Ckg Billings Series

To say that amateur driver ‘Yankee Joe’ Lee is on a roll would be gross understatement.

“Now that the baseball season is over I can concentrate a little more on my love of amateur racing,” “Yankee Joe” Lee, the locker room manager for the New York Yankees said after he won a NAADA Trot t...

Over the last two days it didn't matter whether “Dynamite Dave” Drew was driving on a 7/8ths or half mile track or whether he was handling a pacer or a trotter, the owner of a consulting company and s...

There's an old adage in harness racing which states “if you have the best horse in the race send him to the lead and if he gets beat on the front-end he wasn't the best”.

The granddaddy of all amateur driving organizations, the CKG Billings Series, moved on to Saratoga Harness on Friday night for a trotting event and for the second consecutive week “Tough Tony” Ciuffet...

One of the more enticing features of the CKG Billings Series- the granddaddy of all amateur organizations-is that its members are, and have been, offered competitions on all size racetracks.

Although it wasn’t billed as such Thursday at Monticello Raceway was ‘amateur day at the races’ with three different amateur driving clubs presenting a race here.

Still the granddaddy of all amateur racing organizations, the CKG Billings Series reached the halfway point in its 2016 Eastern Region season and on Thursday, the top eight series point-earners conven...

If you think amateur racing isn’t an integral part of the sport don’t tell Monticello Raceway’s director of racing Eric Warner because he just won’t believe you.

The first Billings Series race of the season in the Midwest region as contested over Miami Valley Raceway’s five-eighths mile oval and to no one’s surprise the 9-10 betting favourite, Heza Rube, lived...

Right on the heels of two regional mid-season finales the CKG Billings amateur driving series returned to its roots for a competition over the double oval at Livingston County Family Fair in Fowlervil...