Hightstown, NJ &#; When a year-old Yannick Gingras moved from his native Quebec to the U.S. in the summer of , he had no idea what his future held. The young driver, who launched his career in , arrived with 72 career wins and fewer than starts.
Two years later, Gingras was named the sport’s Rising Star, and his trajectory continued upward from there. In , he cracked the Top 10 in purses, and for the past 11 years has never been worse than third. He has led the sport in earnings four times and was named Driver of the Year in and For his career, he has more than $ million in purses, fourth most in history. Last year, Gingras was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame.
It all began when he started driving in amateur races at the age of
“The thrill of winning, that’s when I was hooked,” Gingras said. “After that, there wasn’t any doubt in my mind that it’s what I wanted to be doing.”
Gingras picked up his first win in his first drive, heading to the winner’s circle with Tidewater Comic in an amateur race at Hippodrome de Montreal in January The 5-year-old pacer was trained by Gingras’ father, Raymond, who had claimed the horse for his son to drive in the amateur
&#;When I&#;m put up to drive I have a huge responsibility to everybody connected with that horse, most importantly the public, to do the very best I can with it,” said the star driver.
by Murray Brown
Yannick Gingras was born and raised in the small town of Sorel, QC, approximately 40 miles from Montreal. His father Raymond and grandfather Marc were successful driver/trainers on the Quebec and Eastern Ontario circuit.
Although raised with horses and horsemen, Yannick never really had the great love and appreciation for horses and horse racing that he has today. His first love in his formative years was hockey. He played and followed it assiduously throughout his early life. He still is a great fan of the sport and follows the fortunes of his beloved Montreal Canadiens on a daily basis
His hockey &#;Jones&#; is still somewhat satisfied by following the exploits of his year-old son Jaiden who has played in organized leagues from the time he was first eligible to do so.
In his teens, Yannick realized that he wasn&#;t quite good enough to ever play in the National Hockey League. He decided that it might be wise to focus on something else that he knew something
Racing reflections with Yannick Gingras
Hightstown, NJ — When a year-old Yannick Gingras moved from his native Quebec to the U.S. in the summer of , he had no idea what his harness racing future held. The young driver, who launched his career in , arrived with 72 career wins and fewer than starts.
Two years later, Gingras was named the sport’s Rising Star, and his trajectory continued upward from there. In , he cracked the Top 10 in purses, and for the past 11 years has never been worse than third.
He has led the sport in earnings four times and was named Driver of the Year in and For his career, he has more than $ million in purses, fourth most in history. Last year, Gingras was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame.
It all began when he started driving in amateur races at the age of
“The thrill of winning, that’s when I was hooked,” Gingras said. “After that, there wasn’t any doubt in my mind that it’s what I wanted to be doing.”
Ginras picked up his first win in his first drive, heading to the winner’s circle with Tidewater Comic in an amateur race at Hippodrome de Montreal in January The 5-year-old pacer was trained by Gingras’ father, Raymond, who had c
Driver Yannick Gingras was born August 4, in Greenfield Park, Quebec and raised in Sorel, where he grew up on a farm with a stall barn and a half-mile track. He remembers jogging horses with his father Raymond at five years of age, and training them by the time he was ten. It wasn’t until he was almost 18 when Gingras became a trainer and amateur driver for two years before getting his “A” license. Gingras drove in Canada until when he moved to Yonkers Raceway in New York where he enjoyed immediate success, winning the track’s Fall Drivers Championship.
Following a win year in that earned him the United States Harness Writers Association’s Rising Star Award, he relocated to the Meadowlands, which has been his home base ever since.
Gingras is a two-time Dan Patch Driver of the Year (, ) who led the sport in earnings for four years and finished second four other times. He has to his credit 24 Breeders Crown victories, three Little Brown Jugs and six of the last eight Hambletonian Oaks. He has guided stars such as Horse of the Year Tall Dark Stranger p,3, ($2,,) and the sport’s richest Standardbred Foiled Again p,9,f ($7,,). Gingras says Foiled Again’s win in the Breeders Crown
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