Catch The Fire News Today

Every spring, harness racing trainers converse, hope, and dream about their prospective 2-year-olds in training—much in the same way breeders ponder about their stallion’s first crop of youngsters. What follows is an examination of the stallions who are first crop sires—with statistics garnered from the US Trotting Association—and some of the mares they were bred

A gamechanger for the harness racing breeding industry was launched November of 2023 in the form of Standing Stallions, a new stallion breeding website. Charles Taylor and Dan Brice built and manage the site and the social media. Both men are entrepreneurs with a passion for the sport and experience in the technology and telecommunications

Pete McMullen’s enthusiasm for the Interdominion Series in his home state may have taken a dip after the first round of heats saw him take the reins five times for a single placing in the sulky. However, the way the new addition to his stallion ranks, Catch The Fire (Captaintreacherous), has been received at McMullen’s

The stallion and accomplished racehorse Captain Kirk will be standing stud in 2024.

Shartin N had one of the most celebrated and accomplished careers in the sport of harness racing. Now, her first foal, a striking, solid-bay filly, appears to be one of the most anticipated distaffs offered for auction when she steps into the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion ring on Monday evening, Oct. 2, the first day of the

CIRCLEVILLE, OH. – The Ohio Selected Jug Sale was a flurry of bidding activity, paving the way for the highest gross in the sale’s storied history, which enjoyed a double digit increase of 10.7 percent from last year’s auction. The sale also saw the highest priced harness racing yearling sold in the state of Ohio

The Ohio Selected Jug Yearling Sale takes place today (Friday, Sept. 15) at the Pickaway Ag Center, Circleville, Ohio as the focus of many of the Buckeye state’s Standardbred owners and trainers has turned to a search for the next champion harness horse.

An online PDF sale catalog for the upcoming annual Ohio Selected Jug Sale is now available on the Ohio Harness Horse Breeders website. The link: click here which will access the full sale harness racing catalog and can be downloaded for quick viewing. The sale is set for Friday, September 15, 2023, at the Pickaway Agriculture

Fresh off a win in the Canadian Pacing Derby, Tattoo Artist shipped south to Eldorado Scioto Downs to take the $260,000 10th annual Jim Ewart Memorial Pace in 1:48.2 on Saturday, Sept. 9.

Sugar Instead (Volstead), Rose Run Yolanda (Triumphant Caviar), Grand Revival (Creatine), and Tennessee Tom (Long Tom) were crowned as the best in the harness racing trotting divisions of the Ohio Sires Stakes in 2023 after winning their respective $300,000 Scarlet Championships on Saturday (Sept. 9) night at Eldorado Scioto Downs. Sugar Instead and driver Ronnie