- Hambletonian hopefuls off to a sweet startHarness racing's Hambletonian hopefuls Big Chocolate, Vic Smith and Guccio all visited the winner's circle in the first round of New Jersey Sire Stakes action for 3-year-old trotters on Friday night at the Meadowlands Racetrack. […]
- Jans Luck ends a season-long winless streakMired in a season-long winless streak spanning five races, Jans Luck took charge Friday at The Meadows, scoring a front-end harness racing victory in the $22,500 Filly & Mare Not Listed Preferred/Preferred Handicap Pace in1:51.3, her fastest since 2010. […]
- Baileys Magic captures open trot in thrillerBaileys Magic, a five-year-old Kadabra gelding, out of the Berndt Hanover mare Lexus Bailey, won the $10,000 Open Trot in 1:59.4, for harness racing owner Super Mile LLC, here at Buffalo Raceway Friday night (May 18). It was the eighth win this season, in sixteen attempts, for Baileys Magic. […]
- Veteran takes fastest trotting mile of seasonThe productive harness racing veteran Scorpion Moon converted a two-hole trip into the fastest trotting mile of the season during Friday night's $9,500 featured eighth event at Vernon Downs. […]
- Archangel impressive in NYSS victory at TiogaThe NYSS rolled into Nichols, New York on Friday night featuring three divisions for New York bred harness racing 3-year-old colt and gelding trotters. Posting the fastest mile for the three divisions was Archangel (Jim MorrillJr.) in the second division for $44,266. […]
- Keeper's Destiny upsets See You At PeelersKeeper's Destiny (Mark MacDonald) authored a 24-1 upset Friday night, getting by See You at Peelers and the rest in winning Yonkers Raceway's harness racing co-featured $36,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace. […]
- Friday At Five outstanding in Stallion SeriesFriday At Five kicked off the harness racing Stallion Series at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs for 2012 with a bang on Friday night, scorching the track for a win in 1:50 in the first of seven divisions for three-year-old colts and geldings on the pace. Each of the seven divisions carried a purse of $20,000. […]
- Three-year-old pacing fillies at Hoosier ParkA duo of $30,000 Indiana Gold Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies were the featured harness racing attraction at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday (May 18). Taking the rail route to victory, Sheza Cool Cookie was able to overcome a tough post and traffic trouble to win the fastest division of the stakes action in 1:53.3. […]
- First baby races are on Saturday at RosecroftWhile some 2-year-olds have qualified at other tracks in North America, Rosecroft is going to be one of the first to have baby races this year, when the harness racing track hosts a pair on Saturday night (May 19). […]
- Tony Verruso wins $12,000 NAADA FinalAfter a series of preliminary harness racing legs at Monticello, Freehold and Yonkers Raceways the North American Amateur Drivers Association's Three-Track Trotting Series culminated in a $12,000 Final at Yonkers Raceway on Thursday, May 17th. […]
- Gerry Fielding wins 1st leg of Spring SeriesThe first of six legs in the Catskill Amateur Drivers Club's Spring Pacing Series commenced at Monticello Raceway on Thursday afternoon, May 17 and the harness racing events will continue on consecutive Thursdays culminating in a final on June 21. […]
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- Vic let the greatest slip through his fingersOh so close yet so far away. For just 2,500 pounds Vic McPhail of New Zealand's capital city - Wellington - could have owned the greatest pacer to have ever graced a New Zealand harness racing track. […]
- Jim Lackey to represent the USA in MoscowThe U.S. Trotting Association has nominated veteran California-based harness racing driver Jim Lackey to represent the USA in the 25th International Harness Drivers Championship, to be contested in Moscow on April 15. […]
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- A dedication to all our wonderful womenThey often do the hard yards and unseen work in harness racing and this video is a dedication to the wonderful women involved in our great sport. Whether they are owners, breeders, drivers, trainers or tea-makers the women's work is often taken for granted. […]
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- Why harness racing is so great? Here's whyThis video shows portrays why the sport of harness racing is so great. It is one person's collection of videos and memories of our great sport. What do you think? […]
- NZ view of World Amateur Driving ChampsHarness racing's 2012 Worlds Amateur Driving Champs came to a dramatic conclusion yesterday (Sunday) going right down to the wire at the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club's meeting when Marian Tux won the final heat of the series to take the overall title for Germany. […]
- Steve Phillips is all ya gotta know today!At Addington Raceway we have seen another necessary steward's briefing and then some spectacular driving by the Kiwi's most affable godfather of amateur racing. […]
- Eight point lead into the final dayNew Zealand harness racing representative Steve Phillips will take an eight point lead into the final day of the World Cup of Amateur Driving at Motukarara today - but he will need to be at his very best in the final three races to take the title. […]
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- Giles L S Hanover captures Grundy MemorialWinners-Over trotters, racing for a purse of $7,200, were featured on Friday nights harness racing card, on which Giles L S Hanover picked them up and laid them down. […]
