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When Ron Burke was asked what kind of trip he preferred for his O'Brien Award-winning millionaire trotter T C I in his sophomore debut, the trained replied that he wanted his star pupil to win as easily as possible.
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
Filippo Lago for vendopuledri.it reports that famed Italian harness racing horseman Giancarlo Baldi passed away today (Dec. 23) at age 90. A news that shook a routine morning for insiders, too destabilizing to leave in the minds of those who knew him personally or even just through their exploits on the track, a lucidity from
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
They say the only thing about common sense in harness racing is that unfortunately, the application of it is not very common. That saying rings true in every sense of the word as information comes to light about a group of high-profile horsemen in North America facing historical charges relating to the application of phenylbutazone