Harness Horse Racing

With an opening quarter of :26.4, it looked like the harness racing fillies & mares open would be a fast mile but no one figured Betterluvnexttime would set a new track record. […]

Track record-holder Coraggioso cruised to a convincing harness racing victory in Friday's $10,000 featured Open trot, while fellow high-stepper Hold On Tightly became the first five-time winner at the current 10-night Vernon Downs meeting. […]

Little Santamonica and harness racing driver Aaron Byron captured Friday night's $16,000 fillies and mares open pace. The duo settled in second from the four hole as All Spirit (Jim Marohn Jr.) took the field by the opening quarter in 27.2. […]

Finding a late seam inside, Curtsy Hanover poured through the Lightning Lane to pull off a 21-1 upset harness racing victory in Friday's $236,320 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at The Meadows. […]

Montenegro, with Ricky Macomber Jr. at the lines, made amends for last week's second place finish and rolled home a winner in the harness racing featured event, a $24,000 Invitational pace for fillies and mares, at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday, May 17. […]

Scioto Downs Racino will host a special harness racing 5:30 p.m. post time on Saturday (May 18). The adjustment in time will allow the racetrack to run off a few races before the Preakness Stakes is showed via simulcast throughout the facility. Scheduled post time for the second leg of the Thoroughbred Triple Crown is 6 p.m. […]

Yonkers Raceway's pair of Friday night harness racing $46,000 Open Handicaps--for either-gender trotters and distaff pacers--were won by Blacktuxwhitesocks (George Brennan, $3.30) and a repeating Royal Cee Cee N (Eric Goodell, $8.80). […]

The first New Jersey Sires Stakes events of the year were the harness racing three year old colt & filly trots on Friday night at The Meadowlands. Smilin Eli made his first career start a stakes winning endeavor by wearing down the Takter entry of Muscle Mountain and Corky to score in 1:54.4 in the $34,000 colt division. […]

Northfield Park is announcing the addition of a $30,000 Pick-5 total pool guarantee to Monday's (May 20) program. […]

Historically in harness racing it has always been that Pennsylvanian Roger Hammer was the first to have a two-year-old winner and sometimes he had two or three of them ready and racing by late April and early May. […]

Harness racing trainer Rene Allard, 26, the fourth leading trainer at Meadowlands, recently learned that he has been excluded from racing not only at the Meadowlands, but also at Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs. […]

Balmoral Park will offer a guaranteed Pick 4 pool of $50,000 this Saturday, May 18th. […]

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. […]

A quartet of $25,000 eliminations of the SBOA (Standardbred Breeders of Ontario Association) highlighted the Friday evening harness racing programme at Woodbine, featuring the province's top sophomore filly pacers and trotters. […]

With an opening quarter of :26.4, it looked like the harness racing fillies & mares open would be a fast mile but no one figured Betterluvnexttime would set a new track record. […]

Heats of The Southern Cross series for harness racing 2yos where conducted at Globe Derby Park with colts and geldings heats going to the Emma Stewart trained Major Secret (Art Major), heat 2 was taken out by favorite Major Cruiser (Major In Art) and the final event was won by Willy Listen (Royal Mattjesty) for trainer Joe Carbone. […]

Track record-holder Coraggioso cruised to a convincing harness racing victory in Friday's $10,000 featured Open trot, while fellow high-stepper Hold On Tightly became the first five-time winner at the current 10-night Vernon Downs meeting. […]

Little Santamonica and harness racing driver Aaron Byron captured Friday night's $16,000 fillies and mares open pace. The duo settled in second from the four hole as All Spirit (Jim Marohn Jr.) took the field by the opening quarter in 27.2. […]

Finding a late seam inside, Curtsy Hanover poured through the Lightning Lane to pull off a 21-1 upset harness racing victory in Friday's $236,320 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at The Meadows. […]

Montenegro, with Ricky Macomber Jr. at the lines, made amends for last week's second place finish and rolled home a winner in the harness racing featured event, a $24,000 Invitational pace for fillies and mares, at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday, May 17. […]

Scioto Downs Racino will host a special harness racing 5:30 p.m. post time on Saturday (May 18). The adjustment in time will allow the racetrack to run off a few races before the Preakness Stakes is showed via simulcast throughout the facility. Scheduled post time for the second leg of the Thoroughbred Triple Crown is 6 p.m. […]

Yonkers Raceway's pair of Friday night harness racing $46,000 Open Handicaps--for either-gender trotters and distaff pacers--were won by Blacktuxwhitesocks (George Brennan, $3.30) and a repeating Royal Cee Cee N (Eric Goodell, $8.80). […]

The first New Jersey Sires Stakes events of the year were the harness racing three year old colt & filly trots on Friday night at The Meadowlands. Smilin Eli made his first career start a stakes winning endeavor by wearing down the Takter entry of Muscle Mountain and Corky to score in 1:54.4 in the $34,000 colt division. […]

Northfield Park is announcing the addition of a $30,000 Pick-5 total pool guarantee to Monday's (May 20) program. […]

Historically in harness racing it has always been that Pennsylvanian Roger Hammer was the first to have a two-year-old winner and sometimes he had two or three of them ready and racing by late April and early May. […]

Champion third generation Condell Park harness racing reinsman Darren Binskin will target the Allied Express 2013 Probus Clubs Cup at 1.54 pm on Monday, May 20th - the first event on the Bankstown Paceway fixture card as part of the 29th Schweppes Sydney Cup Carnival of Harness Racing. […]

The mandatory two meeting Thursday took place on May 16, with Shepparton harness racing in the afternoon and Bendigo at night. […]