With the 2025 harness racing season complete, Trot Insider takes a look at some of the year's top ranked Standardbreds in Canada for wins, earnings and records.

Veteran claiming pacer Music To My Gears led all racehorses for wins in Canada in 2025 with 21 successful starts. Owned by trainer Ken Middleton Jr., Keith Middleton, Jeffrey Seibel and James Grant, the Rocknroll Hanover-Changing Gears gelding earned half of his career victories while winning at a 50 per cent clip during his 13-year-old campaign. Music To My Gears cranked out victories at nearly every track he visited in Ontario, including Flamboro Downs, Grand River Raceway, Georgian Downs, Hanover Raceway, Hiawatha Horse Park, Kawartha Downs and The Raceway at Western Fair District. His win count was best among all pacers in North America and just two wins off the season's overall North American win leader, Indiana sophomore stakes trotter On To Norway.

Five-year-old gelding Buckhead Ridge trailed Music To My Gears in the Canadian standings by just three wins and his 18 victories topped all trotters in the nation as he dominated the Open ranks on Prince Edward Island for trainer Landon Campbell. 

Tamara Hanover and Wifey Said So, a pair of Ontario claiming mare pacers who changed barns numerous times throughout the season, tied for third, with each winning 17 of their 45 starts. The former distaffer picked up wins for six different stables while the latter was victorious for four trainers. 

Undefeated two-year-old pacing colt Beau Jangles was the richest racehorse and the only horse with a million-dollar bankroll in Canada in 2025, amassing $1,688,750 with a dozen victories in his debut season. Trained by Dr. Ian Moore for Graham Grace Stables, Kiwi Stables and Bolton Stables, the Cattlewash-Mrs Major Hill colt's richest victories were sub-1:50 miles in the $1 million Metro Pace and $959,000 Breeders Crown -- the latter a 1:48.3 Canadian rookie record.

Rounding out the top three money-earning horses in the nation in 2025 were the Dave Menary-trained five-year-old pacer Ervin Hanover ($787,195), who went eight-for-11 while racing on Canadian soil with lucrative paycheques from his victory in the $822,000 Breeders Crown and runner-up finish in the $690,000 Canadian Pacing Derby, and freshman pacing filly Loua Dipa ($749,125), who won the $959,000 Breeders Crown and $470,000 Shes A Great Lady in addition to her eliminations for those events in a perfect Canadian stint for trainer Ron Burke. Both added numerous stakes wins stateside to their resumes to exceed the million-dollar mark in overall seasonal earnings.

In addition to having a fruitful campaign for owner Pollack Racing, Ervin Hanover etched his name in the record books. The Captaintreachous-Eloquent Grace stallion was not only the fastest Standardbred of the season but the fastest ever in Canadian history, courtesy of his Breeders Crown triumph in 1:46.2 on Oct. 25 at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Sophomore gelding Allstar Maniac was Canada's fastest pacer on a five-eighths-mile track in 2025, courtesy of his 1:49 victory in an Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series 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 capped off a perfect 10-race Canadian campaign in the Maritimes with a 1:49.4 score in the Premier's Cup on Oct. 12 at Charlottetown Driving Park to set the national season's record for pacers on a half-mile track and become the first in Atlantic Canadian history to break the 1:50 barrier.

The season's fastest trotter set 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 on Aug. 30 at Mohawk for owners Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi and Phil Collura.

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

The year's fastest trotting time on a half-mile track was clocked in 1:54.3, first by 10-year-old gelding Treasured Tee from the Francis Guillemette stable when he won at Flamboro on May 17, and then by the six-year-old Ashley Gamester trainee Fight Song when he won the Island Oceans Trot Challenge on Oct. 12 at Charlottetown.

**All statistics include Canadian starts from Jan. 1, 2025 through Dec. 31, 2025.

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(Standardbred Canada)