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The road to the 100th edition of America’s Trotting Classic, the Grade 1 Hambletonian Stakes, begins Saturday (May 3) with the Grade 3 Dexter Cup for 3-year-old male trotters at The Meadowlands. The Dexter Cup is the season’s first Grand Circuit event for sophomore colt and gelding trotters and features four Hambletonian eligibles in the […]
It’s understood that two high profile American harness racing owners, Gordon Banks and Marc Hanover, will attend next month’s NZB Standardbred Sales in Auckland and Christchurch. “They sent me a text a week ago and it was along the lines that they’re coming to have a look. I’m sorry, they’re not going to come all […]
Hambletonian winner Karl (Tactical Landing) will not enter the Breeders Crown Three-year-old Colt Trot final this Saturday, as written by harness racing trainer Nancy Takter on Facebook today (Oct. 21). Takter reported that the stallion, who was placed up to fifth in the elimination, scoped sick. She wrote that, after consulting with veterinarians, the decision […]
Lexington, KY — Hambletonian winner Karl drew post 11 in the second tier for Sunday’s 132nd Kentucky Futurity for 3-year-old trotters at the Red Mile and was made the 6-5 morning-line favorite for harness racing trainer Nancy Takter and driver Yannick Gingras. . Karl has won nine of 11 races this season and earned $977,839. For […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – For the sixth time in the last seven years, all-source handle on the Hambletonian Day harness racing program at The Meadowlands topped $7 million, with the 2020 COVID-19 card the only one to fail to reach that plateau. Despite several downpours during the course of the day, a total of $7,427,223 […]
Since the end of last year, harness racing fans have looked forward to a third meeting between 3-year-old trotters Karl (Tactical Landing) and T C I (Cantab Hall). The award-winning colts split their two encounters in 2023, and after both beginning this season in May, will finally compete together in the same race on Saturday […]
There will be no matchup between the two top three-year-old harness racing trotting colts Karl and T C I this Saturday night (July 13) at The Meadowlands. They both drew into separate $135,000 divisions of the classic Stanley Dancer Memorial stake named after one of the greatest trainer-drivers in the sport. This could be the […]
It was just last week that Winner’s Bet (Walner) and harness racing driver Dexter Dunn set the track record at The Meadowlands in winning their $50,000 Graduate Trot division. Well, that track record fell by the wayside Saturday (June 21) at the Big M as once again, Winner’s Bet and Dunn scorched the mile oval […]
Bargain (Chapter Seven) was in front throughout and held off pocket-sitter Fly By in the stretch to win Friday night’s (June 21) lone $25,000 MGM Yonkers Trot elimination for 3-year-old harness racing colts and geldings at MGM Yonkers Raceway in 1:54.3. Driven by Yannick Gingras, Bargain shot out from post four and made the front […]
Hightstown, NJ — Dan Patch Award winner Karl (Tactical Landing), the No. 1-ranked harness racing horse in Meadowlands announcer/analyst Ken Warkentin’s Hambletonian Winter Book Top 10, will be among the stars making their first appearances of 2024 when The Meadowlands hosts 18 qualifiers Saturday morning. Two older male pacers with Dan Patch honors to their […]
Track announcer Gabe Prewitt said that harness racing driver Scott Zeron “must have ice water running through his veins” as he guided Tactical Approach (Tactical Landing) along the pylons, squeezing by horses to win the $450,000 131st Kentucky Futurity for three-year-old trotters Sunday (Oct. 8) afternoon at The Red Mile in Lexington, Kentucky. It was […]
Cannibal (Sweet Lou) and It’s My Show renewed their harness racing rivalry Tuesday (Aug. 22) at the Red Mile in the $80,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes third leg for three-year-old colt and gelding pacers. The 1st race co-feature saw race favorite It’s My Show (Scott Zeron) get out to the early lead only to have Cannibal […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – The Nancy Takter barn has been on a roll all year long at The Meadowlands, with 25 winners from just 69 starters coming into the weekend, and that outfit stayed hot Friday night (Jul. 14), winning four of the 12 leg one $30,000 harness racing divisions of the New Jersey Sire […]
When Nancy Takter thinks about her three horses heading to Saturday’s $668,000 Meadowlands Pace, she also remembers the days that led to the harness racing achievement. “That’s what we work for all winter when we sit outside and freeze our butts off,” Takter said. “We talk about days like the Meadowlands Pace. “Everybody is super […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Having made breaks in two of her three career parimutuel harness racing starts, it’s safe to say that the Nancy Takter-trained Another Like Me (Muscle Hill-Stubborn Belle) still has a lot to learn if she’s going to make an appearance in the Hambletonian Oaks on the first Saturday in August. On […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Trainer Nancy Takter has been on fire since the first of her harness racing students hit the mile oval at The Meadowlands on March 31, with nine winners from just 21 starts at the start of racing Friday night (Apr. 28). After the second race on the card, the blaze continued […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – The Nancy Takter harness racing stable is clearly thinking Hambletonian. Friday night at The Meadowlands, Takter sent out a pair of winners during the second leg of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for 3-year-old trotting colts and geldings, and both hit the wire in 1:51.4, the fastest time of the year […]
Plainville, MA — In his first start of the harness racing season, Groovy Man (Huntsville-Lets Groove Tonight) led at every station and captured the inaugural $100,000 Paul Revere pace on Thursday afternoon (April 28) as Plainridge Park welcomed back the Grand Circuit. Layton Hanover (Matt Kakaley) took the lead right off the gate before Groovy […]
After trading places on the lead early on in the race, Red Right Hand and harness racing driver Scott Zeron took command for good in capturing the $39,000 Open Handicap Pace at Yonkers Raceway Monday evening. The 10th race feature began with Funatthebeach (Jordan Stratton) getting parked to the opening quarter mile in :27.4 by […]
Point and shoot, that’s all harness racing driver Dexter Dunn had to do with Market Based as the son of Sweet Lou led from start to finish in the $146,700 Matron Stakes for two-year-old pacing colts held at Dover Downs Thursday. Starting from the rail, Market Based led the field to the first quarter in […]
WASHINGTON, PA, Aug. 12, 2021 — In tippling circles, a “keg stand” is a party stunt wherein a reveler performs a handstand atop a keg and sloshes down beer for as long as possible. The equine Keg Stand hasn’t done that, exactly, but he’s been turning harness racing fields upside down as he develops into a […]
The drawing for post positions took place this afternoon at the Meadowlands for the $1 million Hambletonian Trot and the $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks this Saturday afternoon. Here is the sires, drivers, trainers and morning line odds for the Hambletonian Trot Delayed Hanover (Southwind Frank) Dexter Dunn, Ake Svanstedt, 7-2 Take All Comers (Creatine) Dave Miller, […]
Coral Springs, FL – The United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) has combined resources with several of the leading people and organizations in the industry to co-sponsor the USHWA/Scott Alberg’s monthly handicapping contests on Facebook. The next event is this Saturday, August 7 (the Hambletonian), and feature s the overall first-place prize winner netting $500 in […]
Plainville, MA — Three time Breeders Crown champion Manchego will return to the scene of her 1:49.3 world record harness racing performance when she starts in the $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot at Plainridge Park on Sunday (July 25). The lone mare in the field will take on five formidable foes in the Grand Circuit event […]
