Kathy Parker

James Witherite did not spend his life preparing to become the editor of Hoof Beats magazine. Rather, life itself readied Witherite for the role.

“If everybody only raced when they had the favourite, you wouldn’t have a race. You go and buy these horses and you have to dream big… The home run race is the Hambletonian.”

There were four divisions of the Liberty Bell for two-year-old filly trotters at Harrah's Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 23), each going for a purse of $35,000.

Broadway Donna and Whitelake Hanover remain unbeaten — they’re a combined 13-13 lifetime — following wins in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Sires Stake action for freshman filly trotters at The Meadows.

The freshman trotters geared up for the first round of their major stakes on Friday night at The Meadowlands. Twenty-four fillies went behind the gate in three eliminations of the Jim Doherty Memoria...

In a battle of three unbeaten two-year-old trotting fillies, Broadway Donna was much the best in her division of the $247,844 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes event Wednesday at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocon...

On Tuesday, September 16, the U.S. Harness Writers Association (USHWA) announced that Joe Thomson, Kathy Parker and Bob Marks have been elected to the Harness Racing Hall of Fame.

Bob Marks, the longtime marketing guru of Perretti Farms and a noted writer and handicapper, and Kathy Parker, the editor and general manager of the Horseman and Fair World publishing company, have be...