Trot Magazine

"The eyes of the Standardbred world will be focussing on Canada [in August 2027], and I’m certain that our two driving representatives won’t let us down -- let’s not let them down either."

Raised around them from before she could even walk, Tamara Vandewiel loves horses as much as she loves life. In the winter of 2025, however, one of the horses in her care took advantage of the young m...

Some 40 years ago, when Alberta Veterinarian Dr. Maurice Stewart was asked if he minded being nominated as a director for the Canadian Standardbred Horse Society, he agreed — even though he had no ide...

A moderately-priced, Ontario-sired yearling with some pacing blood in his pedigree, when Mark Steacy and his father picked Majestic Son out as a yearling they weren’t exactly thinking ‘Horse of the Ye...

"On the morning of Sunday, June 14, less than 12 hours after Andrew’s horse went a huge mile to be second, and Jacob Cohen snapped our new July cover photo (which I told his father might beat him out ...

When he opened his somewhat bleary eyes on the morning of June 14, James MacDonald smiled contentedly, fully aware that his long-held dream had become a reality.

When Mike Saftic decided to leave his hometown of Sudbury, Ont. -- and his hometown track of Sudbury Downs -- to seek a full-time career in harness racing, ending up in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall ...

After winning 19 of 25 starts at ages two and three, for earnings of over $1.9 million, and then becoming the fastest aged pacing mare of all-time at age five -- after missing her entire four-year-old...

Doug Arthur may have been a licensed horse trainer and driver, but he was known just as much -- if not more -- as a ‘developer’ of young horses.

A Triple Crown winner is usually expected to have a lasting impact on the breed by shaping future generations of racehorses via the breeding barn, but instead, Western Dreamer, who became the first ge...

"If some of our ‘partners’ aren’t interested in bringing the racetrack experience back to life, and re-energizing our grandstands with people, why don’t we do it for them?"

For the seventh year in a row, in what’s become a very popular segment of TROT Magazine's Twos In Training issue, a handful of experienced horsepeople were asked to share the name of the best two-year...