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FRASERVILLE, ON (November 20, 2024) – Kawartha Downs is pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsay Bax as the new Harness Racing Manager, effective immediately. Lindsay takes over from Jim Huck, who has overseen harness racing at Kawartha Downs, we extend our sincere thanks to Jim for his dedicated service and leadership in Harness Racing […]
A big crowd attended closing night at Kawartha Downs on Friday (Sep. 13) as the track concluded its 2024 season with Customer Appreciation Night. The featured event was a charity Weiner Dog derby benefiting the Peterborough Humane Society. Mabel, number six, came flying to take the first elimination and returned to win the final. Hudson, […]
Two-year-old trotting colts and geldings contested their third Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots harness racing leg at Kawartha Downs on Friday (Aug. 9). Favourite Alimony Mike (Royalty For Life, Dustin Jones) returned to the Grassroots level in the first division and took his second career win. The gelding exchanged the pocket for the lead in the […]
Forrest Leah (Bettors Delight) won Kawartha Downs’s first two-year-old harness racing contest of the season on Friday (Jun. 28) in her career debut. Trainer/driver John Thomson secured her pocket positioning until discarding it to step around the leader on the backstretch. The filly went clear by two-and-a-half lengths by three-quarters and carried the gap into […]
Majestic Virgin (Always A Virgin) won her third straight race at Kawartha Downs on Friday (Jun. 14) to move her record to eight-for-11 this harness racing season. She was pocketed by Littlebearcat (Loic Gueriel) going to the first station in :26.4 but circled her to take the lead in the second quarter. Majestic Virgin reached […]
Kawartha Downs opened its doors for its 52nd season of harness racing on Friday (May 17), and 2023 leading driver Samuel Fillion started his title defense strong with a triple. The Quebec native got on the board in race two, steering Majestic Virgin (Always A Virgin) in a wire-to-wire win in 1:55. Fillion has driven […]
Sibling rivalry came down to the wire on Friday (Sep. 1) at Kawartha Downs as the Hie brothers drove harness racing half-sisters to a tight 1-2 finish. The brothers, Doug and Carman, with 151 years of age between them, trained and drove Wildcat Lisa (Betterthancheddar) and Pop The Bubbly, respectively. Carman gave Pop The Bubbly […]
Chesapeake Sunrise (Shadow Play) added a seventh straight harness racing victory to his winning streak in his first start in four weeks on Friday (Aug. 11) at Kawartha Downs. The gelding pressed the pace in the first quarter for Samuel Fillion to take over on the first trip down the backstretch. He cut the middle […]
Lastkickathecan (Wheeling N Dealin) marched from seventh to first on the outside to take her second Prospect Series harness racing victory on Friday (Jul. 21) at Kawartha Downs. The filly, driven by Hall of Famer Doug Brown, was stranded seventh on the outside but received a helmet from Painted By Matisse (Preston Shaw). The pair […]
Reg Gassien, 2022 leading harness racing driver at Kawartha Downs, immediately took the lead to begin the 2023 meet with four winners on the opening day card on Saturday (May 20). He started the season perfectly with a victory in the opener. The reinsman guided Just Shocking (Heston Blue Chip) to victory, inheriting the lead […]
Prestige Duharas (Prestidigitator) wiped away the sting of slim defeats in his first two starts with a Prospect Series victory in leg 4B for freshmen Ontario-sired harness racing trotters at Kawartha Downs on Saturday (Aug. 27). Reinsman Loic Gueriel found the pocket with the gelding from post seven and followed leader Oceanview Massey (Keith Jones) […]
Father Ron Waples gave son and fellow harness racing Hall of Famer Randy an on-track lesson in the Legends Trot at Kawartha Downs on Saturday (Aug. 20) as the pair completed a family exactor. Ron, saddled with the second tier, marched Courious Joan (Amigo Hall), from eighth at the quarter in :29.2 to first just […]
Two-year-old filly trotters visited Kawartha Downs for the fourth harness racing round of the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots on Saturday (Aug. 14). Sweet Carrie T (Muscle Mass) commenced proceedings with a bang – a six-and-three-quarter-length victory in the first division. She stopped the timer in 2:02.1. Divinne Magic (Samuel Fillion) got up for second over […]
Sixty-six-year-old Hall of Fame harness racing driver Doug Brown steered three horses to victory on the 50th opening day at Kawartha Downs on Saturday (May 28). Brown, a seven-time Driver of the Year, rallied Rising Dragon (Dragon Again) from last-to-first in the second race for his first win of the evening. The eight-year-old gelding trailed […]
FRASERVILLE, ON – AUG. 4, 2021 – A conversation on social media last fall led Paul Van Camp to purchase shares in a pair of harness racing trotting colts, and the exchange has proven fruitful as Feel The Force and Stonebridge Zeus will arrive at Kawartha Downs this Saturday, Aug. 7 ranked third and fourth […]
Janes Angel surprised Kawartha Downs bettors on Saturday by leading from start to finish at 11-1 in the track’s conditioned feature trot and handily defeating the heavy favourite. Janes Angel out-left her six foes in the early going and established command quickly. Driver John Thomson controlled the mare to a :29.1 first quarter mile, a […]
Hall of Fame harness racing driver Doug Brown captured his 8,500th career victory at Kawartha Downs on Saturday. Brown was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (CHRHF) in 2006, but one of the Woodbine Entertainment circuit’s most dominant drivers of the 1990s is still winning races. The Oshawa native is a seven-time […]
Ten-year-old trotter Ramas Last Son has more than 200 starts to his name, and the Majestic Son gelding secured a harness racing win in his ninth consecutive season on Saturday at Kawartha Downs. Pilot Reg Gassien hurried Ramas Last Son into the vacant pocket spot from post six after the start as the two inside […]
An eight-month layoff was no problem for First Glance in the Kawartha Downs opening day harness racing feature as he rolled by foes in the final quarter for a 2021 debut victory. Leaving from gate four, Mario Baillargeon slotted the gelding into the six-hole early and remained on the pylons through the opening quarter mile […]
