• Amish man creates a racing board game!
    This reporter may not have played a real board game in years, but....being the harness racing purist or junkie that I am; I could not resist being one of the first people to purchase a brand new board game called Midwest Harness Racing. […]
  • Lots of exciting races at the Running Aces
    Another large crowd turned out at Running Aces Harness Park on Tuesday night and were treated to some outstanding racing and thrilling stretch drives, evidenced by the fact that six of the final seven races produced photo finishes. […]
  • Ronnie Wrenn Jr. scores big Tuesday night
    Ronnie Wrenn Jr. drove six winners on Tuesday (June 18) at Northfield Park. Wrenn's winners included Village Boss ($4.00) in race two, Friskie Town ($2.10) in race five, Rosebud-Sharkalert ($5.00) in race nine, Rare Commodity ($15.00) in race 10, Ridge Park ($3.60) in race 11 and Goin Home Ray ($11.20) in race 14. […]
  • Miller-Morgan combo score at the Poconos
    The combination of harness racing trainer Virgil Morgan Jr. and driver David Miller scored a pair of wins with the two fastest times in Stallion Series action for three-year-old trotting fillies on Tuesday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. […]
  • Lorrie Please wins $19,000 mares feature
    Allen Kaplan, Ira Kaplan and David Sheib’s Lorrie Please (George Dennis, $8.40) surpassed $100,000 in seasonal earnings Tuesday with a 1:54.2 win in the featured $19,000 Mares Open at Harrington Raceway over a sloppy racetrack. […]
  • Stakes filled weekend at Pocono Downs
    Harness racing's No. 1-ranked horse, 3-year-old pacer Captaintreacherous, leads a star-studded card Saturday night when Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs hosts eliminations for the Ben Franklin Pace, Earl Beal Jr. Memorial, Max C. Hempt Memorial and James M. Lynch Memorial stakes. […]
  • Arch Madness back home and ready to go
    After facing some of the best trotters in Europe in last month’s Elitlopp, Arch Madness is back in the States and ready to tackle another tough group. […]
  • Captaintreacherous claims top spot in Poll
    Defending Pacer of the Year Captaintreacherous claimed control of the No. 1 spot in this week's harness racing Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll. […]
  • Retired ''Indy' makes friends at the library
    Dozens of youngsters entering the Monmouth County Library in Manalapan, NJ on Monday, June 17, 2013 to check out a book also could check out a retired standardbred racehorse named Independent Act - aka Indy. […]
  • Trio of stakes at Balmoral for two-year-olds
    Balmoral Park's mid-week harness racing card Wednesday night will have a trio of ICF stakes for young horses with the first race opener the pari-mutuel debut for all nine freshman filly pacers. […]
  • Racehorse drug testing gets a real big boost
    Advanced equipment and supplies recently donated by leading horsemen's organizations have given the New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine a powerful forensic research tool for the development of innovative racehorse drug testing protocols. […]
  • Freshmen in spotlight in Gaitway qualifiers
    After winning four times in a five-race span during Monday's harness racing qualifiers for 2-year-olds at Gaitway Farm, driver Yannick Gingras was jokingly reminded the races don't pay. 'Hopefully,' Gingras responded, 'they'll pay down the road.' […]
  • WTC and WDC to be held in Sydney in 2015
    Harness Racing Australia announced in Paris overnight that the 2015 World Trotting Conference and World Drivers' Championship will take place in Sydney. […]
  • WDC round #4 goes to Pierre Vercruysse
    Today Hippodrome Mauquenchy hosted five World Drivers' Championship contests, each over 2100 meters autostart. […]
  • WDC Round #3 to Austria's Gerhard Mayr
    Austria's Gerhard Mayr earned 56 points today to move into third place with 116, trailing Pierre Vercruysse (158) and Bjorn Goop (127), as action moves to Mauquenchy tomorrow with five races on tap. […]
  • World Drivers' Championship - Day 3 (Angers)
    Five races on day three of the harness racing World Drivers' Championship were conducted 300 kilometres southwest of France in the region of Angers(pronounced on jay), which has a metropolitan population of 400,000 people. […]
  • Round One of WDC Set For Sunday
    Post positions and drivers are now set for the opening card of the 2013 World Driving Championship, kicking off this Sunday in France. […]
  • Editor, Duane Ranger leaves Harnesslink
    After almost five years as editor of Harnesslink, Duane Ranger has taken up a contract with Harness Racing New Zealand. Ranger (48), who has been a journalist throughout New Zealand and Tonga since 1985, lives and breathes two things in life - harness racing and cricket. […]
  • New Director of North American Operations
    Award winning journalist and harness racing administrator Steven Wolf has joined Harnesslink.com as Director of North American Operations. He will begin his new duties immediately. […]
  • Spain becoming a slaughterhouse for horses!
    Like his father and grandfather before him, Alberto Martin breeds horses, raising them on two farms, one of them here on the outskirts of Madrid. But even as a third-generation breeder, nothing in his experience had prepared him for times like these. Over the last two years, Mr. Martin says he has been forced to sell 50 of his 70 beloved mares for about $400 […]
  • Software glitch stings punters - $30 million
    'Whoops! Wrong button!' - and there goes HK$30 million ... Yesterday's multi-million dollar betting blunder at Sha Tin might not have been that simple, but a betting software glitch certainly left a searing hole in plenty of punters' pockets, created an unexpected windfall for others and in the process spawned a host of highly entertainin […]
  • Happy Easter I Am, A Harness Racing Horse
    Happy Easter from the Harness Racing documentary film ''I Am, A Harness Racing Horse'' and from American Rose Lee (light bay) and Angler (dark bay). Have a Happy Easter dinner with an abundance of good food, friends and family. […]
  • Jimmy Marohn Jr, St Patrick & Pope Francis
    Westbury (Long Island, New York) born harness racing driver Jimmy Marohn Jr won the 13th annual St Paddy Pace at Monticello Raceway last Wednesday (March 13), and on this past Sunday Catholics (and non Catholics) throughout the world celebrated St Patrick's Day - the great saint who cast all the snakes out of Ireland. […]
  • Son of Cardigan Bay's co-owner reminisces
    The late Dr Lawrence Slobody was not only a brilliant American doctor and director of pediatrics but he was also a harness racing visionary. His son and standardbred enthusiast Roger, said that when New Zealand's millionaire pacer Cardigan Bay came to the United States in 1964 his father took an eighth share in the brilliant son of Hal Tryax. […]
  • St Patrick's Day trailer - Monica Thors team
    A cheerful "Happy St Patrick's Day" video from Monica Thors and the "I Am, A Harness Racing Horse" team... fun and serious at the same time. […]
  • Tears flow big-time for Rocknroll Hanover
    Eight hours after 2005 Horse-of-the-Year and harness racing giant Rocknroll Hanover was euthanized at the Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center in New Jersey, her former caretaker Sarah Lauren Scott was still having trouble holding back her tears. […]

