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Anderson, IN — Harrah’s Hoosier Park played host to a pair of Grade 1 harness racing events on Friday (Sept. 18), with local hero Swan Good Bi (Swan For All) staying perfect on the season in the $475,100 Peter Haughton Memorial, for 2-year-old trotting colts, and Birr Castle heading a Marcus Melander-trained trifecta in the […]
Anderson, IN —Harrah’s Hoosier Park’s will play host two a pair of Grade 1 harness racing events on Friday, (Sept. 18), with the $475,100 Peter Haughton Memorial and $483,350 Jim Doherty Memorials for the sport’s top 2-year-old trotters headlining the 15-race program which gets underway at 5:30 p.m. A full field of 10 will go postward […]
ANDERSON, Ind.—Sept. 13, 2024 – Driver Dexter Dunn made his way to Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday, Sept. 13 and swept the two richest harness racing events in the state of Indiana, taking the $390,000 Peter Haughton Memorial with Maryland (Chapter Seven-Crucial), before Champagne Problems (Tactical Landing-Miss Caviar) scored in the $305,000 Jim Doherty Memorial. […]
Hightstown, NJ — More often than not, Anders Ström’s Courant Inc. is the sole owner of the yearlings he buys. But when it came to 2-year-old male trotter Maryland (Chapter Seven), Ström decided the more, the merrier. And after watching the Marcus Melander-trained Maryland romp to victory in the $425,500 William Wellwood Memorial last month […]
ANDERSON, Ind.—Sept. 10, 2024— Harrah’s Hoosier Park will play host to two of the premier harness racing stakes in North America for two-year-old trotters for the second straight year with the Peter Haughton and Jim Doherty Memorials on Friday, Sept. 13. Two full fields of 10 will go postward in each race, with a number […]
T C I (Cantab Hall) took over the lead approaching the half and was never headed as he improved his record to eight harness racing wins from nine starts taking the $420,000 Peter Haughton Memorial for two-year-old colt and gelding trotters at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday night (Sept. 14th). There was plenty of early […]
Hightstown, NJ — Patience is a virtue in the harness racing breeding business, which Richard Arnold fully appreciates. Arnold spent more than a decade building a successful cattle farm in Tennessee, and decades later, added a Standardbred breeding operation at his Willow Oak Ranch. He purchased his first yearling, a trotting filly named Mississippi Beauty, […]
Anderson, IN — He may not be a harness racing household name outside of Ohio, but Spaaaanzano (Coraggioso-Grace N Charlie) will seek to remedy that situation when he makes his first foray outside of his home state and his first Grand Circuit appearance on Friday (Sept. 15) in the $420,000 Peter Haughton Memorial at Harrah’s Hoosier […]
Among the many admirable qualities possessed by harness racing trotting filly Ponda Title (Muscle Massive-Elin), perhaps the most valuable is the one not readily visible: The desire to win. Ponda Title has five victories in seven races this season (with a second and third in her two setbacks) and $138,670 in purses, a total that […]
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 […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Kilmister (Chapter Seven) extended his undefeated streak to four with a potent rally to win the $337,000 Peter Haughton Memorial, the first harness racing step on the unofficial “Road to the 2023 Hambletonian,” on Saturday afternoon (Aug. 6) at the Meadowlands. The Haughton, for 2-year-old trotters, provides an early clue — […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – A single $20,000 harness racing elimination was necessary for both the Peter Haughton Memorial for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings and the Jim Doherty Memorial for freshman trotting fillies at The Meadowlands Friday night (Jul. 30), with one result predictable and the other not so much. Both stakes events will have […]
This weekend at The Meadowlands, harness racing trainer Ray Schnittker aims for a spot in the Peter Haughton Memorial final with King Of The North while Jim Campbell looks to advance to the Hambletonian final with Take All Comers and Erv Miller eyes the Hambletonian Oaks final with Swift Swanda. Schnittker hasn’t had a Peter […]
