Trot Insider has learned that former Gold Cup & Saucer champion Part Shark was euthanized after suffering a catastrophic injury before his race Friday night

The SBOA Stakes eliminations for three-year-old filly trotters and pacers were featured on Mohawk Racetrack's Friday evening program

Hambletonian hopefuls Big Chocolate, Vic Smith and Guccio all visited the winner’s circle in the first round of New Jersey Sire Stakes action for three-year-old trotters on Friday night at the Meadowlands Racetrack

The New York Sire Stakes rolled into Nichols, New York on Friday night featuring three divisions for New York bred three-year-old colt and gelding trotters

Friday At Five kicked off the Stallion Series at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs for 2012 with a bang on Friday night, scorching the track for a win in 1:50 in the first of seven divisions for three-year-old colts and geldings on the pace

Driven by Mark MacDonald, Keepers Destiny authored a 24-1 upset Friday night, getting by See You At Peelers and the rest in winning Yonkers Raceway's co-featured $36,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace

J J Hall, the reigning Horse of the Year in Ohio, scored his first victory of the season in Friday’s featured $5,500 Open Trot at Scioto Downs

A duo of $30,000 Indiana Gold Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies were the featured attraction at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday (May 18)

This week Sudbury Downs announced the first of its 2012 late closing, added money events. The Pot O Gold Stakes for $5,000 claiming pacers will close midnight Wednesday, May 23.

During a Thursday morning town hall meeting in Guelph, horsemen Jody Jamieson and Anthony MacDonald took the opportunity to discuss the Ontario Liberal Party's recent actions toward the provincial horse-racing industry with Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim

Word comes from Queen's Park that earlier this week the Liberal government quietly amended the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation Act to remove any need for a municipality to vote in favour of a casino before

Although he wasn’t pleased when We Will See missed out on a 2011 Dan Patch Award, trainer Sam De Pinto is confident his World Champion pacer is poised for a peak season in the free for all ranks

Northside Downs Track Announcer Shane Ryan is excited about the raceway's upcoming 31-date meeting, and he taken to the mainstream press to get the word out there

The Raceway at The Western Fair District is pleased to announce that, beginning with tonight’s Molson Pace elimination program, it will now have the ability to offer 20-cent minimum wagers to its loyal fan base in the United States

Officials from Truro Raceway have announced that the track will be closed for training during a point this upcoming long weekend

On Thursday, May 17, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. issued a Request for Information in regard to its expansion of private-sector gaming in accordance with its previous-announced and highly controversial gaming modernization plan

The eagerly anticipated 2012 Atlantic Sires Stakes season begins on Monday when three-year-old pacing fillies from across the Maritimes meet for competition at Fredericton Raceway

The Ontario Harness Horse Association has announced that it has called a meeting for its District 7 members

Standardbred Canada's Nurse Mare Program is designed to assist in matching orphaned or rejected foals with nurse mares, and now the process is even easier

The Letter below was sent on Friday (May 11) afternoon from Sue Leslie, President of the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association to the Premier of Ontario responding to a series of inaccurate comments Minister Duncan made about horse racing, while attacking a significant foreign investor

Ed James was recently recognized at the leading owner at Grand River Raceway for 2011, but after today James might just be heralded as the leading owner in all of Canadian horse racing after paying for a full-page pro-racing ad in Monday's (May 14) Toronto Star,

"If the slots were removed from Woodbine you would see the end of Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto."

After being compared to jailed investor Bernie Madoff in Thursday's (May 10) Guelph Mercury, Ontario Finance Minister and Deputy Premier Dwight Duncan issued a public reply

Dodging the spotlight while the province's second largest agricultural sector has been under attack from his reigning Liberal Party, Ontario Minister of Agriculture Ted McMeekin has now chosen to comment extensively

The Ontario Harness Horse Association (OHHA), which represents the majority of Standardbred horsepeople in Ontario, met with Mr. Paul Godfrey, Chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), and Ms. Beth Webster, Senior VP Marketing, Communications and Stakeholder Relations, on May 2

On Friday, May 4, officials from Windsor Raceway announced via release that they are expecting for all operations at the track to cease August 31, 2012

The Ontario Horse Racing Industry is part of a highly competitive global market. The industry contributes 60,000 jobs, $1.1 billion to the provincial government and $2 billion in recurring expenditures – all of which would be lost if the Slots at Racetracks Programs is cancelled in Ontario

Members of Ontario's horse racing industry ask Premier Dalton McGuinty what the future holds for their industry if the Slots at Racetrack partnership is

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan continues to downplay the significance of the horse racing and breeding industry in Ontario, along with the number of jobs that would be impacted by ending the Slots at Racetracks

Fully three quarters of Ontarians say they approve of the 'Slots at the Racetrack' program (74%), and two-thirds approve of the specific terms of the deal OLG currently has with Ontario's horse racing tracks (61%) according to a new survey conducted by Forum Research

Trot Insider continues to report on all major stories as the horse racing industry faces an unprecedented threat from the Government of Ontario with their latest