2025 Neville Award goes to Robert McIntosh

Robert “Bob” McIntosh, the Hall of Fame trainer and three-time winner of the Jugette, will be honored as the 2025 Joseph Neville Memorial Award recipient by the Little Brown Jug and the Delaware County Fair.

McIntosh, who was born in Wheatley, Ontario, first began in the sport of harness racing helping his father Jack run the family stable. He later worked for his older brother, Doug, before establishing his own stable.

His trainees won more than 4,600 races and earned more than $92 million in purses – the leading money-winner among Canadian trainers and currently fourth all-time in North America.

He was named the O’Brien Award winner as Canada’s Trainer of the Year seven times, the U.S. Trainer of the Year twice, and campaigned three horses that were voted ‘Horse of the Year.’

At Delaware, McIntosh is credited with 20 training wins from 1992 through 2023. He won three Jugette titles (So Fresh – 1992; Electric Slide – 1994; L A Delight – 2016), three straight Senior Jug crowns (Artsplace – 1992; Ruff Hewn – 1993 & 1994), two Buckette’s (Vulcanize – 2007; Windsong Soprano – 2009), two Standardbreds (Princess Callie – 2002; On Golden Ponder – 2013) and a Winbak Pace (Ponder – 2006).

McIntosh was inducted into the U.S. Harness Racing Hall of Fame in Goshen, NY, in 2003 and the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2010.

Bob McIntosh passed away on July 28, 2024 at the age of 71.

by Jay Wolf