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4 days ago · READ THE FULL STORY Consigners reflect as 2024 SHSC yearling sale sees increase in gross over 2023. Posted on November 7, 2024.
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Welcome to Harness Racing Update, a harness racing publication that provides thorough and provocative coverage of the sport. HRU is dedicated to following the sport like no one else is, with comprehensive North American coverage delivered to you within hours of the horses crossing the finish line. Our goal is to be the standardbred industry’s ...
Perusing the top 20 drivers and trainers - Harness Racing Update
Sep 17, 2021 · This year, Dunn has just gained the top spot from Tim Tetrick at $7.6 million to $7.5 million as we head into Jug week and beyond. The same top 4 drivers from 2020 are there again in 2021 — Yannick Gingras and David Miller rounding out the quartet. James MacDonald has now cracked the top 20. His huge night of four wins and two seconds-good ...
The HRU Dozen - Harness Racing Update
Dec 29, 2022 · 2. PERSON THAT MADE THE BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION TO HARNESS RACING IN 2022. Dean Towers: Jack Darling. Although Bulldog Hanover was a fantastic racehorse in Ontario, he was a relative unknown. Jack mapped out his coming out party in 2022, and handled the pressure associated with it brilliantly. Brett Sturman: Dave Brower.
Meadowlands picks and analysis for stacked Saturday card
Nov 25, 2022 · Meadowlands picks and analysis for stacked Saturday card. Both the Fall Final Four and TVG Finals are on tap. by Brett Sturman. The Fall Final Four and TVG Finals combined with the swan song for Bulldog Hanover will make for one last stellar race card in this harness racing season. Here are my thoughts for all the stake races.
Swayzee looks to turn tables on rival Leap To Fame in New …
4 days ago · Swayzee was a brave third after sitting parked. They’ve met twice since and Leap To Fame has taken a 3-to-1 advantage, most recently in their Blacks A Fake reunion at Albion Park on July 27. Leap To Fame was $1.20 (for a $1 bet) to make it 4-to-1 in last month’s Group 1 Victoria Cup at Melton, but a race eve virus forced him out of the race.
How good is Papi Grad, and other thoughts from the week that was
Jul 24, 2024 · In just two career starts prior to Sunday, Papi Grad already received the 13th highest points total of all horses in training from the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown weekly poll. This week, or soon enough, she will formally be in the Top 10. A $47,000 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale grad from 2023 and from the first crop of Papi Rob ...
Harness racing’s standout numbers of 2022
Dec 11, 2022 · Dexter Dunn has become just the fourth member of the single-season $15 million driver club. He leads North America in 2022 with earnings of $15,077,534 through Thursday. Currently, it is the 11th highest earnings season by a driver. Tim Tetrick, who is second this year with earnings of more than $14.2 million, amazingly owns eight of the 12 $15 ...
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Oct 9, 2022 · Amends for Rebuff in Kentucky Futurity upset. extra quotes by James Platz / story by Ray Cotolo for Red Mile. He disappointed as the 3-5 choice in the Hambletonian two months ago, but Lucas Wallin trainee Rebuff landed retribution in the third jewel of trotting’s Triple Crown, the $430,000 130th Kentucky Futurity, on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 9) at The Red Mile.
Is the return of stallions to the track the start of a trend?
Jan 13, 2023 · by Brett Sturman. This past month has seen the return to the track of two stallions, both prominent former racehorses. A Breeders Crown winner and 3-year-old standout in 2016, Racing Hill first returned in a qualifier in December, and the O’Brien award-winning 2-year-old from 2018 Stag Party made his pari-mutuel return last week.