Yannick Gingras inductees into U.S. Hall Of Fame
At 1h58, on September 21, 2021 • By USHWA
The United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) announced on Monday (Sept. 20) that Ron Burke, George Teague Jr., and Yannick Gingras will be inducted into the 2022 Harness Racing Hall of Fame, along with Chris Boring, who will be inducted in the Veterans category.
“This is a fantastic group of horsemen who will be inducted at Goshen in 2022,” said Kimberly Rinker, USHWA President. “All of them have contributed greatly to harness racing through their professionalism, indefatigable work ethics, horsemanship and willingness to participate in publicity for the betterment of the sport. They, without a doubt, certainly deserve this honour.”
The trio of Burke, Gingras, and Teague secured well above the 75 per cent of the yes-no votes required of the electorate, with 147 ballots cast in the voting conducted by USHWA.
This quartet will first be honoured at USHWA’s Dan Patch Awards & Night of Champions on February 20, 2022, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, in Orlando, Florida. They will be formally inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame on July 3, 2022 in Goshen, New York.
Foiled Again and some other top Burke Brigade horses were driven by Yannick Gingras, who came to the United States from his native Quebec, was USHWA’s Rising Star of 2003, and has gone on to establish himself among the very highest ranks of drivers that trainers seek out to handle their champions, while additionally continuing to post a high UDR with all the horses he drives.
Likely before the end of the year to become the sixth driver to join a select club of horsemen whose horses have earned $200 million (USD), Gingras is a two-time U.S. Driver of the Year (2014, 2017), who led the sport in earnings for four years and finished second four other times. He has to his credit 24 Breeders Crown championships, six of the last seven Hambletonian Oaks and countless other major races, and has guided stars such as 2020 U.S. Horse of the Year Tall Dark Stranger, Foiled Again (as noted), Mission Brief, and at times the redoubtable evergreen trotting mares Manchego and Atlanta.
