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Allerage Farms is pleased to announce that the 2024 Breeders Crown winning 2-year-old filly trotter Lady Landia 2, 1:53.3 $426,300 has a sister. Born May 9, “Spice” as she’s known in the barn, is a darker spitting image of her accomplished full sister. Both are daughters of Tactical Landing from Seventimesalady. The breeders are Little […]
East Rutherford, NJ – The Meadowlands is pleased to announce that beginning with the 2025 edition, the Graduate Series finals will be titled to memorialize Stanley F. Bergstein. For over fifty years, Stan Bergstein was “The Man” in Harness Racing, passionately guiding the sport he loved through times of tremendous growth. Bergstein was a writer, […]
East Rutherford, NJ – The Kindergarten series has a fresh look for 2025. Originally conceived to assure races for 2-year-olds that are not top horses or getting started a bit later than others, the purse for the finals had risen to the point that the quality of the horses competing gradually eclipsed that level. Also, The Meadowlands […]
Nichols, NY – Harness racing applications for both Tioga and Vernon Downs are now available at each track’s website. These must be completed, signed and returned before entering to race at either track. Should you desire to stable at the track, the sooner you get them in, the better. Deadlines for both are March 15. […]
Nichols, NY – Tioga Downs is something of a departure from the current norm in harness racing. The fact of the matter is that the facility itself is rather unique, a casino resort that features horse racing as the centerpiece of the experience. The track is a five eighths mile oval with a safe and kind surface, […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Live harness racing returned to The Meadowlands this morning with 19 qualifying races, held on a lovely day under clear skies with a considerable homestretch head wind when they began at 9:00am that dissipated as the day wore on, and on. Larry Fox was at the mic to call the action. […]
East Rutherford, NJ – The curtain came down on the 2024 harness racing edition of Breakfast With The Babies, so graciously sponsored each season by Jules Siegel under his Fashion Farms nom de course, on a sunny Friday morning (July 26) at The Meadowlands. With little wind and temperatures in the mid 70’s, the card […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Breakfast With The Babies went to post on Saturday at 9:00 at The Meadowlands on a windless morning over a fast harness racing track with clear skies and temperatures in the high 70’s. Delaney Hanover (Muscle Hill, Scott Zeron) won at first asking to take the opener. Zeron placed the filly […]
The harness racing stake season continues at Century Downs with two Alberta-sired finals. A field of nine colts & geldings will battle over $53,600 in the ABSS Maverick Finals in race nine. A couple of races later in the eleventh, nine fillies will have their chance in the $54,200 ABSS Marquis Final. A free program […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Breakfast With The Babies went post-ward on Friday morning (July 12) at 10:00 am on this Meadowlands Pace weekend, due to the detention requirements for Saturday night’s harness racing stakes. The track was rated good, dulled by overnight rains with a negligible breeze, the temps were in the 70’s. Myonlylove (Gimpanzee) opened […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Breakfast With The Babies finally caught a less than perfect morning after a late night into early morning deluge, but the harness racing track came great, I’ll call it wet fast. The skies were clearing but the humidity high and temperatures started out around 80 and rising. There was no wind. […]
Vernon, NY – The Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial, a Grand Circuit harness racing trotting stake “Open to the World” will celebrate its 50th anniversary with top fields of 3-year-old colts and fillies competing for more than $500,000 in purses on Independence Day holiday evening at Vernon Downs. The $300,000 “Main Event” (race 9) is […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Breakfast With The Babies at The Meadowlands came on an overcast, dry and comparatively cool morning with a helping breeze at the back of the babies through the stretch. The harness racing track was fast. Don’t Ask For More was a handy winner for Ake Svanstedt, inheriting the lead when Hatfield […]
East Rutherford, NJ – Breakfast with the Babies, sponsored by Jules Siegel’s Fashion Farms, caught yet another perfect Saturday morning (June 22) at The Meadowlands. Slightly overcast and humid with temperatures in the 80’s and the harness racing track was fast, and we got a good early start at 8:00 am. The retail price of […]
There are 18 four-year-old harness racing pacers that have remained eligible to the $200,000 Prix d’Ete on August 18 at the Hippodrome 3R (H3R), and one of them, the local favorite, Light The Torch (Always B Miki), headlines Sunday’s (June 16) Preferred Pace at H3R. Trained and co-owned by H3R’s Marc-Andre Simoneau with Jean Fontaine, […]
The Meadowlands – Breakfast with the Babies, 2024 edition, sponsored by Jules Siegel’s Fashion Farms, caught another perfect Saturday morning (June 15). The sky was clear, temperatures in the 70’s and the harness racing track was fast when the baby races began at 9:00 am. Deja Blu, first foal of the great race mare Atlanta […]
The Meadowlands – Breakfast with the Babies, 2024 edition, graciously sponsored by Jules Siegel’s Fashion Farms, got underway on a perfect Saturday morning (June 8). The sky was clear, temperatures in the 70’s and harness racing track fast. Headlining today’s bill was the usual array of expensive young talent along with several representatives of the […]
Woodbine Mohawk Park featured Canadian harness racing’s first two-year-old baby races of 2024 during its session of qualifiers on Saturday, June 1. Exquisite Taste (Resolve) showed off her exquisite gait in the first qualifier, closing in :28.4 for driver and co-owner Louis-Philippe Roy to pick off Macthenight (Tyler Jones) and win by a length in […]
The Meadowlands – June 1st brings with it the promise of summer and the start of 2-year-old harness racing. This morning’s qualifiers offered the first of those as we prepare for next week’s start of Breakfast of the Babies. A perfect weather day with the temperature around 70f, a fast track and no wind. Today […]
East Rutherford, NJ – The Meadowlands is proud and excited to announce that the entire 2024 stakes program at the harness racing industry’s leading racetrack will offer nearly $25 million in purses. Greatly enhancing the Grand Circuit stakes presence this year will be the return of the Breeders Crown to the Garden State. Harness Racing’s […]
East Rutherford, NJ – When the FanDuel Championships (formerly known as the TVG) were founded in 2013, Jeff Gural’s vision was a year-end race that would provide a stage for the top 3-year-olds to end their harness racing season by facing the best older horses, much as the Breeders Cup has done. The entries have […]
East Rutherford, NJ – The box for the Freshman Fall Final Four stakes, last of the 2-year-old Grand Circuit stakes of the harness racing season, has closed and the number of entries will necessitate eliminations on Saturday for all divisions to advance to next week’s finals. The Governor’s Cup colt & gelding pace drew sixteen […]
