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After a drop in class last week that resulted in a harness racing win (1:51.3), Hickfromfrenchlick (So Surreal) moved up to handle the best at Yonkers Raceway Monday in the $36,000 Open-Handicap Pace. Starting from the rail for driver Jim Marohn, Jr., Hickfromfrenchlick (at odds of 8-1) scooted out to the early lead, but Great […]
Many years ago, it was not uncommon for fights to break out in the race paddock, in the barn area, even at some award dinners. Nowadays it’s a rare occurrence, but it did happen just a few weeks ago and the NJ Racing Commission issued three harness racing horsemen $500 fines each for the incident […]
At the May 6th Board of Directors meeting, the Standardbred Owners Association of New York (SOA) unanimously approved the motion made by harness racing director Ray Schnittker to donate $7,500 to the Standardbred Transition Alliance (STA). The STA is a non-profit organization with Federal 501(c) (3) status whose mission is to accredit, inspect and award […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Snowman Hanover (Bar Hopping) showed last Sunday he appreciated his reintroduction to harness racing trotting hopples with a victory in the Bobby Weiss Series final prelim for his sophomore male group, and in Sunday’s (April 30) $50,000 Weiss Championship he again was victorious, taking his field coast-to-coast in 1:58 over a sloppy […]
Scott Zeron earned the sixth Breeders Crown trophy of his career this past weekend when he guided Treacherous Dragon to victory for trainer Nancy Takter in the final for 3-year-old female pacers at Woodbine Mohawk Park, with the emphasis on “earned.” Zeron was sidelined for 10 weeks following an accident on July 26 that left […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – As the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen Association noted in its recap of harness racing baby qualifiers at Philly yesterday, this is probably the last writeup on the Pocono morning sessions for two-year-olds: some overnight races have contained freshmen; their fair stakes season starts next week; and their pari-mutuel stakes season begins the week […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Harness racing trainer Ray Schnittker and driver Mark MacDonald combined on a trio of winning sophomores during Wednesday morning qualifying competition at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. The Walner trotting filly Brickhouse Babe, second in the Doherty Final last year and a double winner in the Kindergarten Series, trotted her back […]
