Veterans Sylvian Filion, Richard Morneau lead the way at O’Brien Awards
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Once again, Sylvain Filion and Richard Morneau are O’Brien Award winners.
Filion was named the top driver while Morneau captured outstanding trainer honours Saturday at Canadian harness-racing’s premiere event. Both won their respective categories for the fourth time.
Filion, a resident of Milton, Ont., also won the award in 2012, ’14 and 2015. Filion was the leading money-earning driver this season (over $7.7 million) and had 310 winners.
Filion was the regular driver of O’Brien Award winner Beyond Delight (two-year-old colt pacer) and finalists Emoticon Hanover (three-year-old filly trotter) and Yaris Bayama (two-year-old filly pacer).