Matt Kakaley celebrated his 30th birthday on March 19 at home while recuperating from injuries sustained in a race accident six days earlier at Yonkers Raceway, and in the new and free HarnessRacing Weekend Preview he gives an update on his condition to Gordon Waterstone. Find out how Matt is doing, what he's been doing, and his penciled-in date for his return to the sulky.

Also, Ohio-based trainer Virgil Morgan Jr. has opened up his own training center near Scioto Downs, and he also spoke to Gordon about the new site that is currently home to 200 horses with more on the way. Read why Virgil is excited about his new surroundings.... more...

Rock Of Cashel, only a neck behind the streaking NF Happenstance last week, benefited from the absence of that competitor in winning the $22,500 winners-over handicap trot Thursday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

Starting inside newcomers Gural Hanover and Melady’s Monet, Rock Of Cashel was sent out of the gate quickly by driver Corey Callahan, settling in the pocket behind Gural Hanover by the :27.1 quarter, with Melady’s Monet not leaving and racing from next-to-last. The victorious son of Majestic Son was content to sit in the golden chair through middle splits of :56.1 and 1:24.3, then moved outside in the lane and had plenty to go to the lead, winning in 1:53.2. Jack Vernon rallied up the inside to... more...

Live racing returns to the Meadowlands on Friday night with a 10-race card including twin features on the bill with $20,000 Preferred classes written for trotters in the sixth race and pacing mares in the seventh. The Preferred Handicap trot is populated by a pair of accomplished veterans getting a start in anticipation of the Arthur Cutler Memorial next Saturday (May 5).

Crazy Wow has faced the best his generation has offered from age two and has amassed over $2.2 million over the course of his distinguished racing career. Now six years of age, Crazy Wow had a good tightening qualifier a week ago and will start from the outside post eight for driver David Miller Ron Burke trains him for Our Horse Cents Stable,... more...

On Thursday, Toronto City Council approved expanded gaming at Woodbine Racetrack by a vote of 26-15.

City Council based its decision to support expanded gaming and an integrated entertainment complex on the nearly 700-acre site in north Toronto based on a City Manager’s report which detailed the successful commitment or resolution of 21 conditions. City Council set the 21 conditions in 2015 when expanded gaming was conditionally approved.

Expanded gaming on the site will be a catalyst for future development, which may now begin in earnest.

"We are pleased that council chose to support jobs, development and the vitality that expanded gaming will bring to this portion of the... more...

Thursday featured the second leg of the John Mongeon Sr. Memorial Trotting Series at Saratoga Casino Hotel. There were three divisions of the second leg of the series which will conclude next Thursday with a $32,700 final. John Stark Jr.’s Miss Muscle (Muscle Mass) picked a good time to put in a career-best effort as she prevailed first-over in her $10,000 division of the series’ second leg.

Miss Muscle trotted to victory in 1:59.4 for Stark who’s Lasa Dida Lady (Deweycheatumnhowe) was a beaten favorite in the first division of the series on Thursday. She came up second-best to Got It Good (Triumphant Caviar) who set a lifetime mark winning in 2:00.

Though Lasa Dida Lady didn’t prevail, her second-place... more...

Joie De Vie Farm and trainer Hermann Heitmann enter this year with three trotters eligible to August's $1.2 million Hambletonian, and two of their hopefuls will be in action Saturday in the $44,600 Dexter Cup elimination at Freehold Raceway.

Eleven horses entered the Dexter Cup, one shy of the number necessary to divide the group into two elimination divisions. Therefore, three horses—Don, Maxus and Perlucky—received byes based on career earnings and advanced directly to the May 5 final at Freehold.

Joie De Vie Farm's Chucky De Vie and Vic's Winner are among the eight horses that will compete Saturday for the remaining five spots in... more...

If there was an award for consistency and reliability in the broodmare ranks it would undoubtedly go to the Hanover Shoe Farms-owned matron Triplet Hanover.

On Monday she foaled her 18th consecutive foal, a colt by Artspeak. She has had a foal every year from 2001 through 2018. Every one of her previous foals of age have made it to the sales ring as yearlings.

This year she will be represented by a full brother to her newborn colt, Techtopia Hanover, who will be part of Hanover's consignment to... more...