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Back in 1990, a young two-year-old No Nukes filly made her first start on the racetrack…

“Who cares?” While there were many complimentary remarks about the last Mane Attraction harness racing column pointing out future concerns, the one that was the most notable was the one that quite succinctly wrote, “Who cares?” It is a response just like that that has put harness racing’s future in jeopardy. When I came to

Over the years, there have always been some negative rumblings whenever an “amateur” event is part of a “pari-mutuel” harness racing program. Some punters can be heard mumbling, “I’m passing this race…you know…amateurs.” Let’s clarify something about the amateur drivers right this very moment… The reason they are merely “amateurs,” as some of you mutter,

Chad Morrison got his very first-pari-mutuel win on Sunday, Oct. 22, piloting Merito Hanover to a 1:57.1 win in the $12,000 United States Harness Driver’s Club Pace at Cumberland Run.

As much as we do not like to admit it, our grand sport of harness racing would be in REALLY big trouble without the casino industry gulping up properties with luscious land values and sports betting now creeping into the pockets of gamblers. No, things didn’t work out well in Florida as the Governor threw

First-quarter speed from This Kit Rocks left his competitors at his whim while he clung on the point and held firm to the finish of a 1:51.1 mile to win the $35,000 Open Pace at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Sunday (July 2).

Wayne Oke trainee Stride The Hill found his way back to the winner's circle of the top class at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel, taking the $35,000 Open Trot going coast to coast in 1:54.1 on Monday (June 26).

Trainer Melanie Wrenn took top honours on Tuesday's (June 20) Western Kentucky State Fair program at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming and Hotel, accounting for three of the afternoon's 17 winners in Kentucky Proud Series competition.

For those of you that castigate amateur harness racing and continually complain about it, you’re all wrong. Form Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of yesteryear to the gentlemen and ladies that participate this very day, amateur racing has done wonders for our sport…and countless charitable organizations here in the U.S.A., as well. First off, many of

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