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For the first time ever, Whoomp will stray from her home track, and breeder/owner Pat DeLong feels she has earned the opportunity. The daughter of Rockin Image-Nightcap will compete in the first of Saturday’s (Oct. 17) two $25,000 eliminations for the Grade 1 Breeders Crown 3-Year-Old Filly Pace at Eldorado Scioto Downs. It will be […]
Trainer Linda Toscano and driver Scott Zeron have combined for some of the biggest wins harness racing can provide. Now they are hoping It Could Be Worse allows them to team up for the most prestigious of all on Saturday (Aug. 8) in the $1 million Grade 1 Winning Key Farm Hambletonian, for 3-year-old trotters, […]
Trenton, NJ – Anthony Miller’s first career drives were memorable as much for the weather as for the fact his harness racing career was officially underway. “We were in the rain at Converse,” the 24-year-old northern Indiana product said. “It was a complete downpour; it was a crazy day. I was right in the middle […]
Trenton, NJ – It’s a special group of people who will take to the harness racing track Sunday (July 20) for the annual Pacing for the Cure/MSOA 5K Walk/Run at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Pacing For the Cure is celebrating its 10th anniversary of charity work. During its first decade, the organization has expanded […]
Trenton, NJ — Braxten Boyd is in a New York state of mind as he prepares to begin defense of his Tioga Downs harness racing driving championship when the track opens Saturday (May 3). Boyd, who won a New York Sire Stakes championship last season with 2-year-old male trotter Variegated (Chapter Seven) and is hoping for […]
Trenton, NJ — As breeder/owner Don Tiger eagerly awaits the 2025 debut of Charlie May (McArdle) in Saturday’s (March 1) $25,000 feature pace at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s Pocono Downs, he couldn’t help but reflect on when his horse started racing. At that time in 2020, Tiger never dreamed that he had a horse with $2.27 million in […]
The Sangster Electrical Fruit Bowl at Cromwell today turned into a bit of a fruit salad. It took three attempts to get the race underway. The third attempt was also messy and robbed of some of its interest when Always On Sale appeared to shy at the tape release turning sideways and wrecking the chances […]
Trenton, NJ — When Emily Ratcliff called Jacob Rheinheimer to tell him he will be receiving the 2024 United States Harness Writers Association’s Barasch Breakthrough Award at this year’s Dan Patch Awards banquet, it was Christmas Eve. But to Rheinheimer, it felt almost like April Fool’s Day. “When Emily gave me the call,” he said, “it […]
Steve and Amanda Telfer bring a strong team south for the Wairio harness racing meeting on Sunday at Winton, with their six runners targeting some of the richer races on the twelve race card. In Race Three the $30,000 SBSR/Diamond Creek/Caduceus Three Year Old Fillies Sorority, the Telfers line up Mythical (Bettor’s Delight) and Caught […]
Trenton, NJ — Brett Beckwith doesn’t enjoy taking days off from driving, but he won’t mind doing so on Feb. 23. That is the evening when the U.S. Harness Writers Association holds its 2024 Dan Patch Awards banquet, presented by Caesars Entertainment, at Rosen Centre in Orlando, Fla. Beckwith will be an honoree when he receives […]
East Rutherford, NJ — With morning-line favorites in five of the 12 Breeders Crown finals at the Meadowlands, harness racing trainer Ron Burke is hoping for a big weekend as he looks to add to his collection of 20 trophies. Burke ranks second in training wins in the 40-year history of the Breeders Crown, trailing […]
Trenton, NJ — While stablemates Nijinsky and Legendary Hanover enter Saturday’s $650,000 Meadowlands Pace for 3-year-olds at The Meadowlands as the top choices on the morning line at 2-1 and 3-1, respectively, a number of other harness racing horses could be in the mix when it comes to chasing victory at The Meadowlands. They include […]
Four visiting female drivers from Australia will be part of the Dorothy Cutts Invitational Skycity Hamilton Mobile Pace at Cambridge tomorrow night. Kerryn Manning, Brittany Graham, Amanda Turnbull and Ellen Tormey will be matched against eight New Zealand based drivers Natalie Rasmussen, Nicky Chilcott, Emily Johnson, Kirstin Green, Samantha Ottley, Sarah O’Reilly, Crystal Hackett and […]
Trenton, NJ — It has a catchy advertising slogan, but Ace was definitely not the place for Amanda Blackford. And it had nothing to do with a faulty rake or bum cabinet fixture, but stepped away for financial reasons and took a job at Ace Hardware. She shot up the employee ladder, quickly being promoted […]
Trenton, NJ — When Irishman Jack Killeen arrived in America on his 18th birthday, he landed at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows harness racing track and did so with GPS in hand. Fortunately for the merry wanderer, he wound up right back where he started and is happy to now call western Pennsylvania home. “This […]
