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Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino, founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and slots racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, New York, near the New York City border.
March 2009 – at The Meadows, between Tsm Goldenridge, Serious Damage and Teen Elvis; the 25th triple dead heat in harness racing history. [36] May 23, 2010 – in the 71st Yushun Himba ("Japanese Oaks") at Tokyo Racecourse, between Apapane and Saint Emilion; the first Japanese Grade I race to result in a dead heat for the win. [37] [38]
Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace). They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky , spider, or chariot occupied by a driver.
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 ...
This is a list of currently active horse racing venues, both Thoroughbred racing and harness racing, sorted by country. In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses". In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses".
Cup Series racing returned to Nashville for the first time since 1984 in 2021 at the Ally 400. Kyle Larson won that race. Other winners have been Chase Elliott (2022), Ross Chastain (2023) and ...
The Breeders Crown Open Pace is a harness racing event for Standardbred pacers. It is one part of the Breeders Crown annual series of twelve races for both Standardbred pacers and trotters. The Open Pace for horses age four and older was first run in 1985. It is contested over a distance of one mile.
The track featured an autumn harness racing meet. Colonial Downs was the only 10-furlong (6,600 ft; 2,000 m) track in North America with harness racing and features a one-turn mile [clarification needed]. The horses start from a chute on the backstretch. Harness racing times at Colonial Downs were the fastest in racing.