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Grove City, OH – Driver Marvin Luna and trainer Tony Alagna teamed to win both $75,000 divisions of the fourth leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes for sophomore colt pacers at Northfield Park Racino on Monday (July 6). Luna drove Alagna trainee Myboypank to victory in 1:52.2 in the first division. It was the second OSS win […]
Fallout equaled the stakes and track harness racing record as driver Tim Tetrick and trainer Tony Alagna combined to capture the $1 million Metro Pace with the son of their 2012 winner, Captaintreacherous, on Saturday (Sep. 21) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Tim Tetrick floated the colt out from post five and dropped him in sixth […]
Marvin Luna is enjoying a rapid rise as a harness racing driver thanks to taking it slowly. The 22-year-old Luna began driving in 2020, but never topped 48 starts in a season until breaking out with 594 last year. He won 83 times in 2023, a nearly 14-percent clip, and guided his horses to $1.11 […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Meadowlands Pace morning brought with it another harness racing edition of Breakfast With The Babies sponsored by Jules Siegel’s Fashion Farms. Another overcast, muggy setting to begin with temperatures hovering near 80 degrees over a track listed fast but perhaps, at least at the start of the card, dulled by overnight […]
Tony Alagna will send two horses to Saturday’s $668,000 Meadowlands Pace, and although neither of his 3-year-old colts has posted a win this season, the harness racing trainer is happy with the way El Rey (Captaintreacherous) and Hungry Angel Boy (Stay Hungry-Angel Scent) have raced heading into the weekend. El Rey was second in last […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Breakfast With The Babies sponsored by Jules Siegel’s Fashion Farms at The Meadowlands went a day early this week (Friday, June 7), due to harness racing stakes scheduled on Saturday. An overcast, muggy setting was the weather to begin, temperatures hovering near 80 degrees with a mild helping wind in the […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Breakfast With The Babies, sponsored by Jules Siegel’s Fashion Farms, got underway on the morning of Saturday, July 1 under near perfect harness racing conditions. Temperatures were in the low 70’s under smoggy skies with virtually no wind. Before the babies got underway, Voukefalas (Lazarus N, J. Stratton) tuned up for […]
Hightstown, NJ — Tony Alagna got career training win 2,000 on Sunday (June 18) when Saldana Hanover (Captaintreacherous) won the fifth race at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. George Napolitano Jr. was in the sulky. The 3-year-old filly’s sire was Pacer of the Year for Alagna in 2012 and 2013 before becoming one of the […]
OAK GROVE, KY — While first-leg harness racing pacing winners I Did It Myway and Boudoir Hanover promise to be heavy favorites in their respective $50,000 second-round Kentucky Standardbred Development Fund (KSDF) stakes events for 4-year-olds on Monday (May 1) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel, Iwon’t Backdown As will have a host of […]
OAK GROVE, KY — Harness racing trainer Tony Alagna swept both pacing divisions of the first round of the Kentucky Standardbred Development Fund series for 4-year-olds when I Did It Myway and Boudoir Hanover powered to victory in their respective $50,000 events on Sunday (April 23) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel. Iwon’t Backdown […]
OAK GROVE, KY — I Did It Myway (Captaintreacherous-Flyme To The Moon) and Boudoir Hanover (Captaintreacherous-Bedroomconfessions), top-three finishers in the Breeders Crown in their 3-year-old season, are poised to kick off their 2023 harness racing campaigns on a high note in the first round of the Kentucky Standardbred Development Fund series for 4-year-olds, which opens […]
Ahundreddollarbill (Chapter Seven-Swinging Royalty), who has finished off the board only once in his past nine races, will look to make it back-to-back harness racing wins in the Open 2/Open 1 Handicap Trot at The Meadowlands when he faces nine rivals in the $45,000 event on Saturday (March 18). A 5-year-old gelding, Ahundreddollarbill was assigned […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Tony Alagna pupil El Rey (Captaintreacherous) burst onto the scene last week with a second-place finish in the Governor’s Cup elimination and affirmed his kingship with a catapulting move over his harness racing peers to take the $430,000 Governor’s Cup final, a race for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings, on Saturday […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Odds-on harness racing favorite Charleston braced for a pair of challengers in the final quarter but failed to withstand the fresh legs of Bellisima Hanover (Captaintreacherous), who burst from the pocket and claimed the cash in the $238,810 Kindergarten Classic final for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday night (Nov. 12) at […]
Trainer Tony Alagna will harness Hambletonian and Hambletonian Oaks hopefuls Fast As The Wind (Cantab Hall) and Pink Coco Chanel (Cantab Hall) in this year’s classics on Saturday (Aug. 6) at The Meadowlands. His rise to the forefront of harness racing success — which includes winning the 2020 Hambletonian with filly Ramona Hill — has […]
East Rutherford, NJ – The Meadowlands Saturday morning harness racing fan favorite Breakfast With The Babies (BWTB), sponsored by Fashion Farms, began at 9:00 AM today (June 18) under comfortable conditions for this time of year with temperatures in the 70’s and no rain in sight. The wind today was considerable and against the horses […]
CHESTER, PA – Four feature races, each worth $12,600, for developing harness racing horses of all varieties were the headliners at Harrah’s Philadephia on Friday afternoon. The recent Aussie import Spock A (Captaintreacherous) is now two for three Stateside after a wire-to-wire victory in 1:51.3, a new mark, in the feature division for pacing males. […]
Harness racing Standardbred breeder, Michelle Crawford, of Crawford Farms in New York and trainer, Tony Alagna, got together to speak out in favor of the restoration of freeze brands as a mandatory part of registration for all U.S. Standardbreds. They join the voices of harness racing’s winningest driver, Dave Palone, who was the first to […]
For the second straight week there was no stopping American History as he handled a class hike and captured the $34,500 Preferred Pace harness racing feature at the Meadowlands Saturday. It was race favorite Covered Bridge and driver Yannick Gingras who started off the tenth race feature on the lead but by the opening quarter […]
Hanover Shoe Farms is proud to announce the addition of 2020 Hambletonian Winner Ramona Hill to its broodmare band. Ramona Hill will be owned in partnership for her breeding career by Hanover Shoe Farms and Crawford Farms. Crawford Farms bred Ramona Hill and owned her for the duration of her racing career in partnership with […]
Lexington, KY — The 2021 campaign for Rockyroad Hanover has been a bit of a rocky road, but the 3-year-old harness racing colt pacer appears to be on the right path now following a career-best 1:48.1 victory in the $276,150 Cane Pace on Aug. 7 at The Meadowlands. The Tony Alagna trainee will now attempt […]
Manalapan, NJ – La Vie En Blanc is following in big hoof prints, but the 2-year-old female trotter made her first public appearance a winning one at Gaitway Farm on Monday. The filly, a half-sister to two-time Dan Patch Award-winner Ramona Hill, captured her debut qualifier in 2:00.2 with Andy McCarthy driving for trainer Tony […]
