Due to increased demand, the first run of the 2024 Breeders Book has sold out. As a result, the book is being reprinted for orders received after the supplies were depleted and are expected to be mailed out the week of Jan. 22. Orders are still being taken for the reprinted version.
Author: from the USTA Communications Department
Foal registration, yearling names deadlines are Dec. 31
Deadlines for foal registration and submission of names for all unnamed yearlings is Dec. 31.
Not your typical harness driver, Brent Holland gets his 6,000th win
Brent Holland didn’t come from a typical harness racing family, who have fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, uncles and aunts who grew up in the business.
2023 SIP show season closing soon
Columbus, OH – The 2023 show season for the Standardbred Incentive Program (SIP) closed on Nov. 30, but there is still time to submit shows and placings. Participants have until 11:59 p.m. on…
Artspeak moves to Indiana
Winbak Farm has announced that Artspeak p, 2, 1:50.2S; 3, 1:47.4M ($1,625,869), will stand at Schwartz Boarding Farm in Indiana for 2024.
Pandy’s Meadowlands selections for Dec. 22
Handicapper Bob Pandolfo offers his selections for the full card at the Meadowlands on Friday night (Dec. 22).
Au Revoir and winter finals set for Cumberland
First Tracks Cumberland has a host of lucrative series finals as well as the third annual Au Revoir Retirement Showcase slated for closing weekend, which runs from Friday (Dec. 22) through Christmas Eve Sunday (Dec. 24).
Randy Manges, 72, dies
Randy Delbert Manges, the longtime sales manager for the Kentucky Standardbred Horse Sales Company and later the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale, died Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. He was 72.
Gregory Pecs, successful Virginia Standardbred sire, passes away at age 21
Gregory Pecs, one of the most successful sires in Virginia’s 26-year history of pari-mutuel harness racing, passed away earlier this month at the age of 21
Carryover Craze caters to the little guy
For years, smaller players had a tough time of it at the track when it came to going for the big score, as larger minimums tended to exclude the low-level bettors from being serious players in those extremely attractive giant pools, permitting bigger partnerships and syndicates to bet big and scoop the pots.