Year: 2023

The Pennsylvania stakes season for 2-year-olds at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was born on the Third Of July this year, as freshman males who were first-time starters and were not their race’s favorites swept the four $30,000 divisions of a Pennsylvania All-Stars contest.

There were so many harness racing headliners and heroes on Sunday (July 2) in amateur competition at Oak Grove Racing and Gaming that it’s next to impossible and deemed a “dead-heat” for the top spot.

The United States Harness Writers Association, the leading group of Standardbred racing’s communicators, presented a $5,000 donation to the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame during the annual Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Goshen, N.Y., on Sunday (July 2).

The largest crowd of the season thronged to Bangor Raceway on Sunday (July 2) to witness one of the preeminent invitational events of the 2023 state of Maine harness racing season — the $25,000 Fred Nichols Memorial Pace which honors the memory of the long serving Bangor Raceway executive and official.

There’s a huge jackpot awaiting at the finish line at Buffalo Raceway on Wednesday afternoon (July 5) as a field of five colt and gelding 2-year-old trotters go for a $102,500 purse in the New York Sire Stakes. The main event goes off as the seventh on the 13-race program which gets underway at 2:30 p.m.

Trainers Mike Graffam and Valerie Grondin each grabbed a $14,684 division of the Maine Sire Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies at Bangor on Sunday (July 2), giving the active conditioners something extra to cheer about for the holiday weekend.