Last month, the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, N.J., hosted the 100th edition of the Hambletonian, the trotting classic that has long been harness racing’s most important race. It was, by ...

It’s not something you see all that often in harness racing. After all, the word “standard” makes up two-thirds of the word “standardbred”, and those standardbreds in what is probably 99 percent of ...

Growing up in a family of horsemen in Ontario, John Campbell knew how prestigious the Hambletonian was. Then he saw good friend Ray Remmen win the first to take place at the Meadowlands in 1981. “It ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Legendary Hanover won the $650,000 Meadowlands Pace in a stakes-record 1:46.3, beating stablemate Nijinsky by 5 1/2 links Saturday night in the mile event for 3-year-olds at ...

US THOSE TOUCHING MOMENTS HONORING HUNTER’S LEGACY. IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE TO HUNTER MYERS FROM THE RACETRACK TODAY, AS HIS FAMILY AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN THE HARNESS RACING COMMUNITY CAME ...

A Supreme Court ruling that expanded legal betting on sports has produced a gambling gold rush. Now bookmakers, media companies and tech entrepreneurs are rushing in to build out the industry. By Joe ...

New Jersey native Mal Burroughs, a member of the Harness Racing Hall of Fame, died on Sept. 20 at the age of 83. Burroughs was the only amateur ever to achieve the "Hambo double" by winning the ...

There may soon be people racing to slot machines while horses race around the track at two of America’s most storied horse racing venues. Why? The landscape of gambling in New Jersey is evolving as ...

The trouble started for Jeff Gural* just a few minutes after he had won the race of his lifetime, the 100th edition of the Hambletonian, Standardbred racing’s most important race. Gural’s horse, ...

Growing up in a family of horsemen in Ontario, John Campbell knew how prestigious the Hambletonian was. Then he saw good friend Ray Remmen win the first to take place at the Meadowlands in 1981. “It ...