Harness racing driver and trainer Winston Lineweaver, 79, who competed at the nearby Shenandoah County Fair harness meet for decades and at the Shenandoah Downs pari-mutuel meet since it began in 2016, passed away on Friday (Sept. 24).
With the stated goal of becoming the premier Sire Stakes program in North America, the Kentucky Sire Stakes Advisory Panel voted on Friday (Sept. 23 to) recommend major changes across the board to the Kentucky Sires Stakes program for Kentucky-bred horses.
On a conference call Friday (Aug. 27), the U.S. Trotting Association’s Board of Directors’ Executive Committee voted to maintain the deadline for all horses to be microchipped by Jan. 1, 2022.
A total of 23 rule change and three bylaw proposals have been submitted to the U.S. Trotting Association and will be voted upon by the USTA directors in March at the 2022 annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio.
USTA ID Technician Jim Shupe will be in Chesterfield, N.J., and surrounding areas, starting Monday (Sept. 27).
Fox Den Farm is offering four outstanding yearlings on onGait.com in the 2021 Fall Yearling Sale which runs through Saturday (Sept. 25).
The Bloomsburg Fair speed office is reporting that Saturday (Sept. 25) harness racing for Pennsylvania 3-year-olds “is a go” for 11 a.m., despite what may have appeared or been said to the contrary.
Sixty-five yearlings are being offered in the 2021 onGait.com Fall Yearling Sale which starts on Friday (Sept. 24).
The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association will continue its coverage of the 2021 Ohio County Fair racing season with three days of live streaming coverage from the Tuscarawas County Fair in Dover, Ohio, Sept. 24-26.
On Thursday (Sept. 23), the Illinois Racing Board met to consider three applications for 2022 racing dates. With a unanimous vote the board approved the following dates for 2022.