Yorkton Exhibition

On Wednesday, West Meadows Raceway President Jane Grainger announced that the Regina-area track will not host live harness racing in 2013.

It was a good Friday night (June 21) for veteran driver Brian Gray who won three, including a pair of feature races at Cornerstone Raceway in the city.

Horses are starting to arrive in Yorkton to prepare for the 12-day summer meet, which opens on Friday, June 7.

The Board of Directors of the Yorkton Exhibition Association has approved a 12-day racing meet for 2013, giving Saskatchewan's harness racing community its only confirmed live racing dates for this ye...

Saskatchewan harness tracks have received some good news from the Saskatchewan Liquor & Gaming Authority and they are now half way to finalizing race dates for 2013.

An abundance of standardbred racing news items has come out of Saskatchewan in the past few days, from Home Market Area news, to 2013 race-date talk, to AGM outcomes, and to 2012 award winners.

On Wednesday, October 10, the Province of Saskatchewan announced that, effective March 31, 2013, it will no longer be taking the 10 per cent tax it currently collects on horse-racing wagers.

With a new track and a renewed interest in harness racing, horsemen in the province of Saskatchewan are now left pondering their future after losing government support effective next year.

Standardbred driver Hugh Woods made a presentation of $350 to the Canadian Cancer Society Saturday on the final day of racing for the season at Cornerstone Raceway in the city.

On the final day of the Yorkton standardbred race season, the streak of the summer came to an end Saturday.

"We planned on getting racing done this summer and show them we have a good product, and there is interest in maintaining racing...We hope to come up with a way for it to survive."