Western Fair & OHHA Reach Contract Agreement
Feb 8  Western Fair Raceway and the Ontario Harness Horse Association announced today that they have reached a one year contract agreement which will extend to December 31, 2010...

February Issue Now Available
Feb 8  The February issue of The Harness Edge which features in depth stories with Per Henriksen, Jason Bartlett, the connections behind FBs Terror, Rock N Roll Heaven, a look at ...

Notable Names At PEI Symposium
Feb 8  Jody Jamieson, Brent MacGrath, Phil Pinkney, and Kenny Arsenault will be among the guest speakers at the upcoming PEI Horse Industry Symposium...

Healthy Lands For Healthy Horses Workshop
Feb 8  A two part equine stewardship workshop will be held March 27th and April 10th, 2010 in Caledon, Ontario for people who own horses and manage their own facility...

Horse People Helping Homes In Haiti
Feb 8  Inspired by the generosity of the Lis Mara syndicate, Mac Lilley Farms, Ed Mullinax and Western Fair Raceway have joined forces to raise money to build a home for a family...

Alberta Notes
Feb 8  At least five Northlands Park harness drivers have agreed to compete in a snowshoe race at the track on Family Day, February 15 during the free Winter Family Festival on the...

Western Fair February 15 Stakes Deadline
Feb 8  Western Fair Raceway reminds horse people of the approaching February 15, 2010 deadline for several of their major stakes events including their signature race, the...

Woodbine Gets Cool
Feb 8  Partners in Project Green today announced the launch of Cool Rexdale, a new program that will help to improve the economic, social and environmental vitality of Rexdale, one of Toronto's priority ...

Celebrity Hercules Flexes His Muscles
Feb 7  Celebrity Hercules picked a perfect time to notch his first win of the season as he scored a mild upset in Sunday’s $60,000 Don Mills Trotting Series final for four-year-olds...

Fraser Plays Host To Miss Valentine Elims
Feb 7  Betting favourites Incredible Beauty and Lil Miss Nyalation were victorious in the two $8,000 Miss Valentine eliminations for four-year-old mare pacers on Sunday afternoon...

Peenie Powers To Preferred Victory
Feb 7  Peenie forged his way to a first-over triumph in the $14,000 preferred handicap pace on Sunday evening at Rideau Carleton Raceway. The final time of the event was 1:54.3...

Jamieson Takes Five At Flamboro
Feb 7  Driver Jody Jamieson had a super night of his own on Super Bowl Sunday as he visited the winner's circle five times on the 12-race program at Flamboro Downs...

The Meadows Cancels For Monday
Feb 7  The Meadows Racetrack and Casino has canceled Monday's live card due to the impact of the weekend storm that dumped more than 20 inches of snow on southwestern Pennsylvania...

Kawartha Award Photos
Feb 7  Kawartha Downs hosted its annual awards banquet last night and the photos of the winners are available below courtesy of Racehorsephoto.com. Note that the names of the horses...

Hot Shot On Best Behaviour
Feb 7  The racing game may be seeing a new and improved Hot Shot Blue Chip. At least that is the hope of his connections. Last night at Pompano Park the now gelded four-year-old...

Goldstein Memorial Goes To Daley Deposit Only
Feb 6  The script couldn't have been written better for the supremely patient horseman Dan Daley to capture the $50,000 Bernard Goldstein Memorial Invitational Pace on Saturday...

Ford Trainees Finish 1-2 In Aquarius Opener
Feb 6  Mark Ford trainees Handsome Harry and Keep It Real nabbed the lion's share of the $40,000 purse in the opening round of the Aquarius Series for four-year-old pacers...

Dali Paints A Winning Picture
Feb 6  Millionaire Dali used a first-over trip to score a hard-fought 1:51.4 victory in Saturday night's $50,000 open pace at Woodbine Racetrack...

Corky Baran Impressive Again
Feb 6  Corky Baran repeated in the $32,000 invitational pace on Saturday night at Meadowlands Racetrack by making a move to command before the half on his way to a 1:50.3 triumph...

Dave Aint Here Doubles Up
Feb 6  Dave Aint Here, shown no love after last week's open handicap pace win, defended his Yonkers Raceway title Saturday night in a last-to-first effort...

