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 By Nicholas Oakes For Red Shores SUMMERSIDE, PE – The 2017 AtlanticSires Stakes season kicks into high gear with the two and three-year-old trotters meeting for the first time this season at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway as part of Governor’s Plate week racing.First race post time is 7 P.M. for the 12-dash card.The Atlantic Sires Stakes for…

Driver Gilles Barrieau notched an Atlantic Sires Stakes driving double at Inverness Raceway on Monday, winning both of the $9800 Atlantic Sire Stakes ‘A’ division events on the afternoon race card. After a cancelled race card on Sunday due to heavy rain, blue skies greeted the Atlantic Sires Stakes three-year-old fillies at Inverness Raceway for Monday’s…

Inverness Raceway will play host to Atlantic Sires Stakes fillies this Canada Day weekend, as the nation celebrates 150 years of Confederation and Canada’s horse racing industry recognizes the 250th Anniversary of Horse Racing in Canada.  A total of 23 racetracks in eight provinces from coast to coast are taking part in the national celebration over…

The 2017 Atlantic Sires Stakes race season officially gets underway this Sunday at Truro Raceway. A total of four divisions of the Atlantic Sires Stakes three-year-old pacing fillies will gather for competition at the Truro oval.  The fillies will meet in three ‘A’ division events, each going for a purse pool of $7600 and a lone…

The Annual General Meeting of the Atlantic Standardbred Breeders Association will take place on Saturday, April 29, 2017, at 1:30 pm.  The meeting will take place in the Red Shores at Charlottetown Driving Park Grandstand.  All ASBA members are welcome to attend.

ALL OWNERS of horses staked to the Atlantic Sires Stakes program must be members of the ASBA by paying an annual membership fee of $50 to Standardbred Canada at time of member’s first nomination or sustaining payment, prior to a new owner’s horse participating in an Atlantic Sires Stakes event or to the ASBA office…

The Atlantic Standardbred Breeders Association is now accepting Atlantic Sires Stakes Stallion Registrations for the 2017 breeding season. The registration fee is $500 and is payable to the ASBA by January 31, 2017. Registration forms have been mailed to anyone who registered a stallion for the last breeding season. Please contact the ASBA office if…

​The 2016 Atlantic Sires Stakes race season drew to an exciting close recently, as divisional champions were crowned during the Atlantic Breeders Crown Weekend of Champions at Red Shores Charlottetown Driving Park on Thanksgiving weekend.  The Atlantic Sires Stakes program has become the cornerstone of the harness racing and breeding industry in Atlantic Canada and…

By Nicholas Oakes For Red Shores CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – Atlantic Breeder’s Crown Championship Sunday is a day Adam Merner will never forget.The Port Morien, N.S., native guided Beaus Cowboy to the biggest win of his career in the $22,000 three-year-old pacing colt final at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. The…

The Atlantic Classic Sale will kickoff off the Weekend of Champions, the fall feature event of Atlantic Canadian harness racing. The Maritimes leading yearling sale will start at 2.p.m. Friday at the Crapaud Exhibition grounds, and will offer numerous siblings to 2016 stakes stars. In addition, there are several Ontario sired entries which are expected…