Eric Cherry: A Man That Truly Thinks Outside The Box

Eric Cherry

If you count the 100 or more foals of his that are due to be born in the coming months, Eric Cherry owns approximately 400 Standardbreds, including racehorses, broodmares, stallions, yearlings and newborns.

James MacDonald and Friends

James MacDonald

Recently named the unanimous winner of the Keith Waples Driver of the Year Award as Canada’s leading reinsman, the personable James MacDonald isn’t only popular on O’Brien Award ballots.

Une carrière façonnée sur sa passion pour les chevaux

Trot Feature: Francis Richard

Ayant grandi sur une ferme laitière du Québec, Francis Richard se souvient avoir aidé à la livraison de foin au client Standardbred de son père, Léo Tourigny, alors qu’il n’avait que huit ans.

A Career Fashioned From A Frenzy For Horses

Trot Feature: Francis Richard

After being nominated for the Future Star Award on multiple occasions, but not winning it, Quebec native Francis Richard thought that he’d lost his chance to ever win an O’Brien. He was happily proven wrong on February 6th however, when the Archangel gelding that he originally purchased as a yearling for just $7,000 - Fashion Frenzie - was named Canada’s best three-year-old trotting colt for 2021.