Your I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club is pleased to announce the return of the Zoom Photography Challenge for the SIXTH consecutive year! If you have an eye for photography that captures the heart of harness racing, the Fan Club wants to see your photos.

Zoom Challenges will run from April through September. There will be a different, fun and exciting theme for each monthly challenge and we invite amateur photographers to take and submit photos that reflect the theme.

The theme, ‘Step Into Spring’ will kick things off for April Zoom. We are looking for photos that showcase horses in spring and the many wonderful things that go along with it. Some examples include horses playing in the pasture, rolling in the mud or having fun in the spring sun!

So what are you waiting for? Get those smart phones and cameras out to get snappin!

Each month a committee will select a handful of the best entries, which will be included in a poll on SC’s website and Facebook page. Readers will then have the chance to vote for the photo they like the best.

The monthly winner will receive a great Fan Club Swag Prize package ($50 value) and the six monthly winners will be eligible to win a Grand Prize, which will include a $50 gift card to the racetrack of their choice and an enlargement of their winning photo framed or plaque mounted.

The deadline for this month’s photo submissions is Friday, April 27 at 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail all photo submissions to [email protected].

REMINDER: When you submit your photo, please include your name, address, and details about the subject matter that you photographed, (any names, location) as well as the date that the photo was taken.

Contest Guidelines:

• Open to fan club members only. Not a member? Join HERE for free! (IMPORTANT: photo submissions entered by non-fan club members will NOT be considered for the contest)

• Only amateur photographers may enter this contest.

• Photos should be taken during the contest period if possible.

• Photos must be a minimum 150 dpi, however 300 dpi is preferred.

• Photos may not appear to be digitally altered (this is ONLY allowed in an Instagram contest).

• Upon submission, you are releasing your photographs to Standardbred Canada and we reserve the right to publish them on our website, Facebook page, Pinterest Page & in print if we so choose (due credit will be given).

• Please include your name in the filename of your photo.

• When you submit your photo, please include your name, address, and details about the subject matter that you photographed, (any names, location) as well as the date that the photo was taken.

• Limit of two photos per photographer.