When folks attend sporting events, they’re generally looking for three things. First, they’d like to see a competitive game/match. Next, a little bit of drama — events with drama leave lasting...
The Little Brown Jug is a great American event. Think about this for a second: it’s a harness race, contested on a Thursday in the middle of September in Delaware, Ohio. Yet, each year, over 40,00...
Yonkers Raceway had a spectacular racing card last Saturday, as the Yonkers Trot, Messenger Stakes, Lady Maud and Hudson Trot were contested. Those races offered a combined total of over $1.2 million ...
If you were able to catch the Messenger Stakes elimination race last Saturday, you saw two races. One was Downbytheseaside racing the clock, the other was for second place and the accompanying $10,000...
The first Saturday in August every year on the harness racing calendar is reserved for the $1 million Hambletonian, which gathers the sport’s top three-year-old trotters to race for a spot in the fi...
Consider this the second big stakes night of probably 30 we’ll encounter over the course of this harness racing season. Sun Stakes Saturday gathers the best of each division to see which horse I fas...
Elimination races are fun to watch, kind of like watching a Little League baseball game. Betting on them, however, is like being the dad watching his kid play in a Little League game, shouting from th...
Mohawk Racetrack has a jam-packed stakes program prepared for Saturday, June 17, highlighted by the $1 million North America Cup. There are other races on the card, too, but it’s the North America C...
It’s finally that time of year. Summer stakes season has arrived in harness racing just as summer will in the coming weeks. It’s both North America Cup time and, more importantly, shaming-our-coll...
Time has already pushed us into June, which is when harness racing stakes heat faster than the ozone layer. All the buzz within the harness racing industry currently revolves around the first million-...