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Mike Girouard

Behind the Big M gate for the first time in two decades

By Ken Weingartner · 9 February 2024

When Michael Girouard climbs into the sulky for Friday’s first harness racing contest at The Meadowlands, it will be the Massachusetts native’s first drive at the Big M in 19 years. His next will come much quicker, just several hours later. Girouard is set to drive two horses from his seven-horse stable Friday at The […]

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Retiring racehorses went out winners

By Harnesslink · 14 January 2023

Soon after New Jersey-based trainer Bruce Lauer moved his harness racing stable to New York’s Vernon Downs for the summer of 2021, he found himself looking for horses to add to his group. He bought a 13-year-old named Peter Pumpkineater (Camluck-Disney Dawn) with the intention of racing the pacer for the remainder of the meet […]