• 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.' […]
  • 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. […]
  • 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. […]
  • Guomo needs 3-part parlay to expand gaming
    Albany, NY - If Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to expand full-scale casino gambling in New York is to become a reality, he is going to have to hit a three-part parlay. […]
  • Dayton, Ohio racino clears financing hurdle
    DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - The new harness racing racino being built in Dayton has cleared a financing hurdle. […]
  • Jimmy Taggart Jr. wins Junior Free For All
    KZ Bezz won Monticello Raceway's second annual Junior Free For All on Monday afternoon June 17th when harness racing driver Jimmy Taggart, Jr. hustled her to the front and defeated seven rivals in a 1:58.3 clocking. […]
  • Lislea Moran repeats at Northfield Park
    Lislea Moran was a repeat winner in the $6,000 Open Pace in Northfield Park's sixth race on Monday, June 17, 2013. […]
  • Double Dribble captures Tioga feature
    Double Dribble and Jonathan Drury captured Monday evenings featured $5,200 condition pacing event for trainer Joe Agostino. […]
  • Golden Gun fastest of DSBF splits Monday
    The Wiz Kids Stable's Golden Gun ($12.20, Montrell Teague) was the fastest of three $20,000 divisional winners Monday in the 2nd leg of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings with a 1:54.2 triumph. […]
  • 2013 Grand Circuit Handicapping Challenge
    In a weekend where there were nine stakes races to be played with a minimum of $270 to be wagered, the potential for movement in any handicapping contest was clear A hot or cold streak could change things dramatically Thus was the case in HANA Harness' 2013 Grand Circuit Handicapping Challenge sponsored by the Hambletonian Society, Chicago Harness, IHHA […]
  • 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 4th, 2012

Summit County wants cut of horse bets, but it’s long shot – Chicago Tribune

Summit County wants cut of horse bets, but it's long shot
Chicago Tribune
Summit County wants a cut of horse racing bets. But it looks like the county's request won't leave the starting gate. With the state's horse tracks adding video slots and Ohio lawmakers busy rewriting gambling laws, county leaders say they should get a

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Hoosier Park to celebrate Derby – The Herald Bulletin

Hoosier Park to celebrate Derby
The Herald Bulletin
ANDERSON, Ind. — A once-in-a-lifetime $10000 Kentucky Derby mega-bet will culminate two of the biggest days in the sport of horse racing today at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. Hoosier Park will also welcome guests with extended hours,

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Down the Backstretch: Maritime trotting star surfaces – The Guardian Charlottetown

Down the Backstretch: Maritime trotting star surfaces
The Guardian Charlottetown
Mohawk Raceway's Thursday morning qualifying session was host to some of the brightest stars in Canadian harness racing. Mixed in that bunch was Charlottetown Driving Park and Summerside Raceway track record holder Waiting On A Woman.
Red Shores racetrack gets red hot this seasonHarnesslink

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Future uncertain as standardbred season begins – Owen Sound Sun Times

Future uncertain as standardbred season begins
Owen Sound Sun Times
Highlights this season include the Dream of Glory race, four Sire Stakes nights, the second annual heritage day featuring horse persons and horses from past and the Balanced Image race. Dougan is also starting a Learn How to Read a Race Program seminar

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Driven to succeed – St. Catharines Standard

Driven to succeed
St. Catharines Standard
With retirement in 2003, he moved his volunteer efforts toward the horse-racing industry. He is currently the secretary treasurer of the Central Ontario Standardbred Association, is on the audit committee of Standardbred Canada, and is an avid member

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Last Horse Races At Hippodrome De Quebec – Standardbred Canada

Last Horse Races At Hippodrome De Quebec
Standardbred Canada
At the time, only thoroughbred races were practiced during horse racing competitions. But French Canadians soon organized their own harness racing events. By the 1820s, beautiful Sunday afternoons were the joy of the working classes who jostled to

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Head Start students visit Boyd’s horse farm – The Hillsdale Daily News

Head Start students visit Boyd's horse farm
The Hillsdale Daily News
By Nicole Dominique, Staff Writer Jonesville and Reading Head Start students got a hands-on lesson about horses Tuesday morning when they visited the River Bend Standard Bred horse farm and got a tour from owner Brett Boyd. “We enjoy having the kids

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A time for radical change to save horse racing – Hamilton Spectator

A time for radical change to save horse racing
Hamilton Spectator
It's been eight weeks since the Ontario government dropped the bombshell that it was ending its slot machine revenue agreement with the horse racing industry. There is no turning back and the racing community is struggling to come to terms with the

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Driven to succeed – Welland Tribune

Driven to succeed
Welland Tribune
With retirement in 2003, he moved his volunteer efforts toward the horse-racing industry. He is currently the secretary treasurer of the Central Ontario Standardbred Association, is on the audit committee of Standardbred Canada, and is an avid member

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The slaughterhouse six – standardbred deaths – Harnesslink

The slaughterhouse six – standardbred deaths
Harnesslink
It was noted that the accompanying pictures and/or the Equine Information Documents for these horses showed tattoos. We endeavoured to trace these tattoos; if, in error, these six Standardbreds do not match the tattoo numbers, we apologize to the

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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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