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Max Contract (Huntsville) rolled past elite harness racing rivals with a late-stretch burst to capture the $600,000 Breeders Crown Mares Open on Saturday (Oct. 28) at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. The mare found herself in fourth as driver Andy Miller let three leaving mares by from the pylon post. Grace Hill (Doug McNair) reached the quarter […]
Harness racing driver Andy Miller and trainer Cody Schadel teamed up to win three Pennsylvania Fair Finals races on Monday afternoon (Oct. 9) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. There were eight Fair Finals on the card on the day, each carrying a purse of $25,000. Miller and Schadel won the very first final of […]
Harrah’s Philadelphia held $14,400 co-feature pace and trot Thursday (Aug. 31) afternoon that saw each winner notch their fifth harness racing victories of the season. The 10th race Fillies and Mares Pace saw How Sweet Is That (Sweet Lou) have no trouble overcoming post eight for driver Todd McCarthy and was able to hold on […]
Andy Miller and Brett Miller are not related, but they were in a way connected last week when each driver got the 10,000th harness racing win of his career. First was Andy, who notched his milestone triumph with Samwise The Brave on Aug. 20 at Lexington’s Red Mile. Five days later, Brett joined him in […]
Lexington, KY — Harness racing driver Andy Miller became the 21st driver in North America to win 10,000 races on Sunday (Aug. 20) at Red Mile. He steered Samwise The Brave (Greenshoe-The Ice Dutchess) to his first career victory in four starts in 1:56.1 in a $15,000 third leg of the Kentucky Goldenrod Series for […]
Harness racing driver Scott Zeron is only 34, but he already has two wins in the $1 million Hambletonian Stakes to his credit. On Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack, he will try to add a third. Zeron, who won the Hambletonian in 2016 with Marion Marauder and 2018 with the filly Atlanta, would join elite […]
Based on his progression in terms of finishes, French Wine (Bar Hopping-Creamy Mimi) looks to be maturing nicely this summer. The 3-year-old male harness racing trotter won his most recent outing, a division of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes this past Sunday at Harrah’s Philadelphia, after being third to start his campaign in late May and […]
CHESTER, PA – Betsy Ross Pace champion Max Contract (Huntsville) continued to show her ability, winning the $20,000 Open handicap distaff pacing harness racing feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia Friday afternoon in 1:49.3 over a track that had just been upgraded from “sloppy” to “good.” The mare left between horses and chose to settle in third […]
CHESTER, PA – Favored Lindy The Great (Crazed) made every pole a winning one while raising his lifetime earnings to $1,496,577 in taking the $22,500 fast-class handicap harness racing trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia on a cool Thursday afternoon, November 17. Andy Miller pointed Lindy The Great frontward immediately, with the pair setting fractions of :27.3, […]
CHESTER, PA – The Bar Hopping sophomore gelding Champagne Hanover has now won two straight after holding on to turn away Archery Seelster in the $14,400 featured harness racing trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon. Jack Pelling made two early moves with the three-year-old to control the throttle, then met a stern challenge from […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Max Contract (Huntsville) entered Saturday’s (July 16) $150,000 Mistletoe Shalee at the Meadowlands with the least harness racing experience. But, despite making only her fifth career start, the filly flashed an incredible turn of speed in the homestretch and devoured pacesetter Boudoir Hanover on the wire to capture the event for […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — In the second start of his sophomore campaign, freshman Breeders Crown champion Rebuff (Muscle Hill) seized the lead up the backside and held firm on the point to complete a stakes-record 1:49.4 mile — which also equaled the track record for 3-year-old harness racing trotting colts — in the first of […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – He might have a way to go to get his harness racing connections even, but Little Expensive (Muscle Hill) is well on his way. Little Expensive impressed in his parimutuel debut, taking the second of three $30,000 divisions of the first leg of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for 2-year-old colts […]
CHESTER, PA – Several quality harness racing performers, including several promising three-year-olds, were on display during Tuesday morning qualifiers at Harrah’s Philadelphia. Andy Miller drove three of the winners, including one for wife/trainer Julie – and this filly might have the best potential story even if she won in only 2:00 in first career charted […]
CHESTER, PA – Finding the pocket early and riding along the good drafting trip has been a key to success at Harrah’s Philadelphia early in the harness racing meet, with almost 40% winners from the two-hole, including Terry A Hanover in the $14,400 pacing feature on Friday at the southeast Pennsylvania oval. A son of […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Just one week ago, Priceless scored on the front end as the even-money choice in a high-end TrackMaster rating event for female pacers in 1:51.3, so it must have come as a surprise to her harness racing fans when she was in no hurry at the start of the featured $32,500 […]
CHESTER, PA – A quartet of $12,600 featured harness racing events topped the Wednesday card at Harrah’s Philadelphia – two for pacers, one for each sex, and two open events for trotters. The pacing distaffs were topped by the Always B Miki sophomore filly Always B Laughin, who got second-over cover in working behind a […]
CHESTER PA – “Team Orange Crush” swept the two trotting harness racing features at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon, with the $15,300 top purse event seeing the red-hot Archangel four-year-old gelding Angel Nation come within a fifth of a second of his group’s track record with a powerful 1:52.1 victory. Driver Tyler Miller “went to […]
WASHINGTON, PA, July 1, 2021 — Jazzed remained perfect in her two-race harness racing career with a facile front-end win in Thursday’s $162,544 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at The Meadows. The first-timer Lake Dora was just as impressive in capturing the other division of the event, known as the Sand Tart, for freshman filly pacers. Jazzed […]
CHESTER, PA – The Father Patrick four-year-old Big Oil may be finding himself in top FFA company soon after he posted a 1:52.3 victory over odds-on favorite Scirocco Rob in the $16,200 featured trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia Thursday afternoon. Andy Miller got his charge to the lead nearing the 1/8 pole, then was content to […]
