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HARRISBURG PA — $200,000 will be on the line at Hollywood Gaming at The Meadows on Friday night, October 11, as the Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes Championships will be contested on a harness racing card starting at 5:10 p.m. Each of eight divisions of stakes horses, earning their way into the Championships based on high […]
GRATZ PA – The male pacer Ante Up Hanover (Betting Line) and the female trotter Little Town Road (Fordham Road), both 2023 Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes Championship race winners, were the harness racing speed stars during the meeting on Sunday and Monday at Gratz in eastcentral Pennsylvania, the next-to-last stop on the circuit this year […]
GRATZ PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes series came to this eastcentral borough on Friday and Saturday as the first of the season-ending cards “in the east” that has this 2-Day event followed by the Gratz Fair harness racing this coming weekend and then concluding at Bloomsburg. The two-year-olds got the action going on […]
STONEBORO, PA – The females were the stars of the harness racing show at the last fair on the “western swing” of the Pennsylvania fair racing season, rewriting the record books on Thursday (two-year-olds) and Friday (three-year-olds) at the Stoneboro Fairgrounds at this northwest Pennsylvania oval. It may even be unprecedented to have the first […]
WATTSBURG, PA – The sophomore Stay Hungry gelding Rose Run Zeke came within a fifth of a second of tying the all-age record at the Erie County Fair in this northwest Pennsylvania borough, crossing the wire in 2:00.2 during Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes “A” competition on Tuesday (Aug. 27). The harness racing record of 2:00.1 […]
DAYTON, PA – A major theme running through the two days of Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes at the Dayton Fairgrounds was the quantity of horses who already had a nice number of fair wins adding to their totals, especially on Wednesday, when the two-year-olds raced. In the colt divisions, trainer/driver Todd Schadel had a couple […]
BEDFORD, PA – Two-year-olds and females (plus Sam Beegle) took the lion’s share of the spotlight during the 2-Day Fair Sire Stakes meet at Bedford (PA) on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the freshman divisions all getting fair season’s records and the “girls” going faster than the “boys” in all four of the “A” Fair Sire […]
BEDFORD, PA – On Friday afternoon (July 19) at the Bedford (PA) Fair, the harness racing three-year-old Fordham Road filly Loveyoubunches won a Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes event in 1:58.1 – the fastest mile by age, sex, and gait in the history of the Pennsylvania fairs, knocking a tick off the standard set by Plumb […]
CLEARFIELD, PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit swung into the fairgrounds in this northcentral Pennsylvania borough for its only four-day harness racing stand of the year, with two-year-olds on Sunday and Monday and three-year-olds the following two cards. It would be unwieldy to report on 32 heats in one wrap-up story, so this report summarizes […]
HUGHESVILLE, PA – The harness racing horses and horsepeople to be racing at the Lycoming County Fair in this northcentral Pennsylvania borough for the most part had two kinds of luck – not-so-good, and then bad. The two-year-old program set for Wednesday afternoon was raced, but the early clockings led to the revelation that the […]
STONEBORO, PA – Chatty Vanessa (Captain Ahab) paced the fastest harness racing mile, 1:59.3, during a Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes two-day session at the Stoneboro (PA) Fairgrounds in this northwest Pennsylvania borough on Friday and Saturday, while another pair of sophomore pacers, one male and one female, became the first performers to post two triumphs […]
