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WILKES-BARRE, PA – Flash Move (Heston Blue Chip), whose last start of his 2023 campaign was a 1:50 victory in the Pennsylvania Stallion Series Championship for sophomore harness racing pacing males, bettered that time by a tick while taking a new mark in the $15,000 pacing feature on Tuesday afternoon (May 21) at Pocono Downs […]
CHESTER, PA – You don’t get to $3,146,993 in career earnings without possessing speed and toughness, and the nine-year-old Somebeachsomewhere gelding This Is The Plan showed both in abundance while winning the $13,000 featured handicap harness racing pace on Sunday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia. Andrew McCarthy got the Ron Burke trainee to the top before […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – It’s not too often that a driver hopes to go a first-over trip, especially in a field of exceptional horses, but that’s exactly how it went for Andy McCarthy and Maximus Miki (Always B Miki-Beach Gal), who teamed up to win the $27,500 winners-over pacing feature at The Meadowlands Saturday night. […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Facing his toughest test yet, the incredible Oakwood Ardan IR (Sweet Lou-Trend Setter) passed with flying colors once again, registering his sixth win in as many starts since shipping in from Great Britain last September in the Saturday night harness racing feature at The Meadowlands. The Robert Cleary-trained Irish-bred set foot […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – A 10-day vacation suited harness racing driver Andy McCarthy just fine, as the 37-year-old pilot returned from a family getaway in Costa Rica and won four races – from just 10 drives – on Saturday night at The Meadowlands, including the 10th-race feature. “It was nice to spend some time away […]
Closing well in the stretch off live cover, 6-1 Pizzelle (Walner) and harness racing driver Andy McCarthy pulled off the minor upset in capturing the $428,000 Goldsmith Maid for two-year-old trotting fillies Saturday (Nov. 25) at The Meadowlands. The 8th race saw Sambuca Hanover (David Miller) shooting to the early lead with race favorite R […]
Why Not Now (Always A Virgin) produced a strong first-over harness racing effort to defeat seven rivals in the $260,000 Progress Pace Final for sophomore pacing colts and geldings at Dover Downs on Wednesday evening (Nov. 22nd). Driver Andrew McCarthy was content to sit fourth early as El Rey (Dexter Dunn) fired to the front […]
Buy A Round, a daughter of Walner, got up in the late going to take the first of three $25,000 Breeders Crown eliminations for 2-year-old filly harness racing trotters over a sloppy Harrah’s Hoosier Park racing surface, stopping the clock in 1:55.2 by a nose over 19-1 longshot Chapalonia and driver David Miller. Sent off […]
CHESTER, PA – South Beach Star was parked most of a :53.3 first half en route to winning in 1:48.2 at Pocono Downs last week; on Friday at Harrah’s Philadelphia, the Somebeachsomewhere gelding saved the :53.3 half for the back of the mile, holding off favored Lou’s Pearlman by half a length in 1:49.1 to […]
CHESTER, PA – A Rocknroll Star (A Rocknroll Dance) has certainly become a harness racing pacing star in the Mid-Atlantic area, as the gelding (still the local track recordholder for sophomores) took a lifetime mark of 1:50.2 while winning his seventh straight race in the $20,000 Open handicap on Friday afternoon (May 5) at Harrah’s […]
OAK GROVE, KY — I Did It Myway (Captaintreacherous-Flyme To The Moon) and Boudoir Hanover (Captaintreacherous-Bedroomconfessions), top-three finishers in the Breeders Crown in their 3-year-old season, are poised to kick off their 2023 harness racing campaigns on a high note in the first round of the Kentucky Standardbred Development Fund series for 4-year-olds, which opens […]
After capturing her third-round harness racing division in the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series for older female pacers last week, Incaseyoudidntknow (Always B Miki-In Deep Thought) will get another chance to prove her mettle when she faces four other prelim winners in the fourth leg of the event Friday (April 7) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Three […]
With a relentless first-over move that carried all the way from the backstretch to the finish wire, Inaminute Hanover (Bar Hopping) was able to wear down pacesetter Hillexotic to capture the $45,000 Open Handicap Trot Saturday (March 18) at The Meadowlands. The 8th race feature got underway with the far outside tier of horses all […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Madelines Blk Jack (JK Endofanera-Honey’s Luck) used a ferocious final quarter to take the Saturday night (Feb. 25) harness racing feature at The Meadowlands, a $21,000 high-end TrackMaster 91 for pacers. The 5-year-old gelding raced in the outer flow third-over past the five-eighths before swinging into the four path for the […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – After sweeping the Early Daily Double that paid $34.20, driver Andy McCarthy wasn’t quite done on the Saturday night (Jan. 14) program at The Meadowlands, as later on the harness racing card he recorded his third winner of the night with Rich And Miserable (Explosive Matter) in the featured trot, a […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Volume Eight (Chapter Seven) and driver Andy McCarthy didn’t have their A-game heading into Saturday’s (Nov. 26) $416,200 Valley Victory Trot final at the Meadowlands, but the 2-year-old was more than good enough to win the harness racing event for colts and geldings decisively with a stakes-record 1:52.2 mile. “He didn’t […]
The Red Mile in Lexington, KY was the scene Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 25) for four $70,000 finals of the Corbin Maturity Series for four-year-old harness racing trotters and pacers. The finals started off in the 1st race for four-year-old trotting mares. Beltassima (Trixton) and driver Andy McCarthy left fastest of all and was able to […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Pretender (Muscle Hill-Maven) and Fashion Schooner (Walner-Broadway Schooner) were the winners in the first edition $275,000 finals of the New Jersey Classic for “A” level New Jersey-sired trotters Friday night (Sep. 9) at The Meadowlands. In the split for 3-year-old colts and geldings, Pretender pulled off a surprise, taking down 1-9 […]
Usually it is the opposite, especially in harness racing, but on Sunday (Aug. 7) at the Red Mile the two-year-old pacing colt Blue Lou (Sweet Lou) went faster than the North America Cup three-year-old winner, Pebble Beach (Downbytheseaside), in capturing their respective opening legs of the Kentucky Championship Series. Each division raced for a purse […]
CHESTER, PA – Yucatan Party Man (Credit Winner) took advantage of several “breaks” during the $14,400 trotting feature Wednesday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia and posted a 1:53.4 victory, giving the harness racing four-year-old a new mark. The first break the “Party Man” got was from behind-the-gate right-hand neighbor Chulo, the favorite, who made a misstep […]
Harness racing driver Andy McCarthy is still getting to know Cuatro De Julio (Trixton), but after two starts behind the 4-year-old trotting stallion, he knows he likes him. “I really like him,” McCarthy said. “He can go fast; he’s got a really big set of lungs. He’s a big, strong, good-looking horse. He’s definitely a […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Harness racing trainer Nik Drennan knew he had a pair of aces heading into Saturday’s $22,500 Hello Spring Series Final for pacers at The Meadowlands, and his prolific pair paid off, as his Alta Engen A and Alluneedisfaith N finished 1-2 under the wire over a harness racing track rated ‘good’ […]
Ahundreddollarbill shipped from New York to Ontario and captured the $606,500 Canadian Trotting Classic in a lifetime-best harness racing clocking Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The son of Chapter Seven watched four opponents fly by him into the first turn and settled into fifth. Winning Ticket (Dave Miller) strung out the field as he blazed […]
Abuckabett Hanover won his first Grand Circuit final in more than a year as he crushed his harness racing rivals in the $176,815 Simcoe Stakes for sophomore pacers on Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Under orders from regular driver Andrew McCarthy, the son of Betting Line tucked in sixth from post seven while Bettor Sun […]
