As The Meadowlands prepares to play host to the finals for the 41st edition of the Breeders Crown, Hambletonian Society executive vice president Tom Charters spoke with HRU about how the year-end ...
Among a host of interests, Peter Kleinhans is a songwriter, singer, guitar player, part owner of three racetracks, non-practicing lawyer, race caller, harness breeder, driver and trainer, writer, ...
HRU recently published five chapters that told the tale of a crotchety old bachelor who developed an emotional attachment to a pair of unraced harness horses. The primary theme was a lonely veteran ...
For the 10th time in the past 12 years, Ontario standardbred juggernaut Winbak Farm claimed top breeder honors in the Ontario Sires Stakes program. The renowned North American breeding operation saw ...
When Elin Gustafsson was growing up in Sweden, little did she know that one day after moving to the United States, two of her dreams would come true: to care for a horse who won the Hambletonian, and ...
It was at 5:25 a.m. on April 8, 1983, when 33-year-old Jim Rankin lost control of his vehicle six blocks from Pompano Park and died on McNabb Road in a one vehicle crash en route to oversee his barn.
After an unseasonably warm early autumn in the Chicago area, rain, hail, high winds and cold temperatures arrived early this week. It’s a sign of the times in Illinois harness racing — competing in ...
The two-day London Classic Yearling Sale concluded on Wednesday (Oct. 16) at the Western Fair Agriplex in London, ON with the average up 6.9 per cent over 2023. That said, 38 fewer yearlings were sold ...