For the third consecutive year, your I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club is pleased to present the Zoom Photography Challenge.

If you enjoy taking photos that capture the Heart of Harness racing, the ‘I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club wants to see your photos! Zoom Challenges will run from April through September. Like last year, we’ll announce a theme for each monthly challenge and invite amateur photographers to take photos or submit photos that reflect the theme.

Last year we kicked the first contest month off with a “selfie” theme. It seems like selfies have exploded since then and it was a very well-received theme so we’re bringing it back for the April contest. (A selfie is a type of self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone.)

We want photos of you and your horse, you at the races, you watching a race, you working around your horse; any photo that you take of yourself doing some activity in harness racing and it could be as simple as posing with your horse.

So get your smartphone or tablet out and take those selfies! The deadline for April’s submissions is Monday, April 27.

Submit your photos to [email protected]. Good Luck!

A committee will select a handful of the best entries, which will be included in a poll on SC’s website. We’ll also post the entries on our 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!

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.

• Photos must be a minimum 72 dpi, however 150 dpi is preferred.

• Photos may not appear to be digitally altered.

• 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 and in print if we so choose (due credit will be given)

• Contests will open on the 15th of the month, and end exactly one month later

• 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.

Here are the timelines for the first month’s contest:

• April 1 – Contest opens

• April 27 – Entry deadline & announce theme for next month

• April 29 – Announce contest finalists; voting opens

• May 4 – Deadline for voting

• May 5 – Reveal first winner

Think you’ve got what it takes to win the ‘ZOOM Challenge?’ Submit your photos to [email protected]. Good Luck!