"There is nothing in my life that I've been successful at in my first attempt. I've had to work hard at everything I do. I've made mistakes, but the secret is not to make the same mistake twice."
Profiles
In 2003, three years after Glenn Harvey sold his business and retired young, Kelynack Farms was born on a 200-acre spread in Burlington, Ont.
He has been the leading trainer by wins at Woodbine for four consecutive years and now Mark Casse wants to win the big ones.
Most thoroughbred owners dream of owning a Horse of the Year.
Across Canada, the racing industry is seeing more and more young faces owning, training, buying and selling thoroughbreds.
Dave Wilson, one of Canada's winningest jockeys has surged back to top form just two years after a sudden illness took him by surprise.
With two crops of foals at the races, Old Forester led all Canadian sires in 2011 by progeny earnings and two-year-old earnings. Other leading stallions included Gilded Time, Philanthropist, Wando and Vibank.
Thirty years after embarking on a thoroughbred breeding business in St. Thomas, Ontario, the Everatt family are still going strong with top yearling consignments and a new stallion business.
Sayler and Brandt are hopeful that Balooga Bull will take them all the way to the 2012 Manitoba Derby, the province's race that Sayler has yet to win.
This Month: Reade Baker on Evaluating Racehorses.
While it wasn't a sure thing that he'd be working in the industry, it was a pretty safe bet the ideal job for Jeff Bratt would be in the Thoroughbred world.
Sadler's Wells, by Northern Dancer, has arguably been the world's premiere sire for the past two decades, and surely the top siring son of the great Northern Dancer.
Woodbine and its famed E.P. Taylor turf course hosts triple-header of Grade I races watched around the world
She may understate her success at the racetrack but Joan Petrowski is certainly one of Canada's top horse trainers. Find out more in this article.
Gerald and Tina Stone of Stone Ranches