Archive for May 3rd, 2012

Michigan horse race bills aim to stabilize industry – Royal Oak Daily Tribune

Michigan horse race bills aim to stabilize industry
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
Proposed changes to the 17-year-old law also would let horse race betters use phone waging apps at the tracks and possibly instant racing, which is betting on previously recorded races, said Daniel Rakieten, executive director of the Michigan Harness

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Mega-bet and Derby Day festivities weekend – Harnesslink

Mega-bet and Derby Day festivities weekend
Harnesslink
A once-in-a-lifetime $10000 Kentucky Derby mega-bet will culminate two of the biggest days in the sport of horse racing on Saturday, May 5 at harness racing's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. Hoosier Park's Indianapolis property, the Winner's Circle Pub,

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In the saddle with UNLV’s Mounted Police Unit – Las Vegas Weekly

In the saddle with UNLV's Mounted Police Unit
Las Vegas Weekly
When you became a mounted officer in Ohio, you found a few four-legged partners on the track, where you had been a professional Standardbred racer. In fact, your greatest victory happened on one of those horses, Pursuit. In 2003 we won everything.

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Racing resumes at Tioga Downs with ‘Derby Fest’ – Ithaca Journal

Racing resumes at Tioga Downs with 'Derby Fest'
Ithaca Journal
Drivers and their horses take to the track in preparation for last year's opening day of harness racing at Tioga Downs in the Town of Nichols. / REBECCA CATLETT/ Staff Photo NICHOLS — Derby Fest 5 on Saturday will open what is scheduled to be a 61-day

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TrackMaster Launches iPad App For Programs – Standardbred Canada

TrackMaster Launches iPad App For Programs
Standardbred Canada
TrackMaster, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equibase Company LLC, provides a full range of handicapping products for the three major racing breeds — Thoroughbred, American Quarter Horse and Standardbred. Equibase Company LLC is a partnership between

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Harness racing: Warrawee Needy begins his road to the $1.5 North America Cup – Daily Racing Form


Daily Racing Form
Harness racing: Warrawee Needy begins his road to the $1.5 North America Cup
Daily Racing Form
Warrawee Needy, who banked $535000 last season as a rookie, made his qualifying debut on Thursday morning at Mohawk Racetrack for trainer Carl Jamieson. The 3-year-old son of E Dees Cam, who was named the 2-year-old pacing colt of the year in Canada

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Horse race bills aim to stabilize industry – Royal Oak Daily Tribune

