Harness Horse Racing

This 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. […]

After 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. […]

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. […]

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. 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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

Defending Pacer of the Year Captaintreacherous claimed control of the No. 1 spot in this week's harness racing Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. 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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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 Park after a luckless run at Melton when held up for a run entering the home straight. […]

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 […]

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. […]

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. […]

Hi again everyone, please see below the Media Bites as we see them for the week. […]

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. […]

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. […]