- Cold Certified sharp in Gold Series debutOntario's talented three-year-old trotting colts and geldings raised the curtain on the 2012 Ontario Sires Stakes program with three sparkling Gold Eliminations over the half-mile harness racing oval at The Raceway at Western Fair District on Friday evening. […]
- Melissa Beckwith gets four wins on the nightDoully pulled off a mild harness racing upset in the evening's $14,000 trotting feature at Saratoga Casino and Raceway on Friday night. The Melissa Beckwith trained five year old moved first over at the half mile pole, coming after the race's odds-on favorite Prime Interest (Billy Dobson). […]
- Hambletonian hopefuls off to a sweet startHarness racing's Hambletonian hopefuls Big Chocolate, Vic Smith and Guccio all visited the winner's circle in the first round of New Jersey Sire Stakes action for 3-year-old trotters on Friday night at the Meadowlands Racetrack. […]
- Jans Luck ends a season-long winless streakMired in a season-long winless streak spanning five races, Jans Luck took charge Friday at The Meadows, scoring a front-end harness racing victory in the $22,500 Filly & Mare Not Listed Preferred/Preferred Handicap Pace in1:51.3, her fastest since 2010. […]
- Baileys Magic captures open trot in thrillerBaileys Magic, a five-year-old Kadabra gelding, out of the Berndt Hanover mare Lexus Bailey, won the $10,000 Open Trot in 1:59.4, for harness racing owner Super Mile LLC, here at Buffalo Raceway Friday night (May 18). It was the eighth win this season, in sixteen attempts, for Baileys Magic. […]
- Veteran takes fastest trotting mile of seasonThe productive harness racing veteran Scorpion Moon converted a two-hole trip into the fastest trotting mile of the season during Friday night's $9,500 featured eighth event at Vernon Downs. […]
- A Stakes laden Molson Pace elim undercardIn addition to the two $20,000 eliminations for the track's signature race, the $300,000 Molson Pace, tonight's harness racing card at The Raceway at Western Fair District also included the first Ontario Sires Stakes of the season, three $40,000 Gold eliminations for three-year-old colt trotters and five second leg divisions of the City of London S […]
- John Campbell takes $20G Molson eliminationIt had been 32 years since harness racing driver John Campbell raced at the track where he started his career, The Raceway at Western Fair District, but he certainly didn't forgot his way around the half-mile oval in London, Ontario as he proved in tonight's first of two $20,000 eliminations of the Molson Pace. […]
- Terry Provost inducted into 'Wall Of Fame'Longtime race secretary Terry Provost was honoured tonight during the Molson Pace elimination card at The Raceway at Western Fair District. Provost, who served as harness racing secretary at the London, Ontario racetrack for close to two decades, becomes the 27th person inducted into the Wall of Fame which recognizes distinguished service and exemplary contr […]
- Archangel impressive in NYSS victory at TiogaThe NYSS rolled into Nichols, New York on Friday night featuring three divisions for New York bred harness racing 3-year-old colt and gelding trotters. Posting the fastest mile for the three divisions was Archangel (Jim MorrillJr.) in the second division for $44,266. […]
- Western Silk takes Mohawk Open - 12 videosWestern Silk and harness racing driver Scott Zeron won the $42,000 fillies and mares Open in 1:50.2 for trainer Cassie Coleman, tonight Friday the 18th of May at Mohawk Raceway. The five year old daughter of Western Terror was having her first start back in Canada after racing in the Blue Chip Matchmaker series at Yonkers Raceway. Her lifetime stakes now tot […]
- Keeper's Destiny upsets See You At PeelersKeeper's Destiny (Mark MacDonald) authored a 24-1 upset Friday night, getting by See You at Peelers and the rest in winning Yonkers Raceway's harness racing co-featured $36,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace. […]
- Friday At Five outstanding in Stallion SeriesFriday At Five kicked off the harness racing Stallion Series at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs for 2012 with a bang on Friday night, scorching the track for a win in 1:50 in the first of seven divisions for three-year-old colts and geldings on the pace. Each of the seven divisions carried a purse of $20,000. […]
They tie the tails up when the horse is in its stall and when it has its blanket on. over time the tails just stay like tht. Also, to add more color, trainers will put “Weeds” in the tails. You kno…just like we put exstentions in our hair. lol
But these arent walking horses karminou. lol. god people. Get your breeds right. I ride Morgans and i can even tell the difference between walkers and Saddlebred.
Actually they havent been deformed. They naturaly move like that. Even as foals. They’re not Walkers. You dont need to pu heavy shoes on these horses to get them to put up their feet. lol. If your not sure about the breed. Dont comment.
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAA i laughed so hard when i read this!
I too ride saddleseat and i couldnt agree more wit wut you said about all this sick jealous people who just arnt talented enough to pull of the saddlebred style
These are Saddlebreds, not Walkers! And I’m asking as one horse person to another, do these horses look unhappy? They have their ears up, they are expressive and traveling very normally for a saddlebred; as previously posted, often babies have this much motion with no training. Just look at the faces and ask if these are abused. Why not harass someone who owns a starving horse, not people who want to enjoy their breed for its beauty. Have you ever seen a baby doing dressage in the pasture?
