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Big Butler Fair

Pennsylvania fair racing gets underway

By PFHHA, PHHA, MSOA · 3 July 2026

PROSPECT PA – The 2026 Pennsylvania fair racing season, featuring top state-sired two- and three-year-olds in the summerlong Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes, began this Wednesday and Thursday (July 1 and 2) at the Big Butler Fair in this westcentral Pennsylvania borough. The high heat playing havoc with the racing in much of North America caused […]

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First 2:00 mile ever at Butler (PA) Fair

By Harnesslink · 26 June 2023

PROSPECT, PA – The 2023 Pennsylvania harness racing fair circuit started on Saturday and Sunday in this west central Pennsylvania borough’s Big Butler Fairgrounds, and it debuted as auspiciously as possible – both cards got to be raced, and the oval saw the first two 2:00 miles in its history during Sunday’s sophomore action. The […]