Pari-mutuel harness racing is dead in Chicagoland but it has come alive downstate, thanks to the annual mini-harness meetings at the State Fairs in Springfield and DuQuoin. The races, under the ...

Harness racing has its issues. We all know that. But why we continue to act as though we need to squeeze every possible minute out of every possible racing day is beyond me. We have somehow managed to ...

• Field set for the 33rd Dan Patch Stakes at Harrah’s Hoosier Park ...

The Hambletonian belongs at The Meadowlands. That was my belief the day the news broke last September that the Hambletonian Society was accepting bids for a new home. It’s still my belief 11 months ...

Owner Patty Key of Winning Key Farm knows what it’s like to be in the winner’s circle on Hambletonian Day, having been there in 1993 when American Winner won the big dance. This year, Key was back, ...

Why are Swedish trainers so dominant in North America? That is a question you occasionally hear in Swedish harness racing circles. My answer is that dominant is probably the wrong word. What we are ...

I have witnessed a lot of photo finishes over the past 67 years. The Nansemond-Albatross photo finish in their heat of the 1971 Little Brown Jug comes to mind. So does, of course, the 1989 epic duel ...

Today’s (Aug. 14) Vincennes card, which will be held at Enghien, has the potential to be something special. Very few of the leading 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in France are missing as the first round of ...

A 30-minute delay was no match for the unbridled enthusiasm of the Leamington Raceway faithful, who turned out in droves on Sunday (Aug. 9), to celebrate the track’s 2026 season-opener. “There was an ...

• Chris Lomon: For Brodie MacPhee absence made his heart for harness racing grow fonder ...