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Reincarnation is real in harness racing! The Florida Amateur Driving Club (FADC), declared dead at Pompano Park on April 17 of last year after the Governor of Florida signed the execution order for the track, has been reincarnated as the United States Harness Drivers Club (USHDC) with the rebirth taking place in Oak Grove Racing […]
Pompano Beach, FL – Sept. 25, 2022 – From Florence, Italy comes news that amateur harness racing driver Larry Ferrari has won the Centennial Amateur Championship contested at Rome, Torino and Florence. The Ohio native, representing the Great Lakes Amateur Driving Club and the Florida Amateur Driving Club, won the competition with a crafty drive […]
Though the Florida Amateur Driving Club (FADC) has been silenced somewhat by the closure of Pompano Park, the FADC has come up with a novel way to honor one of their own longtime harness racing members, Leon Cable. Cable passed away recently from complications of a stroke at the age of 70 but the FADC, […]
Pompano Beach, FL, April 11, 2022 – Harness racing Amateur competition continued on Sunday at Pompano Park with Ron Cusimano, Joe Pennacchio and Jamie Marra all reaching the winner’s circle. Cusimano completed the early daily double at The Pomp with a gate-to-wire win with Everyone’s Talkin, who he co-owns with Carlo Angelillo. The Jake Huff […]
Pompano Beach, FL, April 7, 2022 – With the match race between Pompano Park’s Gabe Prewitt and Gulfstream Park’s Pete Aiello now history, the final total raised for equine aftercare reached $39,490 as donations were received from many members of the Send It In Army, as well as matching donations from Horseshoe Indianapolis and Gulfstream […]
Pompano Beach, FL, March 14, 2022 – Rebellious, handled by Wally Hennessey and leaving from the outside post seven, out-muscled a trio of harness racing foes during a hot :26.3 opener and continued on top the rest of the way to win the $13,500 Open II Handicap Pace at Pompano Park on Sunday night (March […]
Pompano Beach, FL, March 7, 2022 – The highly anticipated Pro-Am series, sponsored by the Florida Amateur Driving Club, lured the largest crowd of the harness racing season at Pompano Park on Sunday night and witnessed the greatness of the legends as they up-ended the Amateur drivers 75-60 in the three-race series. Legends Wally Hennessey, […]
Pompano Beach, FL, March 5, 2022 – The highly anticipated Pompano Legends Pro-Am will take place on Sunday, March 6, at the famed South Florida harness racing oval as the Florida Amateur Driving Club (FADC) has put together a multi-race event with charities, ultimately, being the big winner. Pompano Park legends Dave Ingraham, Mickey McNichol, […]
Pompano Beach, FL, February 26, 2022 – The 2022 edition of the highly anticipated Italian-American Driver’s Challenge, sponsored by The Florida Amateur Driving Club, gets underway on Sunday in a two day-four race series featuring the top amateur drivers in Florida and across Atlantic waters. Of course, the big winners, once again, will be charity. […]
Team Tim Tetrick edged out Team David Miller by just one point to claim victory in the Pro-Am Challenge competition at Pompano Park Monday evening, but the real winners were the charitable beneficiaries New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program and Make-A-Wish Southern Florida. Pompano Beach, FL, February 15, 2022 – The annual Pro-Am event between teams […]
Pompano Beach, FL, February 8, 2022 – Toy’s For You, put to the test in search of his fourth straight harness racing win for owner-trainer Rick Plano, was up to the task on Monday night as the six-year-old Airzoom Lindy gelding held off a determined bid by Four Wheelin (Wally Hennessey) to score by a […]
Pompano Beach, FL…February 1, 2022… Don Cromer, Gary Barbere and Brian Calvert were the driving stars in their respective Florida Amateur Driving Club events on Sunday and Monday as each celebrated a milestone of sorts in their respective harness racing careers in the sulky. With the FADC only hosting three or four events weekly, Cromer […]
Pompano Beach, FL, December 21, 2021 – Amateur driver harness racing action continued at Pompano Park as the Florida Amateur Driver Club contested three events over Super Night and Monday with a dead-heat spicing up the heated action. The “heater” involved Steel Reserve, driven by Billy Muggleston, and Forbidden Song, with Brian Calvert handling his […]
Pompano Beach, FL, Dec. 14, 2021 – There just might be a misnomer regarding the Florida Amateur Driving Club (FADC). Yes, the word “amateur” can denote incompetence or being inept in a particular activity. But watching Dein Spriggs win with the Gus Scarpias owned and trained SVF Cash Deposit on Monday night highlighted another definition […]
