Maine-bred sophomores come to Cumberland
September 26, 2022Three-year-old Maine-bred pacers invade the Cumberland Fair on Wednesday (Sept. 28) for the penultimate $18,000-plus legs of the Maine Breeders Stakes (MSBS).
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Developing horses featured Monday at Pocono
September 26, 2022The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono featured a quartet of $15,000 contests for up-and-coming horses on its Monday (Sept. 26) afternoon card, with a strong stretch headwind reflected in many of the races’ fractions and racing styles.
DSBF Pacing Colts complete first leg Monday
September 26, 2022Four $20,000 divisions of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund for 2-year-old colts and geldings kicked off the new week of racing Monday (Sept. 26) at Harrington Raceway.
Freshmen ready to open Grand Circuit Meeting in Lexington
September 26, 2022Harness racing’s best will return to The Red Mile beginning on Thursday afternoon (Sept. 29) with the first of its six-day stakes meeting. Freshman trotting colts and geldings and freshman pacing fillies take center stage Thursday in a total of five Bluegrass Stakes divisions.
Gingras wins four Massachusetts Sire Stakes at Plainridge
September 26, 2022The 2-year-olds took center stage in the $2.5 million (est.) Massachusetts Sire Stakes at Plainridge Park on Monday afternoon (Sept. 26) and four of the five winners were piloted by Hall of Fame driver Yannick Gingras.
Stable Reductions Lead PEO Sale
September 26, 2022Fast and fresh racehorses were the order of the day at Preferred Equine Online’s Sept. 26 Mixed Sale, as 24 of 30 horses offered were sold in the virtual auction ring for a gross of $686,500.
PA Fair season ends with rainout at Meadville
September 26, 2022The 2022 Pennsylvania Fair Harness Racing Circuit came to a sudden and soggy conclusion, as constant soaking rain in the northwest Pennsylvania area made the Crawford County Fairgrounds track in Meadville unraceable for both Monday (Sept. 26) and Tuesday (Sept. 27), cancelling the final stop of the season.
Freshmen ready to open Grand Circuit meeting in Lexington
September 26, 2022Harness racing’s best will return to The Red Mile beginning on Thursday afternoon (Sept. 29) with the first of its six-day stakes meeting. Freshman trotting colts and geldings and freshman pacing fillies take center stage Thursday in a total of five Bluegrass Stakes divisions.
Kyle Cummings is living his dream
September 26, 2022Kyle Cummings is an interesting dude. In elementary school, he hardly hung around the barn and showed little interest in the family business of harness racing. And yet . . “I can remember being in grade school and I had no interest in school. I thought, ‘Well I already know where I’m going,’” said the 22-year-old, who is enjoying a career year in the sulky in northwestern New York. “And as soon as I got out of high school, that’s exactly where I went. Right to the racetrack. There was never a doubt. I just dreamed of racing horses my entire life.”
Michigan’s Snow Ridge Farm rebuilding after barn fire
September 26, 2022It was shortly after 1 a.m. the early morning hours of Tuesday (Aug. 30), when Libby Myers, who co-owns Snow Ridge Farm in Clark Lake, Mich., with her husband, Mike, received a phone call nobody in the horse business wants to receive: There was a barn fire on her property. The Myers, who had been asleep for barely an hour when they were awakened by the call, rushed the two football fields away on the 40-acre property just south of Jackson to find the barn fully engulfed. They could only watch helplessly as it burnt to the ground.
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