Horse race bills aim to stabilize industry
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
Proposed changes to the 17-year-old law also would let horse race betters use phone waging apps at the tracks and possibly instant racing, which is betting on previously recorded races, said Daniel Rakieten, executive director of the Michigan Harness

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Gisser: Harness guy takes on the Kentucky Derby – Daily Racing Form


The Atlantic
Gisser: Harness guy takes on the Kentucky Derby
Daily Racing Form
With 20 in the race most years, post position and at least some “handiness,” are critical. But even then, traffic jams occur. The second aspect is distance. None of these horses have gone the 1¼ mile distance yet, so how will they respond in that long
Trainer from Madison Heights trying to harness speed of Hansen for Kentucky DerbyRoyal Oak Daily Tribune
The Kentucky Derby and the Slow Death of Horse RacingThe Atlantic
Kentucky Derby Special: Investing In RacehorsesSeeking Alpha
Washington Post (blog) -SB Nation -LEX18 Lexington KY News
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Historic Track Prepping For 175th Season – Standardbred Canada

Historic Track Prepping For 175th Season
Standardbred Canada
Goshen Historic Track, where it all started and where it is today, is gearing up for it 175th season of exciting harness racing and 2012 will mark the 102nd year of Grand Circuit Racing at 'The Cradle of the Trotter.' On tap this season will be three

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Premier McGuinty, Are You Listening? – Standardbred Canada


Standardbred Canada
Premier McGuinty, Are You Listening?
Standardbred Canada
Members of Ontario's horse racing industry ask Premier Dalton McGuinty what the future holds for their industry if the Slots at Racetrack partnership is ended. These are some of the more than 60000 people involved with horse racing in Ontario,

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  • HRNZ Media Bites - Wednesday 18 June
    Hi again everyone, please see below the Media Bites as we see them for the week. […]
  • Old vs young in Gloucester Park feature
    Seemingly indestructible ten-year-old Has The Answers is poised to seriously test record-smashing five-year-old Livingontheinterest after drawing favourably at barrier two on the front line in the 2130m Quality Produce Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night. […]
  • Stakes filled weekend at Pocono Downs
    Harness racing's No. 1-ranked horse, 3-year-old pacer Captaintreacherous, leads a star-studded card Saturday night when Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs hosts eliminations for the Ben Franklin Pace, Earl Beal Jr. Memorial, Max C. Hempt Memorial and James M. Lynch Memorial stakes. […]
  • Arch Madness back home and ready to go
    After facing some of the best trotters in Europe in last month’s Elitlopp, Arch Madness is back in the States and ready to tackle another tough group. […]
  • Captaintreacherous claims top spot in Poll
    Defending Pacer of the Year Captaintreacherous claimed control of the No. 1 spot in this week's harness racing Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll. […]
  • Pair A Dice pulls off a 22-1 Meadows shocker
    Exploiting a hot pace on a softening track, Pair A Dice rallied third over to pull off a 22-1 harness racing shocker in Tuesday's $22,500 Winners Over $10,000 Life/Preferred Handicap Pace at The Meadows. […]
  • Retired ''Indy' makes friends at the library
    Dozens of youngsters entering the Monmouth County Library in Manalapan, NJ on Monday, June 17, 2013 to check out a book also could check out a retired standardbred racehorse named Independent Act - aka Indy. […]
  • Trio of stakes at Balmoral for two-year-olds
    Balmoral Park's mid-week harness racing card Wednesday night will have a trio of ICF stakes for young horses with the first race opener the pari-mutuel debut for all nine freshman filly pacers. […]
  • Racehorse drug testing gets a real big boost
    Advanced equipment and supplies recently donated by leading horsemen's organizations have given the New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine a powerful forensic research tool for the development of innovative racehorse drug testing protocols. […]
  • Latest European news with Thomas H. Hicks
    Last weekend provided much harness racing action at Paris-Vincennes, Kouvola and Boden, so much that other interesting development were too easily overlooked. […]
  • Freshmen in spotlight in Gaitway qualifiers
    After winning four times in a five-race span during Monday's harness racing qualifiers for 2-year-olds at Gaitway Farm, driver Yannick Gingras was jokingly reminded the races don't pay. 'Hopefully,' Gingras responded, 'they'll pay down the road.' […]
  • Tioga Downs moves qualifiers to Friday
    Tioga Downs would like to inform all harness racing horsemen racing at Tioga Downs that qualifiers will be moving to Friday mornings at 11:00am. […]
  • Wingberry Farms protects the Humber river
    Have you thought about making your farm more environmentally friendly? […]
  • Eliminations for stakes off $2,000,000 - wow!
    There are 11 stakes race eliminations on the Saturday harness racing card at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, with horses earning their way into competition next Saturday, Sun Stakes Saturday, that will be worth almost $2,000,000 in purses. […]
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