diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 5ee880bb..526b3474 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ Bug Fixes
   became available to read on the socket, the message would never be processed,
   resulting in an OperationTimedOut error.
 
+Other
+-----
+* Remove ignored ``tracing_enabled`` parameter for ``SimpleStatement``.  The
+  correct way to trace a query is by setting the ``trace`` argument to ``True``
+  in ``Session.execute()`` and ``Session.execute_async()``.
+
 1.0.1
 =====
 Feb 19, 2014
diff --git a/cassandra/query.py b/cassandra/query.py
index 4b143647..c68ecd35 100644
--- a/cassandra/query.py
+++ b/cassandra/query.py
@@ -45,10 +45,8 @@ class Statement(object):
 
     _routing_key = None
 
-    def __init__(self, retry_policy=None, tracing_enabled=False,
-                 consistency_level=None, routing_key=None):
+    def __init__(self, retry_policy=None, consistency_level=None, routing_key=None):
         self.retry_policy = retry_policy
-        self.tracing_enabled = tracing_enabled
         if consistency_level is not None:
             self.consistency_level = consistency_level
         self._routing_key = routing_key