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Exarch ($18.40) and driver Jimmy Whittemore won the $7,000 featured trot at Vernon Downs on Friday, Nov. 10. 

Horses. Standardbreds. Racehorses. Athletes. Just some of the ways to describe our whole world in the harness racing industry; however, the key word that resonates with horsemen across the world is "family."

Horses. Standardbreds. Racehorses. Athletes. Just some of the ways to describe our whole world in the harness racing industry; however, the key word that resonates with horsemen across the world is family. Nichols, New York is a small, isolated town made up of one single gas station, one main road, and corn fields that stretch

A barn fire at the Tioga Downs Casino Resort complex killed more than two-dozen racehorses during the early morning hours of Nov. 9.

NICHOLS, N.Y. — A Pennsylvania man was arrested Thursday in connection with a barn fire at the Tioga Downs Casino complex in Nichols that killed more than two dozen racehorses.

Dewey Arnold (Dylan Huckabone-Miller) and SD Watch Me Now (Lee Morris) grab the co-features on Saturday (Nov. 4) at Vernon Downs.

Milleniums Girl and driver Barton Dalious won the featured $6,500 fillies and mares pace at Vernon Downs on Friday, Nov. 3.

Sophomore pacer Primo Uomo ($4.40) and driver John MacDonald won the featured $8,500 Winners Over Pace on Saturday, Oct. 28 at Vernon Downs. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — When Chris Long came to Saratoga in 2007, he didn’t do so as a rookie. The native of the State of Maine was a regular in the sulky in the Pine Tree State before heading to New York just before the turn of the century. Long did not come right to […]

Veteran driver Chris Long celebrated his 4,000th career win with Smooth Aceleration at Vernon Downs on Friday, Oct. 27.