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Ron Dancer speaks out against shutting down NJ Ag department
April 15, 2008
New Jersey Assemblyman Ron Dancer today spoke at a rally opposing Governor Jon Corzine’s proposed elimination of the Department of Agriculture, and said that the farming industry is too important to New Jersey for this department to be eliminated.   “In a state we call the ‘Garden State’
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Favorites take both series splits at Woodbine
April 15, 2008
Fa Mulan and Only Lonely were both winning favorites in Monday night's second leg of the Celias Counsel Trotting Series for 3-year-old fillies at Woodbine Racetrack. In the opening $18,000(C) split, Fa Mulan went straight to the front from the outside post eight for driver Mike Saftic and wired t
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Scioto payments due April 15
April 15, 2008
In its 50th Anniversary season in 2008, Scioto Downs is offering horsemen several series for trotters and pacers of various ages and levels of earnings and payments on these events must be postmarked by Tuesday, April 15.   Among these events are the Killbuck Mary, BF Coaltown, and Heart
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Tony Hall wins 2,000th career race
April 15, 2008
Tony Hall scored his 2,000th career win when he drove Beau Willee to victory in the fourth race on Monday at The Meadows. Hall, 29, grew up in Carlisle, Ohio near Lebanon Raceway, where he decided as a child to make his career in harness racing. “I've been around horses since I was three,” h
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PW Roman Lover romps by 9 in Meadows series split
April 15, 2008
PW Roman Lover continued to make a shambles of the North Strabane Pace for 3-year-old colts and geldings, drawing off to win by nine lengths in 1:52.1 on Monday at The Meadows. Dave Palone sent the son of Grinfromeartoear on a quarter-pole move, and they were unchallenged from there. Papa Hemingway
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Goshen touch for Museum of Natural History exhibit
April 15, 2008
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City will open a major new exhibit titled, “The Horse …Of Course” on May 17, and the Harness Racing Museum has provided items for that show. According to a Natural History Museum press release, the exhibit will, “examine the powerful and continuin
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Horseman Eddie Wheeler dies at 76
April 15, 2008
Horseman Eddie Wheeler, who won the 1961 Kentucky Futurity with Duke Rodney, trained Big John, and drove such greats as Cardigan Bay, Meadow Skipper, Sprite Rodney and Steady Star, died at his home in New York early Tuesday morning at age 76.   Born in Brooklyn, NY, Wheeler headed west a
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Bill to be filed for 2009 to provide funding for Kentucky Racing
April 15, 2008
Kentucky state Senator Damon Thayer reportedly plans on pre-filing a bill for 2009 that would provide funding for the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority (KHRA) and purse supplements for Standardbreds, Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses in the state. Thayer’s bill provides for 90 percent of the approxima
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