April 15, 2019:

The American Ideal mare Ghosttothepost became the only distaff to be victorious in all three of the preliminaries for the Bobby Weiss Series for pacing fillies and mares, coming home in :56.2 on a cold Monday with swirling winds at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono to triumph in 1:54.3....read on

April 15, 2019:

After five preliminary rounds, post positions have been drawn for Yonkers Raceway’s finals of the Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series....read on

April 15, 2019:

Horseman John ‘Jack’ VanDreason, 88, of Vernon, N.Y., passed away on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 with his devoted wife Marlyn and family at his side....read on

April 15, 2019:

The management of Hanover Shoe Farms is delighted to announce that the farm has recently purchased eight of the top matrons in the business. The elite group consists of four trotting broodmares and four pacing broodmares....read on

April 15, 2019:

“The first day at the fairgrounds was a bit overwhelming for him, but once he got used to all of the noises he settled and showed the crowd just how versatile the Standardbred breed is. He did his breed proud!”...read on

April 15, 2019:

Preliminary action from the Bobby Weiss Series will continue at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono this evening (Monday, April 15)....read on

April 15, 2019:

It has been announced that Sunshine Meadows Training Center in Delray Beach, Fla. will once again be hosting a qualifying session this coming Friday (April 19)....read on

April 15, 2019:

“Not a lot of young people wake up one day and think ‘I want to race horses.’ Things like dirt bikes or hockey are way more front and centre… It’s a passion and it has to be. You’re not in it for the money, it’s about the love of the game.”...read on

April 14, 2019:

Yielding for the pocket, Windsun Cheyenne veered from behind the pacesetter in the stretch and edged to a 7-1 win in the $8,100 Preferred Handicap Pace on Sunday, April 14 at Rideau Carleton Raceway....read on

April 14, 2019:

The public's choice, Retros Mystery, crossed to control early and went on to wire his competition to capture the $8,100 featured pace at Century Downs on Sunday, April 14, which was his fifth win in a row....read on

April 14, 2019:

On Sunday, April 14, Mission Accepted won the $25,000 Open Trot at Miami Valley Raceway for the second consecutive time, as he overcame the assigned outside post to top Pine Dream and No Whip Chip in 1:54.3....read on

April 14, 2019:

Although she was bet down to 2-5 by the wagering public, the John Chappell-trained and driven Tough It Out had to live up to her name in order to secure a victory the $35,000 Marion Young Memorial on Sunday (April 14) at Fraser Downs....read on

April 14, 2019:

The annual awards banquet of the Prince Edward Island Standardbred Horse Owners Association was held in Charlottetown on Saturday evening (April 13)....read on

April 14, 2019:

Dover Downs shipper Highalator rose to the top of the horse colony at the Meadowlands by putting together a pair of dominant wins, but his quest for a third consecutive score was thwarted by another Dover invader, Sweet Rock, in the 'Big M’s $30,000 Preferred Pace on Saturday, April 13....read on

April 14, 2019:

Two horses were simultaneously sent postward as odds-on promises during preliminary Bobby Weiss Series action at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Saturday (April 13), so something had to give....read on

April 13, 2019:

After having recorded a win against the same class last week, odds-on favourite Cousin Mary overcame the assigned outside post and catapulted to an eight-length victory in the $11,600 Fillies and Mares Preferred 2 Pace at Flamboro Downs on Saturday, April 13....read on

April 13, 2019:

Rebel Voyager toured the Buffalo Raceway half-mile oval in a season's-best 1:54 to take a one-and-a-quarter length decision over Upfront Countryboy in the co-featured $12,000 Open Pace on Saturday, April 13....read on

April 13, 2019:

The countdown to the 2019 Pepsi North America Cup is on, with Trot Insider profiling the horses predicted to be the top contenders for Canadian harness racing's richest prize....read on

April 13, 2019:

Preferred class regular Rockin In Heaven served notice that he's back and could be a force in 2019 with a punishing mile in his seasonal debut on Saturday (April 13) at Flamboro Downs....read on

April 13, 2019:

"I was born in a women’s prison and went to a foster home around where [Sonny] Dancer used to train...He used to pick us up at the foster home and take us to the track and we used to watch them train and that’s how I got started working with racehorses with him."...read on

April 13, 2019:

Undefeated in his sophomore season, Jewels Dragon roared home to defeat fellow elimination winner Spiderdman in the $35,000 Wendell Smith Memorial for B.C. bred three-year-old male pacers on Friday night (April 12) at Fraser Downs....read on

April 13, 2019:

Making her four-year-old debut on Friday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park, trotting mare Kadabra Queen returned to the winner's circle for the first time since her O'Brien Award-winning freshman year....read on

April 12, 2019:

Yonkers Raceway’s Blue Chip Matchmaker saw its fifth and final preliminary round go Friday night (April 12), with three, $40,000 groupings of Free-For-All mares....read on

April 12, 2019:

Namesmuscle used a second-place finish at Scarborough Downs is his seasonal bow last week to set him up for a big effort at Plainridge Park this week and that allowed him to garner the winner’s share of the purse in the $15,000 Winners Over trotting feature on Friday afternoon (April 12)....read on