A voice as well known as any in the world of Canadian racing, Ken Middleton had learned over the past number of years that he enjoyed sitting in the jogger ...

Not many Standardbreds keep racing into their 14th year - only 98 did just that in North America in 2023 - but for the ones that do, they’ve usually developed quite a bond ...

On the morning of Thursday, November 9, news broke across North America that there had been a tragic barn fire in the backstretch of Tioga Downs. ...

Entraîneur à succès tout au long de sa carrière, David Menary jugeait le succès simplement par les chiffres : le pourcentage de victoires et l’argent des bourses. ...

A successful Standardbred trainer since early in his career, at a younger age, David Menary was mostly concerned with two things: winning races and drinking. ...

Je suis très superstitieux – surtout quand il s’agit de mes chevaux, ou de ceux de quelqu’un d’autre – donc normalement je ne « jetterais jamais de mauvais sort » à un cheval en écrivant sur lui alors qu’il inscrit…

I’m very superstitious - especially when it comes to my horses, or anyone else’s horses - so normally I would never ‘jinx’ a horse by writing about him while he’s in to go…

One of the top trainers and drivers in the history of his native Sweden, Ake Svanstedt and his wife Sarah moved to America late in 2013, while their two sons were quite young, just to ‘try racing in North America for a while ...

Rich Stiles simply prefers to own one horse at a time, so when he retired his 14-year-old - that he bought as a yearling - a few months before he had planned to, in late September, 2022, he headed to the Lexington Sale a few days later ...