Verlin Yoder

Cumberland Run

Cumberland Run Opens For Second Season

October 14, 2024

Cumberland Run launched its second live Standardbred meet on a sun-soaked Sunday, Oct. 13 with 14 Kentucky Sires Stakes for two-year-old trotters and pacers. Driving many of those horses were the spor...

Woodside Charm Retired

August 22, 2019

Trot Insider has learned that two-year-old world record setter and Dan Patch Award winner Woodside Charm has been retired.

Where Is Woodside Charm?

With most of harness racing's award winners from 2018 back on track and in action, one of the most impressive performers -- world record-setting trotting filly Woodside Charm -- has yet to make an app...

Yoder On His Career-Best Season

November 05, 2018

Verlin Yoder raced the best horse of his career this season, the undefeated Breeders Crown champion Woodside Charm, but the filly was not alone in helping the 45-year-old owner/trainer/driver to the b...

Woodside Charm Is For Real

October 27, 2018

Woodside Charm showed that her dominant elimination performance from last week was no fluke after another thoroughly impressive effort to capture the $600,000 Breeders Crown Final for two-year-old tro...

Champagne Jane Looks To Pop Cork

October 22, 2018

“She’s been getting better every week. She’s been battling some health issues, so the colder weather helps and Luc’s got her healthy. She’s always showed ability, she just lacked that last step. She s...

Yoder Discusses Natural Herbie

October 09, 2015

Verlin Yoder, the man behind Natural Herbie, has said that his star Here Comes Herbie gelding had been fighting a bit of a bug recently, but that he hopes the five-year-old is on the right track headi...

“I Can’t Sneak Up On Them Anymore”

August 04, 2015

A year ago, Verlin Yoder and Natural Herbie arrived at Meadowlands Racetrack on Hambletonian Day as unknowns. By the time 2014 came to an end, they were fan favourites.

Sebastian K, Yoder ‘Railbird’ Winners

January 08, 2015

Fan voting for the Railbird Recognition Awards concluded this past New Year’s Eve and each categorical winner was realized in different ways – one in a photo and one by a landslide.

Verlin Yoder Profiled

November 11, 2014

The Indianapolis Star has run an article which profiles horseman Verlin Yoder, who recently captured Yonkers Raceway’s $250,000 International Trot Preview Invitational with Natural Herbie.

From Factory Work To The Big M

August 05, 2014

"I had no expectations. I drove the horse all his life, and I like the horse, and it’s in his hands, not mine. I was excited to be there that day. He was going to show me if he was going to go faster ...