• 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.' […]
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  • 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. […]

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Vernon Downs back in winner’s circle – Utica Observer Dispatch

Vernon Downs back in winner's circle
Utica Observer Dispatch
In addition to harness racing and gambling, The Downs has expanded its horizons in recent years bringing in concerts – Bruce Springsteen and his Wrecking Ball Tour last summer that drew more than 16,000 raving fans. Jim Moran is the one person who has

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Full Circle — USTA

The USTA's Full Circle program can help you know if a horse that's important to you ever needs your help. There's no cost, no obligation, no need to be a mem…
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The ‘Hawk’ Returns To Winner’s Circle – Standardbred Canada

The 'Hawk' Returns To Winner's Circle
Standardbred Canada
Since John [trainer John McNeill] thought he'd be as good this week, I thought I'd let out a notch on the backstretch and he responded like a good horse does. All I did was give him a reminder or two in deep stretch.” While the repeat victory was no

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Nugents’ road horses trot their way into the Royal winner’s circle – Napanee Guide

Nugents' road horses trot their way into the Royal winner's circle
Napanee Guide
Carolyn Nugent and her father Lloyd stand with Camden Dancer, one of three champion Standardbred horses that they own and show together. All three of the father/daughter team's horses took home top prizes from this year's Royal Winter Fair in Toronto.

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Secret Circle stretches out in Sham – ESPN

Secret Circle stretches out in Sham
ESPN
Secret Circle will undoubtedly be required to harness his speed in the Sham. A dominating winner of his first two starts by a combined margin of 12 1/2 lengths, Secret Circle pressed a blazing opening quarter of :20 4/5 in the Juvenile Sprint,

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Viva returns to winners circle – Daily Advertiser

Viva returns to winners circle
Daily Advertiser
Temora Harness Racing Club held its first meeting of the season on Saturday night and was boosted by TAB coverage, providing punters across the country access to bet on the six-race card. Leeton pacer Viva More recorded the fastest time of the night as

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81-year-old Dunn returns to winner’s circle at Meadville

On Thursday, Boots Dunn, at the age of 81, donned a brand new set of blue and white colors and climbed into the bike, and a victory was virtually guaranteed.

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Iceland back in the winner’s circle

A fortnight ago the Swedish trotter Iceland flopped in the Elitlopp at Solvalla, but yesterday (June 11) he returned to form and was a very impressive winner of Jämtlands Stora Pris over 1-5/16 miles at the ôstersund track in the Swedish province.

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Lost Symbol finds her way to winner’s circle in NJSS

New Jersey Sire Stakes action for 3-year-old trotting fillies kicked off Thursday night at Meadowlands Racetrack.

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Speed N The Tunnel, Allthatgltrsisgold return to winner’s circle at Hoosier

A pair of top class events were co-featured on Tuesday at Hoosier Park.

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  • 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. […]
  • Harpley in search of his first challenge win
    Junee horseman Bruce Harpley has won a number of feature juvenile events around Australia during his long and distinguished harness racing career but one series that has eluded him to date is the New South Wales Breeders Challenge. […]
  • 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. […]
  • Nathan Hurst is enjoying the Queenland sun
    Harness racing trainer Nathan Hurst decided to escape the cold mornings at his training base of Eglington in New South Wales for a month and is enjoying the warmer weather in Queensland with a team of eight horses. Hurst has qualified Mcambro for Saturday night’s Premiers Cup at the Gold Coast and he is hoping for a good result in the $50,000 feature. […]
  • 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. […]
  • Local star Zanardi returns to Globe Derby
    Local star Zanardi returns to Globe Derby Park after a luckless run at Melton when held up for a run entering the home straight. […]
  • Michael Muscat is enjoying a golden run
    In his first full season of training Londonderry based Michael Muscat is pleased with his results and is hoping to cap off an impressive year by qualifying multiple runners for the Breeders Challenge Finals day at Tabcorp Park Menangle on June 30. Muscat’s two year old filly Majestic Amy progressed through to the Gr.1 final after finishing second in her semi […]
  • Major In Art sires first New Zealand winner
    Not much gets past the team at Harnesslink, but one thing that did was Major In Art’s first New Zealand winner, Major Sam, who was victorious last Friday night at Addington. […]
  • Forbury Park meeting moving to Saturday
    HRNZ and the NZRB have moved swiftly to co-ordinate re-jigged plans for South Island race meetings this week surrounding the forecast ‘weather bomb’ that will work its way up the island from this evening. […]
  • 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. […]
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