Harness Horse Racing

If one had gone to the matinee races at Historic Track on Sunday, June 16 they would have felt as if it was Grand Circuit week. […]

The C.K.G Billings Harness Driving Series may have gotten underway a bit later than usual this season but now the lengthy series for amateur drivers is in full swing attested by the fact that there were six races at three different racetracks this past weekend. […]

It was bound to happen. Tracys Song's 18 race win streak finally came to end. On Saturday June 15 harness racing trainer Bob Lounsbury trucked his stellar pacing mare, Tracys Song, from Monticello Raceway to Tioga Downs to race without a claiming tag and for the first time since late January the 8 year old daughter of Astreos tasted defeat. […]

She'salilfireball certainly lived up to her name as she scorched the Wattsburg track at the Erie County Fairgrounds Sunday for a PA Fair Sire Stakes victory in 2:00.3, the all-time fastest mile over the Wattsburg twicearound, on a day devoted to sophomore harness racing stakes action. […]

Fresh off an impressive win in his harness racing career debut in last week's $6,000 Bingo Johnnie Stake, Bart Seales Unlocked continued to impress fans of the Chicago circuit as he rolled to a decisive eight-length victory in Sunday's $15,000 Wicked Brew Stake. […]

In a weekend where there were nine harness racing stake races to be played with a minimum of $270 to be wagered, the potential for movement in any handicapping contest was clear. […]

Don't Blame Her (Village Connection) matched the fastest win time of the year for a pacing mare at Saratoga Casino and Raceway on Sunday in the afternoon's feature. […]

Wendy Haberberg's pride and joy, Ya U Bet Cha, lowered his lifetime record to 1:53.3 Sunday night capturing a $5000 conditioned event at Running Aces. […]

Hamburg, NY---Palm Beach Chick and Barn Babe, both owned by local connections, won the first two Sire Stakes races, each worth $35,146, here at Buffalo Raceway Sunday afternoon over a sloppy track. The four Sire Stakes races were for three-year-old trotting fillies. […]

Northern Companion charged to a favorable result in Sunday afternoon’s featured pace, while drivers Rick Plano, Jimmy Whitmore and trainer Lonny Hale also got to celebrate a successful Father’s Day at Vernon Downs […]

Tioga Downs hosted all four divisions of Historic Stakes for 3-year olds on Sunday afternoon. Opening up the day in race one, Corky and David Miller wired four other rivals for $59,300 in the 3-year old colt trot division in 1:54.4. It was the first win in five starts for the 3-year old son of Muscles Yankee - Clarice Marie for trainer Jimmy Takter. […]

Don Guidette Jr.'s trotter A Megabuck is climbing the harness racing trotting charts at Plainridge Race course. […]

Harness Racing Australia announced in Paris overnight that the 2015 World Trotting Conference and World Drivers' Championship will take place in Sydney. […]

Today Hippodrome Mauquenchy hosted five World Drivers' Championship contests, each over 2100 meters autostart. […]

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. […]

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. […]

Post positions and drivers are now set for the opening card of the 2013 World Driving Championship, kicking off this Sunday in France. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

'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 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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

Looped from the gate, Big And Little persevered, made the front before the quarter and had little trouble disposing the field from there, capturing his second straight in Monday's $18,000 Preferred Handicap Trot at The Meadows. […]

The Sun Stakes Saturday eliminations will be held at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs on Saturday, June 22, and according to Race Secretary Rick Kane, the box for entries closes at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 18. […]

If one had gone to the matinee races at Historic Track on Sunday, June 16 they would have felt as if it was Grand Circuit week. […]

Kelly Gruber, Mark Eichhorn and Scott Bullet will be harness racing trackside as a fundraiser for Clinton Minor Ball on Sunday July 7. […]

Here are the harness racing USA/Canada weekend in review of major race events plus leading horse, driver and career milestone statistics. […]

The C.K.G Billings Harness Driving Series may have gotten underway a bit later than usual this season but now the lengthy series for amateur drivers is in full swing attested by the fact that there were six races at three different racetracks this past weekend. […]

Cudgee (Camperdown) harness racing trainer/driver John Meade who enjoyed plenty of success with the smart trotter Crescent Glory now retired, has unearthed a 4-Y-0 gelding with plenty of untapped ability by the name of Maorisfavouritesun who established a new track record in winning the Ian McCallum Tribute Trotters Handicap at Hamilton in Victoria's We […]

It was bound to happen. Tracys Song's 18 race win streak finally came to end. On Saturday June 15 harness racing trainer Bob Lounsbury trucked his stellar pacing mare, Tracys Song, from Monticello Raceway to Tioga Downs to race without a claiming tag and for the first time since late January the 8 year old daughter of Astreos tasted defeat. […]

She'salilfireball certainly lived up to her name as she scorched the Wattsburg track at the Erie County Fairgrounds Sunday for a PA Fair Sire Stakes victory in 2:00.3, the all-time fastest mile over the Wattsburg twicearound, on a day devoted to sophomore harness racing stakes action. […]

Fresh off an impressive win in his harness racing career debut in last week's $6,000 Bingo Johnnie Stake, Bart Seales Unlocked continued to impress fans of the Chicago circuit as he rolled to a decisive eight-length victory in Sunday's $15,000 Wicked Brew Stake. […]

In a weekend where there were nine harness racing stake races to be played with a minimum of $270 to be wagered, the potential for movement in any handicapping contest was clear. […]

Don't Blame Her (Village Connection) matched the fastest win time of the year for a pacing mare at Saratoga Casino and Raceway on Sunday in the afternoon's feature. […]

Wendy Haberberg's pride and joy, Ya U Bet Cha, lowered his lifetime record to 1:53.3 Sunday night capturing a $5000 conditioned event at Running Aces. […]