Sylvia Hanover looked playful on track before the Milton final, as Shawn warmed her up. Her caretaker, Natasha Steacy, kept ...

The record for number of Breeders Crown wins in a single year is five, held by David Miller from the 2015 event at Woodbine ...

With Leap To Fame out, his older half-brother Swayzee became Victoria Cup favorite and didn’t let the family down. Swayzee ...

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 ...

Owner/breeder Steve Stewart has always said: “People plan, horses decide.” That certainly applies to Jiggy Jog S, whose unexpected retirement was announced on social media on Monday (Oct. 14).

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 ...

Gabrielle O’Hearn is always willing to go the extra mile, or in some instances, 260 miles, for the love of harness racing. She didn’t have a horse in to race, she wasn’t scheduled to paddock, and she ...

One particular thing I was told that best affected my handicapping career came from a juggler. Let’s call him Delaney. His act incorporated humor; his stage character acted no smarter than a bag of ...

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.