Can new ownership model revive racing?

It’s a cold, windy February morning at the BayCairn Training Facility near Mohawk Racetrack and a set of Standardbred horses and their harness racing drivers are charging around the half-mile track.

Suddenly, like a giant dragonfly, a drone appears overhead and follows the herd around the track, an attached camera filming their every move. Operating the drone from his car parked nearby is Curtis MacDonald of the advertising firm Cujo Entertainment. MacDonald does simulcast and computer work for racetracks across North America and is here on behalf of his brother, Anthony MacDonald, one of the leading harness racing trainers and drivers in Ontario.

The horses, the drone, and the owners watching from the side of the track are all part of an initiative started by Anthony and his wife Amy in August 2015 called TheStable.ca, a program that makes fractional ownership of racehorses easy with the ultimate goal of helping the sport get back on its feet.

To read the full article written by Steve Buffery and also to watch the video he took for the Toronto Sun click here.