Joe Bongiorno

Racing action from Harrah's Philadelphia

Record Handle At Philly; Bongiorno Sweeps Features

December 24, 2024

Harrah’s Philadelphia has even more reason to celebrate this holiday season, as its Christmas Eve 12 p.m. program shattered records, handling an impressive $1,587,638 in wagers – the largest betting t...

Donato Patriot K winning at The Meadowlands

Donato Patriot K Wins Big M Friday Feature

November 30, 2024

Donato Patriot K showed some good recent form heading into the $25,000 high-end conditioned trotting feature at The Meadowlands on Friday night and driver Dave Miller supplied a pair of red-hot hands ...

Harness racing at Harrah's Philadelphia

Weather Plays Major Factor In Philly Friday Features

November 22, 2024

Very nearly as much as the horses and horsepeople themselves, the southeast Pennsylvania weather played a decisive factor in the Friday afternoon racing at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

Joe Bongiorno

Bongiorno Posts 3,000th Career Victory

February 08, 2024

Driver Joe Bongiorno scored the 3,000th win of his career by taking the seventh race on Thursday night (Feb. 8) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with Emotions Riches.

Pappardelle

Pappardelle Trots To John Brennan Series Championship

Driver Joe Bongiorno collected his second major victory at MGM Yonkers Raceway this week by capturing the $100,000 John Brennan Trotting Series final on Wednesday night (April 26) with 1-5 favourite P...

Bongiorno Looks To Slay Futurity Foes

October 08, 2022

An overflow field of 12 sophomore trotters will head postward in Sunday’s $430,000 Kentucky Futurity at The Red Mile in Lexington, Ky., a race that has played a key role in divisional honours in recen...

Bongiorno Bags Five Again At 'Big M'

September 18, 2022

Driver Joe Bongiorno must have really enjoyed guiding five winners seven days ago, so much so, in fact, that the 28-year-old pilot turned the trick again Saturday night (Sept. 17) at The Meadowlands a...

Callahan, Bongiorno Both Bag Five At 'Big M'

September 11, 2022

Handicappers didn’t have to go too far down the driver’s list to come up the winners on the Saturday night (Sept. 10) card at The Meadowlands, as Corey Callahan and Joe Bongiorno both guided five to v...

Solomon Wins King Remembrance Race

January 15, 2022

Jim King Solomon had himself a big night at The Meadowlands on Friday (Jan. 14), taking the Martin Luther King Remembrance Race on an evening when the civil rights icon was honoured with a pair of das...

AHDC To Verruso; Big Day For Bongiornos

December 26, 2021

Tony Verruso won 23 races this season, but, arguably, none as important as the $15,000 American Harness Drivers Club Final, which he copped Sunday (Dec. 26) with his own Winneress in 1:59 at Harrah's ...

Bongiorno Receives Driving Exclusion

The Meadowlands, Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs are excluding Joe Bongiorno from driving in races at any of those three tracks beginning Friday (June 25).

Bongiorno High On 'Crown' Chances

October 23, 2020

After a career-best 2019 that included winning his first Breeders Crown trophy, driver Joe Bongiorno hopes to add to his success in the championship event at Harrah’s Hoosier Park this year. And he wi...

Bongiorno Reaches 2,000-Win Mark

August 28, 2020

Joe Bongiorno became one of the youngest drivers to achieve 2,000 career victories when the 26-year-old sent developing force Nicholas Beach to the lead and just kept pouring it on, winning in a lifet...