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Apparently with most avenues exhausted, the New Jersey Racing Commission last week updated their rulings on eight prominent harness racing trainers, all of whom were found back in 2020 to have raced horses with the presence of Phenylbutazone in their systems. The aforementioned group were taken aback when a number of horses in their care
CHESTER, PA – George Napolitano Jr. became only the eighth North American harness racing driver to record 12,000 victories in his sulky career by guiding Pencils Down to victory in the second race at Harrah’s Philadelphia Sunday (Dec. 24) afternoon. “George Nap” kept the Royalty For Life mare in the two-hole trailing Everlasting Fashion, then
George Napolitano Jr. became just the eighth driver in harness racing history to hit the 12,000 career win mark when he guided trotting mare Pencils Down to a special Christmas Eve victory at Harrah's Philadelphia.
Just last week in a Harnesslink exclusive, Harnesslink learned that in the coming days, a group of prominent harness racing trainers in New Jersey comprising Marcus Melander, Nifty Norman, Brett Pelling, Kelvin Harrison, Kevin McDermott and Jeff Cullipher will be charged with administering phenylbutazone (Bute) within the pre-race withholding period as per the rules of the
A competitive field of seven top pacers line up for tonight’s harness racing feature at Yonkers Raceway, and Harrah’s Philadelphia invader All Class (Heston Blue Chip) looks to run his win streak to three in the $32,000 Open Pace for three- to five-year-olds. If the sophomore Per Engblom trainee is going to keep that streak