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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

Harrisburg, PA — Three-year-old female harness racing trotter Another Like Me, one of a group of horses sold as part of the Libfeld/Katz dispersal, was the top seller at Thursday’s opening session of the Standardbred Horse Sale’s mixed sale, purchased for $400,000 by Al Libfeld. A daughter of Muscle Hill-Stubborn Belle, Another Like Me has won

Harrisburg, PA — Harness racing pacing colt Glowing Lou, purchased for $260,000 by Mac Nichol, topped the list of best sellers during Tuesday’s (Nov. 7) second session of the 85th annual Standardbred Horse Sale at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Complex. Glowing Lou is a son of Sweet Lou-Teenybopper. His second dam is $2-million-earner Glowing Report, and

While the main event was one for the record books, the undercard for the 2023 Little Brown Jug on Thursday, Sept. 21 definitely had its share of memorable moments.

Driver Jim Taggart Jr. won the $12,500 co-features on Friday, Sept. 15 at Tioga Downs with trotting mare Swans Eye ($3.50) and pacing mare So Diva ($4.20).

A pair of $9,500 Opens shared the Friday spotlight at Northville Downs as five-year-old pacing mare Uniquerock, driven by Kody Massey, and seven-year-old trotting gelding Travlin Swan, with driver/trainer Art McIlmurray, won their respective races.

The final legs of Indiana Sire Stakes (INSS) action continued at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Thursday (Oct. 6). Two divisions of the final leg for each the two-year-old trotting fillies, two-year-old pacing colts as well as the three-year-old trotting colts made up the second half of the evening’s card as the Hoosier State’s finest duked it out in their final chance to earn points before the quarter-million dollar Indiana Sire Stakes Super Finals on Friday, Oct. 14.