And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a hero.” So God made a racehorse.

God said, “I need somebody with a heart so big and a body so strong that she can inspire children through her eyes, adults with her strength, and everybody else by her breathtaking beauty.” So God made a racehorse.

Dean Hoffman takes us around the world, and provides his list of 40 can’t miss locations in harness racing.

Counting down your picks, in order of the top on-track racing moments from 1974 to today.

So you want to train racehorses for a living and you’re wondering what it takes?

By Dan Fisher

As part of TROT’s celebration of 40 years in print, the I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club launched a contest asking racing fans and participants what they were doing in 1974. Here are their stories.

On a mostly cloudy day in 1974, three men, two future Hall of Famers and a future star of the announcing booth, participate in the start of a program that would forever change harness racing in Ontario.

Story by Keith McCalmont

Garnet Barnsdale takes us through the sights, sounds and energy of 40 years as a fan of harness racing.

We take you on a journey through every cover ever produced for TROT Magazine.

Abundant in wins during the twilight of his racing career; abundant in crosses to 1974’s top stallion.

By Melissa Keith

In 1974, Greg Wright ranked fourth among all North American drivers in wins. Today, Wright, the only one of those top four who is amazingly still a fixture in the racebike, looks back on four decades of change, from a driver’s perspective. Story by Chris Lomon