Author: from Meadowlands Media Relations

The Independence Day (Tuesday, July 4) harness racing program at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming and Hotel will feature plenty of fireworks on the track. Eight early-season Kentucky Sire Stakes series will culminate with $100,000 finals on an 11-race docket featuring many of the sport’s highest-profile competitors and two horses — Mambacita and Arson — looking to cap series sweeps.

The favorites prevailed in the top two races on the Monday night (July 3) harness racing program at Running Aces.

Domovoy picked up his second win in the Buckeye Stallion Series as he rolled to a wire-to-wire victory Monday (July 3) at MGM Northfield Park. All four of the $20,000 divisions for 3-year-old colt trotters saw the winner go wire-to-wire.

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.