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Anderson, IN --- Eight Indiana-sired male and female harness racing trotters and pacers will continue their quest for Breeders Crown trophies in 12 championship contests worth $7.2 million on Friday (Oct. 27) and Saturday (Oct. 28) at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. The eagerly anticipated action commences at 6 p.m. each evening. This is the third time (2017

You’d think a development plan like Destination Medical Center involving transportation would include broadened rail service, but that level of support has yet to materialize.

The rain certainly didn’t dampen the spirits of any of the Illinois Conceived and Foaled harness racing pacers and trotters who vied in 12 events totaling $1,175,000 on Saturday night, Oct. 14, known as “The Night of Champions.” Starter Adam Brownly got each race off to a near perfect start over a track surface listed as

Harness racing Secretary Robin Schadt has put together one of the best programs Hawthorne Racecourse has seen in recent years. The reason, says the seasoned race tracker, who divides her duties and time between Hawthorne and Cal-Expo, is simple. “Due to the legislative casino approval, this is the first time in a very long time

It has taken me 60 years to write a harness racing column like this one…60 years…60 years since my first one in the Horseman and Fair World trying to do something positive for our sport. I am THE eternal optimist. I look for the good in everything…and I am beginning to realize that is a

Two of the sport’s brightest stars, Confederate and Geocentric, sparkled on a superb 10-race card which offered $3.4 million in prize money and included eight $400,000 Kentucky Championship finals and two $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series finals for freshman and sophomore trotters and pacers on Sunday (Sept. 17) at Red Mile.

Military Appreciation Day at the Minnesota State Fair on August 29 featured 50 educational and military-connected booths at Dan Patch Park. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota National Guard. The 12th Annual Military Appreciation Day at the Minnesota State Fair on August 29 featured 50 educational and military-connected booths at Dan Patch Park, along with on-stage

Who cares what your doctor says? You can do it.

Twin B Joe Fresh engaged in a vicious battle with nemesis Strong Poison for a 1:49.1 triumph in an $80,000 division of the Kentucky Championship Series for three-year-old pacing fillies on Sunday (Sept. 10) at The Red Mile, collecting her fifth consecutive win and becoming the sport’s newest millionaire. Hambletonian victor Tactical Approach rebounded off a second-place finish in his last appearance in the series for sophomore male trotters with a 1:51.2 victory.

Lexington, KY --- Hambletonian victor Tactical Approach (Tactical Landing-Sarcy) rebounded off a second-place finish in his last harness racing appearance in the $80,000 fourth round of the Kentucky Championship Series for sophomore male trotters in 1:51.2. Twin B Joe Fresh (Roll With Joe-Casual Breeze) engaged in a vicious battle with nemesis Strong Poison to capture her