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WASHINGTON, PA, July 21, 2023 — Jim King, Jr. has trained such champions as 2019 Horse of the Year Shartin and two-time Dan Patch Award winner Lyons Sentinel. He guided Captain Cowgirl to consecutive Pennsylvania Sires Stake titles. Yet somehow, in a harness racing training career spanning nearly 8,000 starts, he’s never had a horse […]
The King Stable knows the thrill of winning the Pepsi North America Cup, having captured the 2015 edition of the million-dollar race for 3-year-old pacers with Wakizashi Hanover in an upset over Wiggle It Jiggleit. On Saturday, the stable will return to Woodbine Mohawk Park for a North America Cup final for the first time […]
Life’s a puzzle! Things happen in harness racing without rhyme or reason and fate takes over leading one down a path…sometimes a trying path and sometimes into success beyond one’s wildest dreams. Jim King, Jr. is in full stride as one of the most successful harness racing trainers in recent years and hopes that his […]
Backstreet Shadow (Shadow Play) showed his harness racing back class and won the $27,500 Blue Hen Open Handicap Pace at Bally’s Dover on Thursday night, January 12, 2023. After being a disappointment in 3 previous tries, Backstreet Shadow, the betting favorite with Tim Tetrick driving, rewarded his backers and trainer Jim King Jr with the […]
Lyons Sentinel headlines the $40,000 Invitational-Handicap Pace for harness racing mares on Wednesday at Dover Downs but will have to overcome an outside post to get the job done. Without the presences of Rocknificent, who had beaten Lyons Sentinel in her last two starts in the Breeders Crown, Lyons Sentinel is the 5/2 morning line […]
Anthony MacDonald’s Thestable Three Point Group risked investing a $20,000 supplemental fee to enter their horse, Threepointbluechip in the $179,200 Matron Stakes for two-year-old trotting colts at Dover Downs on Thursday. The investment paid off with dividends. After some early shuffling on the lead, Threepointbluechip was able to take command for driver James MacDonald and […]
Hightstown, NJ — In 2019, harness racing trainer Jim King Jr. saw his pacing mare Shartin N spend every week ranked No. 1 in the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll on her way to being named the Dan Patch Award’s Horse of the Year. On Tuesday, Lyons Sentinel, another pacing mare from King’s training stable, took […]
CHESTER, PA — Off the strength of wins in a pair of six-figure events, the Clara Barton and the Lady Liberty, Threelyonsracing’s Lyons Sentinel ($2.60) rolled into Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday (Aug. 22) to take on a new challenge – male rivals. And she made sound work of them, circling from third-over to post a […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ— Driver Tim Tetrick commandeered his harness racing competition with the 4-year-old Captaintreacherous mare Lyons Sentinel and delivered as the 4-5 favorite in the $160,000 Artiscape Pace, lowering the track and world record in the process on Saturday (July 3) at The Meadowlands. Floating off the car in a five-horse charge for the […]
