- 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 AcesAnother 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 nightRonnie 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 PoconosThe 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 featureAllen Kaplan, Ira Kaplan and David Sheibs 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 DownsHarness 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 goAfter facing some of the best trotters in Europe in last months Elitlopp, Arch Madness is back in the States and ready to tackle another tough group. […]
- Captaintreacherous claims top spot in PollDefending 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 libraryDozens 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-oldsBalmoral 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 boostAdvanced 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 qualifiersAfter 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.' […]
- WTC and WDC to be held in Sydney in 2015Harness 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 VercruysseToday Hippodrome Mauquenchy hosted five World Drivers' Championship contests, each over 2100 meters autostart. […]
- WDC Round #3 to Austria's Gerhard MayrAustria'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 SundayPost 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 HarnesslinkAfter 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 OperationsAward 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 HorseHappy 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 FrancisWestbury (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 reminiscesThe 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 teamA 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 HanoverEight 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. […]
Posts Tagged ‘Ocean’
Rachel Dancer, 83; matriarch of prominent Ocean County family in public … – Asbury Park Press (blog)
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Rachel Dancer, 83; matriarch of prominent Ocean County family in public …
Asbury Park Press (blog) Rachel L. Dancer, one of harness racing's leading standardbred owners of champion horses during her marriage to the late Harness Racing Hall of Famer Stanley Dancer, died May 16 in Pompano Beach, Fla., at the age of 83. She would have been 84 on … |
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Baxter’s Chester Fitch is horse of the meet at Ocean Downs – My Eastern Shore
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Baxter's Chester Fitch is horse of the meet at Ocean Downs
My Eastern Shore BERLIN – The 40-night meet at Ocean Downs ended Sunday, Sept. 2 with solid efforts from harness horses with Mid-Shore connections. Toward the end of the final night of racing, Varsity Hanover (Justin Vincent) finished a sharp second in a non-winners of … |
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Googoo Gaagaa to race at Ocean Downs – Delmarva Daily Times
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Googoo Gaagaa to race at Ocean Downs
Delmarva Daily Times Googoo Gaagaa is one of several horses that will be making the trip to Ocean Downs for the Maryland Standardbred Race Fund, a series of races for horses that were foaled in Maryland. They make up five of tonight's 11 races, which aside from one … |
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Googoo Gaagaa to run at Ocean Downs – Delmarva Daily Times
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Googoo Gaagaa to run at Ocean Downs
Delmarva Daily Times Googoo Gaagaa is one of several horses that will be making the trip to Ocean Downs for the Maryland Standardbred Race Fund, a series of races for horses that were foaled in Maryland. They make up five of tonight's 11 races, which aside from one … |
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HORSE RACING RETURNS TO OCEAN DOWNS – Ocean City Today
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HORSE RACING RETURNS TO OCEAN DOWNS
Ocean City Today Drivers line up their horses for a race during qualifying meets at Ocean Downs last season. Live harness racing is set to take off Sunday. (June 15, 2012) Live … |
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Proposal adds OTW to menus: For bars, restaurants in northern N.J., Ocean – Asbury Park Press
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Proposal adds OTW to menus: For bars, restaurants in northern N.J., Ocean
Asbury Park Press The measure would essentially create mini off-track-wagering (OTW) sites, which prospective private managers of state-owned tracks have sought, said Leo McNamara, executive administrator of the Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey … |
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Trotting harness horses alongside ocean in Maine
Harness horses pleasure driving along the seashore of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, south of Portland, on Richmond Island Harbor. Driving is on dirt roads, woods trails and across fields near the shore, mostly on private property. We drive a pair of young Arabian-Percheron brothers put to an Eagle combo carriage, in an event sponsored by Maine Driving Club Oct. 10. Check out my Channel with a few hundred vids of mostly horses! Stories on my Blog about training backyard horses, life in New Hampshire, carriage driving, and pets — at petArtistWIthPeaches blog www.portraitswithhorses.com COME VISIT if you LOVE HORSES!
Horse in carriage pair gets mean to his brother near ocean
One of our harness horses gets antsy with his brother. We never quite figured out what was bothering the brown bay, but he leans on and kicks at the black horse a couple of times, pinning his ears. We’re pleasure driving along the seashore of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on Richmond Island Harbor. Driving is on dirt roads, woods trails and across fields near the shore, mostly on private property. Our pair of young Arabian-Percheron brothers is put to an Eagle combo carriage, in an event sponsored by Maine Driving Club Oct. 10, 2009. Many morevideos of horses and more on my Channel! Find stories on my Blog about horses, life in New Hampshire, backyard barefoot horsekeeping, carriage driving and training, horseback riding, and pets — at petArtistWIthPeaches horse blog. Please COME VISIT if you LOVE HORSES! www.portraitswithhorses.com — Custom Horse paintings from photos and horse art prints at www.portraitswithhorses.com Granite State Carriage Assoc.– http
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Ocean Downs hosts Maryland Sire Stakes
Ocean Downs played host to Maryland Sire Stakes on Thursday night.
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More than $200,000 in added money raced for at the Ocean
Oceans Downs hosted the Maryland Sire Stakes and the 2011 Chesapeake Bay Series Finals tonight, offering purses totaling more than $200,000.
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- HRNZ Media Bites - Wednesday 18 JuneHi again everyone, please see below the Media Bites as we see them for the week. […]
- Old vs young in Gloucester Park featureSeemingly 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 DownsHarness 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 goAfter facing some of the best trotters in Europe in last months Elitlopp, Arch Madness is back in the States and ready to tackle another tough group. […]
- Captaintreacherous claims top spot in PollDefending 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 shockerExploiting 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 libraryDozens 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-oldsBalmoral 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 boostAdvanced 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. HicksLast 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 qualifiersAfter 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 FridayTioga 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 riverHave 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. […]
