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WASHINGTON, PA, Aug. 3, 2024 — Rocks Shining Star (Rockin Image-Bikini Star) vaulted three wide through the final turn and was strongest in the lane as he captured Saturday’s $19,200 Open Handicap Pace at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Rocks Shining Star followed the first-over cover of Chief Mate, but even when he shed that […]
Northfield, OH — TheStable.ca has implemented a new twist on its annual Spring Open House & Breakfast at Northfield Park set for this Sunday, June 2. In cooperation with Northfield Park, TheStable.ca harness racing two-year-olds will participate in qualifying races (rather than the usual training miles presented in past Open House events). Over six qualifying […]
WASHINGTON, PA, April 27, 2024 — Timeisonmyside (Captain Crunch-Macharoundtheclock) drew away late and captured Saturday’s $19,800 final of the Tom Kirwan Memorial Pace for 3-year-old harness racing colts and geldings — his fifth straight win overall — at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Timeisonmyside was hammered down to 1-5, and Anthony MacDonald wasted little time […]
An exciting field of harness racing trotters takes center stage in the $35,000 Ray Paver Memorial at Miami Valley Raceway on Wednesday (April 10th). On paper, the race looks like it could come down to a battle between two streaking four-year-olds, 2 to 1 morning line favorite is undefeated Upnaway Blue Chip (Chapter Seven) and […]
WASHINGTON, PA, Feb. 15, 2024 — Carter Michael Deo (International Moni-Brigham Dream) held off late challenges inside and outside en route to a hard-earned victory in Thursday’s (Feb. 15) harness racing feature at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, a $12,500 Conditioned Trot. Carter Michael Deo quarter-poled to the top for Anthony MacDonald, but his work […]
For the first time in Sintra’s 145-start harness racing career, there was no uncertainty that he would reach the winner’s circle last Saturday. The bay Mach Three gelding officially retired in a ceremony at Woodbine Mohawk Park, Canada’s premiere oval, where he won the 2017 Canadian Pacing Derby. It was also a reunion between him […]
Sintra (Mach Three), Canada’s 2017 Older Pacing Horse of the Year, has been retired from harness racing. Anthony MacDonald, operator of The Stable, the group that owns the horse, announced the decision in a video on Friday (Oct. 13). MacDonald said the 10-year-old gelding had wear-and-tear issues with his left hind ankle and was therefore […]
When the first elimination hits the track for the $641,550 77th edition of the Little Brown Jug on Thursday (Sept. 22), harness racing history will again be made by the MacDonald brothers. Anthony and Mark MacDonald will become just the third set of brothers to drive against each other in the pacing classic, joining Dana […]
CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – Sintra (Mach Three) and harness racing driver Anthony MacDonald captured the 63rd edition of the $100,000 Gold Cup and Saucer, presented by Atlantic Lottery, in one for the record books at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park on Saturday (Aug. 20). The $100,000 race saw Ideal Perception (Driven […]
WASHINGTON, PA, July 29, 2022 — Austral Hanover (International Moni-Aspidistra Hanover), whose connections feared that he would never make it as a racehorse, took another step forward in his development Friday (July 30) when he captured a harness racing division of a $40,000 Arden Downs Grand Circuit stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Austral […]
Grove City, OH – Three freshman filly trotters found the harness racing winners circle for the first time in their careers in first leg action of the Ohio Sires Stakes Sunday night at MGM Northfield Park. Each division carried a purse of $40,000. In the first division, Smokinhotirishgirl and Anthony MacDonald grabbed the early lead […]
GUELPH, ON — TheStable.ca celebrated an unprecedented seven harness racing wins on July 4, including a track record, series sweep and one of its flashiest victories to date. Perhaps the biggest winners of the day are the track photographers at the five tracks where the victories were secured for the fractional ownership operation. A total […]
WASHINGTON, PA, June 18, 2022 — Drive To Deliver (Fordham Road-Diamond Creek) zipped to the lead from post 4 and held off the late challenge of Express Man to win his second straight in Thursday’s Pop-Up Series at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Austral Hanover (International Moni-Aspidistra Hanover) took the other $8,000 second-leg division in […]
GUELPH, ON — TheStable.ca’s annual Spring Open House will be held at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Sunday, May 8. The event features brunch in the Mohawk Harvest Kitchen overlooking the harness racing track where 50 two-year-olds will train in sets. The sets will also be broadcast via livestream on TheStable.ca website and social media starting at […]
LEBANON, OH – The Dr. Dan Farwick Memorial Series, one of seven “Lebanon Legends” late closers at Miami Valley Raceway this year, kicked off on Wednesday (March 23) with three $17,500 harness racing divisions. Trotters with less than six pari-mutuel wins or under $60,000 in lifetime earnings were eligible to nominate to the series. Quickest […]
GUELPH, ON — TheStable.ca’s annual Winter Open House will be an entirely virtual experience this year, delivered via livestream starting at 8:30 a.m. EST on Friday, December 24. The broadcast will showcase many of the engaging features of the award-winning fractional horse racing ownership operation, including its bi-weekly livestreams of the horses in training. Sixty-one […]
