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Brandon Campbell has spent 25 years building win totals into the thousands, but it took one gelding to hand him two of the biggest numbers in his harness racing career, four months apart. The Calgary-based trainer-driver picked up his 1,000th career training win on Sunday, July 19, opening day of the summer meet at The […]
While Brandon Campbell is historically spotted frequently in a racebike — and in the winner’s circle — at tracks across western Canada, the successful harness racing horseman will be out of action for the foreseeable future due to upcoming surgery. Coming off back-to-back career years in 2022 and 2023 where the Calgary, Alta. resident posted […]
Stash The Cookies (Sunfire Blue Chip) returned to the races after seven weeks away and regained her winning harness racing form with another victory in the Fillies and Mares Preferred at Century Downs. Outlaw Sharktastic (Mike Hennessy) led throughout the first half in :27.3 and :56.3 panels with Stash The Cookies sitting the pocket. Brandon […]
Stash The Cookies (Sunfire Blue Chip) notched her third consecutive harness racing victory in the Fillies and Mares Preferred Handicap at Century Downs on Friday (Jun. 21). Away fifth and last in a :28.1 first panel, she circled the field in the second quarter and reached the lead before the half in :57.3. Grey Sea […]
Grey Horizon (Vertical Horizon) scored his biggest harness racing career victory in the $90,000 Moore’s Mile Breeders’ Stake for three-year-old males on Saturday (Jun. 15) at Century Downs. Brandon Campbell, aiming for his sixth win on the card, set the colt up with a pocket trip. He followed Rum N Custard (Kelly Hoerdt) through the […]
Top Alberta pacing mare Stash The Cookies (Sunfire Blue Chip) snagged her first harness racing victory of the season on Friday (May 31) at Century Downs in the $25,000 Fillies and Mares Preferred. Brandon Campbell guided her into the three-hole early, sitting there to the quarter in :27.2 before making a backstretch move approaching the […]
Standardbred Canada has announced, effective immediately, that Brandon Campbell will be stepping down from participation in the Western Regional Driving Championship (WRDC) due to injury. Kelly Hoerdt will replace him as the subsequent harness racing driver. Therefore, the following field of eight drivers for the WRDC is confirmed for Saturday, May 11 at Century Downs […]
Leading Western Canada harness racing driver Brandon Campbell took six of the day’s eight races at Century Mile on Friday (Dec. 15). Raging Beauty (Outrageous Art) stumbled entering the stretch, but she recovered for Campbell and kicked home to a two-and-a-half-length win. She broke her maiden in 2:00.1 with the effort for owner/breeder/trainer Samuel Johnson. […]
Stash The Cookies (Sunfire Blue Chip) reached 100 career harness racing start with a second straight win in the Fillies and Mares Preferred at Century Mile on Friday (Dec. 8). With the temperatures reaching -8°C, Brandon Campbell ordered the mare right to the top in a :27.4 opening panel. She took two left turns and […]
Stash The Cookies (Sunfire Blue Chip) went wire-to-wire in the Fillies and Mares Preferred at Century Mile on Friday (Dec. 1) to give harness racing driver Brandon Campbell his fifth win of the day. The mare cut the mile in her 99th career start, setting quarters of :28.3, :57.2, and 1:25.4. Outlaw Sharktastic (Nathan Sobey) […]
Brandon Campbell has been one of the top harness racing drivers in western Canada over the last several years. He really put an exclamation point on his career when he earned over $2 million as a driver in 2022. This feat has never been done before in this region of the country, and the feat […]
Stash The Cookies (Sunfire Blue Chip) narrowly avoided a harness racing upset as she took the Fillies and Mares Preferred at Century Mile on Friday (Oct. 20) for the second time in four outings. The mare pushed to the front for Brandon Campbell after taking the opening quarter of :26.4 in third. She reached the […]
Harness racing driver Brandon Campbell dominated the Friday (Sep. 22) card at Century Mile with a seven-win performance. The highlight came in race seven, when a wild pace scenario set up a last-to-first victory. Campbell and Electric Amadeus (Rockin Amadeus) were 15 lengths back at the three-quarters as Show Stop (Jamie Gray), who opened up […]
Surrey, BC – Kelly MacMillan, president of Harness Racing BC, sensed something positive was in the works at Fraser Downs Racetrack early into the 2023 Spring harness racing season. Seven months later, he’s convinced. With the Fall standardbred season set to launch Thursday and Friday (September 14 & 15) at Fraser Downs Racetrack in Surrey, […]
Metaki (Vertical Horizon) moved three-wide and found an extra surge late to take the featured harness racing pace at Century Downs on Friday (Jun. 9). Leading driver Brandon Campbell pulled the mare around the first-up Stash The Cookies (Logan Gillis) to attack leader Blue Star Mystic (Dave Kelly). Blue Star Mystic defended well until the […]
Metaki (Vertical Horizon) had the fastest late legs in the conditioned Fillies and Mares Preferred at Century Downs on Friday (Jun. 2), getting up to win by a neck. The harness racing mare was sitting fifth at the cones for Brandon Campbell going to three-quarters and moved third-over entering the final turn. She found a […]
Harness racing driver Brandon Campbell and trainer Jim Marino teamed up to capture the $50,000 Penny Bath Memorial and $50,000 Keith Linton Memorial on closing day at Fraser Downs on Friday (May 5). Side Piece (Shadow Play) dominated the Penny Bath Memorial. The filly went wire-to-wire with splits of :27.3, :57.4, and 1:25.4, fighting off […]
Top Western Canadian harness racing four-year-olds battled in eliminations for the Bev Sears Memorial and Ed Tracey Memorial on Saturday (Apr. 29) at Century Downs. Grey Sea (Custard The Dragon) circled the five-horse field to take the first Bev Seras Memorial elimination for four-year-old mares. The grey, coming off a stakes win at Fraser, won […]
Harness racing driver Brandon Campbell won three times on Saturday (Apr. 22) at Century Downs to hit the milestone of 2,500 career victories. Campbell’s first win of the night came against all odds as he got Iris Seelster (Bettors Delight) to close down a nine-length deficit in the last eighth of a mile at 28-1. […]
The harness racing king of British Columbia, Outlaw C My Shadow (Shadow Play), went wire-to-wire to win his 11th consecutive Open pace at Fraser Downs on Friday (Apr. 21). The gelding dashed to the front before the first turn, leading the five-horse field through a :26.3 opening panel. No one was able to challenge through […]
British Columbia’s undisputed Free For All king Outlaw C My Shadow (Shadow Play) extended his reign to 10 consecutive harness racing victories with another open-length win in the Open Pace on Friday (Apr. 7) at Fraser Downs. The gelding went forward to claim the front as usual and kept his opponents in a single-file line […]
Ontheroadtotexas (Sixdaysontheroad) was bigger than her harness racing opponents for the fifth straight week on Thursday (Apr. 6) at Fraser Downs by a huge margin with a lifetime best clocking. The mare was a strung out fourth through the opening half, blitzed in fractions of :26.3 and :55 as Marilyn (Scott Knight) and Havinfuninthesun (Kelly […]
Moosette (Hes Watching) kept her strike rate above 50 per cent this year and won her third Fillies and Mares Open in her past three starts with a short harness racing victory on Thursday (Mar. 30) at Fraser Downs. She stayed wide entering the first turn and dropped back to last of the five-horse field. […]
It will be a two-way celebration for harness racing fans on and off track when standardbred racing resumes at Fraser Downs Thursday and Friday nights (March 30 & 31). For starters, the Pick 5 Jackpot has reached $23,445 and Thursday will be the last chance for players to take down the whole pool as a […]
