Driver Yannick Gingras holds a strong hand at Yonkers Raceway on Thursday evening (April 18th), as he is scheduled to pilot both morning line favorites in the Invitational harness racing trots. Gingras kicks it off in race two, the $35,000 Invitational Trot, as he will take the lines on returnee Hillexotic (Muscle Hill) who needs
No Mas Drama (Muscles Yankee) is the mare to beat starting from the rail in the $35,000 Mares Invitational Trot in harness racing action at Yonkers Raceway on Thursday (April 11th). The seven-year-old Nicole Dicostanzo pupil comes off a strong second a week ago where she simply couldn’t repel the perfectly pocketed even money favorite
Open trotters take centre stage in Yonkers Raceway harness racing action of Thursday night (April 4th.) There are two $35,000 Invites, one restricted to mares (race 8) and one that is open to both sexes (race 2). The 5 to 2 favorite in the open Invite, however, is the lone mare in the quintet. Tipsy
Over the years, there have always been some negative rumblings whenever an “amateur” event is part of a “pari-mutuel” harness racing program. Some punters can be heard mumbling, “I’m passing this race…you know…amateurs.” Let’s clarify something about the amateur drivers right this very moment… The reason they are merely “amateurs,” as some of you mutter,
For those of you that castigate amateur harness racing and continually complain about it, you’re all wrong. Form Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of yesteryear to the gentlemen and ladies that participate this very day, amateur racing has done wonders for our sport…and countless charitable organizations here in the U.S.A., as well. First off, many of