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Lindsay Turcotte didn’t expect that a morning at Century Mile Racetrack in September 2020 would change her whole world, but it did.The racetrack traditionally held a special open house the week of the Grade 3 Canadian Derby to preview the contenders and allow the public to meet the horses’ connections. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was open only to owners and trainers, but Turcotte (no relation to Secretariat’s legendary jockey) got an invitation from a friend and came to watch the Derby horses work out at the Alberta track.

Congratulations to Mikayla Hoffman and her Alberta bred partner Heavenish Hall on receiving the Alberta Horse Trials Association2022 Year End 'Thoroughbred of the Year' Award – Sponsored by the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society – AB Division. Mikayla also received the Top Rider of the Year (sponsored by AHTA). Heavenish Hall was bred and raced in Alberta by Doug Clement & Darlene Harder. The Fisher Pond gelding started five times but finished no higher than fourth. Best of luck in the upcoming 2023 season to this outstanding partnership!

Recognizing the growing need to champion an underserved population of the Thoroughbred industry, the Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) announced today that the 2023 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, will include a pilot program for a broodmare division of competition. Recently-retired broodmares will compete alongside traditional Makeover entrants in all ten offered disciplines, but will be pinned and recognized separately, competing for a separate pot of $10,000 in prize money.