Rick Cushing had always dreamed about having a horse in the Gold Cup and Saucer, but making the trip from Maine was something that he just couldn’t make happen before succumbing to leukemia in 2012.

Allé depuis plusieurs années, et je suis heureux de dire que l’expérience s’est avérée positive dans les deux cas.

Over the course of the summer I’ve been able to visit a couple of Ontario racetracks that I hadn’t been to in many years, and am happy to say that the experience was a positive one in both cases.

Cet été s’est révélé un vrai tourbillon pour nous chez Standardbred Canada, et nous poursuivons notre travail sur plusieurs autres projets.

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.