Kirsty Luft-Nault, an Alberta exercise rider and Olds College instructor teaches her students how to gallop thoroughbreds at the track.
Profiles
Two days after winning Horse of the Year and two other Sovereign Awards, Pink Lloyd set a track record at Woodbine in the Jacques Cartier Stakes.
Despite being relatively new to the game, Toronto-based Thoroughbred breeders Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry have already struck breeding gold.
Learn more about British Columbia’s John Gunther – the man who bred the supremely talented Kentucky Derby and Preakness winning colt, Justify.
For the fourth consecutive year, a 2-year-old filly trained by Mark Casse, Wonder Gadot, has been named a Sovereign Award winner in her division.
Ami’s Mesa had a successful night at the 43rd annual Sovereign Awards ceremony, earning champion older female and champion female sprinter honours.
Victorious Ami is the second consecutive mare owned and bred by Ivan Dalos to win the Outstanding Broodmare title at the Sovereign Awards.
After more than 30 years working for others, Sherry McLean is bringing her expertise and work ethic to her own Ontario breeding operation.
A key player in the revival of racing in Alberta, general manager of Century Downs, Paul Ryneveld, is overseeing the development of the new Century Mile.
A lifelong love of horses led Marguerite Old to follow her passion and start her own business – Equine Edge Massage Therapy – in the Woodbine backstretch.
For more than 30 years, Leif Nordahl donated his time, business acumen and level-headedness to better the British Columbia horse racing industry he loves.
Hazel Bennett of Borders Racing Stables and Tracey Skinner of Meadowlands Stables use ground work and natural horsemanship to retrain OTTBs.
Daughterofthewoods raced three times in her career and each time, the pint-sized chestnut broke like a bullet and was quickly in front of her rivals.
Thoroughbred trainer Steve Gaskin will have a tough time topping his 2017 season at Assiniboia Downs as he enters his third year as a trainer.
Trainer Don Schnell is coming off a career year in 2017 with $475,012 in purse earnings, but it was even better than that for the 64-year-old horseman.