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Jordan Stratton 2,000 Career Wins

harnessracingtoday — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:43:27 +0000

Driver Jordan Stratton scored a driving double on Saturday night’s harness racing card at Yonkers Raceway, which put him at the celebratory milestone mark of 2,000 career wins. Stratton, who reached 1,999 with Foreign Officer ($9.30) in the $27,000 eighth race pace, hit the milestone when Lolas Cruiser ($13.60) was both good and lucky in [...]

Itrustyou Win Streak Snapped By Modern Legend -Video

harnessracingtoday — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:38:42 +0000

Itrustyou had his impressive 13-race win streak come to an end Saturday night when Modern Legend captured the opening round of the Cam Fella Pacing Series at Woodbine Racetrack. Driver Jack Moiseyev, who swept both $30,000 divisions, guided Modern Legend to the winner’s circle. The four-year-old gelding extended his own win streak to six with [...]

Harry Landy Makes Most Of Cal Expo Visit

harnessracingtoday — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:23:08 +0000

Harry Landy, who had such a good time in his first trip to Cal Expo last weekend, including a victory with Albion at the head of the pacing class, has decided to stay for another week. The 20-year-old Landy has been plying his trade at Freehold in New Jersey for the last two years and [...]

Musclelaneous Wins $13,000 Trot At Dover

harnessracingtoday — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:49:02 +0000

Musclelaneous and Pegasus Blue Chip won separate harness racing divisions, both clocked in 1:57, to win the $13,000 4&5-Year-Old trot on Thursday, Feb. 23 at Dover Downs. In one section, Musclelaneous, driven by Corey Callahan, was engaged in head-to-head battle for the lead in mid-stretch when My Man (Matt Kakaley) broke stride enabling the Muscles [...]

Itrustyou Trying For 14 Race Win Streak

harnessracingtoday — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:24:36 +0000

Itrustyou, who currently co-leads all horses in wins this year in North America with six, along with 13 straight scores, headlines the opening leg of the $30,000 Cam Fella Pacing Series which begins Saturday evening (Feb. 25) at Woodbine Racetrack. The Ron Burke trainee, who will leave post nine, is the 2-1 morning line favorite. [...]

Mark MacDonald Wins At Yonkers Raceway

harnessracingtoday — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:57:25 +0000

Mark MacDonald made his Westchester–and 2012 seasonal–debut Thursday night, driving a Yonkers Raceway duo. MacDonald’s first drive was a last (sixth)-place finish behind Heaven and Hall in the $11,000, second-race trot. He then found paydirt in the $14,000, 10th-race pace, winning with the first-up Tongue Twister ($16.60) in a season’s-best 1:55.3. Both horses were [...]

Racing Returns To Freehold Raceway

harnessracingtoday — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:00:26 +0000

Live racing returns to Central New Jersey on March 1, with the opening of the 90-day meet at Freehold Raceway, America’s oldest pari-mutuel harness track. The first 39 dates, the spring season in March, April and May, offers a three-day a week schedule — Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. First post is 12:30 p.m. Freehold will [...]

Tony Morgan 14,000 Career Wins

harnessracingtoday — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:19:30 +0000

Tony Morgan became the fourth driver in harness racing history to win $14,000 races driving Timmylynn to his third straight win in the $13,500 3,4&5-Year-Old Mares pace at Dover Downs on Tuesday, Feb. 21. In the $23,000 Mares Open pace feature, I’m Won Wiser continued her step up the ladder of success. Morgan made good [...]

SOA Of NY Stands Behind Ontario Horsemen

harnessracingtoday — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:32:58 +0000

The Standardbred Owners Association of New York stands firmly behind all those hard working horsemen in Canada who are trying to protect the interests of harness racing and who intend to rally at the Government building in Queens Park, Toronto, on Wednesday (Feb. 22). Harness racing is an important industry that employs thousands upon thousands [...]

Aaron Merrimam 5,000 Career Wins

harnessracingtoday — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:41:16 +0000

Driver Aaron Merriman joined harness racing’s 5,000-win club on Monday, Feb. 20 at his home track of Northfield Park. The Northfield, Ohio resident entered the 13-race card just two wins shy from the milestone and got to work quickly steering home second race winner Legacys Best ($6.20) for trainer Brian Georges. Merriman came close in the [...]