United States Harness Writers Association

Dan Patch Awards Auction To Benefit Youth Programs

February 16, 2025

The Dan Patch Awards is rapidly approaching and along with it, the annual silent auction held in conjunction with the evening’s festivities. The Harness Horse Youth Foundation (HHYF) and United States...

Deadline Approaches To Purchase Dan Patch Tickets

February 11, 2025

The deadline to order dinner tickets to attend the upcoming United States Harness Writers Association’s (USHWA) annual Dan Patch Awards banquet is Monday, Feb. 17.

Nutcracker Sweet winning at The Red Mile in 2017

Stallion Auction Underway Benefitting USHWA Chapter

January 28, 2025

An online stallion auction is underway benefitting the Delaware Valley chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA).

Dan Patch Reservations Deadline Is Friday

January 27, 2025

The United States Harness Writers Association’s annual Dan Patch Awards banquet, presented by Caesars Entertainment, is set for Sunday, Feb. 23 at Rosen Centre in Orlando, Florida and the deadline to ...

Second Annual Youth Racecalling Contest Launched

January 24, 2025

After months of planning, the second edition of the U.S. Harness Writers Association (USHWA) Canadian chapter's Youth Racecalling Contest launched on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

Sugar Instead

Ohio's 2024 Award Winners, Hall Of Fame Inductees Honoured

January 18, 2025

The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association hosted its annual awards banquet on Saturday, Jan. 18 at the Marriott Columbus Airport with Sugar Instead, Ohio’s Three-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year, nam...

Brittany Farms

Brittany Farms Receives USHWA's President's Award

January 16, 2025

One of harness racing’s storied and most prestigious breeding farms, Brittany Farms, has been selected by the President of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA), Michael Carter, to rec...

USHWA Announces 2024 Media Award Winners

January 14, 2025

The United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) announced its 2024 media award winners on Tuesday, Jan. 14, including a number of Canadian recipients.

Rossell To Perform At Dan Patch Awards Reception

January 07, 2025

The United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) and Diamond Creek Farm would like to invite all attendees to the Dan Patch Awards weekend at Rosen Centre in Orlando, Florida, to an outdoor pools...

Dan Patch Award winners Brett Beckwith, Anne Chunko, Jacob Rheinheimer, Art Zubrod & Leah Cheverie

Beckwith, Chunko, Rheinheimer, Zubrod & Cheverie Honoured

December 27, 2024

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...

Hanover Shoe Farms

Hanover Headlines Dan Patch Awards For Breeding

December 27, 2024

Hanover Shoe Farms, the southcentral Pennsylvania harness racing nursery which has produced the biggest money winners of every racing year since records began to be kept in 1949, has had an outstandin...

Wanda Polisseni

Bergstein Proximity Award To Wanda Polisseni

December 26, 2024

Wanda Polisseni has been honoured with the 2024 Stan Bergstein – Proximity Award, the highest honour voted on solely by the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA).

2024 Dan Patch Award winning horses

Dan Patch Divisional Awards Announced

December 24, 2024

Unanimous selection Twin B Joe Fresh, repeat winners Captain Albano and Jiggy Jog S, and the year’s leading money-earner Maryland led the way when divisional 2024 Dan Patch Award honours for pacers an...