Pari-mutuel racing opportunities for harness horses in Illinois continued to shrink when the Illinois Racing Board drafted the 2026 schedule on Thursday (Sept. 18). Hawthorne Race Course’s Suburban ...

How did we get to Opening Night in 1976 as harness racing took center stage in the New York Metropolitan Area? “Be There At The Start Of Something Big” was plastered on many a billboard. New Jersey, ...

Trainer Amanda Fine is living the dream. Following in her father, trainer Marty Fine’s footsteps, the 27-year-old Ontarian is making quite a name of her own. You can say Amanda is sort of “the new kid ...

The Circus Maximus began around 600 BC and endured for approximately 1,100 years. The first spectators attended races before ...

I just heard that two great Hall of Fame Communicators have had their run ended at Goshen Historic Track — yes, that iconic ...

The sport of harness racing has been around for centuries. Trotting racing in the United States began in 1788, it was ...

Ken Mathieson’s nearly four decades as a hobby horseman have taught him plenty about the game, and by extension, life itself.

I wrestled with what to write about Ellen Taylor on her Communicators Hall of Fame induction weekend. First, I wanted to ...

More than 60 years after tagging along with his father to Greenwood Raceway, standardbred breeder, owner, philanthropist and ...

An aptly-named “stalking horse” is in pursuit of Hawthorne Race Course. In bankruptcy court jargon, according to legalclarity ...

It is rather fitting that Michael Kimelman has fashioned a blue-chip harness racing résumé. When the man whose name has become synonymous with standardbred success is officially inducted into the ...

It confirmed again that the odds-to-percentage chart I use when handicapping every horse race, I play or pass, represents the ...