USA
NZ
AUS
CA
Europe
Sweden
France
PRESS RELEASE – FORIMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION
DylanHuckabone-Miller is Monticello-Goshen’s Rising Star
DylanHuckabone-Miller (Chris Tully photo)
Dylan Huckabone-Milleris Monticello-Goshen’s Rising Star
Thursday, November20, 2025 – from the Monticello-Goshen Chapter of USHWA
Goshen, NY — While the much-heralded successof so-called ‘trainer-drivers’ harkens back to an era when Hall of Famers likeBilly Haughton and Stanley Dancer drove their own charges in stakes andovernight races, Dylan Huckabone-Miller could be considered a throwback to thesport’s heyday.
Born inHarris, NY, just 25 years ago, long after catch drivers took over the teamsterduties for big stables, Huckabone-Miller has quietly compiled a record that iscatching people’s attention.
The lankyyoungster began driving in 2018 and has earned $1.16 million with 217 trips tothe winner’s circle. With Vernon Downsas his home base, the energetic horseman picked up 67 of those victories thisyear, with a UDRS of .250. While ‘ontrack’ for a career year, and earning over $340,000, he caught the attention ofanother, very successful trainer-driver: Ake Svanstedt.
Huckabone-Millerrecalls how he got hooked up with arguably one of the most powerful trotting stablesin North America. “The [New York] Sire Stakescame to town and [Ake] had three in that day. There were not a lot of drivers available. Sarah (Svanstedt) drove one, Dan Daley droveone, and I got to drive Read The Room. He ended up finishing a very good third. The following week was the final at Batavia and he left me up!”
Sittingbehind trotters is nothing new for Huckabone-Miller. He was just 8-years-old when he jogged hisfirst horse on a farm track, and then started working in his father’s barn atVernon at age 11. Six formative yearslater he was poised and ready to hear the starter say ‘Go.’
“I had abunch of years spent training up until then, so I felt comfortable once I gotbehind the starting gate, and it just took off from there,” statedHuckabone-Miller.
Dylanfinished the Vernon season as the fifth leading driver, not far behind suchseasoned veterans as Leon Bailey and Chris Long. But his success did not stop there. Huckabone-Miller was the leading trainer onthe New York County Fair circuit with 21 wins in 78 starts and earnings over$106,000.
So how doesa twenty-something take a trailer-load full of horses on the road and come outon top?
“I took overtrainer duties this year and we had a good group to bring to the fairs. It worked out good,” Huckabone-Miller saidvery matter-of-a-factly.
When askedhow he handled the logistics and the pressure of driving and training a stablefull of horses, the modest young man noted, “Everything went prettysmoothly. Luckily I still had my dad(Claude Huckabone III) in my corner to help guide me through everything. It was a work in progress, but it worked out justfine in the end.”
Just fineindeed, their stable’s 2-year-old trotting filly Sevenboysalooking won thecounty fair final at Goshen with Jordan Stratton aboard. The daughter of Chapter Seven picked up anadditional five county fair victories with his dad, Claude III in her sulky.
Huckabone-Millerwas quick to credit Jordan Stratton as always being available to give himadvice, now, and while he was just learning about the sport. He also noted that his grandfather, ClaudeHuckabone Jr., had a big influence on his horsemanship skills.
Overall,Huckabone-Miller finished the season with 53 training wins in 321 starts for aUTRS of .306. Coupled with 46 places and59 shows, his charges earned $256,168, in just his first full year ofcompetition.
So what doesthe future hold for the young reinsman from upstate New York? “I really enjoy both training and driving, sowe will see wherever this takes me. It’shard to focus-in on just one. But Iwould like to evolve as both a trainer and a driver, going forward.”
When theMonticello-Goshen USHWA Chapter holds their 66th annual Awards Banquet,presented by the New York Sire Stakes, on Sunday, December 7, 2027, DylanHuckabone Miller will receive the chapter’s Rising Star Award.
Once again thisyear the chapter has been given the opportunity to include the New York SireStakes (NYSS) and USTA’s District 8 Awards, which will be in addition to theyear-end awards for horses and horse people from the local tracks.
In addition,the Monticello-Goshen USHWA Chapter will bestow the chapter’s highest honorupon Moira Fanning, which is their Lifetime Achievement Award.
TheMonticello-Goshen chapter will also honor Ralph Scunziano (Excelsior Award); KeithHamilton (John Gilmour Good Guy Award); Janet Durso (Amy Bull CristDistinguished Service Award); James Crawford IV (Cradle of the Trotter BreedersAward); Jessica Hallett (Phil Pines Award); Barb and Liz Stubits (Mighty M Awardof Appreciation), and Brenna Gill (Caretaker of the Year). The event’s dinnersponsor is the Hambletonian Society and Breeders Crown.
Funds raisedthrough the banquet and souvenir journal have allowed the Monticello-GoshenChapter to give well over $150,000 to Goshen Historic Track and the HarnessRacing Museum & Hall of Fame over the last two decades. The Track and the Museum are two separate anddistinct entities that share the same hallowed ground and a mutual purpose of preservingand promoting harness racing.
The practiceof raising money and donating funds to Historic Track and the Hall of Famebegan in the mid-1970s with Monticello Raceway publicity icon John Manzi, andhas continued ever since.
