The Canadian Sportsman
May 20, 2010
The latest installment from my weekly Guelph Mercury column…
The best harness racing in the world returns to the region starting tonight when the summer meet opens at Mohawk Racetrack in Campbellville.
It’s harness racing’s version of baseball’s Opening Day for local horsepeople, who prefer Mohawk to its sister plant, Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto.
The return to Campbellville for the 108-day meet comes with a sliver of good betting news, too, from an industry in general decline. Betting trends are up, said Jamie Martin, the Woodbine Entertainment Group’s executive vice-president of racing.
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April 30, 2010
Harness driver Jody Jamieson blogged about his recent racing trip to Finland, now Mark MacDonald (above, connecting with fans in Ohio) is providing Twitter updates before his drives.
The 31-year-old Cambridge resident, a two-time Canadian driver of the year (2005, 2006) began the practice April 20 for a card at Grand River Raceway in Elora.
It was MacDonald’s brother, Curtis, who works at Grand River in the video department that put Mark up to tweeting about his drives.
Athletes tweeting is nothing new, but it’s a relatively uncommon occurrence in harness racing.
Why should anyone care? Handicapping is all about information and Mark’s tweets do give bettors at least something to add to their thinking before making a wager. So long as he’s truthful, it does provide insight into his mindset.
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April 22, 2010
The latest installment from my weekly Guelph Mercury column…
The volcanic eruption in Iceland may have stranded Jody Jamieson in Finland, but Canada’s reigning driver of the year didn’t blow his top.
The 33-year-old Cambridge resident simply resigned himself to being stuck — and then picked up more drives, tried a trotting-under-saddle race, did a few more media interviews and did more sightseeing.
He pointed out in an email that things could have been a lot worse.
“If you are stranded in a foreign land, it’s good to be staying at a Hotel Haven,” he wrote yesterday about the five star hotel where he and his fiancé, Stephanie McDermott, were marooned.
Jamieson left for Finland on April 9 and was originally scheduled to return April 18, but a plume of volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull covered Europe and grounded planes.
Jamieson who has been blogging about his Finnish trip on Standardbred Canada’s website, has written that it’s likely he’ll be able to leave Helsinki Friday in time to, hopefully, return to driving duty at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto Saturday night.
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