Niatross Claiming Series Kicks Off
Feb 6  Eight divisions of the Niatross Series, for horses that have started for a base claiming price of $4,000 or less from June 1, 2009 to and including January 23, 2010, were raced...

Open Pace In Cal-Expo Spotlight
Feb 6  Open handicap pacers, racing for a purse of $6,100 over a track listed as 'good,' were featured at Cal-Expo on Saturday night (February 6)...

Three Alberta Fans Become Dream Owners
Feb 6  John Kallas, Paul McGeein and Dale Lorenz are the lucky winners of a free ownership share of top-level mare Starring Role. The two-day contest ended Saturday afternoon...

Doug Harkness Benefit
Feb 6  Friends of Doug Harkness from both the harness racing communities and the newspaper fraternity have joined forces to plan a benefit for the well-known ...

Talking With Trites
Feb 6  Long time Maritime driver Steven Trites says he learned to drive with very cheap horses and notes: "It's good to learn on that kind because you don't get too high on yourself that way. When...

Freehold & SBOANJ Reach Agreement
Feb 6  Purse money at Freehold Raceway will increase by nearly $4.8 million thanks to an agreement reached with the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey...

Meadows Cancellation Today
Feb 6  A storm that dumped more than a foot of snow throughout its service area has forced The Meadows Racetrack & Casino to close its on-track race book and all off-track sites for all...

Kiwis Plunder Hunter Cup
Feb 6  A gritty performance by Bondy produced a big upset in today's $400,000 Hunter Cup at Moonee Valley Racetrack in Melbourne, Australia. The eight-year-old Live...

Focus On Addington
Feb 6  Lancome turned in the biggest performance of her career today at Addington Raceway to win the $175,500 NZ Yearling Sales Final. The daughter of Courage Under Fire ...

Banks/Hanover Top Aussie Sale
Feb 6  New York owners Gordon Banks and Marc Hanover made headlines today in Melbourne, Australia by buying the sale topper at the second session of the Australian Pacing Gold...

Sundons Gift Wins Inter Dom
Feb 6  It was a history making moment today at Moonee Valley Racetrack when Sundons Gift captured the $250,000 final of the Inter Dominion Trotting Championship...

Ruling In Aussie
Feb 6  Courage To Rule pulled off a big upset in front of 15,000 fans on the final night of harness racing at Melbourne's Moonee Valley Racetrack to win the $200,000 Alabar Victoria Derby...

Exit 16W Series Begins
Feb 5  Three $20,000 divisions of the Exit 16W Series for four-year-old and under colt and gelding pacers were contested on Friday night at Meadowlands Racetrack...

Native Bride Is One Of Six Winners For Sears
Feb 5  A sparkling 1:50.2 mile by Native Bride in the $40,000 Cape & Cutter Series opener topped a six-winner night for Meadowlands leading driver Brian Sears on Friday...

The Count B Series Continues
Feb 5  Come Back was an easy repeat winner in The Count B Pacing Series on Friday night at Woodbine Racetrack while the other $20,000 division went to Willies Place...

Impressive Earl Repeats At Yonkers
Feb 5  Impressive Earl (Stephane Bouchard) defended his open handicap trot title, getting a perfect second-over trip and Yonkers Raceway's line just in time in Friday night's $32,000 co-feature...

Accident In Flamboro Finale
Feb 5  A four-horse accident occurred in the first turn in Friday night's 12th and final race on the program at Flamboro Downs. Due to the mishap, the race was declared a no-contest...

Two Opens Raced At Buffalo
Feb 5  In the $9,000 open handicap trot at Buffalo Raceway on Friday night, A Work In Progress, a six-year old chestnut gelding by SJs Caviar out of the Lindy Lane mare Angela Lane, went coast-to-coast...

Im Just Special Returns To Form
Feb 5  A pedigree that quickly became familiar in south Florida last November was at the forefront of the Friday night, February 5 proceedings at the Isle Casino Racing at Pompano Park...

Armbro Dublin Upsets At Fraser
Feb 5  Armbro Dublin used a second-over trip to post a 12-1 upset score in the $13,000 open pace on Friday night at Fraser Downs. The time of the mile was 1:53.1...

Big Day For Andy Miller At Freehold
Feb 5  Master Pine's victory in the $8,600 preferred handicap trot on Friday afternoon at Freehold Raceway was one of five wins on the card for driver Andy Miller...

