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PROSPECT PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit for harness racing, featuring the Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes program, began its 2025 season on Wednesday and Thursday at The Big Butler Fair in this westcentral Pennsylvania borough. There were eight dashes for two-year-olds programmed on Wednesday, and since no entrant had yet gained a victory, there were […]
HARRISBURG PA – Last Friday during a twilight harness racing card at The Meadows, the eight divisional Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes champions were crowned at the end of their respective $25,000 finales. Here is a statistical summary of the evening: –The two three-year-old pacing winners repeated as divisional Champions: the male Ante Up Hanover (Betting […]
WASHINGTON, PA, Oct. 12, 2024 — Pennsylvania Fairs championship night Friday at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows was transformed into the “Schadel Show,” as brothers Todd Schadel and Tony Schadel — racing their stables separately — captured a combined five harness racing titles. That includes five championships as owners/trainers and three winning drives among those […]
HARRISBURG PA — $200,000 will be on the line at Hollywood Gaming at The Meadows on Friday night, October 11, as the Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes Championships will be contested on a harness racing card starting at 5:10 p.m. Each of eight divisions of stakes horses, earning their way into the Championships based on high […]
HARRISBURG PA – It is part of Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes tradition that the harness racing horse accumulating the most points based on order of finish (“A” division races) at the nineteen stops on the circuit be awarded a special blanket noting the achievement, and made with the stable colors, at the Pennsylvania Fair Banquet, […]
GRATZ PA – The male pacer Ante Up Hanover (Betting Line) and the female trotter Little Town Road (Fordham Road), both 2023 Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes Championship race winners, were the harness racing speed stars during the meeting on Sunday and Monday at Gratz in eastcentral Pennsylvania, the next-to-last stop on the circuit this year […]
HARRISBURG PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Harness Racing Circuit will have its final two stops of the 2024 season this week: racing will take place on Sunday and Monday at noon at the Gratz (PA) Fairgrounds, and then the season closes at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday (October 20-21), with an 11 a.m. […]
GRATZ PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes series came to this eastcentral borough on Friday and Saturday as the first of the season-ending cards “in the east” that has this 2-Day event followed by the Gratz Fair harness racing this coming weekend and then concluding at Bloomsburg. The two-year-olds got the action going on […]
STONEBORO, PA – The females were the stars of the harness racing show at the last fair on the “western swing” of the Pennsylvania fair racing season, rewriting the record books on Thursday (two-year-olds) and Friday (three-year-olds) at the Stoneboro Fairgrounds at this northwest Pennsylvania oval. It may even be unprecedented to have the first […]
WATTSBURG, PA – The sophomore Stay Hungry gelding Rose Run Zeke came within a fifth of a second of tying the all-age record at the Erie County Fair in this northwest Pennsylvania borough, crossing the wire in 2:00.2 during Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes “A” competition on Tuesday (Aug. 27). The harness racing record of 2:00.1 […]
WASHINGTON, PA, Aug. 22, 2024 — When it comes to Pennsylvania’s class of 2-year-old filly harness racing pacers, there’s no doubt that the valedictorian is Papi Grad (Papi Rob Hanover–Betterthangraduate). In Friday’s $178,632 final Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PASS) preliminary leg at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, Papi Grad will attempt to stretch her career unbeaten […]
DAYTON, PA – A major theme running through the two days of Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes at the Dayton Fairgrounds was the quantity of horses who already had a nice number of fair wins adding to their totals, especially on Wednesday, when the two-year-olds raced. In the colt divisions, trainer/driver Todd Schadel had a couple […]
BEDFORD, PA – Two-year-olds and females (plus Sam Beegle) took the lion’s share of the spotlight during the 2-Day Fair Sire Stakes meet at Bedford (PA) on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the freshman divisions all getting fair season’s records and the “girls” going faster than the “boys” in all four of the “A” Fair Sire […]
BEDFORD, PA – On Friday afternoon (July 19) at the Bedford (PA) Fair, the harness racing three-year-old Fordham Road filly Loveyoubunches won a Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes event in 1:58.1 – the fastest mile by age, sex, and gait in the history of the Pennsylvania fairs, knocking a tick off the standard set by Plumb […]
CLEARFIELD, PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit swung into the fairgrounds in this northcentral Pennsylvania borough for its only four-day harness racing stand of the year, with two-year-olds on Sunday and Monday and three-year-olds the following two cards. It would be unwieldy to report on 32 heats in one wrap-up story, so this report summarizes […]
HUGHESVILLE, PA – The harness racing horses and horsepeople to be racing at the Lycoming County Fair in this northcentral Pennsylvania borough for the most part had two kinds of luck – not-so-good, and then bad. The two-year-old program set for Wednesday afternoon was raced, but the early clockings led to the revelation that the […]
STONEBORO, PA – Chatty Vanessa (Captain Ahab) paced the fastest harness racing mile, 1:59.3, during a Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes two-day session at the Stoneboro (PA) Fairgrounds in this northwest Pennsylvania borough on Friday and Saturday, while another pair of sophomore pacers, one male and one female, became the first performers to post two triumphs […]
PROSPECT, PA – The 2024 Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes circuit is set to begin this Tuesday, June 25, with the harness racing season to open at the Big Butler Fairgrounds in this west central Pennsylvania borough. Pennsylvania law provides for a set of Fair Sire Stakes during the operating period of each applying fair in […]
Harness racing driver Andy Miller and trainer Cody Schadel teamed up to win three Pennsylvania Fair Finals races on Monday afternoon (Oct. 9) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. There were eight Fair Finals on the card on the day, each carrying a purse of $25,000. Miller and Schadel won the very first final of […]
PROSPECT, PA – After losing its Wednesday harness racing program for two-year-olds due to unhealthy air quality, the Big Butler Fair in this westcentral Pennsylvania borough bounced right back with a vengeance when the three-year-old program was raced on Thursday (June 29). Three 2022 Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes Champions won in back-to-back-to-back races, and over […]
PROSPECT, PA – The 2023 Pennsylvania harness racing fair circuit started on Saturday and Sunday in this west central Pennsylvania borough’s Big Butler Fairgrounds, and it debuted as auspiciously as possible – both cards got to be raced, and the oval saw the first two 2:00 miles in its history during Sunday’s sophomore action. The […]
PROSPECT, PA – The 2023 Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes harness racing circuit is set to begin this Saturday, June 24, with the season to open at the Big Butler Fairgrounds in this west central Pennsylvania borough. Pennsylvania law provides for a set of Fair Sire Stakes during the operating period of each applying fair in […]
WASHINGTON, PA — Bettor Strait N Up (Betting Line) needed a gritty stretch drive to do it, but she captured Friday’s (Oct. 8) $25,000 Pennsylvania Fairs championship for 3-year-old filly pacers at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, completing her unprecedented PA Fairs “Double Double.” She became the first horse in fairs history to win both […]
GRATZ, PA – Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes harness racing stayed at the local fairgrounds in this east central Pennsylvania borough this past Sunday (Sep. 18) and Monday (Sep. 19), with the regular fair meet following the special “2-day Sire Stakes” event the previous week. And the speed show continued, as for the second straight week […]
