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MILTON, ON – Aug. 2, 2024 – Somebeachsomewhere is the greatest harness racing horse in Ontario Sires Stakes history, according to an informal poll conducted as part of the program’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. Among the Lampman Cup-winning drivers, Johnston Cup-winning trainers, Hall of Fame breeders, renowned handicappers and iconic builders who were asked to provide […]
TORONTO, JUNE 12, 2023 – “He’s big, he’s strong, and he has got it going on” Ken Middleton’s famous call of Somebeachsomewhere winning the Pepsi North America Cup helped cement the 2008 edition as one of the all-time great moments in Canadian harness racing. It was the first time an undefeated horse won the Pepsi […]
Brent MacGrath most certainly has his mind on Somebeachsomewhere today. For more than one reason. MacGrath is, of course, synonymous with the late, great Somebeachsomewhere, who was foaled 18 years ago today on May 25, 2005. And MacGrath was planning to have 2022 O’Brien Award finalist Beach Glass — a son of Somebeachsomewhere from that […]
Trot Insider has learned that sophomore pacer Beach Glass (Somebeachsomewhere – Im With Her) was sent for surgery after his fourth-place finish on Saturday (Oct. 1) in stakes action at The Red Mile. Trainer and co-owner Brent MacGrath told Trot Insider that Beach Glass was transported to Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky. after Saturday’s race […]
Hightstown, NJ — When it comes to spotting a treasure, Rhonda MacGrath has a pretty good eye. Rhonda, the wife of Meadowlands Pace-winning harness racing trainer Brent MacGrath, is a collector of beach glass — fragments of discarded broken glass in an ocean or lake that have been transformed over decades into smoothed gem-like pieces by […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The final chapter of the amazing Somebeachsomewhere harness racing saga reached its conclusion Saturday night (July 16) when his son Beach Glass won the $600,000 Meadowlands Pace. It’s a long journey from Truro, Nova Scotia, to any of the major Standardbred racing centers. Somebeachsomewhere took trainer Brent MacGrath and the partners […]
