Category: Harness Racing

It’s finally that time of year. Summer stakes season has arrived in harness racing just as summer will in the coming weeks. It’s both North America Cup time and, more importantly, shaming-our-colleagues-for-referring-to-it-as-the-North-American-Cup time. Alongside the …

Time has already pushed us into June, which is when harness racing stakes heat faster than the ozone layer. All the buzz within the harness racing industry currently revolves around the first million-dollar — though …

Here we are again ready to start the next lap of this stakes-season merry-go-round. We are coming off of a particularly good week with last week, which could only make our performance this week appear …

Every year around this time, stakes season pushes its frisky little face through the door frame to watch us, just as a new father observes his young. It grabs ahold of us like grandma at …

Last time we chatted about harness racing, we tackled the Dexter Cup eliminations at Freehold Raceway and reminisced about our beloved George Morton Levy and Blue Chip Matchmaker Series. Our travels this week will take …

Ah yes, it’s that time of year. Now, I’m aware that I said the very same thing regarding the George Morton Levy and Blue Chip Matchmaker Series (God, I miss them), but it’s now another …

For the last five weeks, we have journeyed across the steepest of valleys, the driest of deserts, withstood the most tumultuous of tremors and cashed on a few nine-to-one shots. Now, our adventures draw to …

I am a fan of redundancies, so much so that I often repeat myself just to show how much I love them. But what I love more than redundancies are oxymorons, because, first, I relate …

I arose from my bunker the other day to see how much more of the Matchmaker and Levy Series we have to deal with. Unfortunately, as a real life version of the Monopoly Man held …

Did you think the Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy Series were over? Me too! But we have not reached the end. In fact, we are not even close to the end. With three …

We are approaching week two of six jam-packed, action-filled, chocolate-glazed harness stakes weekends to kick off the spring harness season, headlined by Yonkers Raceway as it hosts the second round of the Blue Chip Matchmaker …

Stakes time is here at last! We have been stuck handicapping and wagering on overnight events for the last few weeks from venues all across the continent. But, now, times have changed. We are now …

We are now just one week away from the beginning of our adventures through the Standardbred stakes season with the Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy series. However, we must go through another week …

It’s March 2017 already, an unbelievable thought considering it was just February and, before that, January, and even before that, 2016. We’re weeks away from the first stakes events of the harness season with the …

The weeks keep rolling and we keep grinding through many harness races in pursuit of value. Our opportunities this time around are just as alluring, with this week’s analysis including contenders going on Friday, Saturday, …