Standardbred Canada

standardbred canada is an incorporated non-profit organization whose mandate is to supervise, record, store and distribute information on all registered standardbreds and to promote harness racing in canada and beyond. standardbred canada was formed in 1998 as a result of the amalgamation of the breed's two national organizations, the canadian trotting association and the canadian standardbred horse society. each member racetrack across canada has a standardbred canada field representative who inputs race data as it happens into a computer system linked to the main data banks at the sc main office in mississauga. the computerized system has facilitated the production of race programs and provided the means for race secretaries and horse people to instantly establish a horse's eligibility to certain conditions in a race. every qualified horse can be accessed and any pertinent information on that horse - colour, sex, date of foaling, current and past owners, breeders, money won, lifetime