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The four-year-old pacer Bulldog Hanover, who posted the fastest time ever for a mile this summer when he won in 1:45.4 while capturing the imagination of all both within and outside the harness sport, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Stan Bergstein Proximity Award.

A crowd of more than 300 people gathered Sunday evening (July 3) at the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame to celebrate the induction of the Hall of Fame class of 2022.

The 13-year-old Meladys Monet went over the $2 million mark in career earnings with a 1:53.2 victory in the $22,500 handicap trot feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon (May 12).

Three-year-old female pacer Test Of Faith ended the Grand Circuit season as the No. 1-ranked horse in the final 2021 Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll released Tuesday (Nov. 30).

The US Harness Writers Association (USHWA) Youth Membership Committee closed 2021/22 nominations on July 5. Today (July 20), we would like to welcome two young men for whom harness racing is a true "calling": The newest USHWA Youth members are Dylan Daugherty and Justin Turnbull. Their first-year membership dues are kindly sponsored by Tim Konkle, editor of Midwest Harness Report magazine. Dylan Daugherty is 11 years old. His mother Debbie and the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Association’s (PHHA...

The United States Harness Writers Association Hall of Fame Screening Committee is proud to announce an outstanding slate of candidates for induction into the 2022 Harness Racing Hall of Fame. Trainers Ron Burke and George Teague, Jr., along with driver Yannick Gingras, have been placed on the Hall of Fame ballot for this summer’s election. This trio was then given a unanimous thumbs-up by four Hall of Fame trustees, who are all members of the Hall of Fame, to finalize the process. As well, th...

As Kris Brechler watched his family’s homebred trotter Mission Accepted grow up, he saw nothing that stood out about the horse. The colt was, in a word, average. But once Mission Accepted began his racing career, what Brechler couldn’t see began to become apparent. The horse was filled with a desire to succeed. And now at the age of six, the stallion is nearing $1 million in career earnings as he prepares for the $135,000 Charlie Hill Memorial Trot on Thursday (May 6) at Eldorado Scioto Dow...

Huntingdon businessman Philip Lalor has died. - Credit: LALOR FAMILY An "all round entrepreneur" who had been managing director of the family business has died at the age of 66 after a short illness. Phillip Lalor took over the reins of Stukeley Meadows-based Pelforma following the death of his father Walter. Walter Lalor had been the inventor of an electronic process which was patented and enabled the business to expand to the Stukeley Meadows site. The patent was for an insulated electrosta...

Sometimes people trot out stereotypes about harness racing. They say its a sport only enjoyed by older people, and maybe kids should just stay home. Justin Turnbull is a young racing fan who flips the script on those notions. "My parents started taking me to the track when I was two years old," says 13-year-old Justin, who lives in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He was raised alongside a familiar name on the Maritime racing scene: "My great uncle Fraser had a mare named Carols Junebug who had a baby...