Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every week brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound. Stingray Tara on top Stingray Tara (Bettor’s Delight), a Menangle winner last weekend in 1:51.2, after coming from worse than midfield, has now won 16 races and $246,824 and
Monarch Farm matriarch Margaret Donohue has seen a lot of smart youngsters after a lifetime involvement with harness racing and she is “very happy” with her draft of yearlings in the APG Gold Coast Yearling Sale on January 28. Monarch Farm has produced several good two-year-old winners in recent seasons, including Paleface Adios Classic Winner
It’s been 30 years since a chocolate brown youngster named Dontgetinmyway (Abercrombie) romped to victory in the $774,750 Woodrow Wilson, stopping the clock in 1:53.4 at The Meadowlands for harness racing driver John Campbell. Trained by Carl Conte, Jr., Bill Robinson, and Jeff Webster that first season, the colt out of the Tyler B p,
HARRISBURG PA – For the second time in the last four elections, the voting of the members of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) for the Stan Bergstein Proximity Award, given for outstanding achievement in the harness racing sport, yielded a “dead-heat for win” – Brittany Farms, the longtime racing and breeding giant, received