- Veteran reinsman adds 3 more at SaratogaHarness racing driver Shawn Gray is enjoying his first season driving at Saratoga Casino and Raceway and the veteran reinsman added three more wins to his total on Wednesday evening. […]
- Plano scores back-to-back at Running AcesFor the second consecutive night, newcomer Luke Plano notched three triumphs on the nine-race Wednesday night program at Running Aces Harness Racing Park. […]
- Fourth track record lowered at Hoosier ParkRed Hot Herbie, with Sam Widger at the lines, shattered a twelve-year-old track record for three-year-old trotting geldings when he powered home a harness racing winner in 1:55 at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Wednesday, June 19. […]
- An amazing week of racing at Pocono DownsWhat an amazing week of harness racing we all just witnessed at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. In a year that will see the track host The Breeders Crown in October, we're already getting a taste of the incendiary action to come. […]
- Chris Giaccio & Kirby' Can Do breaks recordChris Giaccio and Victor Kirby' Can Do ($9.60) broke the track record for 4-year-old harness racing trotting geldings Wednesday with a 1:55 triumph at Harrington Raceway. […]
- Heston Blue Chip ready for the Ben FranklinComing off a campaign in which he was the 3-year-old Colt Pacer of the Year, Heston Blue Chip was conspicuously absent in the early stages of this season. It turns out that the horse was having a reaction to his ulcer medicine, although it took owner Ken Jacobs and harness racing trainer Linda Toscano a while to discover that little problem. […]
- Unbeaten Jurgen Hanover set for Beal elimsJurgen Hanover heads into eliminations for the $500,000 Earl Beal, Jr. Memorial Trot this Saturday (June 22) at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs with a big head of steam -- seven wins in his last seven starts. His wins include the elim and final of the Empire Breeders Classic at Vernon, the final in a career best 1:53.4. […]
- Double millionaire Market Share starts FridayMarket Share, the New Jersey-sired son of Revenue, will step up to the starting line in the tenth race on Friday night, June 21, 2013 at the Meadowlands, facing nine others in the $50,000 TVG/Meadowlands Free for All Trot. […]
- Camel & Ostrich racing at the MeadowlandsOn Tuesday, June 18th the Meadowlands Racetrack held a camel and ostrich racing preview event with local sportscasters including Steve Overmyer of CBS2 and Dyrol Joyner of PIX11. […]
- Tioga & Vernon host camel & ostrich racesTioga Downs will play host to a special kind of racing (not harness racing) on Sunday afternoon (June 23) as the camel and ostrich races come to town for the second straight year. […]
- Hoosier Park moves all qualifiers to FridayHoosier Park Racing & Casino has moved the regularly scheduled Saturday harness racing qualifiers to Friday, June 21 this week. […]
- The Grand Circuit report for this weekendThis Week harness racing: TVG Free For All Trot, Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J. and Ben Franklin Pace, Earl Beal, Jr. Memorial, Max C. Hempt Memorial and James M. Lynch Memorial eliminations, Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. […]
- 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. […]
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OLG Responds To OHRIA – Standardbred Canada
June 3rd, 2013 | 
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OLG Responds To OHRIA
Standardbred Canada OLG will be working closely with the Horse Racing Industry Transition Panel to integrate horse racing into Ontario's gaming strategy so I'm glad there is attention being paid to the issue. I'm writing to clarify a few issues that have been raised recently. Ontario taxpayers hit with $81-million tab for scrapping horse-racing slots |
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OHRIA Sounds Alarm Over RFPQ, Sole Bundle Operators – Standardbred Canada
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OHRIA Sounds Alarm Over RFPQ, Sole Bundle Operators
Standardbred Canada OHRIA has voiced its concern with the OLG's recent RFPQ announcement. OHRIA stated that "integrating the [horse-racing industry into OLG modernization] will be meaningless if racetracks in Northern, Eastern and Southwestern Ontario lose their zones to … |
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OHRIA Responds To OLG Changes – Standardbred Canada
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OHRIA Responds To OLG Changes
Standardbred Canada Sue Leslie, President of the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association (OHRIA), issued the following statement regarding the departure of Paul Godfrey and the OLG Board of Directors. “Ontario's horse racing and breeding industry has been reeling since … |
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Hudak Presents PC Path For Ontario Horse Racing; OHRIA Responds – Standardbred Canada
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Hudak Presents PC Path For Ontario Horse Racing; OHRIA Responds
Standardbred Canada On Thursday, March 14, PC Leader Tim Hudak will formally present his white paper on agriculture and rural Ontario in Guelph, Ont., with part of that paper outlining his party's vision for the future of horse racing in the province. Titled 'A Better … |
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OHRIA To Get Aggressive? – Standardbred Canada
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OHRIA To Get Aggressive?
