What resources does ASHA offer for harness racing in Alberta?

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asha.ab.ca is the website of the Alberta Standardbred Horse Association (ASHA), and it functions mainly as a navigation hub for Alberta harness racing. From the homepage you can reach race schedules and live racing/replays for three tracks, breeding and yearling sale information, stakes and eligibility rules, horsemen's administrative pages, and membership and payment information. It is a resource and information site rather than a betting platform — wagering itself happens through the track and off-track betting links it points to.

Racing schedules, entries, and results

The homepage groups racing access by track, with the same set of links under each:

  • Century Downs — schedule, live racing, replays, entries, programs
  • The Track on 2 — schedule, live racing, replays, entries, programs
  • Century Mile — schedule, live racing, replays, entries, programs

A separate Race Calendar – Events page and a Racing Calendar quick link cover the broader season. If you want to know when and where harness racing is running in Alberta, or to look up a card, entries, or a replay, this is the starting point.

Breeding, yearling sale, and bloodstock

ASHA's breeding section covers the full production cycle:

  • Breeding overview
  • 2026 Yearling Sale and Breeding pages
  • Breeders Committee
  • Stallions
  • Foals
  • Mares

The site also hosts the 2024 Yearling Sales Catalogue (PDF) and a Fifteen (15) Day Credit Application (PDF) tied to the sale, and the homepage banner promotes the AHSA 2024 Yearling Sale. If you are buying, selling, or nominating standardbred stock in Alberta, these pages are where the sale and breeding paperwork lives.

Stakes, eligibility, and the ABSS Super Finals

The stakes area is one of the more detailed parts of the site:

  • Stakes and Stakes Eligibility
  • Stakes Calendar and Stakes Guide (both linked as "click here")
  • Stakes Payments
  • ABSS Super Finals
  • 4YR Old Stake Nominations

These pages matter if you need to check whether a horse is eligible, when payments are due, or how the Super Finals structure works. Eligibility and payment deadlines are the practical details to confirm here before nominating.

Horsemen's information and administration

For people working in the industry, ASHA collects the administrative pages in one place:

  • Horsemen's Information
  • Horsemen's Bookkeeper
  • Horsemen's News / Horsemen News
  • Horse Racing Alberta (the provincial regulator, linked from the site)
  • Greenshield Canada (insurance-related link)

This is where licensing-adjacent and bookkeeping questions are directed, rather than being handled through the general homepage.

Membership, payments, and contact

  • ASHA Memberships — membership information
  • e-Transfer Payment Information — the site's stated payment route, at /payment-information
  • Annual General Meeting 2026 and 2026 ASHA Awards
  • About Us, Breeders Committee, Contact Us, Privacy Policy
  • Mailing address: #202, 191 Edwards Way SW, Airdrie, AB T4B 3E2; email [email protected]
  • A Join Newsletter signup and a Shop ASHA store link

Note that the site lists e-transfer as its payment method; it does not state that anything on the site is free, and membership or stakes payments should be assumed to carry the fees described on those pages.

Learning resources and betting links

For newcomers, ASHA provides:

  • Your Guide to Harness Racing and Harness Racing 101
  • Learn to Wager and Wagering Terms
  • New to Wagering and Wager Online
  • Off Track Betting Locations
  • Find a Track
  • Horse Ownership

It also profiles drivers — Logan Gillis, Brandon Campbell, Jamie Gray, Phil Giesbrecht, Nathan Sobey, Mike Hennessy, James Junquist, and Preston Shaw, with a "More Drivers" link. These pages explain the sport and point to where betting is actually available; ASHA itself is not presented as a place to place a wager.

What ASHA is not

The site does not sell horses directly, process race entries on the public pages, or operate as a betting site. It is an association hub: schedules and entries, breeding and sale documents, stakes rules and payments, horsemen's administration, and membership. For anything involving money or eligibility, go to the specific page (Stakes Payments, e-Transfer Payment Information, Memberships) rather than relying on the homepage summary.