Hanover Raceway's 2025 harness racing season is set to begin this Saturday, May 31, with 10 races drawn for the first matinee program.
The Hanover, Ont. half-mile oval will host 15 race days in 2025 with live racing on most Saturdays through Sept. 13, except for Aug. 9 when the annual Hanover Fair will take place. Post time will be 1:30 p.m., except for a 5:30 p.m. card on Aug. 2 during the Civic Holiday long weekend.
Hanover Raceway's signature races return in 2025, including the Dream Of Glory for developing three-year-old Ontario-sired trotters, with eliminations on July 26 and the $50,000 final scheduled for the Aug. 2 evening program that ends with a fireworks display. The Balanced Image for two-year-old Ontario-sired trotters will have eliminations on Aug. 16 with the $40,000 final to follow on Aug. 23.
Hanover will also host legs of the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Series on Aug. 30 for two-year-old pacing fillies and Sept. 6 for three-year-old trotting fillies, as well as multiple Prospect Series legs.
Among this year's race day events, Hanover has planned Wiener Dog races on June 14 and Harness The Hope Day on July 12. For full event details and promos offered each race day at the track, visit Hanover Raceway's website at hanoverraceway.com.
The top races on this Saturday's season opener are a pair of conditioned optional $15,000 claiming events with trainer Courtney Bishop's G A Speed Sammy, to be driven by Travis Henry, selected as the 2-1 morning line favourite in the $5,000 sixth race pace and Goober Smack, a homebred for trainer Susie Kerwood with Paul MacKenzie listed to drive, headlining the matching seventh race trot.
To view Saturday's harness racing entries, click the following link: Saturday Entries - Hanover Raceway // Program Pages (courtesy TrackIT).
To view the complete 2025 race date calendar, click here.
(Standardbred Canada)