"It has its ups and downs for sure. All of us as breeders, we'll come out of [the sales] feeling good some days and other days, we're like, wow, it's just like were hitting ourselves with a hammer. We've had a lot of OBrien Awards, but we never ever got an O'Brien Award for breeder."
More driver changes for this week's racing cards in Ontario will be required in the aftermath of a winter storm in Charlottetown, P.E.I. that has halted travel plans for many out-of-province attendees of Saturday night's O'Brien Awards.
Standardbred Canada announced the winners of the 2023 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season, at the Black Tie Gala in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024.
In harness racing, success does not come overnight, particularly in the breeding business where the outcome of building relationships and the day-to-day hard work that goes into raising future racehorses isn’t realized for many years.