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The United States Harness Writers Association Hall of Fame Screening Committee is proud to announce an outstanding slate of candidates for induction into the 2022 Harness Racing Hall of Fame. Trainers Ron Burke and George Teague, Jr., along with driver Yannick Gingras, have been placed on the Hall of Fame ballot for this summer’s election. This trio was then given a unanimous thumbs-up by four Hall of Fame trustees, who are all members of the Hall of Fame, to finalize the process. As well, the committee elected Chris Boring to the Harness Racing Hall of Fame, through the Veterans designatio...

As Kris Brechler watched his family’s homebred trotter Mission Accepted grow up, he saw nothing that stood out about the horse. The colt was, in a word, average. But once Mission Accepted began his racing career, what Brechler couldn’t see began to become apparent. The horse was filled with a desire to succeed. And now at the age of six, the stallion is nearing $1 million in career earnings as he prepares for the $135,000 Charlie Hill Memorial Trot on Thursday (May 6) at Eldorado Scioto Downs. “When he was young, he didn’t make an impression one way or another,” Brechler said. “He...

Huntingdon businessman Philip Lalor has died. - Credit: LALOR FAMILY An "all round entrepreneur" who had been managing director of the family business has died at the age of 66 after a short illness. Phillip Lalor took over the reins of Stukeley Meadows-based Pelforma following the death of his father Walter. Walter Lalor had been the inventor of an electronic process which was patented and enabled the business to expand to the Stukeley Meadows site. The patent was for an insulated electrostatic screen for electronic coils. Ater leaving school Phillip went into the family engineering busine...

Sometimes people trot out stereotypes about harness racing. They say it's a sport only enjoyed by older people, and maybe kids should just stay home. Justin Turnbull is a young racing fan who flips the script on those notions. "My parents started taking me to the track when I was two years old," says 13-year-old Justin, who lives in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He was raised alongside a familiar name on the Maritime racing scene: "My great uncle Fraser had a mare named Carols Junebug who had a baby named Junebugs Baby, whose field is practically in my backyard, so I grew up as he did."