The Quebec Regional Fair Circuit held its 2018 Fair Finals at the Hippodrome 3R for the first time on Sunday (Sept. 23) with ten finals.

Champagne Phil lasted on the lead to take top honours in the featured $11,500 Preferred Handicap Pace on Sunday night (September 23) at Flamboro Downs.

The Sunday afternoon (Sept. 23) featured pace at Red Shores’ Summerside Raceway had a surprising ending, as Pictonian Storm hit the wire first while racing as the longest shot on the tote board.

After having been overlooked at odds of 4-1 from Post 1, the Anthony Beaton-trained and Rodney Gillis-driven Makes Me Stupid ($10.70) recorded a gate-to-wire victory in 1:58.2 during Inverness Raceway’s $1,100 Winners-Over Pace on Sunday (Sept. 23).

Cutting back to the standard distance after a failed three-wide push in her one-and-a-quarter-mile Great Northeast Series final on September 2, Shartin N ($3.80) reasserted herself as one of the top pacing mares on the continent with an easy 1:51.2 score over ‘sloppy’ going in Sunday's (Sept. 23) featured $25,000 winners-over distaff at Harrah's Philadelphia.

Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited has announced that it will invest an estimated $18 million into renovations at its Hanover Casino at 275 Fifth Street and create up to 70 new jobs in the Municipality of Hanover.

Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario CEO Jean Major recently took the time to discuss multiple aspects of the provincial gaming landscape.

Doug McNair, Canada’s Driver of the Year in 2017, will take the spot of Louis-Philippe Roy in the National Driving Championship on Wednesday, September 26 at Grand River Raceway.

What did we learn Saturday (Sept. 22) during Yonkers Raceway’s hosting of the Empire State’s richest night of racing, the 29th New York Night of Champions?

Odds-on favourite Czar Seelster brushed to the lead around the final turn to win the $3,500 Invitational Pace at Charlottetown Driving Park by two lengths in 1:54.2 on Saturday (Sept. 22).

From 2009 to 2010, Maritime harness racing marvelled over the pacing prowess of filly Meridian Magic. Now a broodmare, her first mating with paranormally-named Camystic appears to have resulted in a filly with equal supernatural ability.

Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce that the Ontario Sires Stakes will sponsor the 'Win A Share in A Racehorse' contest for the second consecutive year in conjunction with the 2018 London Selected Yearling Sale.

Mar Nien A, sent the 1-5 favourite, moved up into the $15,000 Open Pace class on Saturday, Sept. 22 and delivered with a 1:52 victory at Saratoga Casino Hotel.

Pembroke Wildcat, who was second to Ideal Kiss last week in his return to owner-trainer Brittany Robertson after a $30,000 claim, turned the tables on his rival in the $20,000 claiming handicap pacing feature Saturday, Sept. 22 at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, taking advantage of a perfect trip to tally in 1:50.

Leading driver Mike Merton won five races to close out the 2018 season at Tioga Downs on Saturday, Sept. 22.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) have released their industry performance results for the first quarter of the 2018-2019 fiscal year.

In this week's 'Rewind,' Robert Smith revisits one of the greatest race days of the 20th Century in Canada as he takes readers back to the afternoon of August 26, 1973.

A parade of stars made its way to Hoosier Park on Friday evening for a long list of big money events including the Caesar’s Trotting Classic, the Jennas Beach Boy, the Elevation, the Kentuckiana Stallion Management, the Moni Maker and the Hoosier Park Pacing Derby.

For the thirteenth year in a row, the Ontario Harness Horse Association (OHHA) is offering scholarships to children of active OHHA members.

Daniel Plouffe is still pinching himself. The grocery-store owner from Quebec's Eastern Townships now has been part of two of the most dramatic Little Brown Jug victories of the last 20 years.

If there's a driver with the target on his back heading into the 2018 National Driving Championship, it would be the driver that's represented Canada in the World Driving Championship before, the driver with the best knowledge of the horses competing at Grand River Raceway and the one with the most experience at the Elora, Ont. half-mile oval.

It has been announced that the hard-knocking Western Ideal gelding Dial Or Nodial p,5,1:48.3f ($1,803,017) has passed away.

To enhance the end-of-season options for racehorse owners and breeders, Standardbred Horse Sales Company will continue to accept entries to its Annual Mixed Sale in Harrisburg until October 22 for inclusion in a supplement catalogue.

Grand River Raceway is known for fun & frivolity on race nights, and the National Driving Championship on Wednesday, September 26 won’t be any different with loads on tap for racing fans including a chance to win $1,000!

Gilles Barrieau won the inaugural edition of Standardbred Canada’s National Driving Championship in 2007, and there’s nothing he’d like better than to add the 2018 title to his resume along with the chance to represent Canada at the World Driving Championship (WDC) in Sweden.

Trot Insider has compiled this comprehensive report from Day 5 of the proceedings in regard to the civil lawsuit that a group of Ontario Standardbred breeders has filed against the Province of Ontario and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation over the cancellation of the former Slots at Racetracks Program.

It was almost nine years ago when Kelly Hoerdt last competed in a National Driving Championship. It was a Saturday afternoon in March at Fraser Downs in Surrey, BC. Going into the final leg, representatives from each region, including Gilles Barrieau, Brad Forward, Guy Gagnon and Hoerdt, had earned enough points to remain in the hunt for the NDC title.

Meet the eight men vying to represent Canada -- alongside current World Champion James MacDonald -- at the 2019 World Driving Championship in Sweden, and learn what is going through their minds as they prepare for the 2018 National Driving Championship...read on /

It’s been over a year in the planning, but in only five weeks time Standardbred Canada will crown a new champion at the 2018 National Driving Championship at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday, September 26.

The 2018 enrollment forms for the Quebec Mare Residency Program are now available.

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The list of tracks in Canada hosting fair races in 2018 is now available online.