Category: Announcements

Syndicate manager David Reid has announced that the 2025 book is full and closed for Legendary Hanover, the multiple stakes, and Dan Patch Award winner.

Winbak Farm is saddened to report the passing of Thong, p, 2, 1:53.3s; 3, 1:50.2 ($705,185). Thong died from foaling complications on February 24th. She was 20 years old. “Thong was a…

Barry Lefkowitz, Chair of the Board of the U.S. Harness Writers Association and a well-known harness publicist-executive, passed away earlier this week, and we now have details on funeral arrangements.

Longtime harness horse owner and Virginia Harness Horse Association Board member Thomas Allen “Tom” Davis Sr., 66, husband of Cherron Fletcher Davis, died March 7, 2025, at his home in New Church, Va.

Joy M. Sheaffer, 95, died March 7, 2025, at Geisinger Lewistown Hospital with her family by her side.

Barry Lefkowitz, 66, a longtime publicist and executive in harness racing and a driving force in the resurgence of the United States Harness Writers Association as the current Chair of the Board and immediate past president, and through his efforts involving the Dan Patch Awards banquet, passed away overnight after battling cancer for the last year.

Susan Laden, 80, a prominent Standardbred owner of champions in the 1980s, died after a short illness at Englewood Health Care in New Jersey, not far from where she resided.

The Defiance County (Ohio) Area Horsemen’s Association is holding a silent auction for breedings to numerous stallions. The auction currently has two Ohio pacing stallions, two Ohio trotting stallions, and one Indiana pacing stallion.