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Mark MacDonald is currently recovering from an accident that occurred last month at Yonkers Raceway. The decorated harness racing driver will return no worse for wear, but the question isn’t just a matter of when. It’s also a matter of where. MacDonald, a native of P.E.I. native and two-time O’Brien Award winner as Canada’s Driver […]
Nows The Moment (Credit Winner) and harness racing driver Mark MacDonald took no prisoners at odds of 6-1 and wired the field in capturing the $39,000 co-feature Invitational Trot at Yonkers Raceway Thursday, June 13. The 8th race feature saw MacDonald leave with Nows The Moment from the rail and with Sea Can (Yannick Gingras) […]
OAK GROVE, KY — Harness racing driver John MacDonald motored 10-1 shot No Lou Zing (Sweet Lou) for the lead and kept chugging on the engine to claim the $30,000 Open Pace on Monday (April 15) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel. Leaving from post 3, No Lou Zing seized control to a :26 […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – On a warm Sunday evening (May 28) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania which all but required harness racing winners to be on or near the pace, driver Mark MacDonald moved Hunting Season (Huntsville) to the top in front of the stands and went on to win the $15,000 distaff pacing feature […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Snowman Hanover (Bar Hopping) showed last Sunday he appreciated his reintroduction to harness racing trotting hopples with a victory in the Bobby Weiss Series final prelim for his sophomore male group, and in Sunday’s (April 30) $50,000 Weiss Championship he again was victorious, taking his field coast-to-coast in 1:58 over a sloppy […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Bestfriend Volo and Moni Book have stamped themselves as the horses to beat in the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-old harness racing trotting colts, winning their second straight preliminary Sunday evening (April 16) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania while both taking new identical marks of 1:55. The Walner gelding Bestfriend Volo […]
When the first elimination hits the track for the $641,550 77th edition of the Little Brown Jug on Thursday (Sept. 22), harness racing history will again be made by the MacDonald brothers. Anthony and Mark MacDonald will become just the third set of brothers to drive against each other in the pacing classic, joining Dana […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA — The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono hosted a pair of $17,500 fast-class harness racing events, one on each gait, over a sloppy track in mid-40s temperatures on Kentucky Derby Day, with Rebellious closing to take the pacing contest and Scirocco Rob game to win a photo in the trot. Rebellious, despite good […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Harness racing trainer Ray Schnittker and driver Mark MacDonald combined on a trio of winning sophomores during Wednesday morning qualifying competition at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. The Walner trotting filly Brickhouse Babe, second in the Doherty Final last year and a double winner in the Kindergarten Series, trotted her back […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – For the second straight Sunday at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, pacesetting Tempura Hanover held off the challenge of pocket sitting Alta Madeira N, winning the $17,000 distaff harness racing feature in 1:53.1. Driver Mark MacDonald buzzed the daughter of Captaintreacherous around her main foe early, getting to the quarter in […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Lovedbythemasses came into the featured $31,500 Preferred for harness racing trotters at The Meadowlands Friday night off a 47-day layoff, so driver Mark MacDonald wasn’t going to overdrive the Jeff Cullipher trainee. “He was off for a month,” said MacDonald, “so we weren’t going to use him too much early.” He […]
East Rutherford, NJ – The Meadowlands’ Andrew “Shades” Demsky is working with 2021 Meadowlands Pace winning harness racing driver Mark MacDonald on a new web series titled “Mark On Mic.” Each week MacDonald will be mic’d up for a race and fans will get to dive inside Mark’s mind and here his thoughts in real […]
Deal The Cards is perfect through five starts in his four-year-old year following another harness racing win at Yonkers Raceway on Tuesday. Mark Macdonald opted for front-stepping tactics for his fourth consecutive drive aboard the son of Captaintreacherous, putting him on the front from post five in a :27.4 first quarter. After a two-wide effort […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – On a Saturday afternoon that wasn’t very hospitable to front-end speed or very fast times, Hickfromfrenchlick defied both “norms” by taking the $15,700 pacing feature in 1:49.4 while ahead every step of the mile. Driver Mark MacDonald had the son of So Surreal firing away out of the gate from the rail […]