Seriously people , what part of this is acceptable ??? these horses have been deformed on purpose , intense torture to look like that …. what part is natural pls explain : the heavy shoes or the tail,holders or the injections
I am not a hunt seat rider. And it never fails to amaze me that somehow it is okay for you to speak your mind, but anyone else is just a, what did you call it, oh yeah, a cunt rag. And if you’ve been doing it all your life, it means you’re either too stupid to see the harm you cause, or you just don’t care. So tell me about soring and cutting the tail tendon. If I’m so ignorant, enlighten us all about just HOW the horses get such exaggerated movement and a bent tail.
Natural? Seeing these images makes me wonder what the equestrian world is coming to, very sad.
I know I’m right, I’ve been doing this my entire life. So don’t try telling me or anyone else that this is the horse world’s dirty little secret. You just think that because you are not a part of it. your probably some huntseat or whatever rider, I don’t really care; people like you are so fucking boring to watch in the show ring. spewing filth? I’m speaking my mind, excuse me if ignorant jerk-offs like you piss me off enough to be profane. .
Go ahead, dazzle me with your experience and genius when it comes to this. Or are you just into spewing filth on a public forum? Read up kid, this stuff is the dirtly little secret of the horse world.
people like you make the horse world look bad, cunt-rag. you don’t know shit about these horses honestly you really don’t. you can tell yourself you do but in the end your just an ignorant little dumb shit.
Okay I agree the Big Lick Walkers are terrible with what they do, but that is totally different than a fine harness horse and is a different breed (if you don’t know the difference?). To claim the “you know everything about cruelty” I sure hope you have the education and credentials to back that up.
Yeah right, fyi I have with beautiful angels here, 26 horses I rescued from slauther because they were not good enough for shows anymore, I took them directly from the pens where they were starving waiting to be killed. 2 of them were walking horses with rotten hooves that took several months to heal due to pads and chains with acid on it. What’s sad is people like you telling so candidly what hurts and what doesn’t. I know everything about cruelty, I spent my entire life trying to stop it.
Pads weigh less than your running shoe soles which cushion the foot fall. Chains are light weight “rattlers”. And yeah, there is no acid honey. Do you even know what blinkers are for? They have nothing to do with actual blinking (duh). And uhm the tails aren’t pinned – you must be new.
Watch a saddlebred weanling or yearling without shoes and the majority will still have have high knee motion – just like Standardbreds are bred to pace, it’s their gait. The soring is Tennesse Walkers and yes it’s cruel but you have your breeds mixed up people.
this is natural! and also it dosent hurt them bits dont hurt horses well its just the way you use them and they treat them good also saddlebreds love it
yep look at these horses with such beauty and how they walk its wonderful
By the way in comparison to Saddlebreds – hunters, dressage horses and western horses just seems so boring. They are kinda dull.
Wow, as there are some pretty ignorant people out there who really beliebve rumors and are too daft to go out and research for themselves. As an equine science graduate who is involved with the breed let me assure you you dont put cloves in the anus, the pads are lightweight leather and actually add cushioning like a runjing show and it is not a tendon cut…please educate yourselves.
I worked at a vet (horse) hospital and go to horse shows and most saddlebred love, and I mean love people, and they love attention and I have seen retired saddle breds sound as can be, I don’t like set tails it’s not needed to make them pretty, the weighted shoes don’t seem to do any damage on the average horse, they are bred to be so sound, I love them and though saddle seat isn’t for me Saddlebreds can do anything, wonderful horses.
If they are natural, why is a tendon in their tail cut for AESTHETICS? If they are bred that way, why are ENORMOUS pads put on their feet? Why do they wear chains on their ankles? Why do hackney’s wear rubber tubing harnesses to make sure they can only have one foot on the ground at a time? Why do people shove cloves in their anuses? I promise, while dressage isn’t perfect (far from it), I have NEVER had to put a grocery item in a horse’s butt just to win.
saddleseat is most definitely not a dying part of the industry. look at the morgan, arab, NHS, saddlebred, fresians, dutch harness horse and hackney breed shows. american saddlebreds are show horses from every aspect. they were not bred to be natural, they are bred to be freaks. thats their purpose. they are 100% SHOW horse. I’m sorry, but there isnt any form of riding or driving out there that isnt artificial.
Wait a second. Acid doesn’t hurt? God made their tails look like that? You’re kidding right? They are beautiful, and if it were natural it would be impressive. But its SO artificial–why can’t they just be amazing with their own natural talent? Why does it take all the above mentioned crap to win? God willing, saddleseat is a dying part of the horse world. They make us all look bad.
if you want the truth, just google soring the gaited horse and see what you get
lin, that is untrue, they “sore” their feet, they do have a natural gait, but the high stepping is not natural.