It has been a whirlwind of a summer for us as we continue to work through many projects at Standardbred Canada.

They own Standardbred champions like Atlanta and Homicide Hunter, as well as top Thoroughbreds like Shancelot and Archidust.

One day, trainer/owner Rick Howie’s wife came home from the stable where she keeps her riding horse and told her husband that she thought there might be an unidentified, six-year-old Standardbred there.

When Rene Allard and partners shelled out a cool $205,000 for yearling, When Dovescry in the fall of 2017, the Quebec native, known more at the time for training aged horses, had a plan.

Le 3 août 2019, ‘l’Équipe Détermination’ de Serge Godin, s’est emparée de l’Hambletonian 2019 avec Forbidden Trade, d’élevage ontarien – pour une deuxième année consécutive, et pour la troisième fois au cours des quatre dernières années, ce plus grand prix en trot est décerné à un compétiteur entraîné au Canada, conduit, et au moins partiellement de propriété canadienne.

On August 3, 2019 Serge Godin’s ‘Team Determination’ captured the 2019 Hambletonian with the Ontario-sired Forbidden Trade - the second year in a row, and third time in the last four years, that trotting’s biggest prize went to a Canadian trained, driven, and at least partially owned competitor.