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(WOODSTOCK, VA — 2/20/2025) —- The Virginia Harness Horse Association (VHHA) announced that $800,000 in 2024 bonus monies were awarded to 2 and 3-year-old horses that participated in its lucrative Certified Residency program. A total of $400,000 was doled out to owners of 50 horses foaled in 2021 and another $400,000 to owners of 68 […]
(WOODSTOCK, VA — 11/27/2024) —- The Virginia Harness Horse Association (VHHA)’s deadline to register harness racing stallions for the Virginia Sired Stakes 2025 breeding season is December 1. Now three years old, the Sired Stake initiative complements the VHHA’s Breeder’s Fund Race program and Certified Residency program — in an effort to keep standardbred racing […]
(WOODSTOCK, VA — 8/22/2024) —- As Shenandoah Downs prepares for its September 14 harness racing season opener in Woodstock, fans will have a chance to win their share of a $5,250 purse in the popular Virginia Harness Horse Association’s (VHHA) “Own a Horse for a Day” contest on opening weekend. Eight contestants will be selected […]
(WOODSTOCK, VA — 1/25/2024) —- The Virginia Harness Horse Association announced that $700,000 in Certified bonus monies for foals of 2020 and 2021 will be distributed from races held in 2023 — a total of $300,000 for the 2020 crop, from 33 individual awards, and $400,000 for the 2021 crop, from 51 individual awards. Among […]
(WOODSTOCK, VA — 6/22/2023) — Racing applications for the 2023 fall harness racing season at Shenandoah Downs will be available beginning July 1 at shenandoahdowns.com. All horsemen wishing to compete in the eighth annual meet in Woodstock must fill out an application and return it to Racing Secretary Dee Lineweaver by August 1. The 7-week […]
WOOSTOCK, VA — 03/01/2023) —- The Virginia Harness Horse Association (VHHA) announced $500,000 in Virginia-Certified bonus awards were distributed among 67 two-and three-year-old harness racing horses that qualified for the residency program in 2022. Thirty awards, totaling $200,000, went toward 2019 foals while 37, totaling $300,000, were earmarked for 2020 foals. This year, 2023 foals […]
WOODSTOCK, VA, 2/14/2022 – The Virginia Harness Horse Association announced today that 25 Virginia-Certified horses from the 2019 foal crop — the first to be eligible in a new lucrative residency initiative — will share $200,000 in bonus monies. A total of 53 harness racing horses from that ’19 foal crop enrolled in the program, […]
WOODSTOCK, VA, 1/13/2022 – The Virginia Harness Horse Association (VHHA), which introduced a new Sired Stakes program in mid-November, announced that the number of stallions standing in the state has risen from five, in 2021, to twelve this year as a direct result of the initiative. The program, which starts with the 2022 breeding season […]
