The Hawthorne Racecourse harness meeting that left the starting gate on Oct. 9 will cross the finish line on Sunday night (Feb. 23). Racing has been limited to weekends and Sunday will be the 48th ...

Mother Nature can turn into a shrew in mid-November in Chicagoland but, luckily, she was a lady on Saturday (Nov. 15) when Hawthorne Race Course presented its version of The Big Dance, the $1.1 ...

Look at the numbers. As of this past Tuesday, Aaron Merriman, at the age of 46, has driven the winners of 16,121 races which have earned $121,179,923. As astounding as those numbers may be, that ranks ...

In the minutes before the Elegantimage final on Saturday (Sept. 21) at Woodbine Mohawk Park we scanned the past performances. The Pick 5 pool was going to be north of $150,000 so it was a must play ...

Record after record shattered through the week of the 2024 Standardbred Horse Sales Company auction in Harrisburg, PA culminating in Friday’s (Nov. 8) closing session with the largest purchase ever ...

A tremendous, record-breaking Mixed Sale grossed $38.5 million which pushed the total sale gross to the cusp of $75 million, by far the best total in… READ THE FULL STORY Record Mixed Sale thrusts ...

When it comes to carrying on family tradition in the sport of harness racing, Kristina Smith ranks at the top of the chart. Born in Milford, MA, her story and love for standardbreds began with Smith’s ...

Harness Racing Update’s popular Twos in Training series rolls on with two new videos to go with the interviews with Erv Miller, Megan Scran, Dr. Ian Moore, Carter Pinske, John Butenschoen, Mark Etsell ...

Born on Dec. 16, 1950 in St. Augustine, QC, Mike Lachance entered the world as the son of a cattle farmer with three brothers, Gilles, Andre, and Pierre. By the time he was 12 he was already winning ...

It was Devo that suggested you should Whip It, Whip It Good, while the Rolling Stones were the ones debating about what happens When The Whip Comes Down. So evidently, were some researchers in Sweden.

Sunday night in Orlando, FL, undefeated Beau Jangles will be recognized as the sport’s top freshman male pacer during the Dan Patch Awards. The colt is also a strong contender for both Pacer of the ...

The winter meeting at Vincennes concluded on Feb. 28, and this Saturday (March 21) the spring meeting gets underway. A total of $16,781,000 in prize money will be contested between March 20 and June ...