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After a half-century of taking care of track surfaces – most notably, the mile oval at The Meadowlands, which is home to the fastest mile in the history of the game – Gary Wolff, who serves as the Big M’s director of racing properties & track, will step down from that position when he retires at the end of the year.

Bright Bet and Barley A Lie beat the strong winds and frigid temperatures to take the $18,000 co-featured condition claiming paces on Monday (Dec. 29) night at Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway.

American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) action wrapped for 2025 on Sunday (Dec. 28) at Harrah’s Philadelphia with Geovany Hernandez bagging two wins and Michael Shults scoring in the other of the three $7,500 events on the card.

It’s rare to see a trailer in an overnight race at Harrah’s Philadelphia, but the Racing Office had the good favor of nine solid, fast-class trotters drop in the box, so it was decided to go with nine while raising the purse to $18,000, and they were eight-wide behind the gate.

The speed spectacle was missing as Jushua Tree, driven by Jean Michel Bazire, won the Prix de Bourgogne at the Vincennes track in Paris in 1:54.3 (mile rate) over 2,100 meters, ahead of Go On Boy with Romain Derieux.

Bettor Is Nice received a confident drive from Tyler Smith and captured the final $28,000 Open Pace of the 2025 Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway meet in 1:51.1 on Saturday (Dec. 27).

There’s set to be a speed fest at Vincennes on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 28) as the third of four B-qualification races for the Prix d’Amerique – the Prix de Bourgogne – will be raced over a distance of 2,100 meters (about 1 5/16 miles), which is the sprint distance at Vincennes.

There was no holiday hangover at Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway on Friday (Dec. 26) as No Foolin April scored her third straight open pace victory, driver Brett Miller recorded four wins and the punters wagered the fourth highest total in the raceway’s history.

Homicide Hunter, the active world-record holder for the fastest trotting mile in harness racing history, has once again reached the summit of competition, this time in a completely different arena. The iconic Standardbred has been named 2025 SPHO-NJ Horse of the Year, the highest honor awarded annually to the top nationally-pointed Standardbred in the show ring.

The Muscle Hill sophomore gelding Net Weight, in his first start in six months, was more than ready for the $12,000 trotting feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia on a sub-freezing Friday afternoon (Dec. 26), winning by two lengths in 1:59.3.