Will Mikala (Always B Miki) be the forgotten pacing mare in harness racing’s $276,200 Blue Chip Matchmaker Final at Yonkers Raceway on Monday night (April 22nd)? The six-year-old Nik Drennan pupil comes in off a front-end win in the fourth leg of the series, and with two wins in the first four legs and a
Every spring, harness racing trainers converse, hope, and dream about their prospective 2-year-olds in training much in the same way breeders ponder about their stallion’s first crop of youngsters. What follows is an examination of the stallions who are first crop sires with statistics garnered from the US Trotting Association and some of the mares they were bred
The initial payment deadline for eligibility to more than 157 stakes events at 14 different tracks, headlined by the $1 million USD Hambletonian at The Meadowlands on Aug. 3 and the $7 million USD Breeders Crown events on Oct. 25 and 26, is fast approaching.
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
T C I (Cantab Hall) took over the lead approaching the half and was never headed as he improved his record to eight harness racing wins from nine starts taking the $420,000 Peter Haughton Memorial for two-year-old colt and gelding trotters at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday night (Sept. 14th). There was plenty of early