Another Rabbit Scare At Northlands
Feb 5  Opening night of the Northlands Park harness meet in Edmonton was almost marked by an accident in the stretch drive as a rabbit darted across the stretch...

Connors Memorial Cancelled
Feb 5  There will be no William Connors Memorial Trot this year. Officials at Hazel Park Raceway confirmed that the $100,000 early closing trot event which is their signature race,...

Harness Racing PEI General Manager Accepts New Position
Feb 5  The general manager with Harness Racing PEI has accepted a new position with the City of Charlottetown. Jeremy Pierce, who guided the management...

Artistic Fella Arrives At Seelster Farms
Feb 5  Seelster Farms is pleased to announce that Artistic Fella p, 2, 1:53.3; 3, 1:48.4; 1:48f ($2,640,532) arrived at the farm late Wednesday evening. The seven-year-old son of Pacific Fella...

On Reactor Time
Feb 5  "We are on his schedule now...not ours." That was the way Kelvin Harrison characterized the game plan for Auckland Reactor who has settled into his barn...

WEG Features Now On YouTube
Feb 5  After recently making race replays available on their dedicated YouTube channel, the Woodbine Entertainment Group has started uploading feature content to the ...

Beegle Elected President of PHHA
Feb 5  Sam Beegle, a 37-year veteran of the Standardbred industry and the subject of a feature story in the April 2009 issue of The Harness Edge, was elected president of the...

Racing Cancelled At The Meadows Today
Feb 5  Due to a winter storm, The Meadows has cancelled their afternoon racing program today. Live racing at The Meadows...

Good Aussie Sale
Feb 5  The Premium Gold session of the Australia Pacing Gold Sale was held today in the southern hemisphere and provided strong results. An average of $34,153 was...

Calhoun On Sportswriter
Feb 5  Our latest interview from last weekend's O'Brien Awards is with Steve Calhoun, owner of Canada's 2009 Two Year Old Pacing Colt of the Year Sportswriter, whose summary last year was ...

Brooks Brothers Have Harness Racing On Edge
Feb 5  "The rubble of body-armor manufacturer David H. Brooks' once formidable empire continues to claim its victims. First it was investors in his body-armor company, DHB Industries, whom he and a co-defendant allegedly defrauded out of approximately $190 million. Now it's an entire industry, the sport of harness racing...

Barrie Bettor Wins Big
Feb 5  Dave Perkins' column in today's Toronto Star congratulates Barrie, Ontario handicapper Brian Troop who recently won the $500,000 (US) first prize in the National Handicapping...

Time To Regroup For Brown
Feb 5  British Columbia horseman Tim Brown hasn't let an off year get him down. Last year when his home track of Fraser Downs was closed Brown and his wife Sandra headed to Hoosier...

$350,000 On Pens?
Feb 5  At yesterday's on going trial of David Brooks in New York the court was told he needs more medication and his spending habits, which have been the subject of much discussion...

Alberta Racing Woes
Feb 5  "There's too much product and not enough demand for harness racing. We race 240 Standardbred cards, compared with 160 Thoroughbred dates," notes Woodbine Entertainment's Nick...

Gingras Wins Five, Pick Six Carryover Climbs
Feb 5  The hot hands of Quebec native Yannick Gingras and upsets in two of Thursday night's Junior Trendsetter Series divisions contributed to a ...

Blissfull & Badlands Return to Ontario
Feb 5  Badlands Hanover and Blissfull Hall returned to Winbak of Canada yesterday morning after spending the latter part of 2009 downunder for the Southern Hemisphere’s breeding...

Slimsplace Repeats In Miss Vera Bars
Feb 4  Slimsplace and Pebble Creek were both off-the-pace winners in Thursday night’s second leg of the Miss Vera Bars Pacing Series for three-year-old fillies at Woodbine ...

Inflation Hanover & Life Up Front Deadheat At Dover
Feb 4  There were two winners in the $14,000 feature pace when Inflation Hanover and Life Up Front finished in a deadheat for win while Winordietrying won a $25,000 claimer in an astounding...

