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The Misadventures of Thomas Atkyns

Trotter Thomas Atkyns

When Roosevelt Raceway offered trotter Thomas Atkyns and trainer Constancio Formia an all expenses paid invitation to the 1962 International Trot, the Argentinian horseman jumped at the chance.

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Daddy Debut

First Crop Sires

As we do each and every year, we’ve taken the liberty of refreshing your memory by recapping the racing careers and breeding lines of the 18 first-crop sires who will debut this fall across North Amer

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Way Out Here

Don Anness

For 50 years, Don Anness has been quietly breeding and training horses in a remote hamlet just north of Minnesota, halfway

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Horsepower drives canadian harness racing

Trucks

Canadian standardbreds raced 186,531 times in pari-mutuel races and qualifiers last year. The trucks that brought them to those races travelled tens of millions of miles.

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Junebugs Baby

Fraser Turnbull & Carols June Bug

Trainer, owner, and breeder Fraser Turnbull hadn’t raced a single horse since Carols June Bug in 2004. He’d never ventured into breeding. And he’d never broken a yearling.

27 November 2024
OHRIA's Proposal For Racing A "Very Good Start"

I believe that OHRIA has done an outstanding job in putting together their recent plan to the government.

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