Une des affirmations que j’entends constamment tant de la part du gouvernement que des gens de l’industrie même des courses, c’est qu’il y a trop d’hippodromes. Ils pointent les horaires de diffusion simultanée surchargés, les montants pariés et les tribunes tranquilles pour justifier qu’une industrie plus forte passera par un moins grand nombre d’hippodromes. À mes yeux, l’argument est un non-sens.

One of the assertions that I continue to hear from both the government and people within the horse racing industry is that there are too many racetracks. They point to crowded simulcast schedules, wagering figures and quiet grandstands as justification that a stronger industry will have fewer tracks. As far as I am concerned, the argument is complete nonsense.

With the recent exploits of pacing-sired trotter Googoo Gaagaa making news, we ask... Can trotters and pacers combine for greater speed on a single gait than we ever thought possible?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Comment pinte entreprises course populaire a fait un tabac énorme.

How pint-sized grassroots racing has made a huge splash.