On October 27, champions Rapide Lebel and Commander Crowe arrived from Europe to try their luck against fan favourite San Pail in the Breeders Crown Open Trot. This is their story.

It's still hard for Kevin Harvey to say his brother's name out loud, even five years after the suicide.

Novembre a été très occupé pour les membres du conseil d’administration de SC, alors que nous venons tout juste de compléter la ronde de nos réunions automnales à Toronto.

It’s been a busy November for Standardbred Canada Board of Directors, as we have just finished holding the annual fall meetings again in Toronto.

Ils viennent d’un endroit où les trotteurs plus âgés règnent en souverains, où les courses attelées font encore les manchettes des journaux, où on trouve encore des salons de paris à tous le

They come from a place where older trotters reign supreme, where harness racing still makes the front pages of newspapers, where betting shops are on every street corner.

Given just a few months to live, a wealthy businessman assembles a panel of friends to distribute his fortune...

Don McDougall is unassuming. He does not look the part of a captain of industry whose name was splashed across the business and sports sections of newspapers across the country. But he is.

It’s no secret that coverage of harness racing – big or small – in the sports pages of mainstream publications has all but vanished. But when? How?