Standardbred Trainer Bio

 
Benoit 
Baillargeon 
Born: 7/25/1958  in St. Hubert, QC 
Resides: Rockwood, ON 
Colors: Red-Green-White  
Statistics
WDB/MOH Training Record

STARTS 1st 2nd 3rd EARNINGS
710 106 94 91 $2,164,863

As of December 31, 2009
Career
  • The veteran conditioner is coming off a career-best season in 2009 in which he finished second in the WEG standings. His 106 wins locally were good enough to bring him within one of Tracy Brainard for the number one spot in the . Overall, Baillargeon sent out 147 winners from his barn (a personal best) while earning $2,847,547. He once again campaigned a well-balanced stable consisting of top claiming, conditioned and stakes stock. Some of his top older performers included Enny Youngman ($96,570), Mystical Ryan ($131,620) and Zeigler Hanover ($210,785). Baillargeon once again campaigned top stakes performer Yursa Hanover ($377,834), who was an O’ Brien Award finalist, and got champion Voelz Hanover back to the races after more than a year’s absence from the track
  • 2009 marked the ninth full season in Ontario for the Quebec native, who followed his brother Mario (one of the circuit’s top drivers) here
  • in 2002, his stable finished eighth in the standings with 72 wins and $1,622,134 in purses...before moving to Ontario in the fall of 2000, Baillargeon had a successful stable at Hippodrome de Montreal
  • he was introduced to harness racing by his father Gaetan, who trained and drove Standardbreds
  • Baillargeon’s first full season on the WEG in 2001 was an unqualified success as his stable finished fifth in the standings with 79 wins and more than $1.9 million in purses
  • some of his top performers in 2007 included Reve D’Amerik and Speed Bomb.