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.