• 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 June 8th, 2012

America’s 1st superstar athlete: A horse, of course – Ct Post

America's 1st superstar athlete: A horse, of course
Ct Post
Author Sharon B. Smith of Milford holds a poster of the harness horse Dan Patch, a racing a marketing phenomenon from the first decade of the twentieth century. Smith's new book, The Best There Ever Was: Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century,

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Local Track Reacts: No Triple Crown Winner – WNEP-TV


WNEP-TV
Local Track Reacts: No Triple Crown Winner
WNEP-TV
Crowds are expected to bet on that race and watch harness racing there Saturday. Excitement about a possible Triple Crown Winner, I'll Have Another, died Friday with news that the horse is injured and will not run the race, but local racing officials
The Belmont Stakes, the Triple Crown, and a Sport's Pivot PointThe Atlantic
'I'll Have Another' Scratched From Belmont StakesCBS Local
Reddam puts study of knowledge to work in racingSeattle Post Intelligencer
Calgary Herald
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Mohawk’s big weekend overshadowed by fears for harness industry – Hamilton Spectator


BetterFarming.com
Mohawk's big weekend overshadowed by fears for harness industry
Hamilton Spectator
On Thursday the province announced it was creating a horse racing panel to explore options to sustain horse racing in the province, as well as $50 million in transitional funding to help retrain those employed in the industry now.
More needed to save Ontario harness racing: industryBetterFarming.com

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Harness racing fan finds a friend in Bartlett – Harnesslink

Harness racing fan finds a friend in Bartlett
Harnesslink
Night after night, Barry Addison was at Yonkers Raceway, hanging on the fence and watching the harness racing action. A resident of nearby Mount Vernon, NY, he had been going to the races for as long as he could remember, introduced to the sport by his

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Transition funding for horse racing industry – Kawartha Media Group


Standardbred Canada
Transition funding for horse racing industry
Kawartha Media Group
After meeting with Kawartha Downs management last month, Dave Gibson, regional director for the Ontario Harness Horse Association, along with other local harness racers, learned the racing facility won't hold horse racing after March 31, 2013,
Drivers told harness racing will end next year at Kawartha Downs 0Peterborough Examiner
Confimed: Kawartha To Cease Racing In 2013 If No Supplemental Funding Plan In Standardbred Canada

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McNair: The son also rises – Sportsnet.ca (press release)


Sportsnet.ca (press release)
McNair: The son also rises
Sportsnet.ca (press release)
(Photo: New Image Media) CAMPBELLVILLE, Ont. — Doug McNair may look like your average 22-year-old, but not too many people his age have the opportunity to drive away a winner in the world's richest standardbred pacing event. He sports blond, tussled,

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Kawartha Downs. (CLIFFORD SKARSTEDT/PETERBOROUGH EXAMINER) – Peterborough Examiner

Kawartha Downs. (CLIFFORD SKARSTEDT/PETERBOROUGH EXAMINER)
Peterborough Examiner
The amount that each of the three racing branches — thoroughbred, quarter horse and standard bred — would receive will be less than the total of how much was raced for at Kawartha Downs in 2012, Gibson said. The industry has also started to learn

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FireKeepers Casino: Horse Racing Act changes would violate agreement – The Jackson Citizen Patriot – MLive.com


The Jackson Citizen Patriot – MLive.com
FireKeepers Casino: Horse Racing Act changes would violate agreement
The Jackson Citizen Patriot – MLive.com
By Bob Wheaton | jwheaton@mlive.com BATTLE CREEK, MI — A FireKeepers Casino spokesman said legislation allowing a new kind of instant wagering at Michigan horse racing tracks would be improper. "I guess our view on this would be it would be a

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Match Race Between Politicians Set – Standardbred Canada

Match Race Between Politicians Set
Standardbred Canada
With the overwhelming consensus among horsemen being that politicians know little or nothing about the horse-racing industry, one track is doing its best to get the pols on-track, literally. Free T-shirts, a match race between two state legislators,

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Cleveland’s Ullman Sails blends new, old to harness the wind – Plain Dealer


Plain Dealer
Cleveland's Ullman Sails blends new, old to harness the wind
Plain Dealer
Two centuries after the original's star turn at the Battle of Lake Erie, Elliott was called on to keep the modern-day version racing before the wind. Sail making "was mostly considered an art form," Elliott said. "Back in the days of the original

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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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