Tonight is the night! The 25th anniversary edition of the O’Brien Awards, Canada’s national harness racing awards, take place this evening, Saturday, February 8 at the Delta Prince Edward Hotel and PEI Convention Centre in Charlottetown, PEI.
If you are attending, just a reminder that the cocktail reception kicks the evening off at 6:00 p.m. Dinner will be at 7:00 p.m. and the award presentations will start at about 9:15 p.m. A dance will round the evening off.
The O’Briens will be video streamed live on standardbredcanada.ca starting at approximately 8:15 p.m. (EST), 9:15 p.m. (AST) and 6:15 p.m. (PST). If you are a Twitter follower, you can follow the live updates from @trotinsider.
Standardbred Canada's Web Director Jeff Porchak, Trot Editor Darryl Kaplan and SC Web Reporter Brittney Mayotte will provide live news and commentary on all the happenings from the Delta Prince Edward Hotel and PEI Convention Centre throughout the night. Winners will be announced as they happen.
The who’s who of the harness racing set will be on hand to receive their coveted O’Brien bronzes. The awards are named in honour of the late Joe O’Brien, a trainer-driver from Prince Edward Island who was highly regarded and a member of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
Eighteen O'Brien Awards will be given out for the 2013 racing season. Thirteen of these honour the premier horses over the past racing season including the most coveted trophy, Canada's Horse of the Year. The horse awards are divided by age, sex and gait. There are two finalists in all of the categories.
In addition there are five awards for people, one each for Driver of the Year, Trainer of the Year, Armstrong Bros. Farm Breeder of the Year, the O'Brien Award of Horsemanship and Future Star.
To view a photo gallery of the finalists, click on the filmstrip on the O'Brien Awards page.
Standardbred Canada extends their congratulations to all of this evening’s finalists!
Please note that to watch the
Please note that to watch the O'Brien Awards live stream your Internet browser will require the latest version of Microsoft Silverlight, a free download available here: microsoft.com/silverlight.
The link to the live video will be posted in this story when video stream goes live.