Contributor
BLOOMSBURG PA – The final stop on the 2026 Pennsylvania Fair Circuit for harness racing took place this past Friday (two-year-olds) and Saturday (three-year-olds) at the historic Bloomsburg Fairgrounds oval in the northeast section of the state. With the conclusion of the season, the various divisional champions, the top eligibles for the $200,000 Pennsylvania Fair […]
MEYERSDALE PA – The second-to-last stop of the 2026 Pennsylvania Fair circuit was held at the Somerset County Fairgrounds in this borough located in southwestern Pennsylvania. This Saturday card for two-year-olds will be remembered as “the Miracle of Meyersdale,” as the dedicated local track crew talked with the horsemen about a tricky surface and picked […]
GRATZ PA – During the first 50 days of the 2026 Pennsylvania Fair Circuit schedule, only two days were wiped out due to inclement weather. Unfortunately, over the last 24, three cards have been lost – the two-year-olds entered to race at the Gratz (PA) Fair were washed out on Sunday, although their sophomore stablemates […]
GRATZ PA – The Gratz (PA) Fairgrounds, regarded as having one of the fastest ovals on the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit, held a Two-Day Fair Sire Stakes event this past Saturday and Sunday (September 5 and 6), and will also host the circuit’s trotting and pacing this coming weekend during its Fair meet (Sunday the 13th and […]
STONEBORO PA – 21-year-old horseman Braiden Rhoades, setting a pace that could get him to 300 driving victories this season, had driven at 21 Ohio fairs in 2026 before Thursday, when for the first time he “crossed over” (18 miles) to a Pennsylvania fair, the Stoneboro Fair– and promptly swept the Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes […]
WATTSBURG PA – Once again the fair horseperson’s worst enemy – rain – hit the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit, this time in Wattsburg PA at the Erie County Fair in the northwest corner of the state, where the Sunday card for two-year-olds was raced, but then the next day’s program for three-year-olds was washed out. The […]
INDIANA PA – Kurt gives short answers. Like “1:59.1.” A two-year-old-colt by Always B Miki – Cheyenne Deo, the pacer Kurt traveled the Indiana (PA) half-mile fairgrounds oval in 1:59.1 on Thursday, the first day (for freshmen) of a two-day fair meet at Indiana. He knocked three-fifths off the divisional track record set by Sapphire […]
MEADVILLE PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit ended a marathon week in the northwest portion of the state, at the Crawford County Fairgrounds in Meadville, for two days of Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes competition on Friday (two-year-olds) and Saturday (three-year-olds). A highlight of Opening Day was a special award ceremony honoring Lisa Dunn as “a […]
DAYTON PA – If Zeus, the Greek god of the weather, visited much of Pennsylvania Thursday afternoon, he was not very kind with a plentitude of showers, including enough moisture to cancel the Thursday program for Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes three-year-olds at the Dayton (PA) Fair. There were, however, several top-level two-year-olds who competed on […]
WASHINGTON PA – The Pennsylvania fair circuit commenced a very busy week with Fair Sire Stakes action on Sunday and Monday at the Washington County Fairgrounds, known as Arden Downs during its Grand Circuit heyday, in southwestern Pennsylvania, not far down the road from The Meadows. Rain came before the Sunday morning session for two-year-olds, […]
HONESDALE PA – Ante Up Hanover, a five-year-old altered son of Betting Line, won a division of the free-for-all pace at the Honesdale (PA) Fair on Wednesday in 1:56.4, coming within two-fifths of a second of the 16-year-old all-age harness racing track mark of Alastor Hanover. Trainer Cody Schadel, who conditions the horse for the […]
HONESDALE PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit made the first of two consecutive stops in this northeast Pennsylvania borough, not too distant from the New York state line, on Saturday and Sunday for a 2-Day Fair Sire Stakes meet; there will also be two days of racing during the fair proper this coming Wednesday (the […]
BEDFORD PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit came back to this borough in southwest Pennsylvania for a 2-Day Fair Sire Stakes meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, which in its way was up there with those two sub-1:50f miles by freshmen at Pocono on Monday. Let’s go right to the racing: The fair two-year-olds raced […]
MEYERSDALE PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit came to the Somerset County Fairgrounds in a southwestern borough of this state, just under 90 minutes southeast from Pittsburgh and almost within sight of the Mason-Dixon line. And the Meyersdale racing quickly became the Eric Neal Show, as the youthful veteran horseman, the 2023 Fair Circuit leader, […]
The lightly raced but promising A Precious Gem (Captain Crunch) at just her fifth race start showed she is destined for better things after darting through to take out the End Polio Three Year old fillies stakes at Gloucester Park on Friday evening. Pitted against a talented group of fillies including the last start Pinjarra […]
BEDFORD PA – The Captain Crunch sophomore pacing gelding Commander Crunch, purchased only nine days ago, equaled the all-age track record of 1:55.2 at the Bedford (PA) Fair during Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes competition for three-year-olds on Friday. 1:55.2 had been recorded by the filly Tiamogonedancen in 2021 and the gelding Captaincountrystar in 2023. Commander […]
CLEARFIELD PA — The Greenshoe sophomore gelding Tymal Kryptonite trotted the half-mile Clearfield (PA) half-mile oval in 2:01.2 on Monday afternoon, equaling the fastest trotting mile ever at this fairgrounds oval located two hours northeast of Pittsburgh. The 2:01.2 clocking kept the Clearfield trotting standard “all in the family,” as it was just under six […]
DAYTON PA — The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit swung right back into action with a “2-Day Fair Sire Stakes Event” at the Dayton Fairgrounds, with two-year-olds racing on Saturday and the three-year-olds in action the next day. The very first horse to post parade before the first race of the meet would turn out to be […]
Jilliby Dreamlover (Love You) proved that her win in last week’s Great Square was not fluke when she stormed home in a stirring finish to pip Crackerjack in the Prydes Easifood Racing Cube Trotting Feature at Albion Park on Friday evening. Ideally drawn in two Jilliby Dreamlover was expected to lead and she did so […]
HUGHESVILLE PA – The second stop of the season of the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit was held on Wednesday and Thursday at the Lycoming County Fair in this northcentral Pennsylvania borough, and this week the three-year-olds had better luck – in contrast to their abbreviated racing at Butler, they got their entire slate of racing in. […]
PROSPECT PA – The 2026 Pennsylvania fair racing season, featuring top state-sired two- and three-year-olds in the summerlong Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes, began this Wednesday and Thursday (July 1 and 2) at the Big Butler Fair in this westcentral Pennsylvania borough. The high heat playing havoc with the racing in much of North America caused […]
PROSPECT PA – The 2026 Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes circuit is set to begin this Wednesday, July 1; the races for the Wednesday (two-year-olds) and Thursday (three-year-olds) cards were drawn Monday. It should be noted up front that first race post time for both days of the Butler racing has been reset to 11 a.m., […]
STATE COLLEGE PA – Pennsylvania’s fair horsepeople came together Saturday evening at the Nittany Lion Inn for the annual Pennsylvania Fair Awards Dinner, held in conjunction with meetings of the U.S. Trotting Association and the Pennsylvania Fair Harness Horsemen’s Association. Maestroed by USTA District Chairman Sam Beegle, the Dinner provides two sets of awards to […]
DAYTON PA – The Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes Circuit made its last stop of 2025 this past weekend at the Dayton Fairgrounds, about 60 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, where the final pointstandings champions were settled, and more importantly for many, which eight horses per division are in control of their own points destiny for their […]
