Entraîneur à succès tout au long de sa carrière, David Menary jugeait le succès simplement par les chiffres : le pourcentage de victoires et l’argent des bourses. ...

A successful Standardbred trainer since early in his career, at a younger age, David Menary was mostly concerned with two things: winning races and drinking. ...

Je suis très superstitieux – surtout quand il s’agit de mes chevaux, ou de ceux de quelqu’un d’autre – donc normalement je ne « jetterais jamais de mauvais sort » à un cheval en écrivant sur lui alors qu’il inscrit…

I’m very superstitious - especially when it comes to my horses, or anyone else’s horses - so normally I would never ‘jinx’ a horse by writing about him while he’s in to go…

One of the top trainers and drivers in the history of his native Sweden, Ake Svanstedt and his wife Sarah moved to America late in 2013, while their two sons were quite young, just to ‘try racing in North America for a while ...

Rich Stiles simply prefers to own one horse at a time, so when he retired his 14-year-old - that he bought as a yearling - a few months before he had planned to, in late September, 2022, he headed to the Lexington Sale a few days later ...

Chaque matin, sans exception, John MacMillan, un sourire gravé sur son visage, se dirige vers la grande fenêtre pour admirer les images et les sons des chevaux gambadant dans le champ. ...

John MacMillan is as passionate, and as involved in Standardbred racing as anyone could be. The former GM of Rideau Carleton Raceway, a trainer with almost 1,800 wins and more than $10 million in purses, a longtime horseman’s rep in the Ottawa area, and the current track announcer at Rideau, John has just about done it all. A marathon runner with a great zest for life, earlier this summer John sadly got some awful news from his doctors. He was literally given a death sentence by them...