Harness Horse Racing

An investment in the tens of millions of dollars will be announced on Tuesday by the Saratoga Casino & Raceway, according to sources familiar with the announcement. […]

Speed and an inside post can be a winning combination on a harness racing half-mile oval, and that was the case once again on Friday night at Maywood Park as Neva Jane Ikeler's Tamarac Sassy stormed right to the front and made every call a winning one, taking the $47,866 Violet Stake by a hard fought neck in 1:55.1. […]

Ziegfeld, a five-year-old Broadway Hall gelding, won the $11,000 Open Trot in 1:58.3, for harness racing owner Michael L Torcello, of Hamburg, New York, here at Buffalo Raceway Friday night (May 24), over a fast track. […]

Mikey Hanover returned to his winning ways on Friday night at Saratoga Casino and Raceway as the rising harness racing star won the Open trot for the second time in three tries. […]

The Harness Horse Breeders are pleased to announce current information on Buffalo Raceway's policy to allow horses shipped from Canada to participate in NYSS events, with proper safeguards in place. We applaud their efforts to protect the health and well being of our horse population and their support of the New York harness racing breeding program […]

Yonkers Raceway's harness racing pair of "sloppy" Friday night $46,000 Open Handicaps--for everyone's-welcome trotters and distaff pacers--were won by a closing Monsignor Flan (Brent Holland, $7.90) and a first-up Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett, $5.70). […]

The best in the sport of harness racing will once again take to the racetrack at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Saturday, May 25 for the 20th running of the $200,000 Dan Patch invitational. The thrill-themed evening, tagged as the 'Thrillyard 200', will showcase some of the more notable harness racing names alongside free fireworks, giveaways, […]

Sporting hopples for the second time, High Bridge converted a cozy pocket trip to harness racing victory in a stake-fastest 1:55.1 in Friday's $243,495 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at The Meadows. […]

To Tell The Truth dispatched six speed-minded pacing rivals with ease en route to a 1:53.4 victory in Friday night's $6,000 featured eighth harness racing event at Vernon Downs. […]

Hayworth Blue Chip and Jim Meittinis came into Friday night's $16,000 fillies and mares open pace with two straight second place finishes at Tioga Downs, and a third at Saratoga. She left on Friday night with her fifth victory of the 2013 harness racing season and shaved two seconds off of her lifetime mark with a 1:51.4 score. […]

Twin B Shasta paced home for her third straight win Friday (May 24) in Northfield Park's eleventh race. The harness racing eight-year old is owned by Mike Kastel of Garfield Heights, Ohio. […]

Posey Patch took the $6,000 Fillies and Mares Open Pace for harness racing owner Gregory Gardner of Sheridan, Michigan in the opening race on Friday (May 24) at Northfield Park. […]

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. […]

"He made all of our dreams come true!" […]

A United Code of Conduct should be introduced so there is consistent international governance in harness racing Associations, Clubs, Boards, and Commissions throughout the world. […]

Just when you think you've seen all of Mark Purdon's two-year-old artillery he reaches into the cabinet and gets out some more. That's what you had to be left thinking, after the Purdon clan dominated the 2yo harness racing trials at Addington yesterday (Monday February 25). […]

The U.S. Trotting Association, which will conduct its annual meeting in congress with Harness Horsemen International, Harness Racing Tracks of America and the U.S. Harness Writers’ Association from Feb. 28 through March 4, will provide live, online video streaming of several events and same-day online video coverage of several discussion panels. […]

Valentine's Day - February 14 - is not only a day when humans exchange their undoubted love for each other, but it should also be a day when we extend our adoration to all the world's beautiful animals - especially our wonderful harness racing breed. […]

Semen that was collected 14 years ago provided the late American harness racing stallion - Troublemaker - with his last ever victory at Canberra on Monday night February 11th. […]

The field for next Saturday's $57,300 Cardinal Final will be decided tonight with a pair of eliminations. A fifth place or better finish is needed to advance to the 3-year-old colt and gelding pace harness racing showdown. […]

For the second year in a row a harness racing colt sired by world champion Muscle Hill topped the Elitlopp Sale in Stockholm. Atomic Rain, by Muscle Hill and out of Affinity, sired by Victory Dream, was sold for 770.000 SEK or $111,000. […]

Benefitting from a head to head speed duel between Traveling Man (Untersteiner) and Monster Drive (Svanstedt), patient harness racing trainer/driver Pietro Gubellini sat second on the pylons with Italy's Owen's Club (5m Duke of York-Duse Tab-Sugarcane Hanover) until past the three quarter mile mark. […]

Woodbine Entertainment Group's award winning broadcast team has put together a tribute video celebrating the past fifty years of Mohawk Racetrack. […]

An investment in the tens of millions of dollars will be announced on Tuesday by the Saratoga Casino & Raceway, according to sources familiar with the announcement. […]

Speed and an inside post can be a winning combination on a harness racing half-mile oval, and that was the case once again on Friday night at Maywood Park as Neva Jane Ikeler's Tamarac Sassy stormed right to the front and made every call a winning one, taking the $47,866 Violet Stake by a hard fought neck in 1:55.1. […]

Ziegfeld, a five-year-old Broadway Hall gelding, won the $11,000 Open Trot in 1:58.3, for harness racing owner Michael L Torcello, of Hamburg, New York, here at Buffalo Raceway Friday night (May 24), over a fast track. […]

News has just come through that Terror To Love won his Harness Jewels trial today at Ashburton (Saturday May 25) in a sizzling 1-52.5, which is actually quicker than the four-year-old & older one mile NZ record of Gold Ace (1-52.6). […]

Mikey Hanover returned to his winning ways on Friday night at Saratoga Casino and Raceway as the rising harness racing star won the Open trot for the second time in three tries. […]

The Harness Horse Breeders are pleased to announce current information on Buffalo Raceway's policy to allow horses shipped from Canada to participate in NYSS events, with proper safeguards in place. We applaud their efforts to protect the health and well being of our horse population and their support of the New York harness racing breeding program […]

Yonkers Raceway's harness racing pair of "sloppy" Friday night $46,000 Open Handicaps--for everyone's-welcome trotters and distaff pacers--were won by a closing Monsignor Flan (Brent Holland, $7.90) and a first-up Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett, $5.70). […]

The best in the sport of harness racing will once again take to the racetrack at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Saturday, May 25 for the 20th running of the $200,000 Dan Patch invitational. The thrill-themed evening, tagged as the 'Thrillyard 200', will showcase some of the more notable harness racing names alongside free fireworks, giveaways, […]

Sporting hopples for the second time, High Bridge converted a cozy pocket trip to harness racing victory in a stake-fastest 1:55.1 in Friday's $243,495 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at The Meadows. […]

To Tell The Truth dispatched six speed-minded pacing rivals with ease en route to a 1:53.4 victory in Friday night's $6,000 featured eighth harness racing event at Vernon Downs. […]