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Long before he began competing in harness racing and winning races as a trainer and driver, John Calabrese set a track record at The Meadowlands... for selling hot dogs.
Over the years, there have always been some negative rumblings whenever an “amateur” event is part of a “pari-mutuel” harness racing program. Some punters can be heard mumbling, “I’m passing this race…you know…amateurs.” Let’s clarify something about the amateur drivers right this very moment… The reason they are merely “amateurs,” as some of you mutter,
Chad Morrison got his very first-pari-mutuel win on Sunday, Oct. 22, piloting Merito Hanover to a 1:57.1 win in the $12,000 United States Harness Driver’s Club Pace at Cumberland Run.
Shenandoah Downs Racing Secretary Dee Lineweaver carded 15 races on the Saturday afternoon (Sept. 30) racing program — 14 pari-mutuel events and one race to find a cure for cancer as quickly as possible.
For those of you that castigate amateur harness racing and continually complain about it, you’re all wrong. Form Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of yesteryear to the gentlemen and ladies that participate this very day, amateur racing has done wonders for our sport…and countless charitable organizations here in the U.S.A., as well. First off, many of