An accident involving most of the fifth race field occurred at Rosecroft Raceway on Tuesday night sending at least three drivers to hospital

Driver Doug McNair and trainer Joe Pereira teamed up to kick off the fifth annual Slots Cup Series with a pair of popular winners on Tuesday at Western Fair Raceway

Forced wide in a demanding :26-opening quarter, Hugadragon had enough in reserve late to capture Tuesday’s $22,500 Preferred Handicap Pace at The Meadows

After an initial TV run last week, the producers of Race Day are pleased to announce the short documentary about harness racing will continue to air on select Rogers TV stations in Ontario

Sending Ballykeel Ulysses out in last week’s Ontario Sires Stakes Gold elimination over The Raceway at Western Fair District was a strategic move by owner Cam McKnight, which paid off in spades when the three-year-old trotter earned a berth in this Friday’s $130,000 Gold Final

The I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club is gearing up for the $300,000 final of the Molson Pace, set to take place this Friday, May 25 at The Raceway at Western Fair District, featuring some of the best pacing horses in North America. It’s one race you don’t want to miss!

Innisfil Mayor Barb Baguley has reaffirmed her desire to see gaming remain and expand at Georgian Downs in light of the recent RFI/gaming zones announcement from Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.

Driver-trainer Dan Shetler scored twice in the second round of the $10,000 Indiana Silver Sire Stakes action on Tuesday (May 22) at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino

North State Street Stable’s Monochromatic ($7.80, Brad Hanners) overcame outside post number eight on Tuesday to win her third straight race in the featured Mares Junior Open at Harrinong Raceway

Mud Pie Hanover led at every pole to score a victory in the featured winners of over $25,000 lifetime pacing event on Tuesday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.

It’s always refreshing to see a success story wherever you find one. Right now, those in Hanover, Ont. don’t have to look too far, as there is a horse with ties to the community that everyone is taking notice of

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and the New York Racing Association (NYRA) today announced an agreement to establish the NYRA Reorganization Board that will place NYRA under temporary public control in order to reform the association and transform oversight and management of horse racing in New York State

Eight of North America’s top free for all pacers have earned their spots in the $300,000 final of the Molson Pace, the signature race for The Raceway at Western Fair District, on Friday

Trot Insider has learned that owner J. Ronald 'Ron' Burgess passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 20 with his family at his side at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital

Officials from Kawartha Downs have informed Trot Insider that there will be a pair of track closures occurring in the near future

Officials with Georgian Downs have announced details regarding upcoming schooling races for two-year-olds

Back by popular demand, Grand River Raceway will host its fourth annual backstretch Open House on

The Standardbred Retirement Foundation is opening its online auction today as part of its annual golf fundraising event

“A few years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to sleep. I’d have probably just slept with him. Thank God for how strong purses have been in the last few years and how well our barn has done. It has taken the immediate pressure off just making it day to day. I can enjoy this a little bit more and have fun and race and see what we can do.”

Loto-Quebec, whose underperforming 'ludoplex' gaming parlours at racetracks in Quebec City and Trois-Rivieres helped bring down the Quebec horse racing industry three years ago, apparently has decided there’s a few bucks to be made from horse racing after all

An elite field of 16 trotters is now set for the 2012 Elitlopp, with a distinct North American flavour including Canada's richest trotter and a top U.S. driver making his European debut

“I’m living the dream. I’m literal, living proof dreams can come true, and the goals you had as a child, you can get them in your life.”

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

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,

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

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

After the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation revealed its gaming zones for potential casino expansion on Thursday, one MPP feels that the government's move to end the slots at racetrack program in 2013 will end up costing them money both now and in the future

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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