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CORBIN, KY. — Broadcaster Bob Valvano is the radio color analyst for the University of Louisville men’s basketball and national games on ESPN as well as a sports-talk host on ESPN 680/105.7. But now he’s hot to trot to get behind a different microphone: Calling a harness racing dash at Cumberland Run this Sunday. Cumberland […]
CORBIN, Ky. — Cumberland Run launched its second live harness racing meet on a sun-soaked Sunday with 14 Kentucky Sires Stakes legs for 2-year-old trotters and pacers. Driving many of those horses were the sport’s biggest names, reflecting Kentucky harness racing’s upward trajectory. Yannick Gingras, inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 2022, […]
CORBIN, Ky. — Mountains – or at least part of a foothill – had to be moved to create Cumberland Run harness racing track. But once built, the first horse-racing meet in southeastern Kentucky went off with few hitches. Cumberland Run’s 12-day meet wrapped up Tuesday. More than $1.4 million was paid out to horse […]
