WILKES-BARRE, PA – Eleven two-year-old harness racing qualifiers were held Wednesday morning (June 5) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with Team Schadel – driver Todd and trainer/son Cody – combining to sweep the two baby colt trots and also produce the fastest winner of the day. The quickest of the freshmen was the Schadels’ […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Ten fields of two-year-olds went behind the harness racing starting gate at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Wednesday (June 6) morning – two divisions for colts of each gait, and three each for their filly counterparts. The biggest winner in the freshman qualifiers was trainer/driver Todd Schadel, who sent out three […]
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 […]
GRATZ, PA – It’s not unusual for two-year-olds to turn in spectacular performances on the Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes circuit – 14 of the year’s 17 divisional harness racing track records this year have been notched by the frosh – but it’s unusual to see two-year-olds go outright faster than their three-year-old contemporaries. Such was […]
HONESDALE PA – Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes rules allow for a set of PaFSS races at every fair applying and qualifying, along with five “two-day Sire Stakes events” away from the actual fair harness racing dates. The Wayne County Fairgrounds in this northeastern Pennsylvania city has harnessed both possibilities together, with the 2-day meet having […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Harness racing trainer/driver Todd Schadel had a pair of repeat winners among his three tallies in the trotting fillies section (and he owns a piece of all of them) during fourteen two-year-old qualifiers held Wednesday morning (into the afternoon) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. Here’s a look at all the […]
CHESTER, PA – Finding the pocket early and riding along the good drafting trip has been a key to success at Harrah’s Philadelphia early in the harness racing meet, with almost 40% winners from the two-hole, including Terry A Hanover in the $14,400 pacing feature on Friday at the southeast Pennsylvania oval. A son of […]
WASHINGTON, PA, Oct. 7, 2021 — Friday’s $200,000 Pennsylvania Fairs championships at The Meadows bring together the finest 2- and 3-year-old harness racing performers from across the Keystone State, yet the event could become a showcase for trainer/driver Todd Schadel. Schadel will send out 12 horses in the eight races, which he says probably is […]
CLEARFIELD, PA – One horse set a divisional track record, and several others burnished their credentials during the only four-day harness racing stop on the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit, the Clearfield County Fair , slightly west of the center of the sprawling state. The altered line in the local record book took place during the last […]
HARVEY’S LAKE, PA – On Thursday, rain swept through northeast Pennsylvania and forced the cancellation of the harness racing Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes at the Silver Springs Ranch, about a half-hour away from Pocono. On Friday, Todd Schadel swept through Silver Springs Ranch – and proceeded to have a hand in every one of the […]