By: Darryl Kaplan

This summer I was the victim of a contagious form of insomnia called Beijing 2008.

By: Jackson Wittup

September? It just can't be September already! September means yearling sales, so good luck to buyers and sellers.

By: Darryl Kaplan (Traduction: Louise Rioux)

If you make your way to Holland for September's Frisian Ascot Day, be sure you dress to impress -- this is no ordinary day at the track. The annual Dutch event is as much about glitz and glamour as it is about horse racing.

For the second year in a row, Canadian harness racing fans were privy to an extravagant, radical, completely unorthodox evening at Georgian Downs in August. Forget about the mile -- these extreme horses went long distances, short distances and even clockwise. And in the mud, nonetheless. That's no small feat.

Tired of line-driving? In Trot's first-ever training clinic, Carl Jamieson shares his unique method of breaking yearlings -- the same method friend Brent MacGrath used with Maritime superstar Somebeachsomewhere. Now, you too can try it at home.

By: Jackson Wittup (Traduction: Louise Rioux)

Mom For years, Marni McEwen has taken on ex-racehorses and prepped them for the riding ring. She's fostered them, adopted them out and competed them herself -- and she always insisted she wouldn't get attached. But now, despite her efforts, she's fallen hard for standardbreds.

It all started for Bobbie-Jo Weinholdt-Harris when she peered across the street one day a few years back.