• Pacers’ Legends coming to Hoosier Park
    Ten of the Pacers' more recognizable names from the past 40 years are slated to make a joint-appearance at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday, May 24 to kick off the start of Memorial Day weekend live racing. This group of past ABA and NBA Pacers will sign autographs and pose for pictures with fans starting at 7 p.m. in the Hoosier Park Terrace. […]
  • Special memorial day card at Scioto Downs
    Scioto Downs Racino will host a special Memorial Day race card on Monday (May 28) with a 1:00 p.m. post time. […]
  • Horowitz retirement headlines closing night
    Cal Expo is giving a tip of the cap to Alan Horowitz Saturday night, naming the closing-night mainharness racing event for the executive secretary of the California Harness Horsemen's Association. He will be leaving the post at the end of the month after 36 years of service. […]
  • Doctor Butch leads dozen into Art Rooney
    The Doctor is in...to the tune of 30-large. […]
  • Sirius XM's to debut with June 1 Art Rooney
    Saturday Night at the Races, which features live radio broadcasts of many of the top harness racing in North America, will begin its fourth year June 1 with a show featuring the Art Rooney Pace and the Lismore at Yonkers. […]
  • MSOA, The Meadows to host special event
    The Meadows Standardbred Owners Association is proud to announce that on Saturday night of Memorial Day Weekend (May 25), horsemen at The Meadows will honor veterans that have lost their lives for their country. […]
  • Economy Terror looks to rebound in Betsy
    Harness racing owner Howard Taylor hopes Economy Terror can return to be a feared force among female pacers this season. […]
  • The Hambletonian fire burns again for Minor
    Don't get him started. Like so many horsemen, harness racing trainer Deshawn Minor understandably can barely contain his enthusiasm when you mention the Hambletonian, especially with a prospect in one his stalls at Magical Acres in Chesterfield, NJ. […]
  • No live racing on Memorial Day at Monticello
    There will be no live harness racing at Monticello Raceway on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27th . However, simulcast wagering will be available both day and night. […]
  • First freshmen to qualify at The Meadows
    Sixteen harness racing two-year-olds will face the starter on Friday morning, making their first official appearances behind a starting gate. […]
  • Daily Racing Form to promote USTA program
    The United States Trotting Association Strategic Wagering Program is joining forces with the Daily Racing Form to promote 41 of harness racing's most important stakes races on 28 dates at 15 racetracks across the country in 2013. […]
  • Smilin Eli has Deshawn Minor really smiling
    He doesn't have a barn full of horses, but you only need one and harness racing trainer Deshawn Minor is pretty pleased the one he has is Smilin Eli. […]
  • 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. […]
  • Super sire Rocknroll Hanover dead, aged 11
    "He made all of our dreams come true!" […]
  • Kiwi gets his say at U.S.A. Racing Congress
    A United Code of Conduct should be introduced so there is consistent international governance in harness racing Associations, Clubs, Boards, and Commissions throughout the world. […]
  • Plenty of trial form to dig your teeth into
    Just when you think you've seen all of Mark Purdon's two-year-old artillery he reaches into the cabinet and gets out some more. That's what you had to be left thinking, after the Purdon clan dominated the 2yo harness racing trials at Addington yesterday (Monday February 25). […]
  • USTA video from Harness Racing Congress
    The U.S. Trotting Association, which will conduct its annual meeting in congress with Harness Horsemen International, Harness Racing Tracks of America and the U.S. Harness Writers’ Association from Feb. 28 through March 4, will provide live, online video streaming of several events and same-day online video coverage of several discussion panels. […]
  • Happy Valentine's Day - horses included!
    Valentine's Day - February 14 - is not only a day when humans exchange their undoubted love for each other, but it should also be a day when we extend our adoration to all the world's beautiful animals - especially our wonderful harness racing breed. […]
  • Troublemaker's last winner is really unique
    Semen that was collected 14 years ago provided the late American harness racing stallion - Troublemaker - with his last ever victory at Canberra on Monday night February 11th. […]

Archive for May 16th, 2012

Dennis Cummings Passes – Standardbred Canada

Dennis Cummings Passes
Standardbred Canada
He raised standardbred racehorses and was a member of the US Trotting Association as well as the WNY Harness Horseman's Association. His best horse was Paradise Indian, who was driven by the late Dave Vance, and won many New York Sire Stakes races in

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Hanover mayor hopes to save slots revenue – Owen Sound Sun Times

Hanover mayor hopes to save slots revenue
Owen Sound Sun Times
Supporting harness racing is part of the agricultural society's mandate, Dougan said. He said he shares Maskell's hope for a renewed casino and horse racing at Hanover Raceway but called the view “optimistic.” He also said it would be up to the

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Saratoga Harness Racing, Inc. to Acquire Fitzgeralds Black Hawk – Saratoga.com

Saratoga Harness Racing, Inc. to Acquire Fitzgeralds Black Hawk
Saratoga.com
SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York (May 15, 2012) – Saratoga Harness Racing, Inc. (SHRI), owner of Saratoga Casino and Raceway in Saratoga Springs, NY, and The Majestic Star Casino, LLC (Majestic Star) announced today that SHRI has entered into a definitive
Saratoga Harness to buy Colorado casinoAlbany Times Union (blog)
Saratoga Harness buys Colorado casinoAlbany Business Review
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Denver Post -Denver Business Journal
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OHHA Announces District 11 Meeting – Standardbred Canada

