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Hambo Champ Cool Papa Bell Looks To Double Up In Maturity

After being slowed by two bouts with sickness, Cool Papa Bell appears to be getting back up to speed in time for Saturday’s $410,250 E.T. Gerry Jr. Hambletonian Maturity for four-year-old trotters at ...

Meadowlands Racetrack qualifying action

Returning Stars, Emerging Contenders Qualify At The Big M

A number of talented performers peppered the Friday (May 5) qualifying session at The Meadowlands, with both returning stars from 2022 and potential emerging stars for 2023 making waves with their eff...

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Stars Come Out In Meadowlands Qualifiers

The stars of the 2022 stakes season have begun to emerge from their winter hibernation and appear at The Meadowlands' qualifiers.

Jim Campbell

Campbell Reminisces About Award-Winning Season

January 24, 2023

Jim Campbell always will be associated with last year’s Hambletonian Day, but what happened over the remaining days on the calendar ensured he will also be remembered for his stable’s season beyond th...

2022 Dan Patch Award-winning trotters

Dan Patch Trotting Award Winners Announced

December 27, 2022

Bella Bellini became the fourth female trotter this century to receive a Dan Patch Award at ages three and four when the six 2022 divisional trotting champions were announced on Tuesday, Dec. 27 by th...

Bongiorno Looks To Slay Futurity Foes

October 08, 2022

An overflow field of 12 sophomore trotters will head postward in Sunday’s $430,000 Kentucky Futurity at The Red Mile in Lexington, Ky., a race that has played a key role in divisional honours in recen...

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Parade Of Stars On Display At Hoosier Park

September 24, 2022

On an evening that featured the world’s fastest Standardbred in Bulldog Hanover and a mare defeating males in one of Harrah’s Hoosier Park’s marquee events, the supporting card was far from disappoint...

New York Sire Stakes Finals Contested At Tioga

September 10, 2022

Tioga Downs played host to the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) "Day of Champions" with $1.6 million in purses spread over the eight divisional championships on Saturday afternoon (Sept. 10).

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Hambo Longshot Winner Cool Papa Bell Returns As Beal Favourite

August 18, 2022

After registering the biggest upset in Hambletonian history two weeks ago, Cool Papa Bell will head to Saturday’s (Aug. 20) $300,000 Earl Beal Jr. Memorial at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono at the ot...

Stage Set For Sun Stakes Saturday

August 15, 2022

The lure of $2,242,500 in purses has attracted many of harness racing’s stars to The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Saturday afternoon for its biggest card of the year, Sun Stakes Saturday.

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A Monumental And Historic Hambletonian

August 06, 2022

The biggest upset in Hambletonian history. A trainer sweeping the Hambletonian and Hambletonian Oaks, and a driver winning the Hambletonian in his first drive for his second million-dollar win of the ...

2022 Hambletonian and Oaks logos

Five Trainers Seek Hambo-Oaks Double

August 03, 2022

Since the inception of the Hambletonian Oaks in 1971 as the filly companion event to the Hambletonian Stakes for three-year-old trotters, two trainers — Jan Johnson and Jimmy Takter — have won both ra...

Yonkers Stakes To Cool Papa Bell, Velvet Style

Three-year-old male trotters were at Yonkers Raceway on Tuesday night for a pair of New York Sire Stakes showdowns, and the victories would go to Cool Papa Bell and Velvet Style.