Standardbred Canada In a release issued on Friday, the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association announced that its board of directors approved an aggressive campaign in the event that negotiations with the government fall through. The full release appears below. |
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OMAFRA Update; OHRIA Responds – Standardbred Canada
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OMAFRA Update; OHRIA Responds
Standardbred Canada The horse racing industry is now three weeks removed from the first sign of movement from the Ontario government's transition panel, whose agreement with Woodbine Entertainment gave the track a two-year window for hosting live racing. At that time … |
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OHRIA: Help Hamilton Councillors Stand Up For Flamboro – Standardbred Canada
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OHRIA: Help Hamilton Councillors Stand Up For Flamboro
Standardbred Canada "This Thursday Hamilton City Council will vote on a critical motion that will impact everyone involved in the horse racing and breeding industry in Ontario. We need to be there to show our support," noted Leslie. "We need to do everything we can to … |
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OHRIA To Liberal Candidates: Commit To Ontario Horse Racing – Standardbred Canada
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OHRIA To Liberal Candidates: Commit To Ontario Horse Racing
Standardbred Canada On Thursday, January 3, the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association sent out a press release indicating that it has sent a letter to each of the Ontario Liberal Leadership candidates asking them to support specific measures to protect Ontario horse … |
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OHRIA Applauds Ontario PC’s Gaming Industry Consultations – Standardbred Canada
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OHRIA Applauds Ontario PC's Gaming Industry Consultations
Standardbred Canada On Tuesday, December 11, the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association announced that it supports the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party's push to incorporate the provincial horse racing and breeding sector in any future gaming plans. OHRIA also … |
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OHRIA Looking For Answers – Standardbred Canada
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OHRIA Looking For Answers
Standardbred Canada OHRIA once again is urging Minister McMeekin and Premier Dalton McGuinty to send out a statement, prior to the Standardbred Sales this weekend, that there will be an Ontario horse racing industry where buyers can race their horses. OHRIA continues to … |
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- Heston Blue Chip ready for the Ben FranklinComing off a campaign in which he was the 3-year-old Colt Pacer of the Year, Heston Blue Chip was conspicuously absent in the early stages of this season. It turns out that the horse was having a reaction to his ulcer medicine, although it took owner Ken Jacobs and harness racing trainer Linda Toscano a while to discover that little problem. […]
- Unbeaten Jurgen Hanover set for Beal elimsJurgen Hanover heads into eliminations for the $500,000 Earl Beal, Jr. Memorial Trot this Saturday (June 22) at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs with a big head of steam -- seven wins in his last seven starts. His wins include the elim and final of the Empire Breeders Classic at Vernon, the final in a career best 1:53.4. […]
- Double millionaire Market Share starts FridayMarket Share, the New Jersey-sired son of Revenue, will step up to the starting line in the tenth race on Friday night, June 21, 2013 at the Meadowlands, facing nine others in the $50,000 TVG/Meadowlands Free for All Trot. […]
- Camel & Ostrich racing at the MeadowlandsOn Tuesday, June 18th the Meadowlands Racetrack held a camel and ostrich racing preview event with local sportscasters including Steve Overmyer of CBS2 and Dyrol Joyner of PIX11. […]
- Tioga & Vernon host camel & ostrich racesTioga Downs will play host to a special kind of racing (not harness racing) on Sunday afternoon (June 23) as the camel and ostrich races come to town for the second straight year. […]
- Hoosier Park moves all qualifiers to FridayHoosier Park Racing & Casino has moved the regularly scheduled Saturday harness racing qualifiers to Friday, June 21 this week. […]
- Restrictions are lifted on Woodbine Barn 3ORC Manager of Veterinary Services Dr. Adam Chambers announced that the restrictions on horses stabled in Woodbine's Barn 3 are lifted. […]
- The Grand Circuit report for this weekendThis Week harness racing: TVG Free For All Trot, Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J. and Ben Franklin Pace, Earl Beal, Jr. Memorial, Max C. Hempt Memorial and James M. Lynch Memorial eliminations, Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. […]
- Parker wins five; closing in on 11,000 winsAfter driving along at a pedestrian pace-- at least for him --- Billy "Zeke" Parker, Jr. broke out and reined five winners on the Tuesday, June 18th harness racing card at Monticello Raceway, where, over the years, the bearded wonder has copped 18 driving titles. […]
- Vicbred Super Sires Series held WednesdayFurther heats of the Empire Stallions Vicbred Super Series were held at two venues in Victoria on Wednesday June 19 - Yarra Valley hosting the 3rd Heat for Three Year Old Colts & Geldings and the 3rd and 4th Heats for Four Year Old Entires & Geldings all over 2150 metres in the afternoon, while Bendigo presented the 5th & 6th Heats for both Two Y […]
- Top mares and streaking filly at Red ShoresDirt Track Momma will look to deliver off the rail in the Thursday night harness racing feature at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at The Charlottetown Driving Park. […]
- Purdon claims three heats of the VicbredFew horsemen were busier than Mark Purdon yesterday. […]
- Strathalbyn meeting moved to Globe DerbyThe Strathalbyn Harness Racing Club meeting set down for Sunday has been transferred by Harness Racing SA to Betezy Park Globe Derby. […]
- 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. […]
