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A major fire tore through one of the barns at Hanover Shoe Farms on Sunday, April 12, resulting in the loss of 12 horses in what has been described as a devastating incident for one of harness racing’s most iconic breeding operations. Initial reports indicated that 14 horses had perished in the blaze, but in […]
Hanover Shoe Farms suffered a devastating barn fire on Sunday April 12th sadly losing 14 horses but no personnel were injured and no outside owned horses were involved. We appreciate everyone that has expressed concern and would like them to know that the remaining horses from the barn involved are safe in the surrounding fields […]
Our newest stallion, Super Chapter, will stand for $10,000 (pending fertility test results). Super Chapter owned during his racing career by Jeffrey Snyder and Arthur Pronti, and trained by Marcus Melander, is by the dominant sire Chapter Seven out of Lifetime Pursuit (a $1 million winner of the Hambletonian Oaks in 2014) A winner of over […]
Videos for the 190 Hanover Shoe Farms yearlings selling at the Standardbred Horse Sale in Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 3-5 are now available. The videos can be viewed on both the farm website www.hanoverpa.com and the sales company website www.theblackbook.com. In addition, live pedigrees for these 190 yearlings are available on the farm website. Inspections of these yearlings can be done […]
Hanover Shoe Farms will offer the following harness racing yearlings in a unique opportunity selling at Preferred Equine Online– Friday, Sept. 5th to Monday, Sept 8th. *Click on name to preview/bid Trotters- *Allmymoni Hanover (International Moni-Alidade) B.C. A half-brother to Cruzado Dela Noche t,3,1:53.3f $1,383,639, So Not Cool t,3,1:54.3s $177,551 and Grandpa Erv t,1:58.1h $114,701; out of the family of Astraea Hanover t,3,1:54m $217,665 and Spill The […]
Hanover, PA — Hanover Shoe Farms will be selling 20 yearlings online in September. Ten will be offered by Preferred Equine Online on Monday (Sept. 8) and ten will be offered by onGait on Friday (Sept. 19). The groups consist of New Jersey, Ontario and Pennsylvania breds. There are two first foals and two are also […]
Hall Of Fame stallion Western Ideal p,5, 1:48 a son of Western Hanover out of the stakes winning harness racing mare Leah Almahurst passed away peacefully this morning at the age of 30. Bred by Brittany Farms, world champion pacer Western Ideal was foaled on May 23, 1995 in Versailles, Kentucky, and raced in 1997, […]
BJ’s Squall, dam of World Champion and the fastest harness racing horse, Bulldog Hanover p,4, 1:45.4m $2,419,000, died of age-related issues on Thursday (Jan. 23). She produced 15 foals in her broodmare career at Hanover Shoe Farms with Bulldog Hanover being her 14th foal, refuting the standard theory of older mares not producing good racehorses. […]
Hanover Shoe Farms, the southcentral Pennsylvania harness racing nursery which has produced the biggest money winners of every racing year since records began to be kept in 1949, has had an outstanding 2024, and have been honored for this fact by being selected the Dan Patch Breeder of the Year Award winner in a poll […]
On occasion, I get asked about how I come up with harness racing story ideas. Sometimes, it’s a suggestion and, sometimes, I see something happen and, bingo, a light goes off in what’s left of my brain these days. That’s what happened this time around when our local mom-and-pop hardware store closed. When I first […]
It is with a heavy heart that Hanover Shoe Farms announces Cantab Hall was humanely euthanized this morning due to arthritic disabilities. He was 22 and was elected to the Living Hall of Fame in Goshen, NY in 2018. During his racing career Cantab earned honors as 2003 Dan Patch Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the […]
The 2022 book for leading harness racing pacing stallion Captaintreacherous is now full and closed. In 2021 Captaintreacherous was the leading money winning sire of 2-year-old pacers with $3,358,498 earned. His 2021 2-year-old performers were led by Don’t Fence Me In (filly) p, 2, 1:50.2 ($345,782), Treacherous Dragon (filly) p, 2, 1;51.3 ($299,612), Hammerin Hank […]
Hanover Shoe Farms is pleased to announce that the 2022 book for Tall Dark Stranger is now full and closed. Tall Dark Stranger is the only harness racing pacer in history to win the Metro and Breeders Crown at two and the Meadowlands Pace and North American Cup at three. The 2020 Dan Patch Horse […]
Hanover Shoe Farms has announced that the 2022 book for trotting stallion Bar Hopping is now full and closed. From his very first crop, Bar Hopping was 2021’s leading sire of 3-year-old trotters by average earnings per start with $60,051 per start ($13,000 ahead of Chapter Seven and $28,000 ahead of Muscle Hill). Bar Hopping […]
Hanover Shoe Farms welcomed it first foal by 2020 Dan Patch Horse of the Year Tall Dark Stranger Tuesday morning February 1st. The filly is the 4th foal from the Western Ideal mare Livin Life, she a sister to World Champion I Luv The Nitelife p,3, 1:48.4f $1,944,667. “While Livin Life is somewhat of a […]
Hanover Shoe Farms is proud to announce the addition of 2020 Hambletonian Winner Ramona Hill to its broodmare band. Ramona Hill will be owned in partnership for her breeding career by Hanover Shoe Farms and Crawford Farms. Crawford Farms bred Ramona Hill and owned her for the duration of her racing career in partnership with […]
HARRISBURG, PA – The Keystone Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) have announced their annual awards for outstanding accomplishments by Pennsylvania or Pennsylvania-connected harness racing interests, both in 2021 and for some over a longer period of time. The Mary Lib Miller Award is named after the gracious and helpful wife of […]
Harrisburg, PA — What A Knockout packed the biggest punch in Thursday’s first session of the Standardbred Horse Sale’s Mixed Sale, with the 6-year-old broodmare selling for $595,000 to Hanover Shoe Farms. She was one of five broodmares, all trotters, purchased for at least $200,000 during the afternoon. What A Knockout, a daughter of Donato Hanover-Southwind […]
Hanover Shoe Farms is pleased to announce the addition of 2021 Hambletonian Winner Captain Corey to their 2022 Stallion Roster. A magnificent looking, long striding son of Googoo Gaagaa out of the Angus Hall mare Luv U All, Captain Corey is a former a $150,000 yearling purchase who blazed on the scene in June of […]
Hanover Shoe Farms has announced that harness racing World Champion Andover Hall has been retired from stallion duty. A foal of 1999, Andover Hall took his record of 1:51.3 at the age of three and earned over $870,000. He was named the Dan Patch 2-year-old Trotting Colt of the Year in 2001. A freak paddock […]
