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CORBIN, KY. — Broadcaster Bob Valvano is the radio color analyst for the University of Louisville men’s basketball and national games on ESPN as well as a sports-talk host on ESPN 680/105.7. But now he’s hot to trot to get behind a different microphone: Calling a harness racing dash at Cumberland Run this Sunday. Cumberland […]
CORBIN, Ky. — Cumberland Run launched its second live harness racing meet on a sun-soaked Sunday with 14 Kentucky Sires Stakes legs for 2-year-old trotters and pacers. Driving many of those horses were the sport’s biggest names, reflecting Kentucky harness racing’s upward trajectory. Yannick Gingras, inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 2022, […]
CORBIN, Ky. (Friday, Oct. 11, 2024) — Cumberland Run’s opening harness racing card Sunday features 14 Kentucky Sires Stakes races for 2-year-old trotters and paces. That the track had so many young Kentucky horses to fill the entire race program shows the resurgence of Kentucky’s standardbred circuit. The commonwealth’s third standardbred track, Cumberland Run races […]
CORBIN, Ky. — Mountains – or at least part of a foothill – had to be moved to create Cumberland Run harness racing track. But once built, the first horse-racing meet in southeastern Kentucky went off with few hitches. Cumberland Run’s 12-day meet wrapped up Tuesday. More than $1.4 million was paid out to horse […]
Cumberland Run in Kentucky held two $70,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes Finals for two-year-old harness racing trotters on Monday, October 30. The 3rd race was the $70,000 final for two-year-old trotting fillies that saw a wild battle for control of the early lead. Off the starting gate it was Chulita (Devon Tharps) go to the early […]
Corbin, Kentucky…October 29, 2023…The United States Harness Driver’s Club (USHDC) concluded their Sunday (Oct. 29) festivities at Cumberland Run with Jazmine Arnold pulling off an upset victory in the $12,000 amateur harness racing trot. Handling the New Zealand bred Cyclone Kiwi N (Jereme`s Jet) for owner-trainer Adam Short, Jazmin had her charge ready to roll […]
October 12, 2023…The United States Harness Drivers Club (USHDC), formerly known as the Florida Amateur Driving Club, has a huge weekend of harness racing ahead with four events scheduled at Shenandoah Downs on Saturday, October 14, followed by pair of races as Cumberland Run opens its fall season on Sunday, October 15. Shenandoah Downs Racing […]
CORBIN, Ky. (Friday, Oct. 13, 2023) — It will be a new track for horsemen but a familiar voice calling the races when Cumberland Run’s harness racing meet begins Sunday. Gabe Prewitt, the announcer at The Red Mile along with serving as the Lexington track’s vice president of racing operation and sports wagering, will be […]
CORBIN, Ky. (Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023) — The winningest horse trainer in North American history will be at Cumberland Run on Sunday to watch his four harness racing horses compete. No, trainer Steve Asmussen hasn’t branched out from thoroughbred racing. Rather it’s Ron Burke, who with 14,269 victories heading into Thursday is harness racing’s all-time […]
CORBIN, Ky. — (Monday, Oct. 9, 2023) — Cumberland Run opens this Sunday (Oct. 15), bringing live harness racing to southeastern Kentucky for the first time and giving the state a third standardbred track. Cumberland Run staged its harness meet the past two years at The Red Mile in Lexington while the five-eighths of a mile […]
Corbin, KY — The 2023 Cumberland Run harness racing meet is only a little over a month away. This year’s meet will be held at Cumberland Run located in Corbin, Ky. The meet will be from Oct. 15 through Nov. 7. Racing will be conducted each Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with a 1 p.m. post […]
Boston – (Aug. 22, 2023) – Today, DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) announced it has reached an agreement with ECL Corbin, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ECL Entertainment, LLC, dba The Mint Gaming Hall at Cumberland and Cumberland Run (“Corbin”) that gives the digital sports entertainment and gaming company access to operate mobile sports betting […]
CORBIN, KY, (Monday, Jan. 31, 2022) — Bringing horse racing back to Eastern Kentucky took another step forward today with the groundbreaking for Cumberland Run harness racing track. Cumberland Run and Cumberland Mint, a satellite historical horse racing venue in nearby Williamsburg, are a joint venture between Ron Winchell and Marc Falcone’s ECL Racing Management […]
