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Anderson, IN —Harrah’s Hoosier Park’s will play host two a pair of Grade 1 harness racing events on Friday, (Sept. 18), with the $475,100 Peter Haughton Memorial and $483,350 Jim Doherty Memorials for the sport’s top 2-year-old trotters headlining the 15-race program which gets underway at 5:30 p.m. A full field of 10 will go postward […]
Hightstown, NJ – Sam Eicher calls his homebred Michigan-stakes harness racing star Westwinds Yahtzee (Celebrity Pegasus) a blessing, and the breeder-owner is happy for the opportunity to roll the dice with her in Friday’s $464,400 Grade 1 Jim Doherty Memorial, for 2-year-old female trotters, at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. Westwinds Yahtzee, who has five wins and […]
ANDERSON, Ind.—Sept. 13, 2024 – Driver Dexter Dunn made his way to Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday, Sept. 13 and swept the two richest harness racing events in the state of Indiana, taking the $390,000 Peter Haughton Memorial with Maryland (Chapter Seven-Crucial), before Champagne Problems (Tactical Landing-Miss Caviar) scored in the $305,000 Jim Doherty Memorial. […]
ANDERSON, Ind.—Sept. 10, 2024— Harrah’s Hoosier Park will play host to two of the premier harness racing stakes in North America for two-year-old trotters for the second straight year with the Peter Haughton and Jim Doherty Memorials on Friday, Sept. 13. Two full fields of 10 will go postward in each race, with a number […]
Soiree Hanover (Walner) parlayed last week’s New Jersey Classic Final win into an even bigger harness racing victory, taking the $400,000 Jim Doherty Memorial for two-year-old trotting fillies in Grand Circuit action at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday night (Sept. 15th). In rein to Tim Tetrick, Soiree Hanover survived a brief scare entering the opening […]
Among the many admirable qualities possessed by harness racing trotting filly Ponda Title (Muscle Massive-Elin), perhaps the most valuable is the one not readily visible: The desire to win. Ponda Title has five victories in seven races this season (with a second and third in her two setbacks) and $138,670 in purses, a total that […]
Two of the richest and most prominent 2-year-old Grand Circuit harness racing events – the Peter Haughton Memorial Trot for colts and geldings and the Jim Doherty Memorial (formerly the Merrie Annabelle) for trotting fillies will have a new home in 2023. Harrah’s Hoosier Park, which has one of the wealthiest open stake programs in […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – A single $20,000 harness racing elimination was necessary for both the Peter Haughton Memorial for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings and the Jim Doherty Memorial for freshman trotting fillies at The Meadowlands Friday night (Jul. 30), with one result predictable and the other not so much. Both stakes events will have […]
