Heading into the homestretch of the 2025 harness racing season, Trot Insider takes a look at some of the top performing Standardbreds in Canada in the wins, earnings and speed categories.

At the age of 13, the gears are still turning for claiming pacer Music To By Gears, who leads all racehorses with the most wins in Canada so far in 2025, boasting 16 victories from 33 starts. Trained by Ken Middleton, the Rocknroll Hanover-Changing Gears gelding has racked up wins at nearly every track in Ontario he's visited since the spring, including Flamboro Downs, Hiawatha Horse Park, Hanover Raceway, Grand River Raceway, Georgian Downs and Kawartha Downs. His 16 victories is also tied for most wins in all of North America with Indiana Sires Stakes sophomore trotter On To Norway.

Buckhead Ridge tops the trotters with 15 wins this year competing in the Open ranks on Prince Edward Island for trainer Landon Campbell and is tied for second overall with 15-time winning distaff claiming pacer Beach Myst, last trained by Rebecca Kanak in Western Canada.

Two-year-old pacing colt Beau Jangles is the leading money winner in Canada this year and the only million-dollar earner, with $1,042,125 amassed from a perfect nine-for-nine stakes campaign to date that includes the $1 million Metro Pace. Trained by Dr. Ian Moore, the Cattlewash-Mrs Major Hill colt also won against Grand Circuit competition in a division of Nassagaweya Stakes in addition to adding lucrative Ontario-sired stakes wins in the Battle Of Waterloo and multiple Sires Stakes.

Louprint ($525,000), the North America Cup champion from the Ron Burke stable, and the Luc Blais-trained Emoticon Legacy ($515,062), with multiple Grand Circuit wins in the Canadian Trotting Classic, Goodtimes Trot and Simcoe Stakes, round out the richest top three.

The season's fastest Standardbred is Bythemissal, who equalled the all-time fastest pacing mile in Canadian history winning a Canadian Pacing Derby elimination in 1:46.4 at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Aug. 23. Burke trains the six-year-old gelding by Downbytheseaside out of Dismissal.

Sophomore gelding Allstar Maniac is Canada's fastest pacer on a five-eighths-mile track this year courtesy of his 1:49 victory in an Ontario Sires Stakes Gold division at Grand River on Aug. 4 for trainer Nick Gallucci. The time equalled the all-age Canadian record for that track size.

Trained by Chris MacKay, six-year-old Miki Shan N holds the national season's record for pacers on a half-mile track courtesy of his 1:50.1 winning mile in a Gold Cup & Saucer trial on Aug. 9, tying the all-time track record at Charlottetown Driving Park.

The season's fastest trotter also shares the all-age Canadian trotting record. Burke trainee Lexus Kody, a seven-year-old Archangel-Lexus Helios gelding, won the Maple Leaf Trot in 1:49.1 at Mohawk on Aug. 30.

Trained by Jodie Cullen, six-year-old Nasey's Earl Rowe Memorial Invitational upset victory clocked in 1:53 at Georgian on Aug. 10 stands as the season's trotting record for a five-eighths-mile track in Canada. 

The fastest trotting winner on a half-mile track is 10-year-old gelding Treasured Tee, who was a 1:54.3 winner at Flamboro on May 17 for the Francis Guillemette stable.

**All statistics include Canadian starts from Jan. 1, 2025 through the first Monday in October.

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(Standardbred Canada)