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CHESTER PA – The Sweet Lou sophomore harness racing gelding Toast Of The Town, last seen getting a luckless trip in his Jug elimination, on Sunday afternoon returned to the state where he had scored three stakes wins at as many tracks and won the $14,000 featured pace for up-and-coming horses easily in 1:51.2. Jack […]
CHESTER PA – After racing stakes horses for the most part for the last two months, Tim Tetrick participated in the Thursday afternoon harness racing card at Harrah’s Philadelphia – and promptly won six races (there were 14 events carded, but a dead-heat to win provided 15 driving tallies.) The sextet enabled him to open […]
CHESTER PA – What started as a rainy and dark day at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon became only worse, to the point that the last four races on the scheduled fourteen-race program were canceled. The fast-class pacing horses got their events rained out, but two paces for developing males splashed around the track before […]
CHESTER PA – Maggie Q N came to Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon and certainly earned her 1:53 harness racing victory in the $13,500 featured pace for distaff pacers. The victorious daughter of Captain Crunch, trained by Jenny Melander for Jose Cervantes and Friendship Stables LLC, did not see much friendship extended to her in […]
CHESTER PA – The driver sitting number six in the dash standings at Harrah’s Philadelphia has not changed his name to Johnathan Åhle – yet. But the 29-year-old from New Jersey did drive five harness racing winners from the barn of newly-elected Hall of Famer Åke Svanstedt as Philly reopened after a week dark, also […]
A busy weekend with heats of the Victoria Derby and Victoria Oaks, along with the Need For Speed finals at Melton. Read on for our harness racing best bets for the weekend’s action. Melton has an excellent card of racing that starts with the Smoken Up Sprint. It also boasts the Group 1 Need For […]
CHESTER PA – Car Keys, a three-year-old daughter of Always B Miki, had to clear some traffic trouble in a very contested $14,000 distaff pacing feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, but she was steered to a flowing lane by driver Patrick Ryder and got the job done as the favorite in 1:52.2. CAR […]
CHESTER PA – Full Of Muscles, a Muscle Mass gelding who had last raced at Yonkers on August 6, came back to the races strongly for harness racing trainer Doug Dilloian Jr. to win the $16,000 top handicap trot Thursday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia in a lifetime best 1:53. FULL OF MUSCLES REPLAY Hey […]
CHESTER PA – Christopher Dance N, a Kiwi son of Sweet Lou who won the #senditin Pace on 20th Anniversary Night here at Harrah’s eight days ago, came right back to repeat in Sunday’s afternoon $16,000 featured pace, rallying on the inside for a 1:49.1 victory. CHRISTOPHER DANCE N REPLAY Christopher Dance N’s chances appeared […]
CHESTER PA – The Huntsville mare Jensville A, perfectly driven by George Napolitano Jr., captured the $16,000 fast-class mares handicap pace Friday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia in 1:47.4, knocking a tick off of the harness racing track record for older pacing mares, which was set by Shartin N in her Horse of the Year campaign […]
CHESTER PA – The E L Titan gelding Super Duper Cooper sat in the pocket during the “Trottin’ Thursday” $16,000 handicap event for the top-quality diamondgaiters at Harrah’s Philadelphia, was able to adjust to whatever tempo Little Expensive set, and then came on in the stretch to go past the pacesetter by three quarters of […]
CHESTER PA – Harrah’s celebrated its 20th Anniversary of harness racing on the banks of the Delaware River in southeast Pennsylvania with a special Saturday night card, 20 years to the week of its first-ever program and 58 years to the week of the inaugural staging of the Colonial Trot at Liberty Bell Park on […]
CHESTER PA – “A Tale Of Two Quarters” is perhaps the most apt way to write a story describing the two featured paces for harness racing mares at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday. In the $16,000 fast-class handicap contest, the Huntsville mare Jensville A started from the outside post eight, and she was kept out to […]
CHESTER PA — $1,400,000 in purses were offered on Sunday afternoon as Harrah’s Philadelphia hosted the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championships for three-year-olds, with four $300,000 finales for each gait/sex combination, and $50,000 consolations for each harness racing group as well. The Championship and consolation reports will be grouped below. PACING FILLIES Miss Jum Jabber (Bettor’s […]
Verbici (Orlando Vici) continues his relentless march to the top with yet another polished harness racing performance to take out the first heat of the APG VicBred two year old trotters at Melton on Friday evening. Verbici had swept all before him in his previous five unbeaten starts and last night was no exception in […]
CHESTER PA – In last Friday’s $14,000 featured pace for females at Harrah’s Philadelphia, Car Keys (Always B Miki) got to set a :57.2 half, then outsprinted the harness racing opposition home. This Friday, she was forced to take back, but found lively cover and came from behind to win again in 1:50.4. CAR KEYS […]
CHESTER PA – Tyler Miller spent much of his spring and early summer in Kentucky, racing at Oak Grove and the local fairs with an occasional trip back East, but now he is concentrating on the Middle Atlantic states – and made an impact at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday by winning both of the harness […]
Gloucester Park hosts W Night with almost $1 million in prize money up for grabs. The Vicbred Super Series at Melton ramps up, while Menangle has star-studded horses competing. Read on for our harness racing best bets for the weekend. Two Group 1 and four Group 2 features headline Friday night’s W night with Westbred […]
Top Northern reinsman Zachary Butcher is expecting to be back driving at the trials tomorrow and at Alexandra Park on Friday. “I’m getting it all sorted. I had the Careway Programme ring me today and they’re happy with progress. I see the doctor tomorrow to get his clearance and (will) drive at the trials tomorrow […]
CHESTER PA – The time to distribute over $3 million to the best Pennsylvania-sired youngsters, by age, sex, and gait, will come this week after the last of the preliminary rounds, the fourth and final leg for three-year-old male trotters, raced in Sire Stakes and Stallion Series competition on Sunday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, which […]
CHESTER PA – Car Keys was on cruise control in the $14,000 featured 0pace for filllies and mares at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, rating the pace then sprinting home to be an easy winner in 1:52.3. CAR KEYS REPLAY Driver Patrick Ryder got the favored Always B Miki sophomore around second choice Daisy […]
CHESTER PA – Five years ago to the week, trotter Captain Corey and horseman Åke Svanstedt teamed to win the Earl Beal Trot up the road from Harrah’s Philadelphia at Pocono Downs. Five years on and the pair are stlll teaming for harness racing winners circle visits, as now-sire Captain Corey and trainer-driver Svanstedt combined […]
CHESTER PA – Tick A Loch A backed off (relatively) early and had a good seat behind sulky pyrotechnics that blazed for three eighths of a mile, then came on first-over and won the $13,000 fast-class distaff handicap pace at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon. TICK A LOCH A REPLAY Handicapped with the outside […]
Queensland will be the focus for this weekend’s harness racing best bets as it is Qbred Triad Final night. Four Group 1 races will be held at Albion Park on Saturday night, as the 2YO and 3YO pacers battle it out for $150,000 in prizemoney for each feature event. The 4YOs will compete at Group […]
