The Bill Gavin Racing Alliance (BGRA)  has found a fun way to attract young people to the sport of harness racing.

The non-profit’s mandate is to create and encourage partnerships and programs that will promote and grow harness racing by engaging youth and the general public with the Standardbred industry.

To this end, the organization is running two contests for Ontario students. The Youth Literary Derby is a juried, Standardbred horse-themed writing contest for Ontario students in Grades 3-8 and it carries $2,000 in prize money.

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