Crawford Farms Open Trot

Ruthless Hanover Matches Track Record In Dave Brower Memorial

Free For All competitors flooded The Meadowlands on Saturday night (July 1) for four stakes events: The $112,500 Six Pack Mare Trot, $142,260 Perfect Sting Mare Pace, $155,140 Crawford Farms Open Trot...

Harness racing at The Meadowlands

Stakes Action Heats Up At The Meadowlands

The 2023 Championship Meet at The Meadowlands continues with eight Grand Circuit stakes on tap for this Saturday evening.

Forbidden Trade

Under-Radar Forbidden Trade Seeks Crawford Farms Repeat

Forbidden Trade has won the Hambletonian, a Horse of the Year Award, and divisional honours every year except at age four when he was injured. Yet, for all his accomplishments, the six-year-old male t...

Meadowlands Adds Tioga / Vernon Stakes

January 15, 2021

The Meadowlands will welcome four popular Grand Circuit stakes for older horses, previously been raced at Tioga & Vernon Downs, to the big time over the mile oval at "Harness Racing's Greatest Sho...

A 'Majestic' Challenge For Gimpanzee?

August 14, 2020

"We have high hopes for him. He’s got the will to win. He gives it his all. No matter how far they get away from him, he finds a way to catch them.”

Import Trotter Looking To Impress

August 09, 2019

"They would like to stand him at stud because he’s had such a nice career over there, but without North American credentials it’s difficult because we ship semen over there. They wanted to send him ov...

Obrigado Defends Crawford Title, 'Hannelore' Surpasses Million Mark

August 26, 2016

Obrigado successfully out-duelled Resolve to defend his title in the $193,000 Crawford Farms Open Trot while top trotting mare Hannelore Hanover surpassed the million-dollar mark in career earnings wi...

Obrigado Aims To Defend Crawford Title

August 24, 2016

Paul Kelley trainee Obrigado looks to defend his title in Friday (August 26) evening's $193,000 Crawford Farms Open Trot at Vernon Downs, but he'll once again have to contend with the likes of Resolve...

'Flanagan' Seeks More Memories

August 24, 2016

“My father, even though he passed away six years ago, he is somewhere living still in the horse. I never expected this. Even my father, if he was alive, he wouldn’t believe it. It’s really something. ...

D One Defeats 'Queen Bee' Again

August 21, 2015

Finding a seam off the far turn, D One ($5.90) stormed home to collar 3-5 favourite Bee A Magician in the $177,000 Muscle Hill distaff trot during Friday's stakes card at Vernon Downs.

The Special Bond Of A Caretaker

August 21, 2015

“Who on earth would believe that I’m first going to go with the mom to America and race and then take her first-born daughter to come here."

Stellar Vernon Friday Card Drawn

August 18, 2015

Vernon Downs will host Grand Circuit racing this Friday (August 21), as Free For All trotters and pacing mares are set to invade the upstate New York raceway.

Takter Sweeps Zweigs; Sebastian K Cruises In Crawford

August 29, 2014

Jimmy Takter-trained sophomore trotters dominated the Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial divisions while Sebastian K cruised wire-to-wire to win the Crawford Farms Open Trot on Friday night at Vernon Downs.