AS America is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of harness racing and still possesses the main sires and studs, the flow of standardbred stock is unsurprisingly outwards from the US to these shores. For a while in the ‘70s and ‘80s when York Raceway was in its heyday, there was an embryonic export industry for British-breds which could slot into North American racecards in lowly company and win decent money.