Ron Battoni

Battoni To Medication Subcommittee

Longtime Pennsylvania horseman and executive Ron Battoni will represent Harness Horsemen International (HHI) on the United States Trotting Association’s Uniform Medication Subcommittee, it has been an...

Pennsylvania Fair Awards Presented

January 24, 2016

The Pennsylvania Fair Harness Horsemen’s Association, in conjunction with their good friends at the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association and the Meadows Standardbred Owners Association, honoure...

Trio Honoured With Awards

December 14, 2015

United States Trotting Association Executive Vice President Mike Tanner has been awarded the Dominic Frinzi Person of the Year Award by Harness Horseman International.

Battoni To ‘Semi-Retire’ In PA

On Wednesday, March 25, Ron Battoni notified the board of the directors of the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association (PHHA) that he plans to ‘semi-retire’ from the position of executive director...

Super Stakes Sunday Eliminated

January 07, 2014

Three of harness racing's most lucrative stakes events for three-year-olds have been unceremoniously dropped from the 2014 harness racing calendar.

Pocono Adds Three Stakes For 2013

January 04, 2013

Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is getting ready for what will be its biggest season ever with the addition of three big races for late summer.

Preferences For PA Horses At Pocono

December 10, 2012

Opening night for harness racing at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs will be Saturday, March 23, 2013, and it will kick off the northeastern Pennsylvania track’s 48th racing season.

PA Reacts To Impending Cuts

February 13, 2012

Betrayal is the buzz word heard in many Pennsylvania shedrows these days as horsemen cringe following Gov. Tom Corbett’s 2012-13 budget proposal which includes the diversion of $72 million from the H...

USHWA Doles Out PA Honours

Ron Battoni, executive director of the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association and a prime mover in bringing all 12 Breeders Crown races to Pocono Downs last October, has been voted the most prest...