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...
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-...
Here we are again ready to start the next lap of this stakes-season merry-go-round. We are coming off of a particularly good week with last week, which could only make our performance this week appear...
Every year around this time, stakes season pushes its frisky little face through the door frame to watch us, just as a new father observes his young. It grabs ahold of us like grandma at the family re...
Last time we chatted about harness racing, we tackled the Dexter Cup eliminations at Freehold Raceway and reminisced about our beloved George Morton Levy and Blue Chip Matchmaker Series. Our travels t...
Ah yes, it’s that time of year. Now, I’m aware that I said the very same thing regarding the George Morton Levy and Blue Chip Matchmaker Series (God, I miss them), but it’s now another time of y...
