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LONDON, ON, Jan. 31, 2026 – Standardbred Canada announced the winners of the 2025 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season, at the Black-Tie Gala on Saturday, Jan. 31 at the J-AAR Expo Centre at Western Fair District in London, Ont. The event marked the 37th edition of the O’Brien […]
Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season. For the first time ever, there are three finalists in each category, which includes 12 divisional horse categories and five people categories. One of the divisional champions will also be recognized as […]
MISSISSAUGA, ONT, December 20, 2024 — Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 36th O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season. There are two finalists in each category, which includes 12 divisional horse categories and five people categories. One of the divisional champions will also be recognized […]
Standardbred Canada has released the breakdown of the voting for the 35th O’Brien Awards. The O’Brien Awards Gala took place Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, and was video streamed live on standardbredcanada.ca. The complete breakdown of the official voting appears below. There were 33 voters from across the country, which includes one Fan Ballot (put together […]
Standardbred Canada announced the winners of the 2023 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season, at the Black Tie Gala in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. The event marked the 35th edition of the O’Brien Awards, named in honour of the late Joe O’Brien, an outstanding horseman from […]
Standardbred Canada (SC) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2023 Outstanding Groom Award. Introduced in 2015, this award recognizes harness racing grooms who put their horses first and treat them with kindness and outstanding care, regardless of the horse or its ability, in addition to having a strong work ethic and being a […]
MISSISSAUGA, Ont., Jan. 2, 2024 — Standardbred Canada is pleased to declare that the Honourable Dennis King, Premier of Prince Edward Island, has been chosen as the distinguished harness racing recipient of the 2023 Cam Fella Award. This esteemed accolade will be bestowed upon Premier King at the renowned 35th O’Brien Awards Black Tie Gala, […]
Charlottetown, PE – Red Shores Racetrack & Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park has announced details for a special harness racing card and sponsorship packages for Friday February 2nd. Post time is 6pm. An Evening at Red Shores celebrating the O’Brien Awards features a live harness racing program, cooler presentations, dinner, displays, special guests on […]
Standardbred Canada (SC) is pleased to announce that the 35th annual harness racing O’Brien Awards will be returning to the home of Joe O’Brien in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on Saturday, February 3, 2024. The O’Brien Awards Black Tie Gala is Canadian harness racing’s most prestigious event. After two years of presenting online virtual galas, […]
Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 Media Excellence Awards, which will be presented at the O’Brien Awards Gala on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at the Hilton Mississauga/Meadowvale Hotel in Mississauga, Ont. Now in its 15th year, the Media Excellence Awards program honours those who have, through one piece of exceptional […]
MILTON, ON – January 6, 2023 – Just like her harness racing star standardbred, Camilla Christoforou is taking everything, including the O’Brien Awards, in stride. It’s a moment she will likely never forget, the one when she found out Safe Conduct (Archangel) was named as one of the two finalists for top three-year-old trotting colt […]
Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season. There are two finalists in each category, which includes 12 divisional horse categories and five people categories. One of the divisional champions will also be recognized as the Somebeachsomewhere Horse of the […]
Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2021 O’Brien Awards, which honour Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season. There are two finalists in each category, which includes 12 divisional horse categories and five people categories. One of the divisional champions will be recognized as the Somebeachsomewhere Horse of the […]
Standardbred Canada is seeking submissions for its 2021 Media Excellence Awards, to be presented at the 2021 O’Brien Awards Virtual Gala. There are three award categories: Outstanding Written Work, Outstanding Video, Film or Broadcast, and Outstanding Photograph. The program is aimed at honouring those who have, through one piece of exceptional work, covered Canadian harness […]
At the recent Standardbred Canada (SC) Board of Directors meeting, the Board approved a change to the criteria for the O’Brien Award of Horsemanship. This award was introduced to recognize the Standardbred participant who best exemplifies the standard of horsemanship demonstrated by Joe O’Brien, and formerly the criteria specified that eligible candidates had to be […]
