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A pair of New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) for three-year-old colts and geldings on Sunday (May 26) afternoon kicked off the 2024 harness racing stakes action at Saratoga Casino Hotel with driver Tyler Buter and trainer Travis Alexander taking both splits. In the first division, a seven-horse field going for $85,500, Buter and Reggie The

A pair of New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) for three-year-old colts and geldings on Sunday (May 26) afternoon kicked off the 2024 stake action at Saratoga Casino Hotel with driver Tyler Buter and trainer Travis Alexander taking both splits.

Driver Tim Tetrick and trainer Scott Di Domenico combined for a sweep of the fast-class pacing features over a “sloppy” Harrah’s Philadelphia course on Sunday afternoon.

The Preferred Handicap pace at Freehold on Saturday (April 6) was the Dennis Watson Memorial race.

The $16,216 Preferred Handicap pace at Freehold Raceway was a thrilling one on Feb. 10. Mark Herschberger piloted 19-1 Big Stretch Mark to victory after a nail-biter of a stretch battle.

Mark Herschberger began working with horses at an early age, but it’s only been in the past several years that the Illinois native — and nephew of trainer Erv Miller and driver Andy Miller — started pursuing his own everyday career in harness racing.

Christmas came early this year for Johnathan Ahle and the owners and trainers whom he drove for on Saturday (Dec. 23) at Freehold Raceway as he won five of his nine drives on the card.

Driver Vinny Ginsburg won the two-day Rosecroft-Freehold Driving Challenge, reclaiming the lead in the point standings with a victory in the final race following a strong start to the competition.

This week Rosecroft Raceway and Freehold Raceway hosted a challenge which faced-off four harness racing drivers from each track against each other in a challenge to win points based on where they finished. They faced each other four times at Rosecroft and four times at Freehold. Each driver had each post position one time throughout

The harness racing worlds of New Jersey and Maryland will collide this week, when Freehold Raceway and Rosecroft Raceway play hosts to the Rosecroft-Freehold Driving Challenge.