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Inside the Phil Williamson camp

By Jerry Connors Jr · 14 January 2026

Phil Williamson can’t quite figure out Empire City (Volstead) at the moment. The former Group winner starts in tomorrows $40,000 Group Three Pryde’s Easifeed Southern Lights at Ascot Park, but hasn’t won since she was three. “She’s been way below her best form. We haven’t been able to put our finger on why she’s been […]

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Eileen Connors passes away at 74

By Jerry Connors Jr · 14 January 2026

Eileen Connors, wife of Communicators Hall of Famer Jerry Connors and office manager for Hall of Famer Max C. Hempt at Hempt Farms, passed away January 13 of the inevitable ongoing complications of dementia. She was 74. Eileen first saw harness racing when her mother Mary Jane took her and her brother David to their hometown York […]