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Meager 40 harness dates on tap at Hawthorne for 2025
WEB1 day ago · The Illinois Racing Board awarded 2025 dates on Thursday (Sept. 19) and Hawthorne was allotted a meager 40 harness programs, six fewer than this year’s number. This year’s second meeting that is scheduled to begin Oct. 19 and continue through Dec. 30 will be extended from Jan. 4 through Feb. 23 with racing on Saturday and Sunday nights.
France marches towards bigger dominance - Harness Racing Update
WEB1 day ago · France marches towards bigger dominance. Messenger. by Thomas Hedlund. French harness racing has a well-known closed pedigree book. French-bred horses typically can only be from sires standing in the country. On Thursday (Sept. 19) evening, the program made an exception. Quite surprisingly, French harness racing has decided that American-bred ...
Medley Seelster is Glenn Dyke’s Ontario Sires Stakes dream
WEB1 day ago · Purchased for just $24,000, Medley Seelster has now earned $183,321, compelling her owner to make arrangements for transfer of her Canadian earnings to his American-based account. “She’s by Wheeling N Dealin [5, 1:54s; $913,975], which is not a super fashionable sire,” said Dyke. “He was a really good young trotter.
Burt Firtel is still looking to hit a home run
WEB1 day ago · After 50 years in the business, he’s hoping buying yearlings will one day give him that great horse. by Murray Brown. I spoke with Burt Firtel regarding this article this past Monday (Sept. 16). “Just think I’ve owned horses for 50 years now,” Firtel said. “I finally have one who is good enough to race in the Little Brown Jug.
Long live The Pomp - Harness Racing Update
WEBApr 22, 2022 · Tyler Jones is the son of horseman Dustin Jones. The 27-year-old driver told Harness Racing Update that he made a conscious choice to relocate from Ontario to Pompano Park for its final season. “I decided in late summer of last year that I would come to Florida to help my dad break his yearlings and train back the 2-year-olds turning 3.
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Stakes season ramps up as big names come out to play
WEBSpanning today (May 17) through Sunday, the harness racing landscape is full of returning notables and signature races as stakes season continues to ramp up. Here is a preview of how I see things starting to take form in what promises to be the start of many rivalries throughout the season. Things get underway this afternoon at The Meadows ...
Red Mile stakes analysis - Harness Racing Update
WEBOct 10, 2021 · CUATRO DE JULIO was ultra-game in defeat last out in the fast mile at the hands of #1, nothing wrong at all with his last two tries at the Red Mile and is a contender. JUJUBEE was a pocket rocket to beat DANCINGINTHEDARK M on Hambletonian Day and has remained in raging form since. One of two $75,000 supplements to …
Perusing the top 20 drivers and trainers - Harness Racing Update
WEBSep 17, 2021 · This year, Dunn has just gained the top spot from Tim Tetrick at $7.6 million to $7.5 million as we head into Jug week and beyond. The same top 4 drivers from 2020 are there again in 2021 — Yannick Gingras and David Miller rounding out the quartet. James MacDonald has now cracked the top 20. His huge night …