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The entries and daily results for the Goshen Historic Track harness races during the Great American Weekend event of 2024.
The racing paddock at Harrah's holds up to 131 horses. Because of limited space, horses are shipped in to the paddock rather than stabled on-track. Harrah's Philadelphia was the host site of PA Harness Week, a weekly show aired on Philadelphia's local Comcast SportsNet channel. It aired its final episode on August 29, 2015. [10]
Two years later a half-mile track was built and provided the stage for harness racing. R.K. McNamara, a local contractor, designed and built the lightning fast track. Enter attorney Joe Neville, whose family had been identified with the standardbred sport for many years, and his friend, Henry C. "Hank" Thomson, sports editor of The Delaware ...
In 1961, the Pennsylvania harness racing commission voted 2-1 to grant Liberty Bell Racing Association, led by Philadelphia Democratic Party and Philadelphia Eagles owner James P. Clark, the state's first parimutuel track license, with both Democratic members of the committee voting in favor of Clark and the Republican member voting against. [1]
Vernon Downs is a horse racing track, racino and entertainment facility located in the town of Vernon in central New York, United States.The track was established in 1953 and in 1955 was the location that Adios Harry ran his "Miracle Mile".
While they are in the Harness Racing Hall of Fame, trainer Ron Burke and driver Yannick Gingras have something they missing from their resumes — a win in the Hambletonian. Burke and Gingras will ...
The Grand Circuit, also known as the "Big Wheel", [1] is a group of harness racing stakes races run at various race tracks around the United States. [2] Run on one-mile tracks, [ 3 ] it is "the oldest continuing horse-racing series in the United States."
An extremely rare photo finish triple dead heat, recorded in a 1953 harness race at Freehold Raceway. Freehold Raceway was the site of the first ever photo finish triple dead heat win in a harness race. Double, triple and even quadruple dead heats were more commonly awarded in horse racing when finishes were judged by the naked eye in real time.