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No More Games, Ruby Ransom win pair of $100,000 DSBF finals
December 08, 2008
No More Games and Ruby Ransome won the two $100,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund Finals on a cold and blustery Sunday, Dec. 7 at Dover Downs. Brandon Givens had four trips to the winner's circle.  No More Games had little difficulty turning back seven rivals in the DSBF Final as Corey Ca
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Philos Hanover Pacer of the Year in PA
December 08, 2008
The elite of Pennsylvania harness racing came together at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Saturday night to participate in the second annual Celebration of Pennsylvania Harness Racing. The overall Pennsylvania Harness Horse of the Year was Philos Hanover, who won over $250,000 just at Harrah’s Chester
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Somebeachsomewhere scratched sick from Matron
December 08, 2008
Brent MacGrath said Monday morning that after discovering Somebeachsomewhere had spiked a fever early Saturday that had come down somewhat the following day, he decided in the best interests of the 3-year-old colt pacer to scratch him from Monday night’s Matron eliminations at Dover Downs. MacG
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DSBF finals held at Dover
December 08, 2008
No More Games and Ruby Ransome won the two $100,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund finals on a cold and blustery Sunday at Dover Downs.   No More Games had little difficulty turning back seven rivals in the DSBF final as Corey Callahan drove into the lead after the start and set all th
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Blue Chip Farms' William S. Brown Dies
December 08, 2008
William S. Brown, former president and general manager of Blue Chip Farms in Wallkill, N.Y., died Saturday, Dec. 6, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.  He was 81.    The son of Karl and Jeanette Brown, he was born at home in Lebanon, Ohio, on Nov. 10, 1927.  He was introduced to harness ra
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Horseman Gary Baker dies at 60
December 08, 2008
Horseman Gary Baker, who had been suffering with ALS (Lou Gerhig's disease) the last few years, died Sunday night at age 60. During his illness he lived with his close friends Steve and Robin Arnold.   Baker trained horses for the Arnolds and others, spending the winter months at South Florid
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PEI-based driver Paul MacDonald dies
December 08, 2008
Veteran Prince Edward Island-based horseman Paul MacDonald, who won the 1987 Gold Cup and Saucer with Maple Grove Shadow at Charlottetown Driving Park, died Saturday shortly after driving in that track’s sixth race. MacDonald, 57, reportedly collapsed in his tack room after driving the 3-year-old pa
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Magnificent Rodney wins prep for Prix d'Amerique
December 08, 2008
The Prix d’Amerique will be held the last Sunday in January, and the top trotters in Europe are beginning to make serious preps to see if they will be contenders in the race, and one of them might be the Ulf Nordin-trained Magnificent Rodney, who won the Prix Bourbonnais at Vincennes in Paris on Sat
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Tetrick's hip surgery a success
December 08, 2008
Harnessracing.com has learned driver Tim Tetrick's hip replacement surgery Monday morning at the Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia was a success. The surgery was needed to correct a degenerative hip condition that left the 27-year-old Tetrick with a limp and in constant pain; T
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Giuseppe Biasuzzi, patriarch of famed Italian family, dies
December 08, 2008
Giuseppe “Bepe” Biasuzzi, the patriarch of the famed Italian family that has bred and owned the winners of more than 200 Standardbred stakes races in the world, died Sunday at the age of 84 after a long illness. He was the father of well-known horsemen Mauro and Fabio, and the husband of Gina, for w
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Pacing mare in Delaware euthanized after testing for herpesvirus
December 08, 2008
The Delaware Dept. of Agriculture has announced that a Standardbred that was housed at the Dovington Training Center in Felton, Del., has been euthanized after testing positive for the highly infectious equine herpesvirus-1. Although the release did not reveal the training center nor the horse, harn
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HHI honors Leppler, Hodes, Murray
December 08, 2008
Harness Horsemen International (HHI) president Gene Oldford has announced HHI's 2008 Dominic Frinzi Man of the Year is retiring Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission executive secretary Anton Leppler, while its Clyde Hirt Media Award goes to freelance writer and former Meadowlands media relations d
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Taylor, Curran honored by USHWA
December 08, 2008
The United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) has chosen Ellen Taylor, executive director of the Harness Horse Youth Foundation (HHYF), and Ottawa-area horsewoman Ann Curran, the creator and co-coordinator of the popular Mildred Williams International Women's Driving Series, to receive the P
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