It's rare enough to train an O'Brien Award winner. Factor in winning Horse of the Year, even tougher. More than one Horse of the Year? Exceedingly rare. But now Mark Steacy has achieved something no other trainer can boast.
Standardbred Canada honoured the 35th O’Brien Award champions on Saturday, Feb. 3, and the gallery of 2023 winner presentation photos is now available.
Tells On A Roll (Tellitlikeitis) blew the doors off her harness racing opponents in the $36,000 Fillies and Mares Preferred at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday (Feb. 9) in her third straight win in the class. The mare fired to an early lead from post six for Travis Cullen and put up a first quarter
"It's a great honour being respected by your peers. A lot of hard work is involved in this, a great staff behind us too, you know, it's not just me. We've got a good bunch of grooms and second trainers that help us along so it's a great accomplishment for us all."
Fourteen years after Sportswriter won the O'Brien Award for two-year-old pacing colts in 2009, Casie Coleman has another O'Brien Award winner in that division with Legendary Hanover.