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People go to the Minnesota State Fair for a variety of different reasons but one of the main things people go for is the delicious food. State Fair officials just released their top-earning food vendors from the 2021 Great Minnesota Get Together and to no one’s surprise, Sweet Martha was #1. You might be surprised to see how much money was made off of those chocolate chip cookies though. Read about that and the other top vendors below.

The three-year-old pacing filly Niki Hill, last year’s Dan Patch divisional champion, was a strong-finishing winner in her qualifier on Tuesday morning (May 10) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, with O'Brien and Dan Patch divisional champion Lyons Sentinel a rapidly-closing second in her first trip behind the starting gate this year in another qualifier.

When it came to the Saturday night (April 30) feature at The Meadowlands, track announcer Ken Warkentin said it best: “Charlie May came to play!”

A number of notable performers and divisonal champions were in action during the stacked qualifying session on Saturday (April 30) at The Meadowlands.

The Hambletonian Society reminds horsepeople that payments are due for many of the 149 races currently administered by the Society on April 15, 2022 (postmarked by April 16).

Winbak Farm has announced the passing of 2009 USHWA Trotting Broodmare of the Year, Yankee Blondie, at the age of 26. The dam of Muscle Hill was euthanized on Wednesday, April 6 due to complications from colic.

While 2021 food sales were down at the Great Minnesota Get-Together, some vendors still made a bundle – and their names will not surprise you.

It’s not unusual for music to be part of an athlete’s daily training routine. Even when the athlete is a horse. In this case, the 2021 U.S. Trotter of the Year, Jujubee.

Charles Oliveira, the reigning lightweight champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), has joined in the ownership of 2021 Matron champio

As the yearling portion of the 2018 Standardbred Horse Sale neared completion, Joseph Lyons Mound looked to buy one more horse for his family’s racing stable. He had his eye on two fillies but was unsuccessful in placing the winning bid on either. Not a big deal, Lyons Mound told himself, because he already had purchased a good number of horses.