Rising Star Award

Two up-and-coming stars of harness racing, horseman Brett Beckwith and track executive Jacob Rheinheimer, will be honoured at February’s Dan Patch Awards Banquet (presented by Caesars Entertainment) b...

Jessica Hallett doubled-up with a pair of USHWA honours, taking home both the Breakthrough and Unsung Hero awards while trainers Jay Hochstetler and Linda Toscano were awarded the Rising Star and Good...

Fourth generation harness racing family member Lawrence S. DeVan looks fondly upon the outstanding individuals that he has met in his lifetime spent around Standardbreds.

The shortest distance between points is a straight, direct line. Adam Moeykens, a 20-year-old native of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, knew early in life the goal that he wanted to achieve and has embarked ...

The Upstate New York Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association(USHWA) and Batavia Downs has announced that driver Kyle Swift will receive the 2023 Rising Star Award during the Night of ...

Ontario-based Jack Darling completed the last – for now – of the award gathering done by the “Bulldog Hanover Express,” being voted the W.R. Haughton Good Guy Award winner by members of the United Sta...

Todd McCarthy visited the television set at The Meadowlands on Friday (March 4) as the featured guest for the track's pre-race show, "In The Sulky." 

Two young people whose careers have grown quickly and are making a sizable impact on the sport are being honoured by the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA).

Marcus Melander, “to the manor born” in terms of personal harness racing pedigree, went out in 2018 and made great accomplishments with a small but talented collection of trotters, including two domin...

The theme generated within Hoosier Park, host track for the 2017 Breeders Crowns, was 'It’s Indiana Time'

“If I had ten dollars for every person in this room that I had a drink with… I would be a billionaire!”

On Friday, December 23, the United States Harness Writers Association announced that Marcus Miller has been voted the winner of the organization’s Rising Star Award. The organization has also announce...