We used to go to Roosevelt every weekend and there would be 30,000 people in the crowd. There was nothing like it.”

“In the wintertime, at Greenwood, they’d race on Saturday afternoons, and the place was always packed. It was amazing. On Boxing Day they’d often get more than 10,000 people - now those were the days!”

« Nous avions l’habitude d’aller à Roosevelt chaque fin de semaine, où il avait une foule de quelque 30 000 personnes. Il n’y avait rien de semblable. »

It was more than 10 years in the making, but Maritimers Jerry McCabe and D.B. MacLeod have a new harness racing book on the market.

’B’ Track catch-drivers - in many ways they’re the lifeblood of our sport. Their jobs are dangerous, they put tens-of-thousands of kilometres on their vehicles every year,