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Making his 2024 debut, the Nancy Takter-trained Red Right Hand held off the hottest horse on the grounds, Oakwood Ardan IR, on a ridiculously rain-soaked Saturday night at The Meadowlands in a thrilling $24,324 featured high-end conditioned pace.

Scott Zeron became just the third Canadian-born driver over the past two decades to be honoured with the U.S. Driver of the Year title, accepting the award for a standout 2023 season at the Dan Patch Awards banquet on Sunday evening, Feb. 25.

Tony’s Mom (Heston Blue Chip) and harness racing driver Yannick Gingras were able to overpower a field of mare rivals in capturing the $35,000 Invitational Pace Friday (Feb. 23) at Yonkers Raceway. The 6th race feature got underway with Gingras sending race favorite Tony’s Mom right to the lead from post four and cutting the

A number of good things — with an emphasis on numbers — happened for Matt Kakaley in 2023.

Streaking Simon Says Hanover (Captaintreacherous) had no problem stepping up to the Yonkers Raceway $35,000 Invitational Pace on Monday night (February 12th), leading most of the way to take his fourth harness racing win in a row. The six-year-old gelding came into the race boasting three consecutive closing wins in the 3 to 6-year-old Open.

“It’s not an enjoyable thing anymore to train horses, it’s going to be what gets me out of the harness racing business." That was the sentiment from Harness Racing's first $300 million dollar man in a Harnesslink exclusive interview detailing the latest twist in the saga with industry regulators and their somewhat unhinged crusade to

Driver Joe Bongiorno scored the 3,000th win of his career by taking the seventh race on Thursday night (Feb. 8) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with Emotions Riches.

A talented quintet of top aged harness racing pacers contest the Yonkers Raceway Invitational on Monday night, but the one to beat is ultra-consistent Covered Bridge (American Ideal). The Jeff Gillis trainee is one of fifteen millionaires produced in North America by his superstar dual hemisphere sire who passed away last week due to severe

Covered Bridge did his recently deceased sire American Ideal proud at Yonkers Raceway Monday night (Feb. 5) with a game nose victory in the $35,000 Invitational Pace. In rein to Jordan Stratton, the 1 to 2 favorite signaled his intent at the outset to control the race, blasting off from the widest post in the

Adam Twelve, named after a television police drama and co-owned by driver Yannick Gingras, has been capturing plenty of wins since arriving at MGM Yonkers Raceway in November.