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4 days ago · READ THE FULL STORY Consigners reflect as 2024 SHSC yearling sale sees increase in gross over 2023. Posted on November 7, 2024.
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Swayzee looks to turn tables on rival Leap To Fame in New …
4 days ago · Swayzee was a brave third after sitting parked. They’ve met twice since and Leap To Fame has taken a 3-to-1 advantage, most recently in their Blacks A Fake reunion at Albion Park on July 27. Leap To Fame was $1.20 (for a $1 bet) to make it 4-to-1 in last month’s Group 1 Victoria Cup at Melton, but a race eve virus forced him out of the race.
Perusing the top 20 drivers and trainers - Harness Racing Update
Sep 17, 2021 · This year, Dunn has just gained the top spot from Tim Tetrick at $7.6 million to $7.5 million as we head into Jug week and beyond. The same top 4 drivers from 2020 are there again in 2021 — Yannick Gingras and David Miller rounding out the quartet. James MacDonald has now cracked the top 20. His huge night of four wins and two seconds-good ...
Homebred heroine - Harness Racing Update
4 days ago · The 2-year-old filly next won back-to-back legs of Mohawk’s Harvest Series by open lengths for driver Jody Jamieson and trainer Ronald MacDonald, finishing third in the Nov. 2 Harvest final before stopping for the year. “We never race a 2-year-old very many starts anyway, especially one that shows some potential,” Ferguson said.
Meadowlands picks and analysis for stacked Saturday card
Nov 25, 2022 · Meadowlands picks and analysis for stacked Saturday card. Both the Fall Final Four and TVG Finals are on tap. by Brett Sturman. The Fall Final Four and TVG Finals combined with the swan song for Bulldog Hanover will make for one last stellar race card in this harness racing season. Here are my thoughts for all the stake races.
How good is Papi Grad, and other thoughts from the week that was
Jul 24, 2024 · In just two career starts prior to Sunday, Papi Grad already received the 13th highest points total of all horses in training from the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown weekly poll. This week, or soon enough, she will formally be in the Top 10. A $47,000 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale grad from 2023 and from the first crop of Papi Rob ...
Harness racing’s standout numbers of 2022
Dec 11, 2022 · Dexter Dunn has become just the fourth member of the single-season $15 million driver club. He leads North America in 2022 with earnings of $15,077,534 through Thursday. Currently, it is the 11th highest earnings season by a driver. Tim Tetrick, who is second this year with earnings of more than $14.2 million, amazingly owns eight of the 12 $15 ...
All hail the current ‘Queen of Pacing’ - Harness Racing Update
Aug 9, 2024 · The current “Queen of Pacing,” Twin B Joe Fresh cut through another stake like a hot knife in butter, easily winning the Lady Liberty at The Meadowlands in 1:48, which elicited a “Wow!” from Meadowlands’ track announcer Ken Warkentin. Off that impressive Hambletonian Day performance on Saturday (Aug. 3) over a top-notch field of mare ...
Best of both breeds - Harness Racing Update
Aug 16, 2024 · A good horse might just be a good horse, with more commonalities than differences among their followers today. Moira, Canada’s 2022 thoroughbred Horse of the Year, won the Queen’s Plate for X-Men Racing, an ownership group which included prominent standardbred owners John Fielding, Robert LeBlanc, Clay Horner, Daniel Plouffe, and David ...