Thirteen-year-old Hayley Halloran of Lewes, Delaware piloted Royal Attire to a game one and a half length victory in Saturday’s Harness Horse Youth Foundation final, held just before the start of The Meadowlands’ Hambletonian race-card.
Halloran, representing Harrington Raceway, defeated Vernon Downs representative Emily Clemons of Holland Patent, New York, who drove a fast-closing LR Trixie to second-place. Halloran was assisted by Andy Miller, while Clemons had HHYF Trustee Corey Callahan as her co-pilot.
Katilee Dunn of Honesdale, Pennsylvania finished a close third with Imas Hit, while I Want Another, making his first appearance at The Meadowlands, rounded out the field for Jackson, New Jersey’s Alexandra Urbanski. Yannick Gingras was Dunn’s co-driver, while Urbanski was assisted by Aaron Merriman.
The Harness Horse Youth Foundation is a charitable 501(c)3 organization dedicated to providing young people and their families educational opportunities with harness horses, in order to foster the next generation of participants and fans. The Foundation has been making a difference in young people’s lives since 1976, and its programs include interactive learning experiences with these versatile animals, scholarship programs, and creation and distribution of educational materials. For more information on opportunities through HHYF, or to support its mission, go to hhyf.org.
(With files from HHYF)