Sixth Annual Winbak Yearling Sale Set
Feb 4  Winbak Farm will be holding their sixth Annual Winbak Select Yearling Sale on Friday, September 17, 2010 at the main farm in Chesapeake City, Maryland. A catalog of approximately...

Viva Las Vegas Coming to Charlottetown and Summerside
Feb 4  Red Shores Racetrack & Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park and Red Shores at Summerside Raceway are gearing up for another new promotion called...

The Meadows $6.45 Million 2010 Stakes Schedule
Feb 4  The Meadows Racetrack & Casino today announced its 2010 stakes schedule, a rich program that will award an estimated $6.45 million in purses to young Standardbreds who prove...

St Lads Trixie Qualifies
Feb 4  St Lads Trixie, a winner of $144,119 last season at two and the close runner-up in last year’s $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final at Woodbine in mid-November, won her ...

‘Woodstock’ Always Draws A Crowd
Feb 4  A large crowd will be gathered at the rail when Woodstock Hanover parades down the stretch Friday night at Meadowlands Racetrack. After a strong showing in the Clyde Hirt Series...

ORC Rulings On Clancy, Legges, Mackinnon
Feb 4  The Ontario Racing Commission today released rulings in the cases of Darcy Clancy, Brian and David Legge and Betty Ann Mackinnon all of whom saw their appeals denied and the ...

Mohawk Qualifying Notes
Feb 4  Two trainers profiled in the February issue of The Harness Edge had winners this morning in qualifiers at Mohawk Racetrack while Enjoy The Caviar's brother was also victorious...

Hughes Is Happy
Feb 4  Dunsford, Ontario horseman Rod Hughes says things are going very well at his operation which is anchored by millionaire trotter and last year's Maple Leaf Trot winner San Pail...

New Vocations Stallion Auction In Progress
Feb 4  New Vocations' 12th annual stallion auction is in progress online from February 3rd – February 9th. Breedings to 84 stallions in 10 states and Canada are being offered in an open ended...

Brooks Trial Hears About Horses
Feb 4  The ongoing trial of former prominent horse owner David Brooks in New York, yesterday heard about the millions of dollars spent on his horses. Assistant US Attorney Christopher ...

New Book On Retired Racehorses
Feb 4  A book detailing what happens to Standardbred and Thoroughbred horses after their racing careers are over is now available. “Beyond The Finish Line: Stories of Ex-Racehorses” was...

NJ Panel Members Named
Feb 4  Former Toronto Blue Jay Al Leiter is among the seven commissioners named to a panel to oversee entertainment, sports and gaming (which will include the future of the Meadowlands)...

Bartlett In The Big Apple
Feb 4  Jason Bartlett, who is profiled in the February issue of The Harness Edge became the first harness racing participant to receive a Thurman Munson Award which recognizes athletic...

Posts Drawn For Goldstein Memorial
Feb 3  The top eight Free For All horses presently in training in South Florida will contest the Bernard Goldstein Memorial Pace on Saturday, February 6 at Pompano Park. The...

Scootin Around Sweeps In Pompano Feature
Feb 3  Following a succession of four straight starts finishing second or third the situation finally worked out just right for Scootin Around to take down a top prize at Pompano Park...

Callahan Ties Record With Eight Wins At Dover
Feb 3  Up Down And Around, one of meet leading driver Corey Callahan's eight winning drivers, won the $26,000 Mares Open on Wednesday, February 3, at Dover Downs. Callahan's ...

Tryst & Odds On Moinet Take TLC Opening Round
Feb 3  Tryst kept her perfect record intact in the first of two $12,500 opening round divisions of the Tender Loving Care series for three-year-old filly pacers Wednesday at the Meadowlands...

Pick 6 Carryover Reaches $19,000
Feb 3  The Pick 6 carryover is $19,253 heading into the Thursday night card at Meadowlands Racetrack. A $1 base wager, the Pick 6 is available nightly on races ...

Julie Miller To Drive In Lady Godiva
Feb 3  Julie Miller, trainer of the outstanding trotter Lucky Jim, has joined the field of women drivers who will compete in Monticello Raceway’s Lady Godiva Pace on Monday afternoon...

Mike Lloyd On Road To Recovery
Feb 3  It was a seemingly perfect ending to 2009 for Mike Lloyd, a respected horsemen who had just watched his homebred filly end her first year racing in style. But in a matter...
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