Matt Kakaley may drive for racing’s most powerful stable, but there’s no doubt that the 29-year-old budding star has worked hard for everything he’s accomplished. By Chris Lomon

Bilan d’exercice

Installé devant mon clavier pour écrire mon article mensuel pour le TROT, je pensais à l’été, aux barbecues, à la plage, et au merveilleux réveil de nos nouveaux yearlings Standardbred et à l’opportunité de les voir en piste cet été et cet automne.

If you were to drive in one harness race a day for your entire life, from the evening you were born to the last breath of your life, you’d need to live to be 168 years old to race in the 61,385 races that John Campbell has driven in.

A Year in Review

As I sat down in front of the keyboard to write this month’s article for TROT Magazine, I was thinking of summer, backyard barbeques and the beach, as well as the wonderful awakening of our new Standardbred foals, and the opportunity to see a new crop of stars race on the track this summer and fall.

Blue Chip Farms’ owner, Tom Grossman, rarely buys aged broodmares, but a chance meeting with Amora Hanover’s first foal, led the way to him purchasing her a year later. By Melissa Keith

Blair Corbeil’s first horse, twenty years ago, was a $6,000 claimer that he never saw race. Now, the resident of Beaumont, Alberta has a horse that earned a spot in Canada’s richest race. By Chris Lomon

When you own approximately 275 racehorses, and you like to ‘play the ponies’, it’s often tough to find a race card that isn’t littered with horses that you own. By Dave Little

When Blake MacIntosh’s Sportswriter colt won the Battle Of Waterloo in 2016, the trainer scratched that race off of his bucket list. Now they’re looking at an even bigger prize. By Keith McCalmont

Three years ago, Alagna Stables’ Assistant Trainer, Donna Lee, was caught living in surroundings that she no longer wanted to be in... so she left. By Dan Fisher

When Ian Moore’s NA Cup starter made a break (wearing hopples) in a qualifier on June 6, he had no choice but to race his colt free-legged in his Cup elimination four days later. By Keith McCalmont