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Riley Harrison admits that harness racing wasn’t on her radar at all as a young person. Nor was she aware that her distant relative Kelvin Harrison was a famed standardbred trainer in America. “I’ve only just found out this stuff since I’ve been in harness racing,” she said. After finishing high school at Rangi Ruru, […]
When Bill Harrison scored his first harness racing driving victory on June 7, 2024, at The Meadowlands, it was a New Zealand trifecta, so to speak. Bill, 36, is the son of longtime New Jersey trainer and New Zealand native Kelvin Harrison, and when he steered the pacer Yer So Bad, a son of Roll […]
Late Wednesday (Jan. 9) night, harness racing owner-trainer-driver Jim Slendorn electronically entered his three horses to race at the Meadowlands this coming weekend. By noontime he was not a happy man. “To be honest with you,” said Slendorn. “I’m kinda disappointed. “I called the race office later that morning,” Slendorn explained, “to see if a […]
They say the only thing about common sense in harness racing is that unfortunately, the application of it is not very common. That saying rings true in every sense of the word as information comes to light about a group of high-profile horsemen in North America facing historical charges relating to the application of phenylbutazone […]
