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With Labor Day weekend now behind us, so to is the summer portion of the racing season in Saratoga. The thoroughbred meet across the street wrapped up its campaign on Labor Day and thus the live racing schedule at Saratoga Casino Hotel reverts back to pre-summer days. Gone is the Friday, Saturday, Sunday evening race […]
On Sunday afternoon, Harrah’s Philadelphia will present what is one of the best cards so far in 2023 North American harness racing, with three $100,000 Invitationals, action in the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series for the “glamour division” three-year-old pacing colts.
A packed house was on hand at Hippodrome 3R on Sunday (Sept. 11) for the richest day of racing in all of Quebec as the track hosted the $480,000 Quebec-Bred Championship finals for two and three-year-old trotters and pacers.
Saturday (July 17), was better than a comeback from 2020’s pandemic-impacted racing season. In fact, the Circuit régional des courses de chevaux du Québec (CRCCQ) made the move to online wagering for the first time in 30 years of racing at St. Joseph de Lepage (SJLP). And what a move it was. The 11 races were available for betting on Canada’s Horseplayer Interactive (HPI) and TwinSpires in the USA. Instead of the regular AmTote trackside wagering, organizers decided to make the races available to a larger audience. As CRCCQ spokesperson Manon Gravel noted, “The timing was perfect to t...
The storied career of one of harness racing’s ultimate warriors has come to an end with the recent announcement that Wiggle It Jiggleit has hung up his horseshoes. The charismatic campaigner, who was more than worthy of having his picture plastered on a box of Wheaties, manufactured a 39-12-6 record from 66 starts while banking just shy of $4.1 million for George Teague Jr Inc and Teague Racing Partnership. Wiggle It Jiggleit, a nine-year-old son of Mr Wiggles-Mozzi Hanover, kicked off his career with 11 consecutive scores before tasting defeat for the first time in what turned out to be an...