Additionalinformation can be found on our website: monticellogoshen.com
Tickets forthe gala event at The Country Club at Otterkill, Campbell Hall, NY, can bereserved by contacting Shawn Wiles at (845) 798-4074, or Email: swiles@rwcatskills.com
To place acongratulatory ad in the souvenir journal, please contact Chris Tully at (845) 807-7538,or Email: tullytrot@yahoo.com
DylanHuckabone-Miller is Monticello-Goshen’s Rising Star
DylanHuckabone-Miller (Chris Tully photo)
Dylan Huckabone-Milleris Monticello-Goshen’s Rising Star
Thursday, November20, 2025 – from the Monticello-Goshen Chapter of USHWA
Goshen, NY — While the much-heralded successof so-called ‘trainer-drivers’ harkens back to an era when Hall of Famers likeBilly Haughton and Stanley Dancer drove their own charges in stakes andovernight races, Dylan Huckabone-Miller could be considered a throwback to thesport’s heyday.
Born inHarris, NY, just 25 years ago, long after catch drivers took over the teamsterduties for big stables, Huckabone-Miller has quietly compiled a record that iscatching people’s attention.
The lankyyoungster began driving in 2018 and has earned $1.16 million with 217 trips tothe winner’s circle. With Vernon Downsas his home base, the energetic horseman picked up 67 of those victories thisyear, with a UDRS of .250. While ‘ontrack’ for a career year, and earning over $340,000, he caught the attention ofanother, very successful trainer-driver: Ake Svanstedt.
Huckabone-Millerrecalls how he got hooked up with arguably one of the most powerful trotting stablesin North America. “The [New York] Sire Stakescame to town and [Ake] had three in that day. There were not a lot of drivers available. Sarah (Svanstedt) drove one, Dan Daley droveone, and I got to drive Read The Room. He ended up finishing a very good third. The following week was the final at Batavia and he left me up!”
Sittingbehind trotters is nothing new for Huckabone-Miller. He was just 8-years-old when he jogged hisfirst horse on a farm track, and then started working in his father’s barn atVernon at age 11. Six formative yearslater he was poised and ready to hear the starter say ‘Go.’
“I had abunch of years spent training up until then, so I felt comfortable once I gotbehind the starting gate, and it just took off from there,” statedHuckabone-Miller.
Dylanfinished the Vernon season as the fifth leading driver, not far behind suchseasoned veterans as Leon Bailey and Chris Long. But his success did not stop there. Huckabone-Miller was the leading trainer onthe New York County Fair circuit with 21 wins in 78 starts and earnings over$106,000.
So how doesa twenty-something take a trailer-load full of horses on the road and come outon top?
“I took overtrainer duties this year and we had a good group to bring to the fairs. It worked out good,” Huckabone-Miller saidvery matter-of-a-factly.
When askedhow he handled the logistics and the pressure of driving and training a stablefull of horses, the modest young man noted, “Everything went prettysmoothly. Luckily I still had my dad(Claude Huckabone III) in my corner to help guide me through everything. It was a work in progress, but it worked out justfine in the end.”
Just fineindeed, their stable’s 2-year-old trotting filly Sevenboysalooking won thecounty fair final at Goshen with Jordan Stratton aboard. The daughter of Chapter Seven picked up anadditional five county fair victories with his dad, Claude III in her sulky.
Huckabone-Millerwas quick to credit Jordan Stratton as always being available to give himadvice, now, and while he was just learning about the sport. He also noted that his grandfather, ClaudeHuckabone Jr., had a big influence on his horsemanship skills.
Overall,Huckabone-Miller finished the season with 53 training wins in 321 starts for aUTRS of .306. Coupled with 46 places and59 shows, his charges earned $256,168, in just his first full year ofcompetition.
So what doesthe future hold for the young reinsman from upstate New York? “I really enjoy both training and driving, sowe will see wherever this takes me. It’shard to focus-in on just one. But Iwould like to evolve as both a trainer and a driver, going forward.”
When theMonticello-Goshen USHWA Chapter holds their 66th annual Awards Banquet,presented by the New York Sire Stakes, on Sunday, December 7, 2027, DylanHuckabone Miller will receive the chapter’s Rising Star Award.
Once again thisyear the chapter has been given the opportunity to include the New York SireStakes (NYSS) and USTA’s District 8 Awards, which will be in addition to theyear-end awards for horses and horse people from the local tracks.
In addition,the Monticello-Goshen USHWA Chapter will bestow the chapter’s highest honorupon Moira Fanning, which is their Lifetime Achievement Award.
TheMonticello-Goshen chapter will also honor Ralph Scunziano (Excelsior Award); KeithHamilton (John Gilmour Good Guy Award); Janet Durso (Amy Bull CristDistinguished Service Award); James Crawford IV (Cradle of the Trotter BreedersAward); Jessica Hallett (Phil Pines Award); Barb and Liz Stubits (Mighty M Awardof Appreciation), and Brenna Gill (Caretaker of the Year). The event’s dinnersponsor is the Hambletonian Society and Breeders Crown.
Funds raisedthrough the banquet and souvenir journal have allowed the Monticello-GoshenChapter to give well over $150,000 to Goshen Historic Track and the HarnessRacing Museum & Hall of Fame over the last two decades. The Track and the Museum are two separate anddistinct entities that share the same hallowed ground and a mutual purpose of preservingand promoting harness racing.
The practiceof raising money and donating funds to Historic Track and the Hall of Famebegan in the mid-1970s with Monticello Raceway publicity icon John Manzi, andhas continued ever since.
Additionalinformation can be found on our website: monticellogoshen.com
Tickets forthe gala event at The Country Club at Otterkill, Campbell Hall, NY, can bereserved by contacting Shawn Wiles at (845) 798-4074, or Email: swiles@rwcatskills.com
To place acongratulatory ad in the souvenir journal, please contact Chris Tully at (845) 807-7538,or Email: tullytrot@yahoo.com
Sincerely, Chris Tully Master of Business Administration (’12) Marketing Services for the Standardbred Industry TEXT or VOICE: 845.807.7538 Website: https://ChrisTullyTrot.com
