The following statement was made by Horse Racing Alberta on Wednesday (April 7).
On Tuesday (April 6), Jason Kenney, premier of Alberta, announced that expanded restrictions are back in place across the province as the result of an increased risk from variants of COVID-19. The news is testing the resiliency of the racing industry, and horsemen s concerns were discussed during the COVID-19 Response Planning meeting Wednesday (April 7).
Horse Racing Alberta, tracks and horsemen s organizations are committed to working together to ensure the health and safety of racing participants, as well as a strategy to move racing forward.
Horse Racing Alberta is working with the Alberta Health Emergency Operations Centre Stakeholder Relations Team to establish protocols that would allow live racing to resume without spectators. The request has been made for the Alberta Standardbred Horse Association to resume their spring race meet in a bubble, like other sports. Training at Century Mile, The T
It s a big family. We all have a common love of the animal.
Colleen Haining, who serves as project manager of the Alberta Standardbred Horse Association (ASHA), is tasked with representing Alberta horsepeople and promoting harness racing to a growing audience. As far as Haining is concerned, the family-oriented nature of the harness racing industry and the docile temperament of Standardbreds are major selling points toward growing the game. [Harness racing] is very family friendly, she said in a recent profile published in the spring edition of
Alberta Bits, which is published by the Alberta Equestrian Federation. There s no charge to park at a racetrack; there s no charge to come and watch the horses . We like to promote Come and meet the horses, because there s a lot of city people who never get to touch a horse.
Trot Insider would like to advise horsemen of some important information pertaining to the start of the 2021 stakes season in Alberta.
The first stakes in Alberta for 2021 are the Bev Sears and Ed Tracey Stakes, a pair of open stakes for four-year-olds that were created to alleviate the cancellation of last year s Moore s Mile and Norm Kennedy for three-year-olds.
The original conditions for these stakes this year accidentally noted the races as restricted to Alberta-owned, sired or foaled horses and nomination forms were sent to the connections of eligible Alberta-owned, sired and foaled horses as such. Please note the correction that the Bev Sears and Ed Tracey are indeed open stakes for four-year-olds.
Mississauga, ON – Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 O’Brien Awards, which honor Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season.
There are two finalists in each category which includes 12 divisional horse categories and five people awards. Horse of the Year will be one of the divisional champions.
Winners will be announced at the Virtual O’Brien Awards Gala on Sunday, Jan. 31 on standardbredcanada.ca.
This will mark the 32nd edition of the O’Brien Awards, named in honor of the late Joe O’Brien, an outstanding horseman and member of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.