Prohibition Legal defeated a star-studded field of the sport's top pacing mares, including the season-debuting 2023 Horse of the Year Sylvia Hanover, in the Friday, May 17 edition of the $36,000 Fillies & Mares Preferred Pace at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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.
After another standout campaign in 2023, it’s only fitting that two-time Canadian champion pacing mare So Much More is a finalist for national honours yet again. And it couldn’t be more fitting this time with the O’Brien Awards returning to her native P.E.I. for the 35th anniversary edition.
A year-end rivalry resumed in the Fillies & Mares Preferred pacing ranks at Woodbine Mohawk Park with So Much More coming out on top in the final edition of the year on Friday, Dec. 29.
So Much More (Big Jim) tallied her 70th lifetime harness racing victory as she finished her season with another close win in the $36,000 Fillies and Mares Preferred at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday (Dec. 29). So Much More was fourth to the quarter in :27.1 and came first-over for James MacDonald nearing the half