May 9, 2025

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Vessem latest Superstar

Vessem (Vincent) took full advantage of having a perfect trip on the back of a horse that was intent on leading in tonight’s $60,000 Group Two Continental Event Hire Superstar…

Leading US trainer handed 380 day suspension

New Jersey-based harness racing trainer Per Engblom has been suspended for 380 days and fined $6,000 following a post-race drug violation stemming from an April 2023 win at the Meadowlands…

Challenges keep coming for unbeaten Aussie trotting mare

The challenges keep coming for unbeaten young Aussie trotting mare Keayang Zahara (Volstead). Having finished last year with those three feature harness racing wins at Addington, Keayang Zahara just did…

Ms Meaghan Sparkel upsets in Charlottetown

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – Ms Meaghan Sparkel (Big Jim) was given the garden journey on her way to an upset harness racing victory in the Thursday evening featured pace at Red…

Perfect trip gets tidy win for Fourever Boy

Plainville, MA — Fourever Boy (Sweet Lou) sat in the garden spot for seven-eighths of a mile and then turned that perfect trip into a big harness racing win in…

Miki And Minnie to make 2025 debut

WILKES-BARRE PA – Miki And Minnie, voted the Dan Patch Award for two-year-old pacing fillies last season, will make her 2025 purse debut on Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at…

Wire-to-wire 1:52.4 victory for Sebastian K five-year-old

CHESTER PA – The Sebastian K S five-year-old gelding Benjamin Hanover, who set a divisional harness racing track record over the Harrah’s Philadelphia surface last season, returned to the southeast…

Weekly spotlight on breeding

Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America brought to you by Yabby Dam Farms & Racing! Yabby Dam Racing, principal…

Application online for 2025 Allen J. Finkelson Scholarship

Pompano Beach, FL — Steve Wolf, president of the Florida Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association, has announced that the chapter is now accepting applications for its 2025…

Pinseeker vying to be a Superstar tonight

Pinseeker (Downbytheseaside) may have started in the biggest race of the year but his grand final fortnight actually starts tonight. The five-year-old has been one of our major pacing improvers…

Fillies take centre stage tonight in $200,000 final

If Alexandra Park races true to recent form for tonight’s $200,000 Magness Benrow Sires’ Stakes there may be less winning harness racing chances in the Group 1 than it appears…

‘A lot of unknowns’ in $516,000 Borgata final

Seven of the eight horses in Friday’s Grade 1 $516,000 MGM Borgata Pacing Series final at MGM Yonkers Raceway posted at least two harness racing wins during the event’s five…