When the 2023 season gets underway next month, Northside Downs will mark the 125th anniversary of harness racing at the North Sydney, N.S. property, now under Harness Racing Cape Breton ownership.
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NORTH SYDNEY, N.S. The Cape Breton County Farmers Exhibition in North Sydney, N.S. has been cancelled for the second year in a row and some organizers say there is a chance it will never return. It would be a real shame to lose it, said Keith Rudderham, president of the Cape Breton-Richmond Federation of Agriculture. The exhibition has been held each summer in North Sydney since 1916. This year would have marked its 105
th anniversary but due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, the event had to be cancelled. Organizers say as things stand, it may never come back. We ve had issues over the years of holding the exhibition and barely making any money, and now COVID really makes things more expensive to run, as it does to everybody else explained Rudderham. And we re not sure if we ll have the numbers of people we normally expect.