Experience more value than gender when it comes to training winners at Hastings Park Women take centre stage at Hastings on Friday with three of the night’s races exclusively for fillies and mares.

In 2004, the province handed control over Hastings Park to the city of Vancouver, which kept the status quo — a mix of green space, the PNE fairgrounds and buildings, and Hastings Park racecourse.

Separating the colts and geldings from the fillies and mares is the norm in racing, but it only applies to the horses. When it comes to the trainers, vets, hot-walkers, grooms and the tens of other ...