It’s almost 65 years since my first writing about harness racing appeared in The Horseman and Fair World. That’s 65 years of witnessing the great, the not-so-great, the incredible, the not-so-incredible, the expected and the unexpected accomplishments of our great breed. From Su Mac Lad winning on August 22, 1959, in a $3,000 AA-A Class
Down under trotting breeders rueing the missed opportunity to breed to one of the leading lights in the 2023 harness racing season have had their prayers answered somewhat unexpectedly. That surprise extends to the individual responsible for making it happen. What started as a dream and some basic enquires to stand the revolutionary trotting sire
T C I (Cantab Hall) overcame a break in stride and completed a last-to-first rally to capture the $1 million Mohawk Million, the world’s richest race for harness racing two-year-olds, at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday (Sep. 23). T C I began to gallop as the wings folded and was left behind by his rivals,
The undercard on Jugette Day featured a number of stakes races for Ohio-bred harness racing trotters and pacers. Sweet victory for Sugar Instead in $131,200 (div.) OBC 2FT Sugar Instead (Volstead) continued her dominance in the state of Ohio for the two-year-old filly division. The filly overcame the outside post #7 and was sitting third
On North American harness racing tracks it’s all about speed over a mile trip, in Australia it’s a mix of both standing start and mobile features across a range of track sizes, in New Zealand it could be about an extreme two-mile contest or a grass track race featuring non-race winners and in Europe the