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Goshen, NY – Treasured publicity icon and stakes administrator Moira Fanning looked out at the capacity crowd of well-wishers at Sunday (Dec. 7) night’s 66th Awards Banquet of the Monticello-Goshen Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA), presented by the New York Sire Stakes, and said, “We all know how important family is. Without my family, […]
Goshen, NY – Moira Fanning, a world-renowned administrator and publicist for the Hambletonian Society and Breeders Crown, will be the recipient of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) Monticello-Goshen Chapter’s Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual awards banquet in Campbell Hall, NY. Raised in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Fanning was bitten by the horse bug at […]
At the Annual August Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Hambletonian Society, Joe McLead, co-owner of Sugar Valley Farm in Delaware, Ohio was elected to the Society Board. McLead, 51, comes by his harness racing heritage as a third-generation horseman born and raised in the hotbed of the sport, Delaware, Ohio, home to […]
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 […]
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – America’s Day at the Races, the acclaimed national television show produced by the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) in conjunction with FOX Sports, will present live harness racing coverage of the Breeders Crown on Friday and Saturday from Woodbine Mohawk Park in Campbellville, Ontario. The $7 million Breeders Crown, harness […]
Charlie Keller III was a generous and benevolent man in life, who passionately supported the sport of harness racing. Besides carrying on the legacy of his father’s Yankeeland Farms breeding and racing empire, he was an accomplished athlete and a devoted supporter of the racing industry. His many contributions included serving as a director of […]
CRANBURY, NEW JERSEY, October 18, 2022– Entries for the $6.7 million Breeders Crown events saw 174 of the sport’s top harness racing trotters and pacers enter to qualify for the rich finals on Friday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 29 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. All purses are US dollars. There were 66 2-year-olds entered, yielding […]
Once online entries were closed this morning, there are 18 harness racing colts & geldings and 2 fillies entered in the 97th edition of $1,000,000 Hambletonian Trot to be raced Saturday, August 6 at The Meadowlands Racetrack. The two fillies entered, Joviality S (Chapter Seven) and Jiggy Jog S (Chapter Seven) follow 165 previous hopefuls, […]
Cranbury, NJ — The Hambletonian Society, which owns and administers the $6.7 million Breeders Crown year-end championship harness racing series, has created a special stallion fee deadline that will provide eligibility to the Breeders Crown program for a limited number of North American foals by foreign stallions. Stallion nomination has been the cornerstone of Breeders […]
The $6.7 million (USD) Breeders Crown, harness racing’s richest and most prestigious year-end divisional championship series, returns in the last weekend of October 2022 to Woodbine Mohawk Park in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada. All Breeders Crown divisions are now guaranteed at $600,000, with the exception of the Open Mare Pace and Trot which have been raised […]
LEXINGTON, KY – The ‘Breedings for a Cause’ charity auction at Wednesday’s Lexington Selected Yearling Sale saw eight of the most sought-after breedings in the harness racing sport bring a record total of $207,000 for the ‘Breeders Crown Charity Challenge’ pot. The 2021 Challenge, presented by the Libfeld-Katz breeding partnership, is on track to outpace […]
