Cela se produit dans tous les sports - une chose paraît être la meilleure pour un certain pourcentage de participants, alors qu’en même temps, elle ne soit pas considérée comme aussi intéressante pour d’autres.

It happens in all sports - one thing seems best for a certain percentage of stakeholders, while at the same time, not being seen as so great to others.

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.

Craig Yates is a very good horseman - he’s also an alcoholic, and he’s not shy to admit it.

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.

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.