annual Awards Gala.