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BLOOMSBURG PA – The final stop on the 2026 Pennsylvania Fair Circuit for harness racing took place this past Friday (two-year-olds) and Saturday (three-year-olds) at the historic Bloomsburg Fairgrounds oval in the northeast section of the state. With the conclusion of the season, the various divisional champions, the top eligibles for the $200,000 Pennsylvania Fair […]
MEYERSDALE PA – The second-to-last stop of the 2026 Pennsylvania Fair circuit was held at the Somerset County Fairgrounds in this borough located in southwestern Pennsylvania. This Saturday card for two-year-olds will be remembered as “the Miracle of Meyersdale,” as the dedicated local track crew talked with the horsemen about a tricky surface and picked […]
GRATZ PA – During the first 50 days of the 2026 Pennsylvania Fair Circuit schedule, only two days were wiped out due to inclement weather. Unfortunately, over the last 24, three cards have been lost – the two-year-olds entered to race at the Gratz (PA) Fair were washed out on Sunday, although their sophomore stablemates […]
GRATZ PA – The Gratz (PA) Fairgrounds, regarded as having one of the fastest ovals on the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit, held a Two-Day Fair Sire Stakes event this past Saturday and Sunday (September 5 and 6), and will also host the circuit’s trotting and pacing this coming weekend during its Fair meet (Sunday the 13th and […]
HARRISBURG PA – Harrah’s Philadelphia and Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, the two harness racing tracks in eastern Pennsylvania, will be hosting back-to-back $1.4M cards this Labor Day Weekend, with Philly (Sunday, 12:40) providing the stage for the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championships for three-year-olds and their respective consolation races, while on Monday at 1 p.m., […]
WATTSBURG PA – Once again the fair horseperson’s worst enemy – rain – hit the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit, this time in Wattsburg PA at the Erie County Fair in the northwest corner of the state, where the Sunday card for two-year-olds was raced, but then the next day’s program for three-year-olds was washed out. The […]
HARRISBURG PA – With the last preliminary rounds of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Pennsylvania Stallion Series completed on Sunday afternoon (August 30), there’s scant time to catch one’s breath before this coming Labor Day Weekend’s staging of the Championship events of these pari-mutuel programs for the premier Pennsylvania-sired two- and three-year-olds, in aggregate worth […]
MEADVILLE PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit ended a marathon week in the northwest portion of the state, at the Crawford County Fairgrounds in Meadville, for two days of Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes competition on Friday (two-year-olds) and Saturday (three-year-olds). A highlight of Opening Day was a special award ceremony honoring Lisa Dunn as “a […]
CHESTER PA – The two-year-old pacing filly JK Lady Liberty, by Captain Crunch out of 2014 Horse of the Year JK She’salady, became the only two-time Pennsylvania Sire Stakes winner in her section during Sunday’s third preliminary round for the state-sired horses at Harrah’s Philadelphia. JK LADY LIBERTY REPLAY JK Lady Liberty gradually made […]
MEYERSDALE PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit came to the Somerset County Fairgrounds in a southwestern borough of this state, just under 90 minutes southeast from Pittsburgh and almost within sight of the Mason-Dixon line. And the Meyersdale racing quickly became the Eric Neal Show, as the youthful veteran horseman, the 2023 Fair Circuit leader, […]
BEDFORD PA – The Captain Crunch sophomore pacing gelding Commander Crunch, purchased only nine days ago, equaled the all-age track record of 1:55.2 at the Bedford (PA) Fair during Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes competition for three-year-olds on Friday. 1:55.2 had been recorded by the filly Tiamogonedancen in 2021 and the gelding Captaincountrystar in 2023. Commander […]
CLEARFIELD PA — The Greenshoe sophomore gelding Tymal Kryptonite trotted the half-mile Clearfield (PA) half-mile oval in 2:01.2 on Monday afternoon, equaling the fastest trotting mile ever at this fairgrounds oval located two hours northeast of Pittsburgh. The 2:01.2 clocking kept the Clearfield trotting standard “all in the family,” as it was just under six […]
DAYTON PA — The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit swung right back into action with a “2-Day Fair Sire Stakes Event” at the Dayton Fairgrounds, with two-year-olds racing on Saturday and the three-year-olds in action the next day. The very first horse to post parade before the first race of the meet would turn out to be […]
PROSPECT PA – The 2026 Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes circuit is set to begin this Wednesday, July 1; the races for the Wednesday (two-year-olds) and Thursday (three-year-olds) cards were drawn Monday. It should be noted up front that first race post time for both days of the Butler racing has been reset to 11 a.m., […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Just as in the Bobby Weiss Series preliminaries for males, where only one trotter (Confident Volo) could be victorious in all three harness racing prelims, so the case proved to be in Tuesday’s third round $17,500 events of both Weiss series for females , as the trotting filly Concise swept all three […]
STATE COLLEGE PA – Pennsylvania’s fair horsepeople came together Saturday evening at the Nittany Lion Inn for the annual Pennsylvania Fair Awards Dinner, held in conjunction with meetings of the U.S. Trotting Association and the Pennsylvania Fair Harness Horsemen’s Association. Maestroed by USTA District Chairman Sam Beegle, the Dinner provides two sets of awards to […]
DAYTON PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes Circuit made its last stop of 2025 this past weekend at the Dayton Fairgrounds, about 60 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, where the final pointstandings champions were settled, and more importantly for many, which eight horses per division are in control of their own points destiny for their […]
GRATZ PA – The Stay Hungry sophomore gelding Fasting paced the fastest mile in the history of the Gratz Fair oval, 1:54.4, while winning his division’s “A” Sire Stake on Monday, the second day of the “fair meet” at the northcentral Pennsylvania oval, which had hosted a “2-day” harness racing event the previous weekend. Driver […]
GRATZ PA – The Pennsylvania fair racing circuit shifted to this Pennsylvania borough about 35 miles north of state capital Harrisburg for a “2-day event” on Saturday and Sunday, and the Schadel brothers Todd and Tony, already among the leaders on the circuit and here getting a taste of “home cooking,” were the dominant figures […]
MEADVILLE PA – The Pennsylvania fair circuit returned to the Crawford County Fairgrounds in this northwest Pennsylvania city on Saturday and Sunday, and perhaps it was the warmer weather and better surface (the track was rated “+2” the first day and “+3” the second), but the harness racing two-year-olds that opened the weekend generated the […]
DAYTON PA – The Pennsylvania fair harness racing circuit touched down for two days of racing on Wednesday and Thursday at the fairgrounds in this borough 60 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, where the themes of the stand were many repeat winners – and “B” level two-year-olds frequently bettering the clockings of their “A” counterparts. The […]
WASHINGTON PA – The Pennsylvania harness racing fair circuit commenced a very busy week with Fair Sire Stakes action on Sunday and Monday at the Washington County Fairgrounds, known as Arden Downs during its Grand Circuit heyday, in southwestern Pennsylvania, not far down the road from The Meadows. On Sunday the Stay Hungry – Pueblo […]
WATTSBURG PA – The Pennsylvania fair circuit began its busiest stretch of the entire summer with a Fair Sire Stakes meet on Saturday and Sunday at the Erie County Fairgrounds in this borough in the far northwest corner of Pennsylvania. The two-year-olds started the harness racing action off on Saturday, and the fastest performers on […]
BEDFORD PA – The Pennsylvania fair circuit pulled into this borough south and roughly halfway between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg for a two-card fair meet, but wet weather caused the Thursday harness racing card, to be devoted to two-year-olds, to have to cancel, the first of the Pennsylvania season. (Jake Hoover is soon due for better […]