OHHA Announces District 11 Meeting
Standardbred Canada
The Ontario Harness Horse Association has announced details of an upcoming meeting for its District 11 members. The meeting has been called to inform District 11 OHHA members on issues surrounding the Liberal Government's policy announcement to end the

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Harness drivers do not know it all – Daily Racing Form (blog)

Harness drivers do not know it all
Daily Racing Form (blog)
By Derick Giwner One of the key handicapping angles that Standardbred bettors love is the “driver change” angle. However, I find that the basic principles behind the angle are often misused and players jump at changes that are irrelevant and miss out

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Woodbine Harness: Horses To Watch for May 10 – May 14 – Daily Racing Form

Woodbine Harness: Horses To Watch for May 10 – May 14
Daily Racing Form
KATYS JET (NW3FM) This beaten favorite got caught behind a wall of horses through the lane and never had a chance to show her best. CLASSIC ALANA (CLMHCP20/30000) Tucked early, gapped some, hit overdrive coming to the half, rushed up, challenged and

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Harness Racing’s Dave Palone is looking for the the golden number – Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Harness Racing's Dave Palone is looking for the the golden number
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
If he does, Mr. Palone will dethrone the man who has been — for the past four decades — the king of harness racing, the sport in which standardbred horses race around a track pulling a driver in a two-wheeled cart. Canadian Herve Filion became the

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Starting Friday (May 18), Student Teams from 39 Southland High Schools to … – MarketWatch (press release)

Starting Friday (May 18), Student Teams from 39 Southland High Schools to
MarketWatch (press release)
WHAT: Tenth annual Solar Cup(TM) competition to launch with hundreds of students from 39 high school teams spanning six Southern California counties racing the solar-powered boats they have built and equipped. The event wraps up a seven-month water

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Lucky Chucky is on ‘Inside Harness Racing’ – Harnesslink

Lucky Chucky is on 'Inside Harness Racing'
Harnesslink
After earning back-to-back Dan Patch Awards and earning more than $2 million on the racetrack, Lucky Chucky began his harness racing stud career last year at Winbak Farm in New York. We travel to the farm and catch up with “Chucky” on this week's

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White standardbred colt born in US – Horsetalk


Horsetalk
White standardbred colt born in US
Horsetalk
By Horsetalk.co.nz on May 15, 2012 in Featured, News A rare white standardbred colt has been born to two bay parents in the US. The colt, born on May 6 to Coochie Mama and the Artsplace son Art Major, is the first white standardbred known to be born

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  • JK Special delivers in the feature
    JK Special, under the command of Walter Cheverie, captured the fillies and mares feature in 1:57.3. […]
  • Tisbert, Di Stefano shine at Plainridge
    The young and racing's elder stateman put on an offensive driving skills Thursday at Plainridge Racecourse. […]
  • Sixpence and Bling ready to be crowned
    The McCarthy stable will this week send their two best mares to Tabcorp Park Melton for the SEW-Eurodrive Queen Of The Pacific, but their link runs deeper than just the trainer. […]
  • Pacers’ Legends coming to Hoosier Park
    Ten of the Pacers' more recognizable names from the past 40 years are slated to make a joint-appearance at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday, May 24 to kick off the start of Memorial Day weekend live racing. This group of past ABA and NBA Pacers will sign autographs and pose for pictures with fans starting at 7 p.m. in the Hoosier Park Terrace. […]
  • Special memorial day card at Scioto Downs
    Scioto Downs Racino will host a special Memorial Day race card on Monday (May 28) with a 1:00 p.m. post time. […]
  • Harness Jewels barrier draw complete
    The barrier draw has been conducted for all 12 Harness Jewels races, and the results of it look to have made for some very intriguing contests. […]
  • Zeron wins four, Dad one - Mohawk videos
    Harness racing driver Scott Zeron drove four winners tonight at Mohawk Raceway while his father drove just the one winner but it was the second to last rank outsider in a trotters race 'Open All Doors' at odds of $97.10 to win. […]
  • Alabar wins five of six Southern Cross Heats
    Southern Cross Heats last Friday night at Globe Derby Park Alabar stallions sired 5 of the 6 2yo heat winners - Colts: Major Secret (Art Majot), Major Cruiser (Major In Art) and the Fillies: Flagbearer & Dougs Courage (Courage Under Fire), & Revered (Village Jasper). […]
  • Roy Hobbs - is a natural square gaiter
    Following her commanding win the NSW Trotters Oaks top class square gaiter Habibti is all the rage heading into Saturday night's NSW Derby but harness racing trainer Lisa Miles is quietly confident about her chances with Victorian Roy Hobbs. […]
  • Horowitz retirement headlines closing night
    Cal Expo is giving a tip of the cap to Alan Horowitz Saturday night, naming the closing-night mainharness racing event for the executive secretary of the California Harness Horsemen's Association. He will be leaving the post at the end of the month after 36 years of service. […]
  • Darby takes control in Amateur Champs
    The defending harness racing NZ Amateur Champion, Jeff Darby, leads the 2013 competition after the first two heats of competition at Addington last night. […]
  • Doctor Butch leads dozen into Art Rooney
    The Doctor is in...to the tune of 30-large. […]
  • Sirius XM's to debut with June 1 Art Rooney
    Saturday Night at the Races, which features live radio broadcasts of many of the top harness racing in North America, will begin its fourth year June 1 with a show featuring the Art Rooney Pace and the Lismore at Yonkers. […]
  • MSOA, The Meadows to host special event
    The Meadows Standardbred Owners Association is proud to announce that on Saturday night of Memorial Day Weekend (May 25), horsemen at The Meadows will honor veterans that have lost their lives for their country. […]
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