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Aaron Merriman wrapped up another superb season at MGM Northfield Park in 2023 with 590 winner’s circle trips from 2,434 starts to collect his seventh straight driving title and 12th overall at MGM Northfield Park.

Entering Sunday night (Dec. 17), Joggingtothebank, had already had an impressive season with more than $100,000 in earnings; he continued to shine bright, jogging to his fourth win in five starts in the $18,000 Open Handicap Trot at MGM Northfield Park.

Harness racing driver Braiden Rhoades has a plan, and he’s sticking to it. The 18-year-old Ashland, Ohio native recently scored his first-ever driving triumph, piloting The Bus A (Art Major) to victory in 1:57 on Nov. 15 at Northfield Park. The win, really, was a culmination of years of experience training horses, alongside his father

The 76th Annual Fall Blooded Horse Sale saw a 13 percent year-over-year increase with an almost identical 300 harness racing horses sold vs 302 last year. "We knew we had a good group of horses catalogued," said sale manager Jerry Haws. "We appreciate the stables that consigned nice racehorses and the breeding farms that sent

Third-generation horseman Braiden Rhoades added to his resume on Tuesday (Nov. 14), earning his first career driving win aboard The Bus A at MGM Northfield Park.

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The Hutto ISD school board declared Wednesdays as Workforce Wednesdays in the district after a middle school teacher started a tradition of wearing T-shirts to promote trade jobs.

Team Northfield made their presence felt on Tuesday (April 11), taking a commanding lead heading into night two of the challenge with Team Pompano held in partnership with the Ohio Harness Horsemen's Association.

Start your Sunday morning with double shots of your favorite blues artists! And don't miss the occasional live interviews and in-studio performances.

By CATHY SPAULDING | Muskogee Phoenix, Okla. | Published: January 23, 2021 MUSKOGEE, Okla. (Tribune News Service) — Fort Gibson National Cemetery is adding 6,000 burial sites into six more acres, cemetery director Bill Rhoades said. The additions, on the southwest corner of the cemetery, include 3,000 pre-placed crypts and 3,000 sites for cremation urns, he said. He said the additional sites "should take us to the mid 2030s — 2036 to 2037" to fill. The additional sites could be finished...