Hasty Bid

Hasty Bid, One Last Wish Top Mohawk Qualifiers

A winner of over half a million in career earnings, Hasty Bid won his second qualifying appearance of the year with ease at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday morning, April 12.

2023 O'Brien Awards - Paige Austin

Austin And Her 'Bid' For An O'Brien Award

January 20, 2024

A recent vacation in Costa Rica proved to be made even more special when trainer Paige Austin got the news that both her star pupil, Hasty Bid, and his regular pilot who just so happens to be Austin’s...

2023 O'Brien Awards finalists

2023 O'Brien Award Finalists Announced

December 19, 2023

Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2023 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season.

Righteous Resolve

MacDonald Sweeps Gold Splits At Mohawk

October 02, 2023

James MacDonald swept both Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions on Monday evening (Oct. 2) as the fifth leg of each division and succeeded first with a gate-to-wire triumph with new millionaire Righteo...

Hasty Bid Bags OSS Gold

Pocket-sitter Hasty Bid hustled through an opening at the pegs to outsprint 9-5 favourite Ghostly Casper and secure the lone $159,000 division of Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold for three-year-old tro...

Bax and MacDonald Shine In Grassroots

The 2022 stakes season has been quite kind to veteran trainer John Bax and to driver James MacDonald, and on Tuesday night they put on quite a show in the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions at ...

Hasty Bid

Austin Set For Training Debut

A familiar last name will appear in the Sunday (July 3) program at Clinton Raceway, with a new generation of the Austin family harnessing Hasty Bid in one of three $22,200 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassro...